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People working at the front and back offices of banks are going to have wildly different experiences with AI, says Sopnendu Mohanty, the group CEO of the global advisory and investment firm GFTN.Mohanty, 53, worked at Citi for nearly two decades before joining Singapore’s central bank as its first chief fintech officer in 2015. He’s also a cofounder of the Singapore FinTech Festival.He told Business Insider that the disruption posed by AI will depend on whether one works in a bank’s front, middle, or back office.”Front is all for the customer. The middle is all for the bank, and the…

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison gave his employees an ultimatum in early September: return to the office five days a week, or take severance.About 600 Paramount staffers chose to quit with severance pay, the company said in its third-quarter shareholder letter on Monday.Paramount offered severance to employees at the VP level or lower who weren’t willing to work from the New York or Los Angeles offices Monday through Friday, starting in early January. The company had about 18,600 workers at the end of 2024.Those severance packages cost Paramount $185 million last quarter, the company said in its quarterly filing. The…

Warren Buffett is generally a pretty grateful guy, but there’s one thing in particular that he’s not thankful for: CEO pay ratio rules.The legendary investor took some time in his third annual Thanksgiving letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Monday to criticize rules that require public companies to compare their CEOs’ compensation packages to that of the median worker.”The good intentions didn’t work; instead they backfired,” he said in his letter.Buffett said in the letter that the reformers behind the rules “sought to embarrass CEOs” in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 by requiring companies to show…

If you want to be a high-mileage CEO like Warren Buffett, it pays to be humble.That’s the advice from the Oracle of Omaha, in his final Thanksgiving letter to shareholders as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, released Monday.Buffett detailed a range of thoughts on the virtues of stewardship, honesty, and what he described as “good intentions” gone awry in attempts to rein in CEO pay.One broad takeaway was his call to continue learning and growing.”Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better,” Buffett wrote.Here are five other lessons Buffett…

Warren Buffett, 95, says when thinking about how to live your life, you should think about the end of it — specifically, your own obituary.Buffett reflected on his own life and offered the advice in his third annual Thanksgiving letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Monday, the last one he’ll send as CEO of the company.”I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first,” Buffett wrote. “My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes — learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to…

You don’t need to be a JPMorgan employee to see inside the bank’s new soaring Manhattan headquarters. You just need to open TikTok.As the bank’s employees begin to populate the 60-story, $3 billion skyscraper at 270 Park Avenue, a select few are uploading videos of what appear to be the interior of the tower, which boasts a food court with 19 restaurants, a gym, and biometric scanning.One now-deleted video uploaded on October 7 documented an apparent employee’s morning in the building — she spun through the revolving doors before 6 am, scanned her hand to enter the lobby, and walked…

As the Senate advances a possible end to the 40-day government shutdown, the Internal Revenue Service is adjusting its plans amid a wave of layoffs and program closings.The IRS began furloughing many of its employees and closing down functions about a week after the shutdown started on Oct. 1 after initially drawing from funds left over from the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRS later posted an update on which services would be limited or unavailable during the shutdown. The shutdown has had a significant impact on tax professionals and their clients, and the National Association of Tax Professionals sent a…

After delaying a rule requiring high-income 401(k) savers aged 50 or older to make catch-up contributions in Roth accounts, the IRS has signaled that it will take effect starting next year.That gives financial advisors working with 401(k) sponsors or clients earning more than $145,000 less than two months to ensure a Roth account is available and help those clients decide whether to contribute to it, noted Jay Cirame, vice president of ERISA consulting at Sentinel Group, a Wakefield, Massachusetts-based registered investment advisory firm. The IRS confirmed in September that traditional 401(k) plan catch-up contributions will no longer be available for…

The American Institute of CPAs and state CPA societies have launched a monthlong initiative in November to introduce high school students to opportunities in the accounting profession, while the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board are separately looking for university graduates to join their Postgraduate Technical Assistant Program.The AICPA is teaming up with state CPA societies and CPA firms on the Accounting Opportunities Experience for high school students. Throughout this month, CPAs and state CPA societies across the country will host classroom visits, career fairs and community events aimed at inspiring the next generation of accounting…

Former New York Mets Darryl Strawberry before throwing out a first pitch at Citi Field in July 2022.Adam Hunger/Photographer: Adam Hunger/Getty President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry for a 1995 tax evasion charge.A White House official confirmed news outlets’ reports that Trump has approved a pardon for Strawberry, a three-time World Series champion and eight-time All-Star.Strawberry was indicted in 1995, later pleading guilty to one federal charge of tax evasion. The crime, which involved his failure to report $350,000 in income from autographs and sales of memorabilia, carried a maximum sentence of five…