The Latest from Women in Banking

Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard spoke with the Biden-Harris Federal Reserve transition team in January and with the president’s Council of Economic Advisers in May, her calendar shows.

Chief Operating Officer Thomas Montag and Vice Chairman Anne Finucane will step down at the end of the year. The company said it will unveil succession plans in the coming weeks.

Carol Juel, the bank's tech and operations chief, is pushing the use of agile concepts across the organization. Here's how her efforts are paying off in developing new products, speeding up team meetings and even helping employees schedule their kids' activities.

Winston has previously served as interim CEO of Bed, Bath & Beyond and as chief financial officer at Family Dollar Stores and Scholastic.

The new standards give some 300 listed banks up to five years to meet targets for including women and minorities on their boards, or explain why they aren't doing so. State officials and investors had already pushed banks about the need to rethink their approaches to recruiting directors.

Yolande Piazza, the former Citi FinTech CEO who is now a leader in Google’s financial services group, explains why banks should accelerate their moves away from legacy computing systems and what the outcomes could be.

Financial Services Superintendent Linda Lacewell said she will step down Aug. 24, the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to leave following a sexual harassment investigation. The state’s attorney general found that Lacewell helped with the governor’s public relations response to the allegations.

Board diversity is one of the reasons that credit unions outperform banks in hiring women for the role of chief executive. “It starts at the top," says Jan Page, president and CEO of Community South Credit Union in Florida.

Cheri McGuire, who previously held roles at Standard Chartered, Microsoft and Symantec, will oversee Swift’s core infrastructure as it speeds up its cross-border transactions.

The longtime global head of liquidity and cash management will step down in the fourth quarter, HSBC announced in an internal memo. She will be replaced by Manish Kohli, Citigroup's global head of payments and receivables.