In|Vest 2018 Direct

Joe Peiffer is the founder of the national law firm Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise.

He has represented thousands of investors, is a published author, and is currently the president of PIABA, a nonprofit international bar association whose members represent investors in disputes with the securities industry.

Benjamin Edwards is a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

He serves as the current chair for the Section on Securities Regulation for the Association of American Law Schools.  His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The Daily Beast.

The Cincinnati-based bank, which purchased a solar lender last year, is facing an investigation from 17 state attorneys general over the acquired company's lending practices and contractor network. One solar panel installer has gone bankrupt and faced complaints across the country.

Los Angeles-based Lendistry — in less than two years — became the largest Black-run 7(a) lender. Its CEO credits a concerted effort by the Small Business Administration to reach out to minority lenders and businesses, whose participation in the lending program is growing.

Souma Basu is a Principal in the Capco US Insurance Practice. He has extensive experience advising financial services and insurance company clients on assessing business and operations challenges, developing strategies, and delivering results. Empowering digital transformation in insurance, he has helped develop leading industry solutions and tools to address underwriting, claims, and customer-centric solutions critical to personal and commercial insurers.

Speakers at DC Fintech Week highlighted ways forward for regulators to keep pace with artificial intelligence, such as by setting up "guardrails" before guidelines.

The amount of money that investors are parking at a major Federal Reserve facility dropped below $1 trillion for the first time in more than two years.

In tests run by Corporate Insight, generative AI-based bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard generally answer questions better than banks' virtual assistants do. 

Suman Bhattacharyya is a business and technology reporter based in Philadelphia

Jonathan spent the first five years of his professional insurance career working as a generalist broker at a traditional firm on Long Island. Intrigued by how to leverage technology in the industry, he joined the Founder Shield team in 2016 and quickly rose to his current leadership role as Managing Director. Jonathan oversees client strategy and communication and has fostered a culture of providing unparalleled service and risk consulting to some of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Outside of work, he can be found on the basketball court and chess board—but not at the same time.