Events

Oklahoma City – September 19, 2026 -- Bank7 Corp. (NASDAQ: BSVN) has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire 100% of Century Financial Services Corporation, the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based parent of Century Bank, in a deal valued at approximately $137.3 million.

Deal creates a $3.3 billion Southwest banking franchise

The combined organization would hold roughly $3.3 billion in total assets, merging Bank7's Oklahoma-based lending platform with Century's century-old New Mexico deposit base. Century Bank, founded in 1887, is the second-largest bank headquartered in New Mexico and one of the last independent institutions in the state, operating eight branches plus loan production offices in Dallas and Houston.

Bethel, Conn. – September 19, 2026 -- ComNet Communications has appointed Janna Valencia as Chief Revenue Officer, tasking her with leading revenue strategy as the low voltage infrastructure provider expands its national footprint.

Valencia brings two decades of enterprise sales leadership from BlackBox, IBM and Kyndryl

Valencia joins ComNet from BlackBox, a global digital infrastructure solutions provider. She previously held senior leadership roles at IBM and Kyndryl, where she managed large national sales and delivery teams. Her customer segment experience spans data centers, retail, CPG, travel and transportation, hospitality, airports, and the public sector.

Greensburg, Pa. – September 19, 2026 -- FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Company (FE PA), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has launched an exchange offer covering $850 million in outstanding senior notes, swapping unregistered debt for SEC-registered equivalents with identical terms.

Company to exchange $300 million and $550 million note tranches

The offer applies to up to $300 million aggregate principal of unregistered 4.150% Senior Notes due 2028 and up to $550 million of unregistered 4.550% Senior Notes due 2031. Holders will receive a like principal amount of registered New Notes carrying the same coupon and maturity terms.

Washington – September 19, 2026 -- Bipartisan majorities of American voters and Washington policy influencers are demanding that U.S. lawmakers confront foreign governments over discriminatory treatment of American companies, according to a new poll commissioned by the US-Asia Fair Market Alliance (US-Asia FMA) and conducted by Penta Group.

78% of voters say they would back policymakers who defend U.S. businesses overseas

The survey found that 78% of the American public would be more likely to support policymakers who stand up against discriminatory barriers facing U.S. companies abroad, including 72% of Democrats and 87% of Republicans. The poll surveyed more than 300 D.C. policy influencers — congressional staff, think tank scholars and foreign policy experts — alongside a nationally representative sample of 1,000 American voters, including 137 small- and medium-sized business owners.

Hannover – September 19, 2026 -- CDTL is presenting a lineup of distributed electric drive axles and electromechanical braking (EMB) systems for heavy-duty commercial vehicles at IAA Transportation 2026, with its flagship platform already deployed across more than 3,000 vehicles.

EA5000NP axle delivers 900 kW peak power on an 800V platform

The EA5000NP distributed electric drive axle uses two oil-cooled motors and a two-speed transmission to enable independent left- and right-wheel torque control without a mechanical differential. Running on an 800V architecture, it produces up to 660 kW rated power and 900 kW peak power, with the underlying platform proven across more than 3,000 vehicles in commercial operation.

Kochi – September 19, 2026 -- Indian deep-tech startup EyeROV demonstrated its underwater robotics technology to a group of world leaders at the Bharat Innovates Exposition in New Delhi, an event organised by the Ministry of Education as part of the BRICS Summit.

EyeROV's ROV pavilion draws heads of state from six nations

The company's Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) pavilion was visited by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Boston – September 19, 2026 -- Ara Partners, a global private markets firm with roughly $8.2 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, has acquired a majority interest in Bryden Wood, a London-headquartered strategy and integrated design consultancy employing 300 people across four European offices.

Deal deepens a multi-year industrial partnership

The transaction formalizes an existing relationship in which Bryden Wood supported design and capital strategy for several Ara portfolio decarbonization projects, including Sedron, Divert, Utility Global, BioVeritas and GIDARA Energy. Ara Partners, founded in 2017 and focused on decarbonizing the industrial economy, invests across Private Equity, Infrastructure and Energy strategies and operates from Houston, Boston, Dublin and Washington D.C.

South San Francisco, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- Dualitas Therapeutics has secured a research collaboration and license agreement with Roche worth up to $1 billion, including a $36.5 million upfront payment, to develop bispecific antibody therapeutics for immunology and inflammation diseases.

