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NEW YORK – November 04, 2026 -- Itemize, an AI Finance Operations provider, has appointed Doug Airulla, a healthcare payments veteran with more than 25 years of experience, as Product Manager for Healthcare Operations & Revenue Cycle.

Airulla will lead development of Itemize's healthcare solutions for providers, payers, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) organizations and healthcare business process outsourcing companies. He will own the product roadmap and its commercialization.

Airulla brings Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan treasury experience

Airulla joins from Wells Fargo, where he was Executive Director and Senior Product Solutions Specialist. There he advised healthcare organizations on revenue cycle and treasury management. He has helped close more than $60 million in revenue over his career.

CHARLOTTE – October 30, 2026 -- Wood Partners and Sarofim Realty Advisors will break ground in November on Village Park, a 372-unit multifamily community in Charlotte's Highland Creek and Prosperity Church area, with J.P. Morgan providing financing.

The project is slated to open in May 2028.

Village Park Sits Beside Wood Partners' Earlier Prosperity Village Development

The site is at the corner of Prosperity Church and Benfield Roads, next to Prosperity Village, a community Wood Partners previously developed. It has direct access to Interstate 485, which connects to Uptown Charlotte and Huntersville, and a Publix grocery store is next door.

"Building next to Prosperity Village allows us to keep investing in the neighborhood," said Carter Siegel, Regional Director of Development at Wood Partners.

Los Angeles – October 19, 2026 -- Clean Power Alliance (CPA) closed its seventh energy prepayment bond transaction, valued at $1.4 billion, and expects about $91.1 million in renewable energy cost savings over the bonds' initial 7-year period, an average of $12.7 million per year.

The deal lifts CPA's cumulative prepay issuance to $8.3 billion. Initial-period savings across all seven transactions now total $519.1 million, or roughly $65 million per year on average.

J.P. Morgan acts as underwriter and prepaid energy supplier for the first time

This is CPA's first prepay bond with J.P. Morgan as underwriter and J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation as prepaid energy supplier. According to CPA, it is also the first electric prepay deal in the U.S. completed with J.P. Morgan.

Moody's assigned the bonds an investment-grade Aa3 rating, and Kestrel gave them a 'Green Bonds' designation.

London – October 19, 2026 -- Lazard, Inc. (NYSE: LAZ) has appointed David Krap, formerly Managing Director and Co-Head of Consumer & Retail EMEA at J.P. Morgan, as Managing Director and Co-Head of European Consumer, Retail & Leisure.

Krap brings more than two decades of consumer M&A advisory experience to Lazard

Krap's focus areas are food and beverage, home and personal care, and select consumer health categories. Before J.P. Morgan, he held senior roles at Credit Suisse, Centerview Partners and UBS. He holds an honors degree from the European Business School London and is fluent in German and Spanish.

Krap will join Lazard's European financial advisory practice in London

He will sit within the firm's European financial advisory practice, led by Jean-Louis Girodolle and Cyrus Kapadia, who are both Co-Heads of European Investment Banking.

New York – – October 06, 2026 -- Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source delivery-versus-payment escrow program that compresses securities settlement from one to two days into a single atomic transaction settled in seconds.

Solana DvP replaces bespoke smart contracts with one standard settlement rail

Released under the MIT license, the API provides atomic settlement, isolated escrow, and enforced deadlines for institutional trades on Solana's public blockchain. Until now, institutional onchain trades relied on custom-built smart contracts rather than a shared standard.

Singapore – – October 06, 2026 -- DayOne Data Centers Limited has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of American Depositary Shares representing its ordinary shares.

DayOne targets Nasdaq listing under ticker DODC

The Singapore-headquartered digital infrastructure operator has applied to list its ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, BofA Securities, and Citigroup have been named as underwriters for the offering.

Size and pricing remain undisclosed

The number of ADSs to be offered and the proposed price range have not yet been determined. The offering will proceed only once the registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, and will be made solely via a prospectus.

San Diego – September 29, 2026 -- Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VKTX) has closed concurrent upsized public offerings totaling approximately $575.0 million in gross proceeds, funding to accelerate its late-stage obesity drug pipeline.

Viking raises $575 million through combined stock and convertible note sale

The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company sold 9,035,714 shares of common stock at $35.00 per share, alongside $258.75 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.00% convertible senior notes due 2032. Both tranches were upsized after underwriters fully exercised their options, adding 1,178,571 shares to the equity offering and $33.75 million to the note offering.

New Orleans – September 28, 2026 -- Novogradac will convene community development entities, investors, developers and advisors at The Roosevelt New Orleans on Oct. 22-23 for its 2026 Fall New Markets Tax Credit Conference, focused on how NMTC financing is being deployed for housing-related development amid tightening market conditions.

Conference agenda targets compliance and allocation strategy

Sessions will cover the state of the NMTC program, an investor panel on market perspectives, an NMTC compliance overview, and how CDEs, investors and sponsors are positioning for current and future allocation cycles. Organizers say increased regulatory scrutiny is reshaping compliance expectations for program participants.

Singapore – September 25, 2026 -- MetaOptics Ltd, listed on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange under ticker 9MT, has established a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt programme, with its American Depositary Shares set to trade on OTCQX in the United States.

J.P. Morgan named depositary bank for new ADR structure

The semiconductor optics firm has appointed J.P. Morgan to administer the ADR programme. The Company confirmed the move does not involve new share issuance or capital raising, and its ordinary shares will continue trading on Catalist without material impact to existing shareholders.

New York and Amsterdam – September 24, 2026 -- AI communications infrastructure company Bird.com has closed a $450 million debt financing led by J.P. Morgan, Capital One and Citi, pairing the raise with the launch of a revamped platform that lets AI agents send messages, place calls and manage email without human intervention.

Bird structures $450 million facility as dividend recapitalization

The financing comprises a $400 million term loan and a $50 million revolving credit facility, arranged across a syndicate of seven banks. J.P. Morgan served as joint lead arranger, joint bookrunner and administrative agent, with Capital One and Citi as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners; Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Flagstar and Huntington round out the lender group. The deal is structured as a dividend recapitalization, providing liquidity to existing shareholders, including current and former employees holding equity.