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Block added 30,000 sellers to what it calls "Neighborhoods," a proprietary distribution network that connects Cash App users with Square sellers. It is a key initiative Block CEO Jack Dorsey first outlined in 2024 as a way to meld the company's then-separate business lines to achieve network effects.

The core provider says ShinyHunters' breach affected fewer than 10 financial institution clients.

Jackson Fregeau is the CEO and co-founder of Quandri, the AI platform for insurance operations, serving hundreds of brokerages and agencies across North America. He co-founded the company in 2021 with his brother after seeing firsthand how the data-intensive, manual work embedded in agency operations was defining the ceiling on what the industry could deliver. Quandri pairs broker expertise with insurance-native AI speed and intelligence to create a new operating model that increases capacity, strengthens client relationships, and enables teams to operate more efficiently at scale.

Ed McFadden is the senior vice president for communications at the American Financial Services Association.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Wednesday that inflation expectations remain well anchored, suggesting a "wait-and-see" approach for monetary policy.

Some midsize firms joined three giants of the industry in surpassing their peers among independent brokerages, in terms of the percentage increase in their average payouts per financial advisor last year.

Kara Clark, FSA, is a Senior Research Actuary at the Society of Actuaries Research Institute, focusing on mortality and longevity and their implications for the life insurance industry.
She brings over three decades of actuarial and leadership experience across consulting, industry, and professional organizations. Most recently, she was a Partner at Oliver Wyman, advising on risk modeling, value-based care, and health strategy, informing her perspective on healthcare drivers of mortality.

Her work emphasizes practical, research-based insights for actuaries and industry leaders. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

First National Bank of Omaha's planned acquisition of InBankshares in Denver comes less than three months after it agreed to acquire a Kansas City-area bank.

The claim that community bankers are somehow being manipulated into supporting changes to the CLARITY Act that would benefit big banks is wrong. The threat to deposits from stablecoin yield is real and dangerous.

People on Kalshi and Polymarket tend to be younger, tend to be poorer, and tend to lose money on the sites, which is how most gambling works.