Dualitas will screen over 300,000 bispecific antibody combinations for Roche

Under the agreement, Dualitas will use its proprietary DualScreen Bispecific Discovery Engine to functionally screen more than 300,000 novel bispecific combinations, in what the company describes as one of the largest-scale bispecific discovery efforts undertaken. Roche will take over all subsequent preclinical development, regulatory, manufacturing and commercial activities for candidates that emerge from the collaboration.

San Francisco – September 19, 2026 -- A new national poll from Hopelab and Data for Progress finds that 88% of young people ages 13 to 24 engage in doomscrolling, with roughly half reporting they lose more than an hour of sleep on nights they scroll negative or upsetting content. The findings arrive as Meta implements a landmark child safety settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories requiring overnight curfews, school-hour notification limits, and daily time caps for teens on Instagram and Facebook.

Doomscrolling hits 32% of young people daily, concentrated at bedtime

Of the 88% who reported the habit, 32% said they doomscroll every day or multiple times a day. Roughly two-thirds said the behavior peaks during free time or before bed over the prior two weeks, directly overlapping with the sleep window Meta's new curfew provisions target.

Provo, Utah – September 19, 2026 -- Canary Speech has been named to TIME and Statista's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 ranking, marking the second consecutive year the vocal biomarker technology firm has received the distinction.

TIME and Statista select 500 companies from thousands of HealthTech firms reviewed globally

The ranking evaluated companies across three primary data sources: Financial Performance Metrics, Reputation Analysis, and Online Engagement. The list was announced on September 17, 2026, and published on Time.com.

Guadalajara, Mexico – September 19, 2026 -- Luca Mining Corp. has agreed to acquire the El Barqueño gold-silver-copper property in Jalisco, Mexico from a subsidiary of Agnico Eagle in a deal that could total up to $60 million in cash and shares plus royalty consideration.

Deal structure ties payments to drilling and production milestones

Luca will pay $10 million on closing through the issuance of its common shares, followed by up to $30 million in contingent payments: $15 million three months after the first drilling program begins, and $15 million upon commercial production. A further $20 million is tied to output, paid at $5 million for every 100,000 gold-equivalent ounces produced, capped at 400,000 ounces. Agnico Eagle will also hold a 2.0% net smelter return royalty on areas with currently defined mineral resources, which Luca can halve to 1% for $12.5 million.

Taipei – September 19, 2026 -- Advantech Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 2395) has expanded its WEDA-Powered Edge AI ecosystem by bringing Intel, Qualcomm Technologies, and AMD into a shared framework for developing and deploying Edge AI across industrial and enterprise hardware.

Advantech unifies Edge AI development under WEDA architecture

The expansion centers on WISE-Edge Developer Architecture (WEDA), WEDA-Ready Edge Computing, and the Advantech Container Catalog (ACC). Together, the components are designed to standardize Edge AI development, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management across fragmented hardware environments, replacing what Advantech describes as disconnected, project-by-project development efforts.

Stockholm – September 19, 2026 -- Findity has launched Findity AI, an intelligence layer designed to automate business expense management, with rollout beginning this autumn across its partner network.

Findity AI Automates Receipt Capture and Policy Checks

The platform deploys proactive agents that capture receipts, match them with card transactions, check for policy violations, and post approved expenses directly to accounting systems. High-confidence expenses are processed automatically, while flagged items are routed for manual review.

Finance Teams Retain Control Through Configurable Guardrails

Organisations set the rules determining which expenses auto-post and which require review. Smart notifications keep employees and managers informed, while employees skip manual expense entry and managers intervene only when a decision is genuinely required.

Calgary, AB – September 19, 2026 -- Instappraise has integrated its cloud-based jewelry appraisal platform directly with Jewelers Mutual Group's insurance system, enabling real-time personal jewelry insurance quotes at the point of appraisal.

Integration eliminates separate steps for appraisal and insurance coverage

When an appraiser or retailer finalizes an appraisal document within Instappraise, the user can now request an instant insurance quote directly from Jewelers Mutual using the valuation data already entered. The platform emails the personalized quote from Jewelers Mutual to the client, who can then purchase a policy in a few steps.

