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The question is unfair to people who have never been found guilty or have been accused of minor offenses. It’s especially unfair to minority applicants.

Robert Smithson is the founder and CEO of Just Insure, a pay-per-mile insurance technology company that uses telematics to set prices, rewarding safe drivers and reducing bias. A successful entrepreneur, Robert also founded PythonAnywhere, a leading Python platform-as-a-service, and Genius Sports Group, which was sold for $280 million in 2018.

Prior to his entrepreneurship, Robert held several fund management positions including investment director at GAM, a pure-play asset management group headquartered in Zurich. He was also a partner at both THS Partners and Arete Research in the United Kingdom.

Robert graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in philosophy and currently resides in Los Angeles, California where Just Insure is headquartered.

Anneliese Lederer is director of fair lending at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Bank of America revamped leadership across its wealth management business, placing more responsibilities on current heads Andy Sieg and Katy Knox.

JPMorgan Chase raised Chief Executive Jamie Dimon’s total compensation 10% to $34.5 million for his work in 2021, the firm’s most profitable year on record.

Though the retailer's threat to drop Visa in the U.K. appears to have subsided, companies like Clik2pay, Affirm and Curve have seized on an opportunity to advance account-to-account transactions, buy now/pay later and cryptocurrency.

Daily edition for January 21, 2022

SaVion Harris joined Intercontinental Wealth Advisors as a financial advisor in the summer of 2021 after graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance. During his time at UTSA, he was a student-athlete as a member of the football team and had dreams of playing in the NFL. He currently helps manage client assets, working to truly understand clients’ situations, goals, and dreams — helping them envision their future and then take the steps to make it a reality. He has attained his Texas Life Insurance license as well as his Series 65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law license.

A long-awaited report from the Federal Reserve is a historic step toward the possible development of a central bank digital currency. But the Fed emphasized it would not create one without a clear directive from Congress and the White House.

Fourth-quarter profits rose 10% at the Cleveland company as investment banking income hit a record and nonperforming loans plummeted. Executives say charge-offs will probably start rising in late 2022 but that fee income from capital markets transactions will keep growing.