PayThink 2018 Direct Page

Executives from Circle, Coinbase and Custodia Bank are among those cheering the Trump administration's pro-crypto moves.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood suggested Tuesday that regulators should consider raising the dollar amount for mandatory suspicious activity reporting and revising the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to advance bank mergers.

Arun Kumar is chief technology officer at Socure, a digital identity verification and identity fraud prevention company.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman — who is viewed as a leading contender to be the next vice chair for supervision at the central bank — said changes to the post-financial crisis framework should be a focal point of the Fed's regulatory policy review.

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.