Most Powerful Women in Banking 2022

As U.S. Bancorp's vice chair and chief administrative officer, Kate Quinn is leading a $573 billion-asset company she says is focused on "meeting customers where they are and how they want to do business." Quinn joined the bank in 2013 and was appointed to the chief administrative role in 2017.

Stephanie Cohen has been at Goldman Sachs for more than 23 years. She started as an analyst in 1999 and has held a series of leadership positions in mergers and acquisitions. In January 2021, she was appointed global co-head of consumer and wealth management.

The Regions Bank website has many of the financial education features consumers have come to expect from banks: information about banking, saving for college and saving for retirement.

As KeyBank relies more heavily on automation and cloud-based services, Amy Brady knows the bank will need more engineers. But she also wants more diversity in the engineering group, which has lagged the national average of 8% for Black engineers.

BMO Financial Group is poised for a dramatic expansion of its U.S. banking business later this year when it closes on its $16.3 billion acquisition of Bank of the West, the U.S. operations of BNP Paribas. Laying the groundwork for the merger is Erminia "Ernie" Johannson, BMO's group head for North American personal and business banking.

For much of last year, Titi Cole wore multiple hats. She was head of operations and fraud prevention for Citi's consumer bank, where she launched new fraud-detection capabilities, strengthened risk controls with enhanced governance oversight for issue and third-party management, and invested in controls automation and digital monitoring.

Sandy Pierce was in the midst of transforming how Huntington Bank delivered advisory services when her counterpart in the company's community banking unit left for a new job.

Dorothy Savarese stepped down this year as president and CEO of Cape Cod 5, the bank she led for 17 years. But as executive chair of the bank in Hyannis, Massachusetts, her schedule remains packed even if it's more compact.

Yie-Hsin Hung, one of the few female CEOs in the asset management industry, has made it a priority to address issues of global warming and social inequality at New York Life Investment Management.

Glenda Pedroso has spent her entire 35-year banking career in Miami. But in her new position at Northern Trust, she's doing a lot more traveling.

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.

After filling various roles at the Columbus, Georgia-based bank for almost 20 years, Liz Wolverton was tapped to lead the consumer bank in December 2021.

Last year, HSBC USA made the decision to exit its U.S. mass market retail banking business. Kavita Mahtani, CFO of the Americas for HSBC, played a crucial role in the process.

It was a strong first full year for Kristy Fercho, who was named head of Wells Fargo home lending in July 2020, landing her the top spot on the Most Powerful Woman to Watch list.

Michal Katz, head of investment and corporate banking at Mizuho Americas, helped orchestrate two of the largest acquisitions of early 2022.

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.

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.

Girls who are seniors at New York City high schools are invited to apply for this program.

This annual list of luminaries honors the women who lead in banking and finance across the country, individually and in teams.

Raise your hand or point to a colleague or mentee for this list honoring young female executives at banks.