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A 37-year insurance industry veteran and a leader in the cyber insurance field, Keith Savino is the National Cyber Practice Leader with PCF Insurance Services, as well as a Principal and Managing Partner with Broadfield Insurance. Keith is an active member with various organizations, including a member of the Leaders Council for the Association of User Group Information Exchange (AUGIE), past President for the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents, former Board of Director for ACORD, former Chair for NetVU, Advisory Board member for Certificial, former Advisory Board for IVANs, plus many other organizations.

Peter McMurtrie is a partner of the insurance practice for West Monroe, a global business and technology consulting firm. Peter has C-suite experience across a variety of insurance disciplines including sales, marketing, claims, customer interactions, and subsidiary oversight—including extensive interaction with and presentations to boards of directors. His three decades of experience covers all types of insurance—from core product lines of personal and commercial Insurance to ancillary lines like accident and health, pet, travel, and medical stop loss products. Peter joined West Monroe from Nationwide Insurance, where he was president of Property & Casualty Commercial Insurance. 

Lawranne Stewart is the former assistant chief counsel for the House Financial Services Committee

Affirm Asset Securitization benefits from overcollateralization in several forms. Target overcollateralization during the revolving period will equal 2.65% of the initial adjusted pool balance.

Issuance volume of asset-backed securities for the year through September 5, 2024

The pool consists of 16,272 contracts, with an average contract balance of $93,502. On a weighted average (WA) basis, the contracts have an original term of 55.7 months.

Jordan Zaslav is the chief operating officer at Axios HQ.

With over 20 years of leadership in the insurance industry, including roles at Lloyd's of London, AIG, and Zurich, Jane Veeder is a seasoned expert in underwriting, marketing, and client relationship management. As Director of insurance Solutions at CYGNVS, she partners closely with clients to tailor solutions that meet their policyholders' unique needs.

Stephanie Low is a Commercial Lines P&C Marketing Specialist for Acrisure Great Lakes. She is a dedicated insurance industry professional passionate about making a difference for Acrisure's clients and helping her team succeed. Stephanie has been in the insurance industry for nearly a decade and is specialized in market knowledge and connection to write Small and Middle Market Business. She is licensed in P&C, Life and is Flood Certified.

Patrick Harker, the longest serving regional reserve bank president, will leave office in June 2025. Directors at the Fed bank have started the search for his replacement.

REV Federal Credit Union in suburban Charleston, South Carolina, plans to acquire First Neighborhood Bank in West Virginia. It marks the 15th deal this year involving a credit union buying a bank, closing in on 2022's record of 16 deals.

Mellecker, a former Goldman MD, will focus on a range of securitizations, structured private credit deals and private placements in its structured finance and structured private credit practice.

Steady purchase demand still led to a positive August according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Jeff Miller is the VP, U.S. at nudge.

First-half net trading revenue rose 81% to $4.9 billion from the same period a year earlier at Citadel Securities, and gained 78% to $8.4 billion at Jane Street.

The sale of the $318 million-asset portfolio comes five weeks after the Greenville, South Carolina-based company agreed to sell its investment advisory unit.

More than 91.7% of the portfolio loans were extended to dentists, general medical practitioners or veterinary surgeons—considered prime obligors.

Alex is the Principal Industry Strategist at Hi Marley. He drives innovative use cases for omnichannel customer conversations across the insurance lifecycle. Before Hi Marley, Alex spent a decade with Liberty Mutual, where he was VP of Customer Experience. There, he led experience design, retention tactics, and omnichannel service strategy for the company's direct and independent agent channels. Alex also spent six years in Management Consulting, where he worked with companies across the globe on customer loyalty and growth strategy.

Ingo Weinem leads EPAM's European insurance vertical, partnering with top clients to enhance and expand their businesses.

With more than 35 years of experience in the financial services sector and the insurance industry, Mr. Weinem's expertise spans software engineering, financial planning, omnichannel digitalization and transformation strategies, innovation and organizational change management.

Throughout his professional career, he has held various management positions in the banking, financial markets and insurance industry for software solution providers, including Luxoft, Pactera, Capgemini, Cognizant and IBM.

Stephen Holdstock is the Chief Technology Officer of EMEA Insurance at EPAM Systems, where he leads the technological direction for EPAM's insurance clients across the region, helping them achieve strategic value through the integration of business, technology and data.

With more than 20 years of industry experience, Mr. Holdstock brings deep expertise in IT leadership, change management and large-scale transformation programs. His career spans roles in large-scale engineering at Motorola, tier-one consulting at Accenture and strategic leadership at global property and casualty (P&C) carriers, including a significant tenure as CTO at Lloyd's of London.

At EPAM, Mr. Holdstock is focused on building out the insurance practice, continuing to drive transformative outcomes for clients across the insurance industry.