Scottsdale – October 13, 2026 -- Taylor Morrison Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Stephanie McCarty has been named the inaugural CMO of the Year by BUILDER and Zonda, selected from four finalists for an award recognizing marketing's growing influence on homebuilding.

McCarty built an in-house marketing team from scratch

McCarty joined Taylor Morrison in 2015 as vice president of corporate communications and later became the company's first chief marketing officer. She built a centralized, in-house marketing team, bringing creative talent closer to the business and its customers.

Liquid Death sweepstakes and brand platform anchor the campaign record

Taylor Morrison ran a "Killer House" sweepstakes with Liquid Death, an unconventional brand pairing for the sector. Its "Homes Built for Real Life" platform centers on everyday homeownership moments.

London – October 13, 2026 -- Mothers in the U.K., Sweden and France report having 2-2.1 children on average, against the 2.8-2.9 they say they want, according to new data from the IVI Institute Fertility Barometer. The study surveyed 24,074 women aged 19 to 49 across nine countries.

IVI Institute, formerly IVI RMA Global, released the regional findings as it consolidates its clinics under a single name. Clinics will operate as IVI Fertility, Livio and Create Fertility as members of IVI Institute.

Women start families later than planned in all three markets

81-84% of women in the three countries are already mothers or want children, and 68-70% rate motherhood as a medium-high or high priority. Among women who reported a target age, 31-41% had their first child later than desired.

MADRID – October 13, 2026 -- An estimated 6.8 million women across nine countries are experiencing infertility right now, according to the inaugural IVI Institute Fertility Barometer, which also finds that 36% of women with a target age for starting a family had their first child later than desired. IVI Institute, formerly IVI RMA Global, released the study alongside a group-wide rebrand that unites its clinic networks.

Survey of 24,074 women quantifies the gap between desired and actual family size

GfK, a NielsenIQ company, conducted the online survey of women aged 19 to 49 in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the UAE, the U.K. and the U.S. Fieldwork ran from May 16 to July 3, 2026. The margin of error is ±0.63 percentage points at a 95% confidence level, with larger margins among subgroups.

Dallas – October 13, 2026 -- Koya Medical will put its CEO and CFO in front of investors at two conferences on consecutive days, October 19 and 20, 2026, as the vascular disease device maker promotes the commercial momentum of its portfolio.

CEO Doraiswamy presents at Goldman Sachs in New York on October 19

Andy Doraiswamy, Koya's chief executive, will present on Monday, October 19, 2026, at the Goldman Sachs Healthcare Private Company Conference. The session takes place at the Goldman Sachs Client Center in New York City.

CFO Rippole takes the Bank of America stage in Boston on October 20

Damian Rippole, the company's chief financial officer, will present on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at The MedTech Conference hosted by AdvaMed. His slot is part of the Bank of America Company Presentations, held in Room 050 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston.

Lake Orion – October 13, 2026 -- American Battery Solutions (ABS) has introduced Aventor, an 800-volt heavy-duty battery platform delivering 113 kWh of energy and 358 kW of peak discharge power, with customer samples planned for 2027 and production starting in Q1 2028.

Aventor is designed, engineered and assembled in the U.S. with domestically sourced cells, and is built to support BABA-compliant OEM programs. Initial capacity is set at 6,000 battery packs annually, or approximately 0.7 GWh.

Aventor claims 300 Wh/L volumetric density and up to 200 Wh/kg

The platform is rated at 300 Wh/L volumetric and up to 200 Wh/kg gravimetric energy density. ABS says it supports fast charging from 10% to 80% in 42 minutes or less, a metric aimed at high-utilization applications where charging time affects productivity.

Oyo State, Nigeria – October 13, 2026 -- KuCoin Nigeria Limited has received conditional Approval-in-Principle (AIP) from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC Nigeria) for admission into its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), but the approval does not allow it to operate in the country.

AIP is not a licence and does not permit client onboarding

SEC Nigeria's conditional AIP is not a final registration, licence, endorsement or recommendation. It does not authorise KuCoin Nigeria to commence operations, onboard clients or offer services to the Nigerian public. The company states that admission into ARIP does not assure or predetermine the grant of formal registration.

Redmond – October 13, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has added an IRS-authorized direct e-filing module for Form 941 to its ezPaycheck payroll software, with e-filing priced from $5.95 per form ahead of the November 2, 2026 third-quarter filing deadline.

E-file module covers 941, 940 and other 94x forms inside the application

The update lets employers submit quarterly Form 941, annual Form 940 and other 94x series forms directly from ezPaycheck. A dedicated portal tracks submission status and lets users resolve filing errors immediately.

Volume discounts are available for businesses with larger filing needs, according to the company.

Payroll engine automates federal tax calculations and covers all 50 states

The software automatically factors in Federal Withholding Tax, Social Security, Medicare, Employer Unemployment Taxes (FUTA) and differential pay. Built-in tax tables cover all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Birmingham, Mich. – October 13, 2026 -- Only 14% of Finance leaders say their AI investments have delivered "enterprise value and decision impact," even though 74% now use AI to reduce manual work, according to OneStream's inaugural Forward Finance Index.

The survey covers 1,300 CFOs and equivalent Finance leaders at mid-market ($500M-$999.9M revenue) and enterprise ($1B-$10B+ revenue) organizations in the U.S., U.K., and France. It benchmarks them across five areas: AI strategy, data, workforce, operations, and IT collaboration.

Only 6% of Finance organizations lead across all five areas

More than half (52%) rank as "Followers," held back by data they cannot fully trust, AI without measurable ROI, limited visibility into operational decisions, disconnected IT roadmaps, and an unprepared workforce. Four in ten executives say data quality issues regularly block or delay AI projects.

Austin – October 13, 2026 -- UpCodes' AI Plan Review has surfaced more than $1 million in estimated potential construction error costs on average per project, based on more than 1,300 construction plan sets reviewed since its June launch.

The tool has identified more than 180,000 potential issues across those plan sets. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, BDG Architects and Hereford Dooley Architects are among the companies newly adopting the technology.

Plan Review combines multimodal AI with code libraries to read drawings

UpCodes says Plan Review pairs AI models with its building code and construction content libraries. The system interprets both the visual and technical information in drawings, including geometry, dimensions, annotations and spatial relationships. The aim is to flag problems earlier in design, before they become costlier during review or construction.

West Des Moines – October 13, 2026 -- Criterion, the new name for Sammons Financial Group's wealth advisory holding company, launched with more than $27 billion in assets under management or advisement (AUM/AUA) across three national advisory firms.

The company groups Beacon Capital Management, NorthRock Partners and Wealthcare. Sammons Financial Group established the holding company as its expansion beyond core insurance and annuity business lines.

Criterion plans acquisitions and technology spending to compete in U.S. wealth management

Criterion describes the launch as the next step in a long-term plan built on strategic acquisitions, technology investments and expanded capabilities for financial advisors and their clients. It will also invest in talent across its advisory firms.