In|Vest 2018 Direct

With global tensions rising over Ukraine, the cutthroat competitiveness of the U.S. financial sector is yielding to partnership over the conviction that a cyberattack against even a group of minor banks — or a third-party service provider — could imperil everyone in a highly connected system.

Arianna Campbell is a shareholder and consultant at Boomer Consulting Inc.

Pushes for transparency on charitable donations and ghost guns, among others, were voted down.

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo will account for more than $2 billion of the lost revenue, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Participants in the sale of banks to credit unions may need to do a better job of due diligence and gauging the receptivity of their regulators to such deals, experts say in response to the cancellation of VyStar Credit Union's agreement to buy Heritage Southeast Bank.

In its semiannual risk report, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it was working to provide clarity on the legality and soundness related to digital assets.

Despite a more rigorous hypothetical stress scenario than last year, each of the 33 banks examined retained far more than their minimum capital requirements in this year’s stress-test results.

The U.S. Department of Education agreed to erase nearly $6 billion in student loans for borrowers who filed a class action lawsuit against the government after attending for-profit colleges that were found to have misled students.

William Holder serves as dean of the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, and holds the Alan Casden Dean’s Chair of Accountancy. Prior to his current post, he was the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and director of the SEC and Financial Reporting Institute in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Dean Holder has published extensively on the subjects of financial accounting and reporting and auditing. He has received numerous awards during his career, including being twice named as one of the “Top 100 People” in the accounting profession and receiving the AICPA Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest honor awarded by that organization. He has served on a number of governance and standard setting authorities including the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the AICPA and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.  During congressional hearings leading to passage of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act, he provided invited testimony about financial reporting, auditing and corporate governance.  

Canadian banks fell more than 20% from their record high set in early February as recession fears send investors fleeing.