Commercial banking

Astrid Malval-Beharry is the Founder and President of StratMaven, a boutique strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm specializing in the intersection of P&C Insurance and Technology. With over 20 years of experience in growth strategy and M&A, she partners with insurance providers, solution vendors, and private equity firms to drive innovation and value creation in the InsurTech sector.

Suzanne M. Holl, CPA, is executive president of Loss Prevention Services with CAMICO. With more than 30 years of experience in accounting, she draws on her Big Four public accounting and private industry background to provide CAMICO's policyholders with information on a wide variety of loss prevention and accounting issues.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has begun searching for new members and a new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board only days after forcing the PCAOB chair to resign.

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President Donald Trump said he is considering sending rebate checks to Americans using revenue from tariff increases his administration is imposing on U.S. trading partners.

Kurt Schacht is the executive director of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. During his tenure he has overseen CFA Institute's global policy research, standards and government relations in New York, London, Brussels and Hong Kong. He managed the activities of the Global Investment Performance Standards, the CFA Institute Asset Manager Code and the Financial Analysts Journal.

Olivier Fines, CFA, is head of advocacy and policy research for EMEA at the CFA Institute. He leads the effort in researching and commenting on the major trends that affect the investment management industry as well as changes to the profession and policy and regulatory developments.