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Gold buying by central banks, an important driver of bullion’s advance in recent years, is forecast to pick up in 2021 after a slowdown this year.

As Head of Risk Management, Laura Levenstein has responsibility for BAM's risk management strategy and its oversight, including acting as chair of the Enterprise Risk Committee. Laura also serves on the Management, Underwriting and Credit Policy and Surveillance Committees. Before joining BAM, she was Senior Managing Director for Global Public, Project and Infrastructure Finance, which includes US public finance, global sub-sovereign, sovereign, project and infrastructure finance, at Moody's Investors Service. In that position, as part of the evaluation of the various rated entities, she was responsible for evaluating all types of risk in these sectors to the extent it could impact the entities' credit profiles. Laura was also responsible for managing all aspects of the rating business relevant to those sectors including, rating assignment, rating methodologies, process operations, strategy, financial performance, rating quality and reputational risks. Prior positions in her over 20-year career at Moody's included Senior Managing Director for Americas and Global Financial Institutions. Laura holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University.

Avani M. Desai is president at Top 100 Firm Schellman & Co. Inc., and a member of the ISACA.

Charlie Scharf’s insensitive and factually incorrect remark perpetuates a damaging trope, financial advisor Lazetta Braxton writes.

Colleen Wells is responsible for Product Strategy for Sapiens North America P&C, as well as Sapiens’ Digital Product Suite globally. She possesses expertise in professional services, customer success, running product teams and her true passion — understanding market trends and providing valuable solutions to carriers and customers.

The bank also created a new consumer and wealth-management division co-led by Stephanie Cohen, one of the firm’s most-senior female bankers.

The independent firm has been an aggressive recruiter since its founding in 2013.

The Justice Department filed two counts of wire fraud against the firm but agreed to defer prosecution under a three-year deal that requires the bank to report its remediation and compliance efforts to the government.

The agency would have us take a step backward and limit the use of forward-looking datasets.

Debra Schwartz is president and CEO of Mission Federal Credit Union in San Diego, Calif., and chairman of NAFCU.