The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Marla Willner has returned to TD Bank to be its head of corporate and specialty banking, and she has a plan for building the unit she leads into a national powerhouse.

Ellen Patterson, the general counsel at TD Bank Group, has spearheaded a program across the Toronto company's footprint that aims to reinforce the idea that men need to be a big part of any organization's diversity and inclusion efforts.

Since taking over as leader of Citi FinTech in 2016, Yolande Piazza has worked to boost the number of women who are promoted into leadership roles for her team.

The chief investment officer at Bessemer Trust is driving results by building cohesive teams and listening carefully to clients.

Diane Morais, the head of consumer and commercial banking for Ally Bank, is forthright about what went wrong after her institutions started offering mortgages in 2017 — and how the institution went about fixing the situation.