The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Executives from across the industry celebrated gender diversity Thursday evening at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance dinner in New York.

Geena Davis told a group of female bankers on Thursday that women are rarely seen in anything but supporting roles.

The financial crisis gave Mary Navarro an unprecedented opportunity to change banking for the better — and she delivered.

Cynthia Blankenship, an executive at Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas, has been a regular in Washington for years fighting for regulatory changes. She is encouraging other bankers to do likewise.

Verba's two-decade career at one of the East Coast's fastest-growing banks began with an old-fashioned letter to a local bank when she was in her late 40s and an epiphany about work-life balance.