The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Patricia Husic, president and CEO of Centric Financial, had her bank start offering self-defense training sessions for her workforce, roughly 60% of whom are women.

JPMorgan Chase General Counsel Stacey Friedman is working to make the bank’s legal department faster and more agile.

Maria Veltre knows what it's like to feel disrespected. Early in her career, she was in mid-sentence when a senior executive turned her back and walked away. Veltre vowed never to make others feel the way she did in that moment, no matter what their situation or station.

McNiff, American Banker's No. 1 Woman to Watch for 2019, was promoted to the CEO role in April following the retirement of Barbara Desoer.

In the last two fiscal years, the treasury and payments solutions unit that Haward-Laird runs has had the highest return on equity of all BMO Financial's business lines.