The Most Powerful Women in Banking

As senior executive vice president and chief institutional client officer at TIAA, Gibson oversees the company's core retirement business.

In 2021, El-Hillow left Goldman Sachs to lead the Seattle-based private company's entire investment division.

As the global head of the industrials group, Hackley oversees a large chunk of the bank's $2.41 trillion in assets. 

Portney leads the bank's largest business unit, asset servicing. The group's assets under custody and administration neared $50 trillion in the second quarter, setting a record for BNY and the financial industry.

Mathieu Beauchesne is Head of Life and Health Insurance at GFT Canada, where he works with leading insurance carriers to transform their operating models into new digital and AI-powered architectures. He has more than a decade of experience in IT consulting in the insurance space, specializing in business architecture, IT strategy development and business analytics. 

Decentralized digital ledgers offer financial services supervisors extraordinary access to information while eliminating concerns about information reliability. That should be reflected in regulatory attitudes toward crypto.

Esusu, Foyer, Divvy Homes and Tomo Mortgage are among the fintechs trying to give first-time homebuyers a break, alongside community development financial institutions like Southern Bancorp. 

The Chicago-area lender, which at first was able to get the suit quashed, agreed to end the discrimination case by paying a $105,000 fine.