The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Meister is guiding the company into the second phase of its transformation. Having honed its approach to ultra high net worth clients, it is now turning to a new segment — high net worth clients.

Before her promotion to global co-head of debt capital markets, Graper headed Barclays's U.S. investment grade syndicate team for nearly a decade.

Mariniello became global co-head of debt capital markets for London-based Barclays this April, a promotion from heading the bank's debt capital markets for the Americas.

In the past year, Browning's group started the Bank of America Institute, an independent think tank that's not part of the research department.

Kedia is in charge of roughly half of Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank's total deposits and about half of the lender's average loan balances. Her team includes 11,100 employees.