Two financial chief executives enter the top 20 in Forbes magazine’s ranking of the world's most powerful people, alongside heads of state, terrorists, drug lords and philanthropists. Financial News looks at other representatives from the world of finance who made the list.

The magazine compiled a list of 67 people, headed by President Obama, based on their influence, or control over large groups of people, or financial resources; or if they are powerful across multiple spheres, and their active use of this power.