Financial Services

Beachwood, Ohio – September 24, 2026 -- OneSeven has launched AdvisorGrowth IQ, an AI-powered marketing and prospecting engine built to help financial advisors and independent RIAs generate qualified client meetings without expanding internal marketing staff.

Platform combines brand strategy with AI-driven prospect targeting

AdvisorGrowth IQ integrates financial advisor marketing strategy, brand positioning, thought leadership, audience targeting, prospect intelligence, personalized outreach, automated follow-up and appointment generation into a single connected system. The tool addresses a gap OneSeven identified among advisors who excel at client service but lack the time, technology and data infrastructure to grow their practices organically.

Providenciales – – September 24, 2026 -- KuCoin has upgraded its Wallet Management Services from CCSS v8.1 Level 2 to CCSS v8.1 Level 3, the highest tier of the Cryptocurrency Security Standard, the exchange announced.

KuCoin secures full-system certification under the CCSS v8.1 framework

The Level 3 rating, assessed under the same v8.1 standard as the prior certification, verifies stronger controls across the full cryptographic key lifecycle, from generation and storage to access, backup and recovery.

New controls target key-compromise response and personnel access

Compared with Level 2, the Level 3 certification requires greater separation of responsibilities, stricter access and personnel controls, regular testing of key-compromise response procedures, broader independent assurance, and continual backup of operational logs. KuCoin said the measures reduce single points of failure and improve traceability and resilience.

Amsterdam – September 24, 2026 -- Morgan Stanley B.V. has published its interim report and financial statements for the six-month period ended June 30, 2026, in compliance with Article 5.25d of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht).

Morgan Stanley B.V. releases mandated interim disclosure under Dutch financial law

The Amsterdam-based entity confirmed the disclosure requirement stems directly from the Wet op het financieel toezicht, the regulatory framework governing financial supervision in the Netherlands. The filing covers the first half of fiscal year 2026.

Report is publicly accessible via the Morgan Stanley website

The company made the full interim report and financial statements available for public download through its official prospectus portal, allowing investors, counterparties and regulators to review the six-month financial position.

Sacramento – – September 23, 2026 -- Ten California home insurers have requested $571 million in combined rate increases under Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's climate-model rules while committing to sell only 12,000 new home insurance policies, according to an analysis of Department of Insurance filings by Consumer Watchdog.

Durham, N.C. – September 23, 2026 -- Avalara, Inc. unveiled Avalara Aviator, an AI agent hub designed to cut manual tax and compliance work from days to minutes, at its CRUSH customer and partner conference.

Avalara Aviator connects specialized AI agents to close gaps between automated compliance tasks

For years, tax software automated discrete steps such as calculations, filings, and exemption certificate management, leaving finance teams to manually bridge the gaps, chasing approvals, interpreting reports, and building business logic. Avalara says it is the first company to unify specialized AI agents, compliance workflows, and its trusted tax technology into one connected agent hub. Customers interact via Avi, an orchestrator agent that delegates to lead agents overseeing research, certificates, and returns, validating and executing work while leaving judgment-based decisions to humans.

Paris – September 23, 2026 -- Murex has achieved certification to deploy its MX.3 capital markets platform on Google Cloud, giving financial institutions a new cloud option for trading, risk and treasury workloads.

Murex clients begin testing MX.3 on Google Cloud infrastructure

Multiple Murex clients have already started exploring MX.3 deployment on Google Cloud, according to the companies, signaling demand for secure, resilient cloud transformation in capital markets. MX.3 serves more than 60,000 daily users across 65 countries, spanning trading, treasury, risk, post-trade operations and investment management for private and public assets.

Greenwich, Conn. – September 23, 2026 -- AdminaHealth has launched an AI-powered data assistant for Enterprise customers of its Billing Suite, letting users query billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data using plain-language questions instead of navigating reports screen by screen.

Assistant answers billing queries directly from workspace records

Users can ask what a group's bill totaled for a given month, where a mid-period adjustment originated, or which member's coverage changed, and receive a direct answer drawn from that workspace's data.

NEW YORK – September 23, 2026 -- M&A litigation settlements in the Delaware Court of Chancery hit 25 in 2025, the highest count since 2012, yet aggregate settlement value collapsed to $326.6 million from an inflation-adjusted peak of $734.8 million in 2023, according to a Cornerstone Research report released today.

The median settlement fell to $10 million in 2025, the lowest figure recorded across the 14-year study period, which draws on a hand-collected sample of 143 settlements with known monetary amounts between 2012 and 2025.

West Chester, Pa. – September 23, 2026 -- Mole Street, an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner, will exhibit at Booth 5 during the Digital Marketing for Financial Services Midwest Summit at the Hilton Chicago on September 22-23, presenting data from a new report co-authored with HubSpot based on a survey of 270 U.S. financial services leaders.

Ho Chi Minh City – September 23, 2026 -- STARCARES, the corporate social responsibility programme of global multi-asset broker STARTRADER, delivered gift sets, household essentials and cash support to 213 people at SOS Children's Village Ho Chi Minh City in Go Vap during a Mid-Autumn Festival event called "A Full Moon for Every Child."

Aid reaches 60 children and 213 total beneficiaries at the Go Vap village

Every child at the village received a gift set containing a lantern, cookies, a water bottle, a milk pack and a colouring kit. Hygiene, cleaning and pantry supplies were distributed to village houses, alongside financial support for operating costs, reaching house mothers and staff among the 213 recipients.