The Most Powerful Women in Banking

As U.S. Bancorp's vice chair and chief administrative officer, Kate Quinn is leading a $573 billion-asset company she says is focused on "meeting customers where they are and how they want to do business." Quinn joined the bank in 2013 and was appointed to the chief administrative role in 2017.

Stephanie Cohen has been at Goldman Sachs for more than 23 years. She started as an analyst in 1999 and has held a series of leadership positions in mergers and acquisitions. In January 2021, she was appointed global co-head of consumer and wealth management.

The Regions Bank website has many of the financial education features consumers have come to expect from banks: information about banking, saving for college and saving for retirement.

As KeyBank relies more heavily on automation and cloud-based services, Amy Brady knows the bank will need more engineers. But she also wants more diversity in the engineering group, which has lagged the national average of 8% for Black engineers.

BMO Financial Group is poised for a dramatic expansion of its U.S. banking business later this year when it closes on its $16.3 billion acquisition of Bank of the West, the U.S. operations of BNP Paribas. Laying the groundwork for the merger is Erminia "Ernie" Johannson, BMO's group head for North American personal and business banking.