The Most Powerful Women in Banking

The leadership skills of Claudine Gallagher, the head of securities services for the Americas for BNP Paribas, have been tested to an unusual degree over the past 18 months.

As head of commercial banking at PNC Financial Services Group, Stephanie Novosel knows full well that competition for loans is intense and that to win business banks need to add value that goes beyond offering competitive loan terms.

In June, Warson became the first person to hold the newly created job of chairman of Citi Private Bank, North America.

Under McLaughlin, PNC's capital markets arm is pivoting away from handling transactional banking products to providing more advisory services, and the results has been double-digit revenue growth.

Thurlow recognized that if she wanted to get serious about reaching the unbanked in her community, she needed to meet people where they were. That meant providing financial products they actually need and giving them access in their native language.