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.
Charlotte McLaughlin turned her family demands into a productivity driver at work. That helped get her to a point where she can now help more women scale the ladder.
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Bertha Garza, who has used her role at IBC Bank in Brownsville, Texas, to help spread financial literacy, was given American Banker's Community Impact Award, presented for the first time at our annual gala celebrating the industry's most powerful women.
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'Lady, you got a lot going on,' a customs agent recently told American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Finance, upon learning she was an American banker working from JPMorgan Chase.
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Accepting her award as the "most powerful woman in banking" at American Banker's annual awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria on Thursday, KeyCorp's Beth Mooney anticipated a time when female leaders in the industry are so commonplace that gender is merely an afterthought.
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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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