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State Employees Credit Union in Raleigh, North Carolina, named Leigh Brady as its new chief executive. Outgoing CEO Jim Hayes will run State Department Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Virginia.

Jonathan Schiff, Ph.D, is a professor of accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J. He is the author of over 70 articles and research studies on accounting, controls, performance management, CFO practice development, and financial and cost management. He also served as visiting professor of accounting at Columbia University's School of Business and taught in their MBA and executive MBA programs, and was the founder, in 1995, of the Finance Development & Training Institute (www.fdti.org) a 10-member company alliance, chaired by Dell Technologies. He also established several other best practices sharing alliances including the Activity-Based Costing Implementation Group, the Europe-Finance Leadership Institute, the Transit-Finance Learning Exchange and the China Finance Institute. He has served as chairman of a Nasdaq-listed company audit committee and is frequently quoted in the national business media, including Business Week, The Washington Post, USA Today and The New York Times. Schiff received his Ph.D. from New York University. Before completing his master's degree in accounting at NYU, he worked as a staff auditor with Price Waterhouse.

Michelle Moore, head of consumer digital at Wells Fargo, uses three principles to try to create user interfaces customers will come back to.

House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said that two new bills would make the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network more accountable to the public as it moves toward implementing its beneficial ownership reporting requirement rule.

Gotsch is one of American Banker's Most Influential Women in Fintech.

Lars Boeing is a Vice President in Capgemini Invent's Insurance Practice and leads Capgemini's global Future of Claims offering. He has been working for 20+ years in consulting and industry roles, primarily focused on strategy development, customer experience design, efficiency improvement, and business model (re)design.  

The Roseville, California institution is expanding into the Bay Area in hopes that it can land new clients and lenders in the wake of two large regional failures there this year.

Pesto, a San Francisco-based startup, invites consumers to ship their diamonds, gold and valuable jewelry to be appraised as assets backing a secured Mastercard. The firm has raised $11 million — and the eyebrows of some consumer advocates.

Sabrina Lee is an editorial intern at American Banker and a Dow Jones Business Reporting Fellow. She is a rising senior at New York University where she has worked as a campus writing tutor and a writer at NYU's student-run newspaper.

Young people aging out of foster care don't often have the documents or relationships necessary to open an account. First Tech is making changes to address this all-too-common issue.