In|Vest 2018 Direct

Barika Williams is executive director of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development.

Paulina Gonzalez-Brito is the CEO of Rise Economy, formerly the California Reinvestment Coalition, a member-led alliance focused on creating a more equitable society for Black, Indigenous and people of color. She is recognized as a leader in organizing economic justice campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights and the rights of low-income and underrepresented communities of color.

In global news this week, regulators in EU worry about staffing, American Express expands B2B cross-border payments, ATMs in New Zealand get an upgrade, and more.

Chaitanya Ejner, senior associate – tax, KPMG LLP, has considerable experience in the R&D credit space across industries such as financial services and IT engineering working directly with client engineers to qualify and support R&D credit claims. He also works closely with a team of engineers and business experts in developing and automating credit claims processes.

Gregory A. Bocchino, partner – tax at KPMG LLP, is the national leader of KPMG's Accounting Methods and Credits practice and has more than 20 years of federal income tax accounting methods and credits experience.

Ajay Wanchoo, managing director – tax at KPMG LLP, leads transformation initiatives with a global team of specialist engineers and business experts and contractors, who provide deep technical analysis of client IT investments and develop client-facing solutions in the cloud leveraging artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The payment company's strategy includes cost cutting, new products such as a Venmo account for teens, and welcoming input from Elliott Management, an activist investor that took a $2 billion stake in the firm.

The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars climbed to a nearly 14-year high as traders brace for steady interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, backing away from speculation the central bank will ease up as the economy shows signs of cooling. 

The report from Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rob Portman, R-Ohio, details China's campaign to infiltrate the Federal Reserve. But even amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China, response to the report has been muted.

The agency must take a principles-based approach rather than trying to cover every possible issue in detail.