In|Vest 2018 Direct

President Trump lobbied again for Congress to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill, but paths toward this Congress doing so are treacherous with few legislative days left.

As banks consider how to expand relationships by selling new uses for artificial intelligence, getting clients to trust the innovation is a major challenge.

Corto Romagny is General Manager, U.S. Operations, Uxopian Software. Based in New York, he leads Uxopian Software US and global growth and works with enterprise customers and partners on content modernization and governed AI for regulated workflows.

Jeff Kesler leads a firm that recently struck a deal to acquire a small bank in Palmer, Texas. Kesler says he's on the lookout for other Lone Star State banks to buy.

As analysts raise concerns that AI could undermine the economics of generous transition deals, executives at Ameriprise, Stifel and Raymond James wonder if firms are paying too much to recruit advisors.

Just two weeks after releasing its planned schedule for buybacks this quarter, the Treasury Department on Wednesday said it's "increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations" for securities dated from the 10-year to the 30-year sector. 

Michael Geller, CPA, is a corporate tax partner at Gursey Schneider in Los Angeles.

Bankers in the U.S. can learn a few things from watching the rollout of the European Union's new AI Act. Specifically, they should notice the gaping hole where rules about identity verification ought to be.

Litigation involving Amalgamated Bank highlights the risks that banks may face when highly placed employees leave their jobs on bad terms.