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DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Principal Financial Group® is collaborating with the New York International Children’s Film Festival (the Festival) to bring a curated collection of award-winning, family-friendly short films to the Des Moines Art Center on Sunday, September 15, 2024. Principal® will screen the Festival’s annual Spanish-language program, ¡Hola Cine!, featuring the best Latinx short films from around the world, transporting audiences across the Americas, reminding them of the p

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Preston Hollow Community Capital (Preston Hollow or PHCC), a leading private credit solution provider for municipal finance borrowers, today announced key leadership changes that will position the company for continued growth and success. Longtime General Counsel John Dinan has been appointed Co-Head of Originations while Stephen Clarke has been promoted to General Counsel and Michel Benitez has been promoted to Senior Transaction Counsel, all effective September 1, 202

TEL AVIV, Israel & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Similarweb (NYSE:SMWB), a leading digital market intelligence company, and HypeAuditor, an influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies, today released their 2024-2025 Marketing Benchmark Report. This report showcases how digital marketing is changing at a time of AI-generated content and innovation and changes in search algorithms. Industries covered include financial services, food and beverage, media, and air travel. The report analyzes

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantum Connections, an employee connection and performance platform for business leaders seeking to measurably improve employee engagement, productivity, and retention, was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the 2024 International Business Awards. Recognized as an ‘Innovation of the Year’ in the Business Service Industries category, Quantum Connections’ Connecting At Work™ program caught the attention of judges with its unique approach to building high-perfor

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expensify, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXFY), a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money across expenses, corporate cards and bills, announced today that the company paid down the balance of its revolving line of credit ($15 million), paid off the mortgage on its headquarters in downtown Portland, OR, ($7.6 million) and repurchased 645,938 shares of its Class A common stock from its founder. The company still

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HGGC, a values-driven middle-market private equity firm with over $6.9 billion of cumulative capital commitments, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell AMI (or “the Company”) to investment firm THL Partners. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 2024, pending regulatory approvals. AMI develops foundational software and firmware that powers, manages, and secures a vast array

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Confluence Technologies, Inc. (“Confluence”), a global technology solutions provider for regulatory, analytics, and investor communications for the investment management industry, today announced it was recognized as a 2024 IDC FinTech Rankings Top 100 solution provider. The elite list features technology companies from around the globe that are focused on providing solutions to the financial services and FinTech industries. To view the list in its entirety, please

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Healthcare--Saxton & Stump welcomes Daniel J. Ferhat, a distinguished healthcare litigator, to its growing Philadelphia office as a shareholder attorney.

LOWELL, Mass. & WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions for all people, has earned a 100% score on the 2024 Disability Equality Index from Disability:IN, the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. As a top scorer for the fourth consecutive year, UKG is once again included on the list of Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion. The Disability Equality Index, which was launched in 2015

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Convergint, a global leader in service-based systems integration, today announced that it has acquired Esscoe, a premier provider of mission-critical security and fire and life safety systems in the Chicago and Midwest regions. Esscoe is a local market leader, offering exceptional design and engineering capabilities and fully integrated, tech-enabled security solutions. The acquisition enables Convergint to accelerate growth across the Midwestern U.S.—building

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $III #AI--ISG announced it has secured a U.S. Patent for its proprietary AI-powered contracting technology, which automates contract creation and negotiation.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This integration combines Attentive’s mobile marketing with Pogoseat's text-to-buy into one SMS program, maximizing message performance for brands.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $PIPR--Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR), a leading investment bank, is pleased to announce the additions of Joe Kinder and Brent Blevins as managing directors to its public finance team. Kinder and Blevins bring over 20 years of combined experience to the platform and will both focus on Missouri school districts and other governmental issuers. They will co-head the Missouri public finance business. “We are excited to have Joe and Brent join the Piper Sandler team. The

COLUMBUS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synovus Bank promotes Chad Parramore to executive director and head of product commercialization for the bank’s treasury and payment solutions team.

CINCINNATI & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OceanSound Partners (“OceanSound”), a growth-oriented private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and highly-regulated enterprise end-markets, today announced the acquisition of PAR Excellence Systems Inc. (“PAR” or the “Company”), a leading provider of supply chain integrity and cost management solutions to the healthcare industry from Northlane Capital Partners (“Northlane”). Northlane and

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northlane Capital Partners (“NCP”) announced today the sale of PAR Excellence Systems Inc. (“PAR”, or the “Company”) to OceanSound Partners. NCP and PAR’s management team will continue as investors in the Company. Founded in 1992, PAR enables government, non-profit, and private healthcare systems and integrated delivery networks to realize meaningful cost savings and operational efficiencies. The Company’s automated supply chain management solutions, comprised of

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #dominicng--East West Bank rings opening bell for 25th anniversary on Nasdaq

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AXI--Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers Appointed as Special Advisor to SOFR Academy. The firm operationalized credit spreads AXI and FXI.

PEMBROKE, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (“AXIS Capital” or “AXIS” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AXS) today announced that Pranav Shroff has joined the Company as Head of Life Sciences in North America. Mr. Shroff will lead the development of a suite of specialty coverages in support of the life sciences industry, with an initial focus on Products Liability, Professional Liability, and Clinical Trials Liability. His responsibilities include executing on the underwriting stra

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of B- (Fair) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bb-” (Fair) to Upstream Life Insurance Company (Upstream Life) (Dallas, TX). The outlook assigned to these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. The ratings reflect Upstream Life’s balance sheet strength, which AM Best assesses as weak, as well as its marginal operating performance, limited business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management (ERM). Upstrea