Commercial banking

Rachel Lin is a co-founder and CEO of SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives trading platform. She previously worked in the global markets division at Deutsche Bank, where she specialized in derivatives, and is also a founding partner of Matrixport, one of Asia's largest crypto neobanks.

Matt Rampe, ASA, PCC is a partner at Rosenberg Associates, a top-ranked CPA firm consultancy. His specialties include strategic planning, managing partner coaching and practice management. His complete biography is available here.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg apologized for his management and temper at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that focused on his handling of the agency in the immediate aftermath of a workplace behavior report outlining serious misconduct that prevailed for years.

The so-called core consumer price index climbed 0.3% from March, snapping a streak of three above-forecast readings which spurred concern that inflation was becoming entrenched.

The number of borrowers who are at their credit limits is approaching its pre-pandemic level, and the percentage of balances that are sliding into delinquency has hit its highest rate in more than a decade, according to new research. Still, card companies are generally expressing optimism about their credit outlooks.

Stakeholders are watching carefully as the 2023 crisis and a capital proposal increase banker wariness of mortgage assets, speakers at Invisso's MBS Forum said.

As of Dec. 31, 2023, according to Moody's, the portfolio's delinquency rate was higher than the rating agency had observed in previous MBFS-sponsored transactions dating back to 2019, but it was still extremely low, at 1.46%.

Seth Catalli is chief revenue officer of Globality Inc, which is applying AI to automate enterprise spend management.

The owner of brands such as Vitamin Shoppe and American Freight told investors revenue showed a double-digit drop from a year earlier. Franchise Group is planning to cut debt and exploring securitization within its Pet Supplies Plus business, the people said.

Richard Loebl is senior counsel in the Employee Benefits practice at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He focuses his practice on the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. He has worked extensively on questions related to fiduciary responsibility and has experience litigating fiduciary responsibility claims.

Marc Fosse is a partner in the Employee Benefits practice at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He counsels clients in the design, implementation, and operation of domestic and international executive nonqualified and supplemental deferred compensation plans, as well as equity-based and other long-term incentive compensation arrangements.

Rocket Mortgage entered into an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and will pay the consumers $65,000 to resolve the matter.

Kathy Kraninger is president and chief executive officer of the Florida Bankers Association. She served as Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director from 2018 to 2021.