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  • Greg Williams is the Accessibility Program Office Executive at Deque Systems. He oversees program development and operations for some of Deque's largest customers, helping them to build mature, sustainable accessibility programs.

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  • The deal would pair plan sponsors on Empower’s platform with the hybrid robo advisor’s technology and advice capabilities.

    June 29
  • They join a growing St. Louis branch that RBC opened in 2018.

    June 29
    The Market Street Group team joined RBC's growing St. Louis branch office. From left to right: Amy Hustedde, Robert Funke, Peter Sadlo, and DeAnne Finn.
  • Billion-dollar teams are voting with their feet. Here’s where they are going.

    June 29
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  • The privileged realms of American finance still look much the way they did a decade ago, or even two or three decades ago.

    June 29
    Today not a single CEO of a major U.S. bank is Black, and only one of the more than 80 people included among the elite executive teams atop the six largest U.S. banks is Black.
  • Michael Kitces, co-founder of XY Planning Network, says the group is mulling its options after a federal court struck down the organization’s lawsuit against the SEC rule.

    June 29
    The U.S. Supreme Court building stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. A divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared President Donald Trump's administration to start barring most transgender people from serving in the armed forces. The justices, voting 5-4 Tuesday, put on hold lower court decisions that had blocked the administration's planned ban from taking effect. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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  • Richard McKenney is president and chief executive officer for Unum Group, one of the world’s leading providers of workplace financial protection benefits. He became president in April 2015 and assumed the role of CEO in May of the same year.

    McKenney served as executive vice president, chief financial officer for Unum Group from 2009 to 2015, where he was responsible for overall financial management of the company, including financial reporting, treasury and capital management, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions, investments, financial planning, investor relations, and enterprise risk management. He also chaired Unum’s Operating Committee, which oversees the company’s business operations throughout the U.S. and U.K.

    Prior to joining Unum in 2009, McKenney was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sun Life Financial, an international financial services company based in Toronto.

    McKenney graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

    June 29
  • Speculative investors bought a net 206,227 S&P 500 E-mini contracts in the week to June 23, the most since 2007.

    June 29
    Although the S&P 500 has fallen 0.3% since the July 4 holiday, market-neutral momentum has posted its best four-day run since before Brexit, analysts report.
  • Philippa Lawrence is a global finance and accounting leader and is currently vice president and chief accounting officer at Workday. Prior to that, she held controller roles at Google, Brocade, Motorola, and Katerra.

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