Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsBill Barhydt is founder and CEO of Abra, a peer-to-peer digital money-transfer network, and chairman of Boom Financial, which offers mobile banking for the unbanked, replacing cash services with a federally insured, smartphone-based bank account. Barhydt's passion is information technology and how it can be used to improve lives. He is an advisor and investor in many companies in the payments, telecom and consumer Internet sectors and in 2012 gave the first-ever TED talk on Bitcoin. He has also consulted to federal and international regulators on the impact of digital currencies and decentralized transaction systems. Barhydt was an early employee of Netscape, where he designed hosted systems for telecom companies and retail banks. He worked for Goldman Sachs designing trading systems and was a research engineer for NASA and the CIA. In 2000, Barhydt received the Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum for his work in online collaboration at WebSentric, the world's first online meeting service.
Nick Bourke directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ consumer finance project. Before joining Pew, he worked with financial services and high tech companies, serving as product manager, marketing specialist, strategy consultant, and legal advisor, with particular expertise in electronic payments. Most recently, Bourke was senior consultant and project manager for the Ziba Group, where his clients included Visa and other financial services firms. Bourke has also developed marketing analytics products for credit card providers and other organizations. He is a member of the State Bar of California. Bourke holds a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, and society from Stanford University and a juris doctor degree from the University of California, Davis.
Responsible for IBM�s Worldwide Business Analytics Software Group strategy, solutions and go to market for the Banking Industry. Employing:30+ years Banking industry experience, Banking executive, Consultant to industry for 10 years, Core Banking and Analytics software design and delivery expertise.Managing Director for PMG Systems - software and professional services to the banking industry.10+ years Analytics Solutions global leadershipContributing Author for the Performance Manager for Banking book highlighting Proven Strategies for turning Information into higher business performance for Banking.Featured speaker at industry conferences (AMIFS, BAI, IBM Banking industry sponsored events globally)Support Worldwide IBM client engagements, enablement, coaching, and hosted multiple IBM sponsored Banking industry events.
As President of Experians Consumer Information Services, Steve Wagner is the business leader for Experians credit bureau operations in the United States. In this role, Wagner oversees the delivery and management of value-added credit risk, marketing, and collection products to help clients manage and optimize their customer relationships. Mr. Wagner also leads a variety of credit data expansion, alternative data acquisition and direct-to-consumer initiatives focused on empowering the consumer through consumer credit education, secure consumer directed credit file sharing, and consumer directed credit prequalification businesses. Mr. Wagner was responsible for the acquisition by Experian of RentBureau and the decision to bring consumer rental payments data into the credit file. Prior to joining Experian in 2005, he was the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel for ERisk, a risk capital management software company owned by JP Morgan Partners. ERisk is now part of the Sunguard group of businesses. Before that, Mr. Wagner practiced law in New York and London, leading corporate and capital market transactions throughout the US, Europe and the former Soviet Union. He last practiced law in 2000 with the global firm of Clifford Chance, LLP, where he was based in London as part of their US capital markets practice. Wagner graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and holds a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in New York.
