The Most Powerful Women in Banking

The card network chose the majority-Black city as the site of its new operations center in part to improve the racial makeup of its workforce and create a new path to leadership for minorities.

Hope Dmuchowski will join the Memphis, Tennessee, bank as it contends with higher-than-expected costs in connection with its acquisition of Iberiabank. She has previous experience with integrations, having participated in the combination of BB&T and SunTrust Banks.

Meghan Hinds, a 15-year veteran at the San Francisco bank, leads a group that’s been reorganized following several key departures last spring.

The Pennsylvania community bank lacked the resources to go all-in on developing a diversity, equity and inclusion policy, so it turned to grad students at Georgetown University for help.

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard was interviewed for the top job at the U.S. central bank when she visited the White House last week, according to people familiar with the discussions. She and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are the only people who have publicly surfaced as being in the running for the post.