Early-access rollout begins this month ahead of full-scale launch

The integration is currently available through an exclusive early-access program to select Instappraise users starting in September 2026, with a broader release planned later this year.

Beijing – September 19, 2026 -- Investors in China's A-share market turned more cautious in the third quarter of 2026 even as corporate earnings began to recover, according to the latest CKGSB Investor Sentiment Survey covering the May-to-September 2026 period.

Investors cut return expectations and stock allocation plans

Only 58.6% of respondents expected A-share prices to rise, down 5.2 percentage points from April 2026. The expected rate of return fell 1.8 percentage points to negative 0.7%. Appetite for direct stock investment weakened sharply, with the net proportion of investors planning to increase stock holdings falling 7.3 percentage points to 10.7%; the equivalent figure for equity funds dropped 1.2 percentage points to 13.4%.

London – September 19, 2026 -- Confidence in alternative data budgets has reached its highest level in three years, with 97% of data buyers expecting spend to increase or hold steady over the next 12 months, according to Neudata's new report, The Future of Alternative and Market Data 2026.

Budget optimism climbs to a record high among data buyers

The figure is up from 89% last year, marking the strongest confidence Neudata has recorded since launching the survey three years ago. The report draws on 191 responses from data providers and buyers globally, the firm's largest sample to date, spanning quant, multi-strategy, discretionary and macro funds as well as AI research labs. Sixty percent of buyer respondents manage over $1 billion in assets.

Guanajuato – – September 19, 2026 -- The Penetron Group repaired and waterproofed a severely deteriorated below-grade concrete water cistern at Torre Valaria, a 20-floor, 230-foot (70-meter) residential tower that became Guanajuato's tallest building and welcomed its first residents in October 2025.

General contractor ICREAR flagged structural damage and active leaks in the drinking-water cistern

PENETRON México was contacted by ICREAR after inspectors found significant leaks, structural damage and water loss in the cistern designated to store drinking water for the tower's 125 apartment units. Rodrigo Monterrubio Solis, Country Manager of PENETRON México, said the team had to move quickly because construction was nearing completion.

LONDON – September 19, 2026 -- ECARX, the Nasdaq-listed automotive intelligence company, has surpassed 12 million vehicle deployments worldwide, spanning 18 OEMs, 28 brands and 159 markets.

ECARX added over 914,000 vehicle deployments in the first half of 2026

The company's in-vehicle technology stack now covers intelligent cockpit systems, vehicle software and OS-level solutions, centralized vehicle computing and ADAS. ECARX supports vehicle programs across brands including Geely, FAW-Hongqi, Lotus, Polestar, Volvo Cars, Renault and Volkswagen, spanning multiple vehicle platforms and technology domains.

ECARX is expanding beyond cockpit systems into integrated computing and software platforms

The broader technology footprint allows ECARX to support a wider range of vehicle functions as automakers shift toward AI-defined vehicle architectures.

Hanover, Germany – September 19, 2026 -- Geely Farizon unveiled its full-spectrum electric commercial vehicle portfolio at IAA Transportation 2026, entering Europe as a manufacturing and service partner rather than a pure exporter. The lineup spans the Farizon SV light commercial vehicle, the compact Farizon V7E, and the flagship pure-electric heavy-duty Homtruck, targeting fleets under pressure to decarbonize without sacrificing uptime or total cost of ownership.

Farizon SV earns five-star Euro NCAP rating and IVOTY 2026 runner-up honors

The Farizon SV secured a five-star Euro NCAP safety rating and finished as runner-up for International Van of the Year (IVOTY) 2026 and the What Van? 2026 Zero Emission Van Award. IAA Hanover also previewed the upcoming Farizon SV MY27, which adds upgraded battery-motor performance and four-wheel-drive capability.

San Jose, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- DTEN's 55-inch D7X AI Board has secured Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows certification and is now available worldwide through DTEN and authorized channel partners, the company announced.

On-device AI targets a persistent hybrid-meeting flaw

The all-in-one collaboration board uses room-aware, on-device intelligence to frame participants individually, adjust for lighting, and isolate speaker voices, addressing a common problem in hybrid rooms where a single wide camera shot flattens attendees into one distant tile and blended audio obscures who is speaking.