The Most Powerful Women in Banking

With a significant promotion at BNY Mellon and an eventful year as chairman of the Penn State trustee board, Karen Peetz further refines the leadership skills that have long made her worth watching.

September 18
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    Cost control is a mantra for Charlotte McLaughlin, who prods her PNC Capital Markets managers and employees to be as sparing as possible when it comes to business expenses. The result is a flattening expense structure that is producing an improved efficiency ratio as revenues rise.

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    For the second year in a row, Candace Browning saw her Bank of America Merrill Lynch team ranked the top global research firm by Institutional Investor, based on surveys of buy-side firms on which Wall Street analysts provided the most helpful insights in a dozen countries and regions.

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    The structured finance and securitization businesses that Julie Caperton runs at Wells Fargo are some of the most complex businesses in the company — and some of the most profitable.

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    It's not often that a Wall Street research firm turns to the CIA, but Wells Fargo's Diane Schumaker-Krieg is always intent on finding an edge.

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    Risk was the main order of business for Suni Harford last year. In her role directing sales, trading and origination for Citigroup's global securities and banking unit, she was charged with identifying franchise risk issues for each product line.

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