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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lyceus Group, a high-touch boutique public relations firm specializing in financial services, is proud to announce that it has been named a finalist for Public Relations Campaign at the 2026 ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards. The recognition highlights Lyceus’ long-term communications campaign supporting F/m Investments’ introduction of the industry’s first operational dual share class ETF structure. Three additional finalist honors were awarded to Lyceus clients F/m Inve

DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Principal Financial Group® (Nasdaq: PFG) today announced an expansion of the Principal® Featured Partner Program to support private market strategies within retirement plans, helping plan sponsors and financial professionals pursue broader diversification and long-term retirement outcomes for participants. By expanding access to private markets, Principal is helping plan sponsors evaluate how these strategies may fit within defined contribution plans in a thou

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ascendant Network today announced an all-star speaker lineup for SHOWCASE, the world’s first retail + commerce media upfront. Taking place on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at The Times Center in New York City, the invite-only gathering will convene decision-makers across major holding company agencies, brand marketers, and retail and commerce media networks representing over $1 trillion in annual retail sales. "As retail media matures into a core pillar of modern bran

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #ai--Tavant, a leading Platform-Powered AI Transformation Specialist, announced today that it has been named a Leader in AIM Research's AI Service Providers for Financial Services PeMa Quadrant 2026, with Tavant Platform™ — the company's agentic engineering and enterprise AI automation foundation — as a central driver of its placement. This year’s study evaluated 16 AI service providers serving the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry on tw

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The technology industry is racing towards AI agents that can browse, choose and buy on a consumer’s behalf, but American shoppers are not there yet. They want AI to help them find products, save money and remove friction from checkout, but they still want a human hand on the final purchase. New research from NMI®, a global leader in embedded payments infrastructure, reveals a significant gap between the industry hype surrounding agentic commerce and the authority cons

MIRAMAR, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #DigitalPayments--UTA Pay is SAP-certified, helping companies streamline credit card and ACH payments with compliant surcharging while reducing PCI compliance exposure.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the merger of Victory Capital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCTR) and First Eagle Investments.Halper Sadeh encourages Victory Capital shareholders to click here to learn more about their rights and options or contact Daniel Sadeh or Zachary Halper free of charge at (212) 763-0060 or sadeh@halpersadeh.com or zhalper@halpersadeh.com.The investigation concerns whether Victory Capital and its board of directors viol

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jadian Capital ("Jadian"), an investment firm focused on alternative real estate and asset-intensive businesses, today announced that JIOS, its leading vertically integrated industrial outdoor storage ("IOS") platform, has secured a $277 million loan from affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) for a 37-property IOS portfolio spanning 23 markets. The portfolio is concentrated in infill locations near key logistics hubs and dense population nodes with

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BTIG, a U.S. Bancorp company, announced today the appointment of Mangesh Ghogre as a Managing Director within the firm’s Industrials Investment Banking group, where he will focus on Metals and Mining coverage. “We are excited to welcome Mangesh to BTIG,” said Jon Dever, Head of Investment Banking at U.S. Bancorp | BTIG. “He brings deep knowledge of the metals and mining landscape and a strong background advising companies on strategic initiatives and financing solutio

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UiPath announces that Banco Azteca transformed its automation program using UiPath Maestro™, orchestrating end-to-end business processes.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund today announced that THE FAMILIES: 9/11 Anthology of Love, Loss and Lessons of Resilience will be published on September 3. Bringing together 176 essays, poems, letters and speeches, the anthology shares the experiences of Cantor Fitzgerald family members, survivors and witnesses whose lives were forever changed by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Edited by Edith Lutnick, Co-Founder, President, and Executive

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SugarAI, provider of the award-winning intelligence-driven sales automation platform, today announced it has been named to the Q3 2026 Constellation ShortList™ for Sales Force Automation (SMB Solutions), and the Q3 2026 Constellation ShortList™ for Midmarket CRM Suites. In addition, Sugar was named to the Q3 2026 Constellation ShortList™ for Sales Engagement Platforms.The Constellation ShortList is an analyst-curated portfolio of leading technology solutions designed to

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cota Capital, an investment firm focused on early-stage technology companies addressing Net New challenges in the enterprise, today announced that Daniel Karp has joined the firm as a Partner. Karp will focus on backing technical founding teams building the next generation of enterprise infrastructure, from company inception through scale.Karp brings a combination of venture investing, corporate development, product, engineering, and hands-on company-building expe

LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) (“VerifyMe”), a provider of authentication and precision logistics technologies, and Open World Ltd. (“OpenWorld”), a blockchain innovation company advancing real-world asset (“RWA”) tokenization platform globally, today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”) filed by VerifyMe in connection with the p

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CPI™ (NASDAQ: PMTS), a payments technology leader providing a comprehensive range of physical and digital payment solutions, today announced the appointment of Brennan Hughes as Chief Accounting Officer, effective August 24, 2026. Hughes brings more than 25 years of finance and accounting leadership experience. Most recently, he served as Director of Finance and Head of Investor Relations at Artisan Partners Asset Management. Prior to Artisan Partners, he spent nearly t

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Theta Lake today announced a new integration that enables AI interaction governance telemetry from Theta Lake to flow into CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. As organizations increasingly adopt AI assistants and agentic workflows, security and governance teams need visibility into AI interactions occurring across enterprise communications. The integration enables security teams to ingest and correlate AI interaction governance telemetry with endpoint, ide

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Victory Capital to Acquire First Eagle Investments, Creating a $571 Billion Diversified Global Asset Manager

OMAHA, Neb. & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $ACIW #Banking--ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced that Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) has selected ACI Connetic for the payment processing behind its member funding services. The work will cover the Bank’s activity on the Fedwire Funds Service. FHLBank Atlanta originated $234.8 billion of advances in the first half of 2026. That volume reflects hundreds of individual advance transaction

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monroe Capital LLC (“Monroe”) announced it acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Escape Fire Protection Inc. (“EFP”) by private equity sponsor Hidden Harbor Capital Partners. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, EFP is a regional fire, life & safety provider serving commercial and industrial customers across Minnesota and the broader Midwest. The comp

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avalanche Treasury Company (Nasdaq: AVAT) ("AVAT" or the "Company"), a publicly traded digital asset treasury company focused on the Avalanche ecosystem, today presented its financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2026. The company today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 10 million dollar share repurchase program for the repurchase of company class A stock. We believe this is one of the tools we have at our disposal to create shareh