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The three-year-old Newport Beach-based institution, which secured $500 million in investor pledges to acquire peers, says more dealmaking may be in the works.

Kathryn Eskandarian is the chief financial officer at Visual Lease, where she oversees the organization's financial operations and general administration functions, including IT, legal and human resources. Appointed as VL's CFO in July 2023, Eskandarian has been instrumental in helping the organization grow and scale successfully. She is a CPA registered in New Jersey and has a B.S. in accounting from William Paterson University.

The IRS would give a temporary detail to provide software engineering expertise to a special advisor to the director at the Office of Personnel Management.

At a trial that starts this week in Manhattan, federal prosecutors will seek to prove that Charlie Javice, the founder of college financial-planning startup Frank, and chief growth officer Olivier Amar committed fraud to get JPMorgan Chase & Co. to go through with the 2021 transaction.

Banking regulation doesn't need to mimic the hyper-partisan nature of today's politics. A balanced FDIC board would confer legitimacy on any efforts by the Trump administration to overhaul financial-services regulation.

A just-released McKinsey report predicts strong growth for market data providers, but analysts note that big tech companies are encroaching.

The fees are controversial for card networks and consumers, but the impact on banks has been muted. Here's why that could change.

Mahlet Makonnen is a principal at the law firm Williams & Jensen.