The Most Powerful Women in Banking's Top Teams
Ally Bank
One Ally, Digital Product and Experience The all-digital Ally Bank depends on its website and mobile app to bring in and retain its customers. Recently, in the culmination of a multiyear project known as One Ally, the bank's online platforms just got a major overhaul. "The thematic push for One Ally was to bring our auto and banking platform experiences together from a consumer lens," Carrie Sumlin, Ally's executive director of Digital Product and Experience, told American Banker. "We used to have one for auto lending and one for banking. Now we have one for both."
Bank of America
Workplace, Employee and Family Banking Building a successful team needs to start with people who have the right expertise and mindset, said Mary Hines Droesch, a member of Bank of America's regional banking team. The best team members "can see possibilities and not get stuck on: 'Oh, we've tried that before,' or 'We'll never get the funding for it,' or all the why-we-shouldn't-do-somethings," said Droesch, who is BofA's head of product for consumer, business, wealth management banking and lending.
Hanmi Bank
Community Lending Division Team members think of Hanmi Financial Corp.'s Small Business Administration lending unit as small but mighty. Led by executive vice president and chief SBA lending officer Anna Chung, the unit oversees Los Angeles-based Hanmi's Small Business Administration lending operation, a longstanding component of the $7.8 billion-asset company's business model. Hanmi began making 7(a) loans in 1988. Hanmi's commitment to SBA lending has grown as the company has gotten bigger. Now, the bank's SBA program is poised to make its biggest leap yet, a nationwide expansion program that's gathering steam and appears set to further accelerate in 2026.
U.S. Bank
Cross-Functional Payments U.S. Bank wants to make it as easy as possible for small businesses to bank with them, especially those that are just getting started. That's the thinking behind the Minneapolis-based bank's Business Essentials, a bundled suite of banking and payment services it launched in April following more than a year of development by a cross-functional team from the bank's business banking, branch and small business banking, payments, sales and technology teams.
Wilmington Trust
Wealth and Institutional Client Services Collaboration among the employees in both the institutional client services and wealth business at Wilmington Trust helped boost revenue during the past three years. Led by Jennifer Warren, who serves as the head of Wilmington Trust, the teamwork resulted in over $2 billion in revenue expansion—71% more than in the three previous years— for the institutional client services division, which provides trust, custody and agency services, and investment plans. The "transformative growth" is the result of Wilmington Trust's two core business segments, which are led by Abigail Mrozinski, head of global capital markets and Lisa Roberts, head of wealth, who are working side by side, Warren said.
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