The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Eileen Serra, the only female CEO at any of the six largest credit card issuers, has positioned Chase as a leader in protecting customer data.

In the eight years that Leslie Godridge has led the National Corporate and Institutional Banking unit at U.S. Bancorp, she has broadened its scope from regional to national and grown its loan portfolio significantly.

Karen Larrimer is making sure all PNC employees — even those in the back office — understand how their jobs connect to the customer.

Patti Husic — who runs a community bank where 75% of the executive team is female — has emerged as a leading advocate in her home state of Pennsylvania of getting more women into banking's executive ranks.

Andrea Smith handled so many disparate assignments as global head of human resources at Bank of America that CEO Brian Moynihan finally had to create an entirely new job title for her: chief administrative officer.