[3][4] Cohen is the founder and former CEO of The Bancorp, an internet provider of financial services to non-bank fintech companies.
From 1974 through 1999 she was founder, chairman and CEO of Jefferson Bank, an FDIC-insured financial institution headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[5][4][6][7] Cohen has served on a variety of philanthropic and corporate boards, including Aetna, Inc., Asia Society, The Brookings Institution, and The Metropolitan Opera.
[1] Cohen’s first job was serving as Law Clerk to the Honorable John Biggs, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
[1] During the same period she founded a shipping business in Hong Kong, a leasing company in Brazil, and a joint venture with a bank in Spain.
At the time of its sale Jefferson Bank was the largest local financial institution in the greater Philadelphia region.
[7] Cohen sponsored her first SPAC, FinTech Acquisition Corp., in January 2015, serving as chairman until it completed a merger with CardConnect Corp. (NASDAQ: CCN) in July 2016.
[17] In August 2020, Cohen became chairman of FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: FTOC), which in February 2021 announced a merger with Payoneer Inc., a global payment and commerce-enabling platform that upon reorganization will operate as Payoneer, a U.S. publicly listed entity with an implied estimated enterprise value of ~$3.3 billion at closing.