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A Midwest lender is also laying off local employees while a Florida bank is shutting down its nationwide network of mortgage offices.

Both companies have rolled out tools that allow for communications to take place entirely in Spanish if the customer desires.

BayFirst Financial Corp. said it initiated the process of shuttering its out-of-state network of residential mortgage loan production offices.

Aaron Lindstrom is the Regional Head of Transformation and Digital Partnerships for Allianz Trade in Americas, the world's largest and oldest provider of trade credit insurance. In his current role, Lindstrom is responsible for the execution of Allianz Trades' ambitious strategy to fundamentally transform the company for success in the digital era. He also drives the Region's digital partnerships by actively facilitating current and new partnership opportunities, and evolving current product offerings to serve market needs. In addition to the day-to-day responsibilities of his role, Lindstrom serves as a founding member for Allianz Trade's American Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Lindstrom has 10 years of experience in the insurance industry. He joined Allianz Trade in 2012, serving as Sales Agent, then later Senior Sales Agent. Prior to joining the organization, he held positions with Enterprise Fleet Management and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Lindstrom has vast experience speaking at both regional and national events for organizations such as, The Risk Management Association, The National Association of Credit Managers, Washington Business Week, and The Associated Builders and Contractors.  He is active in several regional trade organizations and frequently networks with startups and fintechs to stay up-to-date on the innovation of the trade credit insurance industry.

In his spare time, Lindstrom enjoys volunteering with organizations like Washington Trails Association and North Helpline. In the past, he has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. When not hard at work for Allianz Trade or volunteering, Lindstrom enjoys traveling, camping, hiking and snow skiing.

Paul Williams is VP of Business Development at HONK Technologies, an on-demand automotive mobility services company. He has previously held a number of senior positions in vehicle salvage and recycling companies, including Newell Recycling Southeast, Aviva and Bluecycle.

Carrie Kelley, who is a Director in the Insurance Consulting and Technology business, joined WTW in 2012 and is based in the Atlanta office. Her primary areas of practice are individual life insurance, COLI/BOLI products and principles-based reserving. She has assisted clients across a range of M&A, reserving, and financial modeling issues.

Inflation and recessionary concerns affected movements in the benchmark 10-year Treasury, itself at an 11-year peak, Freddie Mac said.

Richard McBride is founder and CEO of Certino, a cloud-based shadow payroll platform. He is a chartered accountant and chartered tax advisor with over 35 years in the industry and expert knowledge in global mobility, international employment tax and reward. Prior to founding Certino in 2017, he set up and led the global mobility function at Baker Hughes, delivering more than $250 million in employment tax cost savings over eight years (2008–2016).

The country's largest banks should deepen partnerships with minority depository institutions and community development financial institutions, and regulators should facilitate that process.

Bond traders are girding for the risk that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is ready, willing and able to plunge the U.S. into recession to get the inflation bogey under control.