2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Special Section > More Than $3 Million Revenue > Northeast

Awarded to

Bonnie McGeer, executive editor; Alan Kline, senior editor

Entry details

The Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance

Issue date (if applicable): 10/1/2017
Publication name: American Banker Magazine
Publishing company: SourceMedia
Website home page: http://www.americanbanker.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

American Banker is the essential resource for senior executives in banking and financial services, keeping its users updated on vital developments and focusing sharply on their most important concerns — innovation, transformation, and disruption; technology, regulation, and reform. Financial industry professionals turn to American Banker, every day and throughout the day, to stay maximally informed — drilling down on complex issues, keeping up with breaking news, and downloading research and data. Paid subscribers and registered visitors engage deeply with an authoritative community of analysts, practitioners and innovators through opinion content, research panels, social media, and live events.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

American Banker’s 15th annual special issue honoring the most powerful women in banking couldn’t have been better timed, coming just before a series of reports surfaced about men in power abusing women in the workplace. The Women in Banking edition stood in stark contrast to those articles, highlighting women who used their standing to help their institutions, customers and each other.

American Banker’s 128-page issue included profiles of the 25 most powerful women in banking, 25 in finance and 25 to watch, plus a look at women-dominated teams at five prominent institutions. Executive editor Bonnie McGeer also profiled five women who took career risks but managed to quickly have a big impact in their new roles.

The issue also looked back at a pioneer – Maggie Walker, who was honored with a towering statue in Richmond, Virginia, where in 1903 she became the first African-American woman to charter a bank in the U.S. The commemoration served as a poignant counterpoint to events happening in nearby Charlottesville.

Yet while the issue demonstrates the enormous progress women have made in banking, it doesn’t forget that there is still a distance to go. As McGeer asks in her essay, “Why the glacial pace for advancement in gender equality in the senior ranks?” If the women profiled here are any indication, the road ahead is likely to be a lot quicker than it has been, and the annual issue honoring women’s achievements will continue to play a role in making that happen.

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