The Most Powerful Women in Banking

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    These highly profitable banks all have one thing in common: women in key roles.

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    With nearly a quarter of U.S. Bancorp's revenues derived from the corporate and institutional payments group led by vice chair Pamela Joseph, the retail business of the Minneapolis banking company can sometimes get overlooked. Not this year.

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    In 2004, a dozen top female executives at what was then The Bank of New York decided to establish an internal networking group to help mid-level female executives break out of their shells. Five years later, the Women's Initiatives Network (WIN) at what is now BNY Mellon has more 2,000 members.

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    Diversity in the executive ranks of a bank remains an unusual enough occurrence to know that it doesn't come about by accident. In Kansas, Sunflower Bank, which has $1.7 billion of assets, has been a model for diversity.

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    Heidi Miller is arguably the highest-profile woman in banking, so when she speaks, people take notice. Take her keynote address at this year's NACHA Payments conference, where the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Securities Services outlined "dangers."

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