Commercial banking

Agora started out by providing independent and franchise dealerships with an online platform to manage their retail installment sale contracts (RISCs).

Shivani Deodhar is a governance and reporting assistant vice president with BNP Paribas.

While other European-based banks have retreated from the United States, Santander is doubling down by building out its nationwide digital-banking platform. "Unequivocally," said U.S. CEO Christiana Riley, "the opportunity … is so clear."

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell declined to say whether he would depart the central bank after his chairmanship ends next year, as is typical with Fed chairs who are not reappointed. He also pushed back on criticism from one potential replacement.

The comment period for the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing interim final rule has been extended, but consumer advocates are clear in their opposition.

As Chief AI and Digital Officer at SLK Software, Chandrashekar Surbhat leads the company's digital and AI led transformation strategy, focusing on delivering business outcomes. Chandra is focused on building IP/platforms, strategic partnerships with niche vendors to co-create value for customers and has successfully managed billion-dollar P&L businesses, turned around underperforming units and unlocked efficiencies. His leadership has been instrumental in driving organizational transformations and aligning business strategies with emerging technologies like AI, cloud and digital experience. Chandra holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bangalore University and Program Management, General Management, and Marketing certification from IIM Bangalore.

Neil Keenan is a partner at the Forensic Risk Alliance based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office and serves as co-lead of FRA's investigations practice. He specializes in the delivery of forensic accounting services, including investigations in a number of areas that include corruption, accounting fraud, asset misappropriation and embezzlement.

With the central bank expected to keep its benchmark rate steady at 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday, traders will be scrutinizing comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects negotiations with trading partners over tariffs to conclude by the end of the year but acknowledged that talks with China had not yet begun.

The goal is to address an existing "bottleneck" in financing for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the defense industry.

Underwriting league tables of asset-backed securities through May 1, 2025

The transaction's senior, interest-only tranches, which are also initially exchangeable, pay a coupon of 0.50%.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through May 1, 2025

Rey Ramirez is cofounder at Thrive HR Consulting, a minority-owned HR advisory that provides value-based HR support for mergers and acquisitions, C-Suite executive coaching, employee relations, DEI and belonging, performance management, employee engagement, and talent acquisition.

A federal judge has ordered FDATR, a now-defunct student loan debt relief provider, to pay $43 million in restitution and fees, bucking the trend of cases brought by the Biden administration-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau being dropped.

The transaction will issue about 10 classes of notes, composed of one term bond and nine serial bonds.

Anurag Arjun is co-founder of Avail, a modular blockchain infrastructure project spun out from Polygon. He previously co-founded Matic Network (now Polygon) and serves on the board of rootVX, an enterprise tokenization studio focused on building regulated digital infrastructure for assets, payments and data. With a background in research, economics and engineering, Anurag brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise to financial technology and modular blockchain design.