The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Pam Habner, head of U.S. branded cards and lending at Citi, talks about what drew her to financial services and how to keep women in the game.

Anne Clarke Wolff, a longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree, on why she left big banking to start her own investment bank advisory firm.

The British lender has named the company veteran its global head of leveraged finance as it seeks to capture more business from the giants of private equity. 

The longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree looks back on her 40-year career and the power of persistence.

Sam Chang is a wealth advisor with Thrivent, a Fortune 500 financial services organization committed to helping people lead lives of service and faith.

After immigrating to the United States when he was 5 years old, he had a 16-year career on Wall Street before joining Thrivent. He's passionate about helping people of all backgrounds use their money as a tool to lead a life of higher purpose.

In a statement to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, a number of anonymous Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. employees allegedly expressed doubts that FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg could lead the agency through necessary changes to fix workplace issues.

The utility, under financial pressure following its involvement in the 2023 fires that ravaged Maui, reportedly is considering a sale of its profitable American Savings Banking unit. An executive declined to "speculate on any strategic transactions or alternatives."

Cindy Hannafey is a managing director at UHY Consulting. She provides portfolio, program and project management; software selection and digital transformation services; post-merger integration; and operational and financial process optimization services to client companies.

The Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday morning that was unequivocal in its view that Congress is constitutionally empowered to fund agencies with open-ended and indirect funding mechanisms, overruling a 5th Circuit opinion from 2022 that found that executive branches must be subject to direct Congressional appropriations.