PayThink is focused on the rapidly changing, inter-connected markets of debit, credit, mobile, prepaid and digital payments. As the payments industry strives for faster innovation to launch new products ahead of competitors, PayThink provides insight from market participants and innovators leading the way. PayThink is designed for executives looking to stay relevant in the ever-changing payments ecosystem by finding and honing their competitive edge.

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Megan Smith's diverse career journey at SAP spans almost two decades, across multiple lines
of business: from instructional design and training to product management and, for the majority of time, in HR. She has been an HR Business Partner supporting global leaders across sales, engineering, marketing, and product support. In 2018, Megan spent six months conducting two major academic studies for SAP in partnership with Temple University: determining factors that drive innovation culture and discovering how creativity, stress, and engagement are impacted by working in the office vs at home.Over the past five years, Megan has been deeply involved as an HR leader in SAP's acquired cloud businesses in North America, the Head of HR for SAP Canada, and in 2022 expanded her
responsibilities to assume the role of Head of HR for SAP North America. Some of Megan's focus as of late has been developing SAP's Flex Work guidelines, D&I tools to develop inclusive
leadership, managing retention in a competitive market, and leading the COVID-19 Vaccination
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. suggested targeted deposit insurance expansion for some accounts in a report issued Monday, but the layout in Congress looks tricky to pass any permanent changes.
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The sale of First Republic to JPMorgan Chase marks the end of a distinct phase of the recent banking crisis, but we're not out of the woods yet.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Congressional leadership on Monday calling for them to raise the debt limit before June 1, the earliest date the U.S. could begin defaulting on its debt obligations.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission plows ahead with plans to boost oversight of the private fund industry.
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Mike Tropeano, Senior Director, Broadridge Consulting Services, provides extensive insights into emerging technologies and trends such as digitizing operations, hyperpersonalization of customer communications, ESG and enablement of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has a background in investment performance measurement, securities processing and operational best practices.
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Paul Massey is a co-founder and managing partner at Massey Romans Capital. Previously, he spent 24 years at Raymond James & Associates as a senior investment advisor and branch manager where he managed over a billion dollars in client assets.
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Discover, Capital One and other issuers began effortlessly reaping strong deposit inflows months before the banking crisis. The trend may not last much longer.
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Jeff March, president and CEO of Citadel Credit Union, will retire after nearly 23 years at the helm.
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