In|Vest 2018 Direct

Like many fintechs, Stripe's valuation fell in recent months, highlighting the need to look beyond transaction processing for revenue.

Meow and Vesto are two firms that help companies invest idle funds in safe instruments such as Treasury bills.

Industry leaders hoped that the emergency sale of First Republic Bank would quell investors' fears, but many banks saw big stock price declines on Tuesday. The instability could put pressure on lawmakers and policymakers to take more decisive action.

Greenwood and Kinly aspire to build wealth among the Black community. 

Metropolitan Bank Holding is rescinding a $7.5 million loan it made to its CEO, and canceling a stock purchase he used the proceeds to fund, after determining that the loan was likely impermissible.

At the annual Milken conference, financial execs and dealmakers talked about what's concerning, and exciting, now.

At the embattled Republic First Bancorp, elevated legal, professional and audit fees also contributed to a nearly $10 million in first-quarter loss but CEO Thomas Geisel reports signs of progress moving past "legacy headwinds."

Yiannis Gavrielides is the co-founder and CEO of Covve, helping professionals to grow and nurture their contact network. He actively supports entrepreneurship as a partner at Invelopment Partners.

After years of implementing Dodd-Frank Act measures rules to streamline bank resolutions, regulators relied on their pre-crisis playbook to resolve Silicon Valley and First Republic banks. That choice has led some experts to question the rules' utility.

Megan Smith's diverse career journey at SAP spans almost two decades, across multiple lines
of business: from instructional design and training to product management and, for the majority of time, in HR. She has been an HR Business Partner supporting global leaders across sales, engineering, marketing, and product support. In 2018, Megan spent six months conducting two major academic studies for SAP in partnership with Temple University: determining factors that drive innovation culture and discovering how creativity, stress, and engagement are impacted by working in the office vs at home. 

Over the past five years, Megan has been deeply involved as an HR leader in SAP's acquired cloud businesses in North America, the Head of HR for SAP Canada, and in 2022 expanded her
responsibilities to assume the role of Head of HR for SAP North America. Some of Megan's focus as of late has been developing SAP's Flex Work guidelines, D&I tools to develop inclusive
leadership, managing retention in a competitive market, and leading the COVID-19 Vaccination
office entry policy.