By greatly facilitating transactions, William Boyle’s credit card helped the global economy to grow, and benefited bankers, merchants and customers alike.

The traveling Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was famous for its humane animal acts. It was also famous for its bank.

You don’t need to be at the pinnacle of your career to transform the country. Any banker can make a difference.

As a pioneer in U.S. commercial banking and the original architect of the young republic’s financial infrastructure, there has been no young banker more accomplished or consequential than Hamilton.

By perfecting the money order and inventing the traveler’s cheque (all by his early 40s), Marcellus Berry brought efficient and safe payments to mass audiences for the first time.

The savings bank was a perfect fit for the America of its time, and it would fundamentally transform the way Americans thought about their money.

African-American mistrust of banks was endemic in the late 19th century, but that began to change with Maggie Lena Walker.

Hock imagined the Visa network, an entirely new approach to card acceptance and settlement.

More than just making things more convenient for customers, Hill’s aim is to “surprise and delight” every customer, converting them into fans along the way.

United American may not have had the “killer app” for anytime banking, but it was first to the game—proving that even in high-stakes technology races, creative young community bankers can beat the big guys.