The Most Powerful Women in Banking

The top retail-banking executive at BBVA Compass was a little frustrated a week after the Alabama bank took over Guaranty Bank of Austin, Tex., in an FDIC-arranged match.

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    Most payments executives found themselves pulled to the center of a perfect storm this year, and Pamela Joseph, U.S. Bancorp's vice chairman of payment services, has weathered it remarkably well.

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    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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    It's not easy to distract Carrie Tolstedt. The senior executive vice president of community banking at Wells Fargo not only faced the same economic storm that hit all bankers this past year, but she also had to manage the massive integration of Wachovia.

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    If capital is king these days, then Peyton Patterson, the chairman and chief executive at NewAlliance Bank, should be wearing a crown.

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    Sometimes, the key to achieving results is knowing when not to sprint.Case in point: When a UK branch employee recently asked Barclays UK Retail Banking chief executive officer Deanna Oppenheimer if she'd be willing to participate in 31-story climb to benefit a children's charity, she agreed immediately.

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