Though Taylor earned a reputation as a rigorous watchdog, opposing a 2004 decision that allowed banks to evade state supervision and warning of dubious loan products, she stepped down as bank superintendent in 2007, joined a private investment firm and took on more at Acción.
Despite her ties to Wall Street, she emerged as an exacting watchdog as banking superintendent.
Sandra Lee is, well, Sandra Lee, Food Network star, whose fortune vastly outweighs the Cuomo dynasty's; and Bloomberg's GF of many years is former state banking superintendent Diana Taylor, an Ivy-league educated businesswoman who often finds herself on many of New York's 'best dressed' lists.
Things got so out of hand that at one point, the mayor's companion, Diana Taylor, the state banking superintendent, took cover beneath a concrete overhang to avoid a chocolate frosted doughnut flung from the upper reaches of an apartment building.
Richard H. Neiman, a banking executive, will be nominated to become banking superintendent; State Senate approval is needed.
Mr. Bloomberg was joined by his companion, Diana L. Taylor, the state banking superintendent, who gave the mayor a little elbow in the ribs during the news conference and took amused umbrage at his suggestion that a reporter direct questions about subway service to her.
In part because of her prescient moves as banking superintendent, Taylor is increasingly seen as a potential political candidate.
On a hot summer day in Manaus, Brazil, Diana Taylor, the former banking superintendent of New York and longtime companion of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, was strolling through a slum.
That is the view of Muriel Siebert, the Wall Street veteran and financial sage, former state banking superintendent of New York and founder of the Siebert Financial Corporation, a discount brokerage firm.
As the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to be named banking superintendent of New York State, Ms. Siebert knows something about how Wall Street works.
