The Latest from Women in Banking

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

SEBA Bank, a crypto bank backed by Julius Baer Group Ltd., hired an ex-JPMorgan Chase banker as its Asia Pacific chief executive.

Bank of Montreal, which just completed its $16.3 billion takeover of Bank of the West, expects to be able to gain share even in U.S. markets where the firm only has a sparse branch presence.

For 21 years, American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance rankings have been celebrating top-performing senior executives. Now we invite you to nominate the up-and-coming women in your bank or financial institution.

Anu Aiyengar, who was named co-head of global M&A in 2020, will be sole head of global mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan Chase, making her the only woman to lead that franchise at a major Wall Street bank.

The 23 CEOs on this list run banks and credit unions and are on our Most Powerful Women in Banking, Most Powerful Women to Watch, and Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions.

The Korean American bank's leader talks about her expansion plans, what she learned from former bosses and how Koreatown, and the community, is changing.

Nikkee Rhody, chief of strategy at Central Payments, and Shannon Huether, vice president of project management and implementations, explain how the company tailored every aspect of its hiring practice to make sure it reaches the talented women that other fintechs overlook.

Citigroup is seeing countries around the world roll into recessionary environments, with the U.S. economy on track to follow them in the second half of next year, Chief Executive Jane Fraser said.

Since her 20s, Wechter has served as a sounding board to Chairmen Richard Parsons and Mike O'Neill and CEOs Michael Corbat and now Jane Fraser. Wechter, 41, eventually took over the human resources department, where she has set in motion changes reshaping life at the bank for its 238,000 employees.