Financial Services

New York – September 29, 2026 -- DoubleZero Foundation has integrated Phoenix, Solana's native perpetuals exchange, into its Edge market-data platform, cutting data delivery latency by more than 750 milliseconds for traders accessing the Solana perps order book.

Phoenix becomes the third perpetuals venue on DoubleZero Edge

Built by Ellipsis Labs, Phoenix joins Kalshi crypto perpetual futures, added in August 2026, and Hyperliquid perps, added earlier this month, on the Edge network. Trading firms can now pull market data from all three venues through a single connection rather than building separate infrastructure for each.

DoubleZero launched two new Phoenix feeds: top-of-book and trades, and market-by-price data, covering all Phoenix perps markets.

Chicago – September 29, 2026 -- Controllers Council projects that AI and automation adoption among corporate financial controllers will reach 98% by 2030, up from 86% today, according to its new Controllership 2030 Predictions Study.

Survey of controllers and CFOs maps a five-year shift in job duties

The study draws on a national survey of controllers, CFOs and related finance executives conducted between July and September 2026 across multiple industries and company sizes. It tracks how AI, automation, talent shortages and shifting business conditions will reshape the controllership function through 2030.

Petaluma, Calif. – – September 29, 2026 -- Equity Methods secured the highest client loyalty and satisfaction ratings in the equity compensation financial reporting industry for the 13th consecutive year, posting a Net Promoter Score of 97 and 100 percent favorable overall satisfaction, according to Group 5's 2026 Equity Compensation Financial Reporting Benchmarking Study.

Group 5 surveyed 452 U.S. public companies for its 27th annual industry benchmark

The study, now in its 27th year, remains the only independent forum allowing corporate plan sponsors to confidentially rate their equity compensation service providers. This year's edition drew responses from 452 U.S. public companies evaluating providers on accounting, HR, stock administration, and legal reporting functions.

New York – – September 29, 2026 -- DailyPay has introduced a deductions method for its On-Demand Pay service, making it the only large-scale provider offering both full-funding and deductions options to employers.

Deductions method lets employers recoup pay transfers through standard payroll withholding

Under the new deductions option, On-Demand Pay transfers are recovered from an employee's paycheck via a standard payroll deduction rather than full upfront funding by the employer. DailyPay says the model integrates with existing Human Capital Management, payroll and time management systems without disrupting current setups.

Cleveland – September 29, 2026 -- Kurv, a Cleveland-based payments platform, has renewed its partnership with the Cleveland Browns for the 2026 NFL season, extending a multi-year marketing and community relationship between the two organizations.

Kurv secures branded visibility across weekly Browns media sessions

Under the renewal, Kurv will sponsor the backdrop used during the Browns' weekly player and coach interviews, with Kurv-branded imagery appearing Wednesday through Friday at the CrossCountry Mortgage Campus throughout the regular season.

Boston – September 29, 2026 -- Gryphon has released Gryphon ONE on the Genesys Cloud AppFoundry, a real-time compliance layer that lets enterprises recover 35%-45% of their contactable customer universe by preventing over-suppression in outbound dialing campaigns.

Gryphon ONE screens calls against TCPA, TSR and Do Not Call rules before dialing occurs

The integration evaluates automated outbound dialing against the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, Do Not Call registries and state-specific standards in real time. Enterprises using highly regulated data sets can now operationalize governance, risk and compliance directly within Genesys Cloud outbound workflows, removing manual handoffs between compliance teams and campaign launch.

Detroit – September 29, 2026 -- Benzinga and TradingView have integrated Benzinga's Analyst Insights product into TradingView's platform, giving the charting network's global trader base direct access to summarized sell-side research alongside its existing technical tools.

Analyst Insights converts dense sell-side reports into plain-language summaries

The product translates institutional analyst commentary on rating changes, price targets, and outlook shifts into concise takeaways, addressing what Benzinga describes as a longstanding accessibility gap between professional research and retail-facing trading tools.

Integration places research alongside TradingView's charting and community features

TradingView users can now cross-reference analyst commentary directly within the charts, technical indicators, and social feeds they already use, rather than switching between institutional research channels and trading interfaces.

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed Stephen Segroves as Head of Pricing, tasking him with building rating models for its trucking program and commercial lines nationwide.

Segroves brings nearly two decades of actuarial and pricing experience to Corgi's underwriting build-out

Segroves most recently served as Senior Director, Actuary at Nirvana Insurance, where he oversaw insurance analytics and pricing operations. Prior to that role, he spent three years as Senior Director of Data Science at VoyageWorks, leading a cross-functional team of data scientists, actuaries, and data engineers to develop predictive and machine learning models aimed at improving commercial auto profitability.

Singapore – – September 28, 2026 -- The Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI) has appointed Professor Lawrence Loh, Associate Professor Eugene K.B. Tan, Professor Louis Chen and Ms Farah Jaafar as Executive Fellows, while elevating Distinguished Professor Patrick H. M. Loh to Co-Founder.

RFI expands leadership bench as digital finance regulation intensifies

The nonprofit, based in Singapore, said the appointments deepen its expertise in law, governance, digital policy and cross-border capital markets as regulators and institutions push to ground digital asset, AI and cross-border payment innovation in legal and ethical frameworks.

Phoenix – September 28, 2026 -- AZP Insurance Specialists has awarded Platinum certification to Gateless' Smart Underwrite®, marking the first technology provider to clear AZP's new AI Mortgage Technology Certification framework at its highest of four tiers.

Gateless earns top rating after 230,000 loans processed with zero claims

The Platinum designation reflects the performance of more than 230,000 loans manufactured and sold by lenders using Smart Underwrite®, all without a single claim filed. AZP said the certification evaluated the platform's governance, controls, auditability and operational maturity before granting the top rating.