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 […]
Carl Aridas –
A former federal bank regulator, Carl has deep industry expertise acquired over 35 years in the financial services industry. A program and project manager with multiple certifications in both waterfall and agile methodologies, Carl has extensive AI training and has executed numerous enterprise-wide change programs at both Strategically Important Financial Institutions as well as smaller FS firms, using the latest in AI tools.
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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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Federal Reserve Issues Supervisory Letter on Crypto Activities for Banks
Similar to what the OCC issued in December 2021, in August 2022, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a Supervisory Letter outlining the steps FRB member banks should take prior to engaging in crypto-asset-related activities, such as assessing whether such activities are legally permissible and determining whether any regulatory filings are required. Additionally, the Supervisory […]
An Interview With Two Billionaires In 2042
A metaphorical interview about the collapse of NFTs and what it possibly means for the future. Good morning. Today, financial correspondent I.D. Futchermann will be interviewing legendary finance executive Richard Tan Yu. I.D Futchermann: Let’s start with you, Richard. How did you get started? Richard Tan Yu: Well D, after graduating as a history major […]