The Most Powerful Women in Banking
Honorees gathered at Tiffany's Landmark building in New York City, where American Banker interviewed them about the industry's trajectory and leadership lessons they've learned in their careers.
Strategic collaboration is one of Leslie Godridge's strong suits. An example of this is a meeting she convened last year that was the most in-depth planning session of its kind since the formation of the National Corporate and Institutional Banking unit in 2007, and the results of it continue to play out.
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Citigroup named Barbara Desoer chief operating officer of its banking subsidiary and said she will "deepen" a male-dominated management bench. Desoer, one of the industry's most prominent women, retired from Bank of America in 2012 after her duties were gradually diminished.
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While American Banker is celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance tonight in New York City, the National Geographic Society will be opening a major, three-year traveling exhibition focused on female photojournalists in Washington, D.C.
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Janet Yellen shouldn't have needed anyone's help to be nominated to lead the Fed. Her tortuous path underscores the importance of rallying around qualified women candidates for industry leadership positions.
October 9
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Karen Strauss Cook, a pioneering female equity trader at Goldman, Sachs & Co. who helped other working moms stay in finance and will be honored next month by the group 100 Women in Hedge Funds, has died. She was 61.
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The San Francisco bank's CIO shares an update on an enterprise-wide customer analytics project and why CCAR is a "mixed blessing."
September 30
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