In|Vest 2018 Direct

At the bank’s investor day, CEO Jane Fraser and other top executives outlined where they are investing, how they are reorganizing and what it will all cost.

John Mackowiak is chief business development officer at Advyzon, a cloud-based platform that combines portfolio management, customizable performance reporting, trading and rebalancing, client web portals, client relationship management (CRM), client billing, and document storage.

John leads the sales and service effort and contributes to development of the Advyzon platform. Prior to working at Advyzon, he spent 12 years at Morningstar, most recently as product manager for Morningstar Office.

The credit union had been in the custody of the National Credit Union Administration since June 2020 to address concerns of unsafe and unsound business practices.

Ben Siewert joined International Planning Alliance in November 2019 after a 12-year career as an audit and accounting professional with KPMG, The Siegfried Group and JP Morgan Chase. He holds his CPA as well as his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Penn State University.

Siewert focuses his practice on working with families, as well as fellow mid-career professionals.  He enjoys explaining financial concepts and decisions to his clients using the athletic principles he has learned over the course of 30 years as an amateur athlete.  Every athlete works with a coach to enhance their strengths and improve their weaknesses — finances deserve the same care.

Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee clashed over the stalled nominations of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and four others Wednesday. It was a prelude to the fireworks that could occur Thursday when Powell is scheduled to testify before the Senate Banking Committee.

The Merchants Payments Coalition is appealing to lawmakers to reform credit card interchange rates as Visa and Mastercard prepare to increase some fees next month after a yearlong delay.

The $142 million deal would vault the buyer from the 21st-largest bank in Philadelphia to the 12th largest.

Most loans to mortuaries are backed by the Small Business Administration, so they are capped at $5 million. The Delaware lender is teaming with an industry insurer to offer much larger loans to funeral home owners seeking to acquire rivals or refinance operations.

Just a few years ago, there was no organization for LGBTQ credit union executives and employees, nor was there anyone openly out on the stages of credit union conferences — until Linda Bodie, CEO of Element Federal Credit Union in West Virginia, asked them to make themselves known.

President Biden’s four nominees to join the Commodity Futures Trading Commission told lawmakers that the main U.S. derivatives overseer should take on new responsibilities regulating cryptocurrencies.