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The longtime chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will leave his post after 15 years to take an administrative position at Purdue University.

The implementation plan the Biden administration released on Thursday seeks to shift liability for data breaches onto "the biggest, most capable" entities. Does that mean banks?

Sima Gandhi is the co-founder of the Coalition for Financial Ecosystem Standards, an organization focused on setting risk management and compliance standards for bank partners, as well as a senior advisor at FS Vector. She recently sold her company, and prior to that, was on the executive team leading policy and banking relationships at Plaid. She previously held roles at the Department of Treasury and American Express. 

The six biggest banks in the U.S. are expected to sell between $28 billion and $32 billion of new bonds after they report quarterly earnings, and regional banks — seeking to raise more capital — could be right behind them.

Five organizations representing large banks sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell requesting a long and thorough public review process for rule changes that are expected to be rolled out this summer.

A federal judge ruled that the Ripple Labs token is a security when sold to institutional investors but not the general public, a long-awaited decision that was widely hailed as a victory for the crypto industry over the SEC.

James Murphy is a securities lawyer and former chairman of the law firm Murphy & McGonigle, which was recognized in 2021 and 2022 as the "Law Firm of the Year in Securities Regulation" by U.S. New & Best Lawyers in America.

Bob Kaufman is the Founder and CEO of ConnexPay. Bob started ConnexPay with a passion to remove pain and friction, and a clear purpose to improve the customer experience of paying and getting paid. His strategic foresight and visionary leadership have built ConnexPay into a company that now serves a multitude of businesses spanning several industries globally.

Prior to founding ConnexPay in 2017, Bob spent nearly 20 years at U.S. Bank, where his tenure included serving as CFO of the Payments Services division as well as Senior Vice President, leading innovation projects across the bank's payments division. In addition, Bob served as the General Manager of U.S. Bank's Virtual Pay division, where he led product, marketing, and supplier enablement for all virtual payment solutions, as well as a sales team focused on virtual payments.

Bob earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Minnesota, and he holds a master's degree in finance and strategic management from the University of Chicago GSB. Bob is a CPA and a CMA.

Anthony Loss is the lead solutions architect at ClearScale.

Prosecutors claim that from 2018 through June 2022, Mashinsky "orchestrated a scheme to defraud customers of Celsius Network LLC and its related entities," according to the indictment unsealed Thursday.