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At the embattled Republic First Bancorp, elevated legal, professional and audit fees also contributed to a nearly $10 million in first-quarter loss but CEO Thomas Geisel reports signs of progress moving past "legacy headwinds."

Yiannis Gavrielides is the co-founder and CEO of Covve, helping professionals to grow and nurture their contact network. He actively supports entrepreneurship as a partner at Invelopment Partners.

After years of implementing Dodd-Frank Act measures rules to streamline bank resolutions, regulators relied on their pre-crisis playbook to resolve Silicon Valley and First Republic banks. That choice has led some experts to question the rules' utility.

Megan Smith's diverse career journey at SAP spans almost two decades, across multiple lines
of business: from instructional design and training to product management and, for the majority of time, in HR. She has been an HR Business Partner supporting global leaders across sales, engineering, marketing, and product support. In 2018, Megan spent six months conducting two major academic studies for SAP in partnership with Temple University: determining factors that drive innovation culture and discovering how creativity, stress, and engagement are impacted by working in the office vs at home. 

Over the past five years, Megan has been deeply involved as an HR leader in SAP's acquired cloud businesses in North America, the Head of HR for SAP Canada, and in 2022 expanded her
responsibilities to assume the role of Head of HR for SAP North America. Some of Megan's focus as of late has been developing SAP's Flex Work guidelines, D&I tools to develop inclusive
leadership, managing retention in a competitive market, and leading the COVID-19 Vaccination
office entry policy.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. suggested targeted deposit insurance expansion for some accounts in a report issued Monday, but the layout in Congress looks tricky to pass any permanent changes.

The sale of First Republic to JPMorgan Chase marks the end of a distinct phase of the recent banking crisis, but we're not out of the woods yet.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Congressional leadership on Monday calling for them to raise the debt limit before June 1, the earliest date the U.S. could begin defaulting on its debt obligations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plows ahead with plans to boost oversight of the private fund industry. 

Mike Tropeano, Senior Director, Broadridge Consulting Services, provides extensive insights into emerging technologies and trends such as digitizing operations, hyperpersonalization of customer communications, ESG and enablement of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has a background in investment performance measurement, securities processing and operational best practices.  

Uday Singh, Managing Director, Head of Broadridge Consulting Services.