The Latest from Women in Banking

As part of American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance program, we have selected five "Top Teams" for 2021. City National Bank is one of the team honorees.

As part of American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance program, we have selected five "Top Teams" for 2021. TD Bank is one of the team honorees.

Longtime bank executive Uma Wilson will head the cross-disciplinary team.

Adrienne Harris, who did stints at the Treasury Department and National Economic Council during the Obama administration, would succeed Linda Lacewell as superintendent of the state's Department of Financial Services.

Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard spoke with the Biden-Harris Federal Reserve transition team in January and with the president’s Council of Economic Advisers in May, her calendar shows.

Chief Operating Officer Thomas Montag and Vice Chairman Anne Finucane will step down at the end of the year. The company said it will unveil succession plans in the coming weeks.

Carol Juel, the bank's tech and operations chief, is pushing the use of agile concepts across the organization. Here's how her efforts are paying off in developing new products, speeding up team meetings and even helping employees schedule their kids' activities.

Winston has previously served as interim CEO of Bed, Bath & Beyond and as chief financial officer at Family Dollar Stores and Scholastic.

The new standards give some 300 listed banks up to five years to meet targets for including women and minorities on their boards, or explain why they aren't doing so. State officials and investors had already pushed banks about the need to rethink their approaches to recruiting directors.

Yolande Piazza, the former Citi FinTech CEO who is now a leader in Google’s financial services group, explains why banks should accelerate their moves away from legacy computing systems and what the outcomes could be.