The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Wells Fargo has worked toward achieving gender diversity internally, now it's courting women-owned businesses. Sallie Krawcheck says if organizations wanted to fix the gender pay gap, they could — easily. Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, the majors are promising to pay their male and female employees equally, and Accenture finds women on boards are twice as likely to have the right technology experience for a company as their male counterparts.

Green Dot Corp. has tapped one of its board members, Mary Dent, to take the helm of its banking unit.

Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., has hired Laura Izurieta as its chief risk officer. She will lead the company's risk management, corporate compliance and regulatory relations functions and serve on the executive management team.

Ford Motor promoted veteran executive Joy Falotico to lead the Ford Credit lending unit, making her the first woman to run the operation that provides financing to auto buyers and dealers worldwide.

Symbiont, a developer of software for self-executing smart contracts, has hired Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long as president and chairman.