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PRINCETON, N.J. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MacKay Municipal Managers™, the municipal bond team of specialty fixed income manager MacKay Shields, today provides an update to its predictions for the municipal bond market in 2025. At the start of the year, MacKay Municipal Managers asserted that investors should make meaningful municipal allocations as the market continues to offer investors compelling investment opportunities. “Yield levels remain elevated with attractive valuations relative

SOUTH EASTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HUB Technical Services, CONNECTED. MANAGED. SECURED., announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized HUB Technical Services on the 2025 CRN Solution Provider 500 list. CRN’s annual Solution Provider 500 list recognizes North America’s largest solution providers by revenue and serves as a prominent benchmark of leading IT services companies. With a combined revenue of $548.9 billion, the companies on the list are key influencers pr

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #1031exchage--ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate REIT and DST investments, has announced Renasant Bank’s $15 million commitment to ExchangeRight’s Essential Income REIT’s revolving line of credit, raising the REIT’s committed capacity for its Credit Facility from $135 million to $150 million. The credit has been provided by Wells Fargo, Fifth Third, and now Renasant Bank. This closing strategically expands the REIT’s credit acces

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in professional information, software solutions and services, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Sustainability Management Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc # US52995125, May 2025) and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide ESG Reporting and Compliance Management Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc # US52995025, May 2025). Karen Abramson, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Performance & ESG,

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Acquisition--Baringa today announced its talent acquisition of all staff from Altruas, a Dallas-based digital and technology consultancy.

ST. PAUL, Minn. & SALEM, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dessert Holdings®, North America’s premium dessert company, today announced that it has acquired Willamette Valley Pie Company®. (“Willamette” or the “Company”), a manufacturer of high-quality, premium pie and dessert products. The acquisition complements Dessert Holdings’ existing platform of scratch-made, premium dessert brands serving retail and foodservice customers. Willamette will continue to operate under its current management team led by

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Santander US today announced a $25 million commitment in support of education, employability and entrepreneurship that will include over $10 million in university grants and national scholarship funding through the Santander Universities program. The scholarship applications will be available later this Summer on Santander Open Academy, a global platform available to anyone around the world that offers 100% free educational content and upskilling tools to improve profes

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting (TAA) today unveiled the enhanced CCH® Validate, next-generation, cloud-native bank confirmation platform engineered to redefine how audit professionals operate. Purpose-built for speed, security, and intelligence, this fully online solution empowers firms with instant, client-authorized data access and intuitive onboarding—delivering a smarter, faster, and more reliable audit experience. The launch underscores Wolters Kluwer’s com

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xnurta, the agentic AI-powered advertising platform, today announced its continued international expansion with full-funnel support now live in Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Egypt, and South Africa. These five marketplaces represent 84.8 million monthly visitors as of June 2025 according to SimilarWeb. Amazon’s international sales have grown dramatically in recent years, up over 75% from Q1, 2020, reaching $33.51B in Q1, 2025, according to Marketplace Pulse. Xnurta’

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scienaptic AI, a leading provider of AI-powered credit decisioning, announced today that CommunityWide Federal Credit Union has selected its platform to enhance real-time fraud and anomaly detection to tackle the challenges of identity theft and synthetic identity fraud. With the help of Scienaptic AI platform, CommunityWide Federal Credit Union aims to deploy a deeply integrated fraud and underwriting engine. This integrated engine aggregates multiple data sources an

LOWELL, Mass., & WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions, today announced that Bedford County, Virginia is transforming all aspects of workforce operations — from recruiting and onboarding, to payroll and compliance reporting, to how it engages and communicates with its multigenerational staff — with the UKG Ready® suite. “UKG has triggered a seismic shift in how we keep our frontline workforce connected and engaged and has opene

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) announced today that Kate O’Farrell was promoted to assistant vice president, Global Capability Center Talent and Culture. In this role, O’Farrell will guide scaling and optimization for The Standard’s Global Capability Center talent functions including workforce planning, talent acquisition and employee engagement. She will also serve as leader for the GCC Human Resources team as well as HR chief of staff. O’Farrell beg

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asepha, a fast-growing startup leveraging AI agents for pharmacy automation, today announced the close of its $4 million Seed round, led by Glasswing Ventures and Core Innovation Capital. Panache, RedBud, and MGV also participated, with follow-on support from Ripple Ventures and Front Row Ventures. Founded in 2023 by Eunice Wu and Can Uncu, who bring strong experience in pharmacy operations and AI engineering, Asepha began with a simple but urgent question: how can we

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #SaaS--Dealer Pay will serve as NYSADA’s official partner and the preferred vendor for payment systems within automotive dealerships across New York State.

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ademi Firm is investigating Veritex (NASDAQ: VBTX) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Huntington. Click here to learn how to join our investigation and obtain additional information or contact us at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you. In the transaction, shareholders of Veritex will receive 1.95 shares for each outstanding share of Veritex. Based on Hunting

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pagaya Technologies LTD. (NASDAQ: PGY) ("Pagaya" or “the Company”), a global technology company delivering AI-driven product solutions for the financial ecosystem, today announced a new forward flow agreement with Castlelake, L.P. ("Castlelake"), a global alternative investment firm specializing in asset-based private credit, for the purchase of up $2.5 billion of personal loan assets over a 16-month term, subject to satisfaction of closing conditions. This new deal p

LOS ANGELES & VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM) (“BioSig”), which recently merged with Streamex Exchange Corporation (“Streamex”) (together, “BSGM” or the “Company”), is excited to announce a critical step toward becoming one of the first fully regulated Real-World Asset (“RWA”) tokenization companies trading on a major United States exchange: Streamex has engaged Compliance Exchange Group (CXG) to lead and manage the acquisition of a specifi

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stone Point Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on financial services and related industries, today announced the final closing of its tenth private equity fund, Trident X, with $11.5 billion in total commitments. Trident X exceeded its original target and hard cap of $9 billion and is approximately $2.5 billion larger than Trident IX, a $9 billion fund, which closed in 2022. Trident X received strong support from its existing investor base, as well as

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BondCliQ Inc. announces today that FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS | NASDAQ: FDS), a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, has made a lead investment in its current funding round. The funding from this round will be used to advance BondCliQ’s DaaS offering, which improves fixed income data by implementing a licensed quote consolidation platform. Simultaneously, BondCliQ and FactSet negotiated terms to integrate BondCliQ’s propri

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #GartnerSYM--Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) What: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025 When: October 20-23, 2025 Where: Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida Details: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2025 is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and other IT executives. More than 8,000 CIOs and senior leaders will explore the technology, insights and trends shaping the future of IT and business, including generative AI, business transformation, cybersecurity, customer experience, da