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Amanda Martell is director of human resources for LifeSpeak Inc. She has extensive experience across a range of industries and is skilled in leadership, training and development, and employee relations.

Ellen Choi is the CEO of Edgefield Group, a consultancy that offers services at the intersection of AI, technology, and business transformation to solve Top 500 CPA firms' biggest challenges. She is the Co-Founder and Advisor at Aiwyn, a technology company helping accounting firms streamline their practice management. Aiwyn has been recognized with Forbes 100 Rising Stars, Boomer Visionary Award, and AccountingToday's Award. Her past includes working in Google' Finance team, Stanford engineering, and Harvard MBA. She is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for driving innovation in the accounting profession.

Jonathan Steele is the director of product management at Motus, the mobile workforce solution simplifying the reimbursement and management of all vehicle and device costs through personalized calculations.

Allison Henry serves as the vice president of professional and technical standards at the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs. She oversees the PICPA's peer review and ethics programs, while facilitating the operation of eight state-wide technical committees. 

False information, job losses, diminishing skills and human interaction, among other concerns, have bankers worried about deploying both generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, and more long-accepted forms of AI like machine learning, according to a new survey of American Banker readers.

Orders on the NASDAQ exchange were unable to execute early Monday morning because of an error with the exchange's price discovery tool. The error has since been resolved.

Stephanie Cohen's exit adds to the dwindling ranks of senior women at the firm as Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has failed to make good on his pledge of correcting the lack of women in the firm's top ranks.

As the use of internet of things (IoT) devices and artificial intelligence grow in popularity, their adoption is creating real risks for end users and insurers alike. As bad actors use it to perpetrate new kinds of fraud, carriers can also utilize it to identify these risks and fraudulent claims more quickly.

Despite fresh waves of online fraud and scams, czars of social media platforms, peer-to-peer networks and blockchain products have renewed ambitions to marry financial services with social apps.

Increased federalization of the U.S. banking industry would be a disservice to consumers and the economy. The court must act to protect the vibrancy of the dual-banking system.