The Most Powerful Women in Banking
The $5.6 billion-asset multibank holding company hired Fontaine to replace Ed Hooks, who has been its counsel since 1992 and who will retire at the end of the year.
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UBS executive Rosemary Berkery has returned to the Swiss company's U.S. operations after a medical leave.
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Patricia Watson joined the board of the $19 billion-asset Texas Capital on Friday. Watson has been chief information officer at TSYS, a payments processor based in Columbus, Ga., since September.
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First Sound Bank in Seattle has recruited chief financial and administrative officers from rival banks.
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Ally Bank CEO Diane Morais talks about rolling out mortgages and credit cards; theres talk of putting Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Supreme Court; the judge in the MetLife SIFI case talks tough to FSOC; the Mean Girls talk really has to go; and how corporate directors talk about the lack of women on boards (warning: men think there arent a lot of qualified women, but, um, could that be because their network is mostly male?).
February 18
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To curb the loss of female talent, one Wall Street firm plans to remedy the pay gap. Islamic finance is notoriously male-dominated, but one country is an exception. Australia's ANZ Bank is inspiring a lot of soul-searching on sexism in the financial services industry. Would things improve with SEC reporting on diversity? Or do we need quotas?
February 11
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