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Carl Aridas

Carl is certified in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), a Scrum Master, and a Six Sigma Green Belt project manager with more than 25 years of experience in financial services overseeing large-scale development global, multi-currency accounting, regulatory reporting, and financial reporting software platforms. He has hands-on experience completing, reviewing, and filing Federal Reserve, FFIEC, and IRS reports, including Call Reports, Y9C reports, 2900 reports, TIC reports, and arbitrage rebate reports.

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Promethium Subsidiary Receives First FINRA-Approved Digital Asset Custodianship

Promethium Ember Capital, (“PEC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Promethium, has become the first digital asset custody provider to come under federal regulation. PEC was approved as a special purpose broker-dealer (“SPBD”) for digital asset securities. The approval allows Promethium to custody digital asset securities on behalf of both retail and institutional clients. The significance […]

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Avoiding Client Remediation With RCSA (Part 3 of 3)

In our first blog in this series, Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3), we discussed how to get a client remediation program started, what levels of an organization should be involved in the client remediation program, and how ultimately positive outcomes, such as lower risks, improved technology, and risk monitoring, may result from […]

7 Possible Causes of SVB Failure and Predicting the Impact on Regulatory Reporting

Recent headlines have highlighted the failure of SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). To help both current and future clients, using publicly available financial records of SVB, including the last two annual reports and every 10-Ks and 10-Q filed this decade, a team of Perficient team members from around the […]

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Client Remediation – Running the Program (Part 2 of 3)

In our first blog in this series, Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3), we discussed how to get a client remediation program started, what levels of the organization should be involved in client remediation programs, and how ultimately good things, such as lower risks, improved technology, and risk monitoring, may result from […]

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Getting Started With Client Remediation (Part 1 of 3)

Your firm has, whether it was an individual or collective organization, violated the first component of the Hippocratic Oath – “first, do no harm” (or “primum non nocere,” the original Latin translation from the Greeks) while interacting with a client. Some combination of your conscience and your lawyers make you want to “make things right,” […]

Embedded Insurance Meets Customers Where They Are

In our last blog, How Embedded Finance is Changing Purchasing & Borrowing Behaviors, we looked at embedded payments and loans and why companies would want to offer (increased sales, lower inventory, processing costs, data gathering) these bank-like services. In this blog, we’re going to stay in the world of finance, but pivot to embedded insurance.  […]

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How Embedded Finance is Changing Purchasing & Borrowing Behaviors

In the first two blogs in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance and Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences,  we defined embedded finance and looked at the goals and strategies that firms should take at the outset of their modern embedded finance journey, as well as how and why firms should consider getting embedded banking.  […]

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Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences

In the first blog in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance,  we defined embedded finance and took a high-level look at the goals and strategy a firm should take at the outset of its modern embedded finance journey.  In this blog, we will look at how a non-banking company can offer bank-like perks to […]

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Getting Started On Embedded Finance

Many clients have been asking about embedded finance, and as every schoolteacher knows for every person who asks a question, there are at least 10 others who have a question but are afraid to ask it. For both the questioners and those afraid to question, we at Perficient thought we would provide some background on […]

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The Few, the Proud, the Protected — Provisions in SCRA That Financial Institutions Must Be Aware Of

SCRA stands for the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The history of the SCRA can be traced back to a Civil War moratorium that protected Union soldiers and sailors from collection actions, divorce proceedings, and other legal issues during wartime. These protections resurfaced in 1918 with the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act. The Act was […]

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J.P. Morgan, Visa, and Deutsche Bank Will Use Confirm and DLT

The Scene You’re a rising middle-management executive walking into your NYC office, holding a cup of coffee purchased from a street vendor. Right upon booting up your PC, a message from your largest, most demanding client pops up, stating that they want to send wires to multiple vendors – who, of course, all use different […]

Federal Banking Regulators Seek Comments for Additional Capital for Large Banks

Seeking additional arrows in their quiver against large bank failures, on October 14, 2022, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR). The ANPR is intended to solicit public input regarding whether an extra layer of loss-absorbing capacity could improve optionality in resolving a […]

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