Inside the Conversations Shaping Banking Leadership
Executive Perspectives on What’s Next
LEADERS brings together C-suite executives, influential voices, and industry changemakers for candid conversations on the forces reshaping banking and financial services. Featuring interviews with honorees from The Most Powerful Women in Banking™ alongside other leadership voices from across the industry, these conversations explore the strategies, decisions, and ideas driving organizations — and banking itself — forward.
Citi's Pam Habner on what today's credit card customers want
2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking Honoree
Habner discusses the rewards credit card customers are seeking today as well as her own views on leadership from her long career in banking.
BNY's Jennifer Barker on AI in payments, dealing with tech change, and what's next
2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking Honoree
Barker, BNY’s Global Head of Treasury Services and Depositary Receipts, discusses how she’s moving payments further into the future for clients.
What bankers are facing and what they can do about uncertainty
2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking Honoree
Gateman sits down to explain why Wall Street careers have purpose, how she serves corporate clients through market turmoil, and why bankers should work from the office.
A top investment banker's views on M&A, the markets, and making it in financial services
2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance Honoree
Anu Aiyengar, Global Head of Advisory and M&A at J.P. Morgan ↑ 5.50(1.78%), sits down with American Banker’s Editor-in-Chief, Chana Schoenberger, to discuss what it’s like to be an investment banker today, what her clients are asking about, and what she’s learned over the course of her career.
Kristin Lesher of Truist on strategy, purpose, and dealing with uncertainty
2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking Honoree
Lesher discusses how she thinks about running her division, recruiting new bankers, and the connection between leadership and purpose.
How retail banking will handle the next tech transformation
2025 Most Powerful Women in Banking Honoree
Holly O’Neill, President of Consumer, Retail and Preferred, Bank of America ↑ 0.48(0.90%), sits down with Holly Sraeel, SVP, Strategy and Content, American Banker Live Media, to discuss how generative AI will change banking, what retail customers have to look forward to, and what it’s like to manage today’s workforce.
HSBC's Racquel Oden on the Great Wealth Transfer and the power of financial advice
2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance Honoree
Racquel Oden of HSBC ↑ 4.00(4.58%) sits down with American Banker Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to talk about what she would tell her younger self, why Wall Street careers should be considered purpose-driven, and how she thinks about complexity in the markets.
What wealth management is facing now
2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance Honoree
Meghan Shue, Chief Investment Strategist of Wilmington Trust, talks about what she’s learned about leadership and why Wall Street is a career with purpose.
How wealth management is handling today's challenges
2025 Most Powerful Women in Finance Honoree
Solita Marcelli, Global Head of Investment Management at UBS, and Chana Schoenberger, Editor-in-Chief of American Banker, sit down to discuss lessons learned, why the industry is an attractive place for new graduates, and what leadership looks like.
Fifth Third's Melissa Stevens on leadership, technology, and why regional banks are important
2024 Most Powerful Women in Banking’s Women to Watch Honoree
Melissa Stevens created her own role at Ohio regional Fifth Third Bank, taking on new responsibilities and adding them to her portfolio. She sat down with Chana Schoenberger, American Banker’s editor-in-chief, on the set of the Most Powerful Women in Banking magazine cover photoshoot to discuss how she leads and why regional banks are important to customers.
