The Latest from Women in Banking

BNP Paribas was told by French judges it shouldn't have excluded bonuses from its calculations to close the gender pay gap, in a ruling that's likely to have ramifications for the local banking industry.

Yvette Hollingsworth Clark, once the chief compliance officer at Wells Fargo, has taken on a similar role at the Boston-based custody bank.

Sexual assaults, lurid propositions and a sex tape pack the latest filings in a class action against Goldman Sachs. But it's a boss's comment about his assistant's engagement ring two decades ago and a woman who complained an executive checked her out that have set off an especially bitter dispute in the case.

Reflecting on two decades of changes in the banking industry, Stacey Friedman, executive vice president and general counsel at JPMorgan Chase, is struck by how women are more significantly represented in the field.

When Citizens Financial Group wanted to streamline its home equity line of credit, the bank turned to its expert in customer experience and analytics, Beth Johnson.

On July 15, Zions Bancorp. cut the ribbon on a 400,000-square-feet technology center in Midvale, Utah. The center lets the Salt Lake City-based bank's 2,290 tech employees, from cybersecurity experts to application engineers, work from one space instead of 12 buildings scattered across Utah.

Jill Castilla is growing her main bank – and its remote affiliate. Citizens Bank of Edmond's asset size grew 13% year-over-year in 2021 to $370 million. The suburban Oklahoma City-based bank racked up 850 loans totaling $130 million last year.

Only six years ago, KeyBank was nowhere to be found in a ranking of the top 25 banks for lending to developers of affordable housing. Last year, under the leadership of Angela Mago, the bank finished in the No. 2 spot, sandwiched between Citi at No. 1 and JP Morgan Chase at No. 3, according to Affordable Housing Finance.

As a technology executive for PNC Bank, Deborah Guild has long been helping women blaze career pathways in the business world. Now she's helping them in what seems a most unlikely field: auto racing.

Ranjana Clark has long been committed to working seamlessly across borders. The COVID-19 pandemic, of course, made that more challenging. But as the pandemic's restrictions eased in 2022, Clark was able to lean more aggressively into that commitment.