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RESTON, Va. & BERRYVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #businessbanking--John Marshall Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: JMSB) (“John Marshall” or the “Company”), the parent company of John Marshall Bank, and Eagle Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFSI) (“EFSI”), the parent company of Bank of Clarke, today jointly announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement that will bring together two of Virginia’s most respected community banking franchises. Under the terms of the agreement, at closing, EFSI will merge with and into

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covenant Capital Group (“Covenant”), a Nashville-based investment manager focused on multifamily real estate, announced that Jeremy Goldberg will be joining Covenant as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer on September 8. Jeremy is a seasoned real estate investment and capital markets executive with 30 years of experience across institutional investment advisory, multifamily real estate, a publicly traded apartment REIT, and banking.Jeremy will be joi

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #insurance--The volume of ceded U.S. health insurance premium to the reinsurance market has grown significantly over the past decade, to USD 203 billion in 2025 from USD 59 billion in 2016, representing growth of more than 300%, according to a new AM Best report.The Best’s Market Segment Report, “Reinsurance Solutions Becoming More Viable for Health Insurers,” is part of AM Best’s look at the global reinsurance industry ahead of the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo. Ot

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $BETR #BETR--Daniel Lewis, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) (“Better” or the “Company”), issued the following letter to shareholders of Better on September 6, 2026: Dear Fellow Better Shareholders: We are now in the solicitation period that will determine who controls the Board and, ultimately, the future of Better. Having reviewed our sequential decline in third-quarter revenue, repeated failures to achieve prior targets

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Octave Specialty Group Appoints Philip Stefano Head of Investor Relations

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) (“Datavault AI” or the “Company”), an Artificial Intelligence Platform (“AIP”) company providing data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, real-world asset (“RWA”) tokenization and spatial audio technologies, today announced that its Information Data Exchange® (“IDE®”), NIL Vault (“NILv™”) and American Political Exchange (“APEX™”) are scheduled to launch on September 15, 2026. The launch represents an important mileston

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AutoDealerships--The auto dealership buy/sell market extended its record run in the first half of 2026, with 224 transactions completed through June and a record 462 buy/sells in the trailing twelve months, exceeding 2025’s record of 458, according to the just-released Second Quarter 2026 Blue Sky Report® by Kerrigan Advisors, the industry authority on the dealership buy/sell market and valuation trends distributed to over 17,000 industry participants in 35 countries. The

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American children from Generation Alpha hold $28-30 billion across cash, fintech apps and bank accounts, according to new research from Hyperlayer, a programmable banking technology provider.The research, from the Kids & Money: The Unbanked Billions report launching alongside Hyperlayer’s presence at FinovateFall shows billions of dollars are held by approximately 33 million children aged 8 to 15 in the United States, around 23 million of whom keep their money outs

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qatalyst Group, a leading technology-focused independent investment bank, announced that Preeti Raghupathi has joined the Firm today as a Partner, expanding Qatalyst’s industry leading semiconductor and AI infrastructure advisory practice. Ms. Raghupathi, who most recently was the Global Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities, is based at Qatalyst’s San Francisco headquarters and will join Adam Howell and Dennis Ding in leading the Fir

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Margret Trilli, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, has been named one of Pensions & Investments’ 2026 Influential Women in Institutional Investing.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blee, an AI-first marketing compliance platform, today announced a $20 million Series A to give legal, compliance, and brand teams the ability to govern the growing amount of AI-generated content. The round was co-led by Fin Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, with participation from Hannah Grey VC and National Bank of Canada, and continued backing from Y Combinator, Penny Jar Capital, Cardumen Capital, Blee's first institutional investor, and Treasury. The Series

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #biotech--Moonwalk Biosciences Announces $70 Million Series B Financing to Advance Adipose-Targeted RNAi Therapies for Obesity and Cardiometabolic Diseases

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifth Third Bancorp (NYSE: FITB) today announced it has completed the technical conversion of approximately 600,000 customers’ accounts and 293 banking centers across Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Texas from the Comerica franchise. Executed over Labor Day weekend, the conversion brings Comerica consumer and commercial customers onto Fifth Third’s platforms. Today’s milestone completes the integration that began when the two companies merged on February

NEW YORK & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Circle has signed an agreement to acquire Singapore-based Tazapay.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Ameriprise research explores how widowed adults are managing money, navigating financial decisions and finding support after loss

KENT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stoke Space Technologies, Inc. the rocket company developing fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicles, announced today that it has completed an initial closing of its billion-dollar Series E financing round. This funding brings Stoke’s total capital raised to $2.3 billion and will support the company as it prepares for its first orbital launch, expands production and launch capacity, and accelerates development of its larger Nova Block 2 launch vehicle. The round

LONDON & MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tillo, the global rewards, incentives and gift card platform, today announced the acquisition of and a strategic partnership with Amilon, the long-standing market leader in digital incentives, gift cards, and employee benefits in Italy. Founded in 2007, Amilon pioneered Italy’s digital gift card market and has since built a proprietary digital value ecosystem connecting millions of consumers, thousands of businesses and hundreds of leading brands. The acquisitio

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Icon Solutions and MongoDB today published the results of a joint benchmark showing that the Icon Payments Framework (IPF), running on MongoDB Atlas, processed 6,000 end-to-end payment transactions per second (around 430,000 database operations per second) with a mean end-to-end latency of 0.51 seconds, and recovered from both application and database node failures with zero data loss. Account-to-account payment volumes are moving rapidly onto instant rails. Traffic is

DUBLIN & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alchelyst, the global investor solutions and fund administration partner for private markets asset managers, today announced the appointment of Ben Middleton as Managing Director and Head of Sales for EMEA, alongside the opening of its new UK offices on London’s Oxford Street. The announcements mark continued investment in Alchelyst’s global presence as the firm responds to growing demand from private markets asset managers for more modern, integrated infrast

LIMERICK, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #ireland--WP Engine, a global web enablement company for websites built on WordPress®¹, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Limerick office, reflecting its long-term commitment to the people, businesses and economy of the region. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, WP Engine opened its Irish operations in September 2016 with a team of 10. A decade on, the office, now based on Henry Street in the heart of Limerick, has grown into a strategic international office with