The Most Powerful Women in Banking
October 21-22, 2025|
The Glasshouse|
New York, NY
Florence Pourchet has been with BNP Paribas for 30 years, and is the bank's most senior female executive in the Americas. She has been the regional head of the bank's ESG initiatives since 2011.
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Michal Katz, head of investment and corporate banking at Mizuho Americas, helped orchestrate two of the largest acquisitions of early 2022.
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JPMorgan's global mergers and acquisitions practice hammered out 637 deals in 2021, and the nearly 250 M&A professionals that Anu Aiyengar supervises racked up $4.1 billion in fees last year.
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Looking back on her 44 years in finance, Christina Mohr, vice chair of global M&A at Citi, is pleased by the ways the industry has changed for women investment bankers.
October 5 -
Discovery Federal Credit Union in Wyomissing has promoted its chief information officer, Michele Smith, to succeed Edwin Williams as CEO. Smith assumed her new role effective October 1.
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Yie-Hsin Hung will join State Street Global Advisors in December, succeeding Cyrus Taraporevala, who has been CEO since 2016. The hiring comes as the Boston-based custody bank continues to await regulatory approval for its acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman's investor services division.
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