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Karen Abramson is CEO of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, a global provider of information, software, and integrated workflow solutions for tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk and compliance professionals. As CEO of the global division, she leads Wolters Kluwer tax and accounting operations worldwide, with activities across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Previously at Wolters Kluwer, she served as president and CEO of the Medical Research business unit and general manager of the Corsearch business unit. Before her tenure at Wolters Kluwer, Abramson held various leadership positions with MemberWorks, Inc. and Thomson Corporation.

Neil brings over 25+ years of business and technical experience in various product and business development roles in technology companies specializing in software solutions for Insurtech, Fintech, Telecoms, Real Estate, Geospatial and Telematics. Neil has held senior management positions in both start-up and corporate entities and is comfortable with merger & acquisition environments. Neil is currently the chief strategy officer for Arturo.ai, a property intelligence company.

Hanno Berger, a German lawyer dubbed the mastermind of Cum-Ex, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in part of a sprawling tax scandal that's robbed billions of euros from government coffers and embroiled some of Wall Street's biggest names

Bank of Montreal, which is working to close the largest acquisition in its history, is selling C$3.15 billion ($2.31 billion) in equity to make sure it can meet Canadian regulators' recently increased capital requirements.

The overwhelming majority of top leaders at large U.S and Canadian banks expect a prolonged downturn in 2023, according to a recent survey. Almost none of them expect it to be particularly harsh, though.

Bankman-Fried is being held in custody pending an extradition process,

The U.K. exchange will spend at least $2.8 billion on cloud services from the tech giant over the next decade.

Nonbanks would have to inform the CFPB of any state or local court decisions against them involving consumer financial products, under a new proposed rule. That information would be pooled with data about federal violations and be made available to the public.

The central bank's governing body said a limited disclosure would satisfy its obligations under administrative law. The Kansas City Fed, meanwhile, would be subject to full discovery.