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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grant Avenue Capital, LLC (“Grant Avenue”), a healthcare-focused, middle-market private equity firm, today announced the formation of The School of EMS as an independent, standalone company. Founded in 2011, The School of EMS provides high-quality education and training to emergency medical services (“EMS”) professionals across the country. Today, the organization operates in 18 states and partners with more than 250 local EMS agencies and fire departments to train an

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mechanics Bank has opened Mechanics Bank Trust Company of Delaware, a wholly owned subsidiary that provides complex trust planning and administration in accordance with the State of Delaware’s unique and advantageous laws. The new, non-depository office expands on Mechanics Bank Wealth Management’s capabilities and enhances opportunities for trust clients seeking income and estate tax advantages, greater privacy and confidentiality, and asset preservation.H

WINDSOR, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SS&C Expands Tokenized Investment Capabilities with Digital Cash Settlement

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--William Blair Investment Management announced today the appointment of Olga Bitel as Chief Investment Strategist. In this newly established role, Bitel will help shape William Blair Investment Management’s investment perspective across global markets and economies, drawing on the firm’s broad investment expertise to provide investors with insight into the forces influencing portfolio outcomes and long-term investment opportunities.As Chief Investment Strategist, Olga wi

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affinity Federal Credit Union (“Affinity”) recently hosted its annual President’s Invitational Golf Outing, raising over $254,000 for the Affinity Foundation (“Foundation”). Over 160 golfers, guests, and volunteers gathered on June 8, 2026, to support Affinity’s outreach and initiatives. The Foundation gratefully recognizes the event’s top sponsors, including Allied Solutions, Fiserv, Vericast, VISA, Inc., Clear Wave Wealth Management, Alloy, Candescent, Fe

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unity Partners (“Unity” or “the Firm”), a principles-based private equity firm, today announced it has completed a new investment in the advisory services business of Meaden & Moore Advisors, LLC (“Meaden & Moore” or “the Company”), a professional services firm focused on providing a combination of forensic services to the insurance & legal end markets and accounting services to small and mid-sized companies. Terms of the private transactions were not disclo

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bespoke Partners today announced that Gerard Dash has joined the firm as a Partner in its Product & Technology Practice.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incredible Health, the largest AI company powering healthcare hiring, today released its 7th Annual State of Nursing Report: AI Adoption Trends and Future Implications for Retention. Drawing on a national survey of 2,240 nurses and proprietary data from 1.5 million U.S. healthcare workers on its marketplace, the report finds a workforce that has embraced AI well ahead of the institutions that employ them. Without cohesive strategy, thoughtful rollout, and training

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regions Bank on Tuesday announced the launch of personalized insights, a new mobile banking feature that delivers tailored financial education, proactive notifications, and actionable insights based on real-time account activity. Built into the Regions Mobile Banking app, customers can better understand spending habits, track subscriptions, and strengthen financial decision-making, all through intelligent, easy-to-understand notifications. Insights at a Glance

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ascendant Capital Partners (“Ascendant”), a vertically integrated real estate investment and operating platform, today announced the acquisition of an eight-hotel portfolio (the “Portfolio”) from Coastal Hospitality Associates, LLC ("Coastal Hospitality"). The Portfolio comprises 965 predominantly beachfront rooms across six hotels in Virginia Beach, Va. and two hotels in the Outer Banks, N.C., furthering Ascendant’s strategic focus on institutional-quality hospita

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #DigitalBanking--Atomic, the platform powering connected financial experiences, and Odynn, an AI-powered travel loyalty and rewards platform, today announced a strategic partnership that gives financial institutions a more complete toolkit for winning — and keeping — primary card status with their customers. The challenge for most banks and fintechs isn't acquiring customers; it is becoming indispensable to them. In a market saturated with competing offers, a card’s "primary" st

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sovos, the AI-ready tax compliance company, today announced the full commercial availability of Sovos Intelligence™, the intelligence platform designed to help businesses see their tax data the way governments already do. As tax authorities shift from periodic audits to real-time data matching across e-invoicing, VAT returns, SAF-T filings, and other datasets, Sovos Intelligence gives businesses a unified, authority-aligned view of their indirect tax compliance footpri

SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treasury4, an enterprise software platform delivering modern tools for treasury and finance practitioners, today announced a new client partnership with Ultimus Private Fund Solutions (Ultimus®), a fund administration provider supporting private equity firms, hedge funds, and other alternative asset managers. Ultimus supports many complex private fund administration clients, most of which manage multiple funds and maintain numerous bank accounts across instituti

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #finance--Rising property values are turning many high-value home sales into tax-planning events, with sellers facing larger capital gains and looking to real estate professionals for guidance before a deal closes. MetLife’s 2026 Structured Installment Sales Poll finds that real estate brokers and agents see a growing need to help clients understand the financial implications of a sale, as many sellers are not comfortable making complex tax and planning decisions on their own.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stensul, the Governed Creation™ Platform, today announced a major product release that helps enterprise marketing teams govern campaign content as it is created, turning more AI-era creation into approved campaigns ready to go live. The July release includes a Figma integration that brings governance to the design process, a WRITER integration for bringing AI-generated copy into campaign creation, AI-assisted email creation from briefs and documents, built-in email pr

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RLTYco, the essential one-stop shop for the modern 1099 real estate professional, today announced it has completed the acquisition of RealCommissions, the nation’s leading commission advance service provider for the real estate industry, servicing market behemoths such as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and Keller Williams. The transaction officially closed on July 1, 2026. The strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone in RLTYco’s aggressive expansion strate

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifth Third Bank (NYSE: FITB) was recognized as a Top Financial Innovator by Global Finance for Newline™ by Fifth Third, the Bank’s embedded finance platform that enables fintechs, software providers and enterprise clients to launch payment, card and deposit products. Newline was named to an elite group of fewer than 10 honorees in North America as part of the publication's annual Innovators Awards. Worldwide, the program spotlights innovation across banks and finte

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Radial, Inc., a leading 3PL set to become Paxon later this year, today released the findings from a survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers to understand the pain points shoppers experience throughout the eCommerce journey as brands scale and expand across channels. The findings show that while consumers increasingly reward brands for expanding across multiple shopping channels, they expect the experience to remain consistent regardless of where they buy. As retail

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quandri, the AI platform for insurance agencies and brokerages, today announced a strategic partnership with FirstChoice, a MarshBerry company and one of the largest insurance agency networks in the United States, to expand access to Quandri’s insurance-native AI platform for FirstChoice member agencies. This partnership comes as independent agencies are increasingly expected to manage more policies, greater complexity and higher client expectations

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allvue Systems, LLC (“Allvue”), a leading technology provider for the private capital markets, today released its 2026 Alternatives Compensation & Carry Survey, conducted in partnership with Major, Lindsey & Africa. Half of the alternative investment firms surveyed admit to not managing compensation with the same rigor applied to other core business functions. This shortfall puts talent retention at risk as competition for experienced industry professionals int