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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stephens Group, LLC (“Stephens Group” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the promotions of Anthony Porcelli to Vice President and Bradley Ong to Senior Associate and the addition of Jacob Ham and Nicholas F. AmRhein as Investment Associates and Marco Schooley as a Value Creation Associate. Mr. Porcelli was promoted from Senior Associate to Vice President and will continue to assist the team’s investment efforts. Prior to joining Stephens Group in 20

DALLAS & FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gestalt Tech, the unified data ecosystem that accelerates insights and AI adoption for lenders, has announced a $5.9 million seed round led by @Alpha Edison and @Yamaha Motor Ventures, with participation from others including @Alloy Labs, @Newtype Ventures, @Sentiero, @Long Run Capital. "We're excited that so many investors saw our vision of a unified data ecosystem for the lending industry. While we would have liked to have taken the entire amount t

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carver Edison and Pave Partner to Broaden Employee Ownership and Optimize Equity Programs for Public Companies

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affirm, the payments network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, released new research revealing consumer shopping behaviors and sentiments ahead of the 2024 holiday season, including the growing preference towards 0% APR financing options and Americans’ confidence levels around budgeting. The Power of 0% APR Affirm’s survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that nearly half of respondents (48%) are influenced by the availability of 0% APR options

FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magnit, today announced the release of Redeployment Marketplace, a solution designed to transform how organizations source contract workers.

FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cross River Bank (“Cross River”), a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, is proud to announce the expansion of its partnership with the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (“HEAF”) through the establishment of the HEAF and Cross River Scholarship Fund. This $25,000 fund aims to ensure underserved students have access to higher education and opportunities in the finance and technology industries. “Cross River’s commitment to

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #HSA--Lively, Inc., a top-rated health and lifestyle benefits platform* known for launching the modern Health Savings Account (HSA), today announces the release of its 2024 Employee Benefits Pulse Check report. The report presents data and insights around employee benefits decision making gathered from an anonymous survey of 250 US-based HR and benefits decision makers, collected in collaboration with CITE research. Overall, the report found that as financial stress an

LONDON & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Convera, a global leader in commercial payments, today announced its partnership with Routable, the most efficient and flexible accounts payable platform. This integrated partnership will enable Routable to leverage Convera’s global network and expertise in foreign exchange and compliance to provide its customers with increased global reach, reliability, and competitive rates. Today’s modern businesses want to reduce manual workload and build automation across

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ninth Wave, the leading provider of cloud-based Open Finance solutions for financial institutions, announced that the company has secured new growth financing. Level Structured Capital (an affiliate of Level Equity, a preeminent growth equity firm with over $3 billion in assets under management), provided the funding. This financing will enable Ninth Wave to further expand its commercial team and make additional scale investments in the industry’s leading Open Finance

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AI--Verint® (NASDAQ: VRNT), The CX Automation Company™, today announced that it ranked as a top knowledge management category leader in a recent ISG Research report. ISG Research ranked Verint as the top leader among 11 vendors in the Knowledge Management (KM) Buyers Guide. Verint KM ranked first in Product Experience with first place ratings in capability, reliability and usability categories, earning the title of Product Experience Leader. “The emergence of AI as

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $MPLN #MPLN--MultiPlan Corporation (NYSE: MPLN) (“MultiPlan” or the “Company”), a leading provider of technology and data-enabled cost management, payment, and revenue integrity solutions to the U.S. health care industry, is honored to announce it has been named in the 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care™ List. based on its 2023-2024 Great Place to Work® Certification™ results. This is the second time MultiPlan has been named in the Best Workplaces in Health Care list. Ear

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #O2Investment--O2 Investment Partners is pleased to announce that 4M Building Solutions has acquired Hi-Tec Building Services and Thario Building Services.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Bancorp announces $5 billion common stock repurchase program, increase to quarterly common stock dividend

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vena, the only Complete Planning platform purpose-built to harness the full power of Microsoft 365, today announced a strong half to its fiscal year 2025, marked by significant growth, strategic customer acquisitions and continued innovation. Building on the success of FY24, Vena continues to solidify its leadership position in the Corporate Performance Management (CPM) industry. “Vena’s momentum and industry recognition showcase the extraordinary talent and commitment

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #assetservicing--Northern Trust's blockchain-based platform enables institutional buyers to digitally access carbon credits from leading project developers.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) and Partners Group (SIX: PGHN) have teamed up to launch a multi-private markets models solution set to transform how retail investors access alternative investments. The solution will provide access to private equity, private credit and real assets in a single portfolio – currently not available to the U.S. wealth market – managed by BlackRock and Partners Group. This first-of-its-kind solution will empower advisors to offer a diversified alterna

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #HR--Partnership Announcement between Talmix and TAPFIN Talent Solutions, Manpower Group

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”) are investigating the proposed sale of Evans Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE American: EVBN) to NBT Bancorp Inc. (NasdaqGS: NBTB). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of Evans will receive 0.91 shares of NBT for each share of Evans that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether this consideration and the process that led to it are ade

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRDN), a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing potential best-in-class medicines for serious and rare diseases, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock and, in lieu of common stock to certain investors, shares of Series B non-voting convertible preferred stock. Viridian is selling a total of 10,666,600 shares of common stock at a public offering price

WHIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the jury reached a verdict in the Young Roundup™ product liability trial before Judge Angelo Foglietta in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. In response to the decision, Monsanto issued the following statement: “The jury’s verdict in favor of the Company marks the 14th favorable outcome in the last 20 trials and validates the Company’s strategy of taking cases to trial based on strong scientific and regulatory evidence. The verdict makes clear that t