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.
Few women in banking have a bigger job than Barbara Desoer. She has led all major merger activities at Bank of America over the last three years, including deals for MBNA and U.S. Trust in 2006, LaSalle Bank in 2007 and Countrywide Financial in 2008.
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Dominique Senequier has been building a private-equity empire in Paris for over a decade as CEO of AXA Private Equity, and Americans are finally taking notice.
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Margaret Keane, who heads GE Capital's retail consumer finance arm, has worked to ensure good communication with customers to keep them on board.
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Carla Brooks is often the only woman in the room. But she considers it her responsibility to help more women break into the male-dominated financial industry.
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After Martina Hund-Mejean was hired in 2007, one of her many initiatives at MasterCard included starting up a job rotation program among the 700 people in her department.
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Balancing risk and reward is what Suzanne Shank does in her business all the time. So when the financial crisis heightened both sides of that equation considerably, Shank didn't flinch.
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