In|Vest 2018 Direct

Brian Hufford is a Principal Digital Strategy Consultant at Backbase.

Jason Hemsley is a wealth advisor at Gratus Capital and has been providing custom wealth and business succession plans for over 15 years. Before working at Gratus Capital, he was a senior wealth planning strategist at Wells Fargo Private Bank.

Isabella Aldrete is a summer reporter at Employee Benefit News. She is currently a senior at Barnard College and a former deputy editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, lambasted the Federal Reserve for increasing the dominance of "too big to fail" banks and failing to rein in systemic risk. He asked whether the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a better regulator than the Fed.

Just as the United States is getting good news in its war against inflation, the picture is very different across the pond. Some of that is bad luck, but there are lessons on what not to do as well.

State Employees Credit Union in Raleigh, North Carolina, named Leigh Brady as its new chief executive. Outgoing CEO Jim Hayes will run State Department Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Virginia.

Jonathan Schiff, Ph.D, is a professor of accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J. He is the author of over 70 articles and research studies on accounting, controls, performance management, CFO practice development, and financial and cost management. He also served as visiting professor of accounting at Columbia University's School of Business and taught in their MBA and executive MBA programs, and was the founder, in 1995, of the Finance Development & Training Institute (www.fdti.org) a 10-member company alliance, chaired by Dell Technologies. He also established several other best practices sharing alliances including the Activity-Based Costing Implementation Group, the Europe-Finance Leadership Institute, the Transit-Finance Learning Exchange and the China Finance Institute. He has served as chairman of a Nasdaq-listed company audit committee and is frequently quoted in the national business media, including Business Week, The Washington Post, USA Today and The New York Times. Schiff received his Ph.D. from New York University. Before completing his master's degree in accounting at NYU, he worked as a staff auditor with Price Waterhouse.

Michelle Moore, head of consumer digital at Wells Fargo, uses three principles to try to create user interfaces customers will come back to.

House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said that two new bills would make the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network more accountable to the public as it moves toward implementing its beneficial ownership reporting requirement rule.

Gotsch is one of American Banker's Most Influential Women in Fintech.