The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Stevens will step down this month as head of the Western region, which had been cited for widespread customer-integrity violations. However, she had been credited with raising concerns about aggressive sales practices.

Wondering who is new to the rankings of the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance? Here's an overview of the changes, along with a recap of the top team winners. Plus, #MeToo plays out on Capitol Hill, as Mel Watt and Brett Kavanaugh get congressional hearings, and Murphy Brown returns.

Britton has an important job now, supporting the CIO for one of HSBC's most important regions, but she hopes to someday be a regional chief operating officer, or perhaps even a CEO.

Facial recognition technology and a person-to-person payments app are just two innovations that have sprung from a workplace that fosters creative thinking and welcomes ideas from across the organization.

The head of Charles Schwab Investment Management is disrupting the asset-management industry by introducing more straightforward ETFs, mutual funds and other investment products.