Financial Services

Highland Hills, Ohio – September 19, 2026 -- AML RightSource has been named a winner of the 2026 Crypto & Digital Assets Growth Partner Award in the Licensing & Compliance category by industry research firm CobraSight, following an evaluation of more than 350 vendors.

CobraSight screened over 350 vendors before selecting AML RightSource for its digital asset compliance expertise

The award recognizes firms demonstrating specialized experience helping organizations operate within the digital asset ecosystem. CobraSight based its selection on specialization, industry expertise, client experience, and support for entities operating in regulated markets.

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.

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.

New York – September 19, 2026 -- Verapath and GenTrust have formed a joint venture and launched VIRA, an AI-native wealth management platform designed to replace the patchwork of CRM, portfolio accounting, performance reporting, rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting tools that registered investment advisors (RIAs) currently run in parallel.

VIRA merges five separate wealth-stack functions into a single system of record

Advisory firms typically operate a CRM, portfolio accounting system, performance reporting tool, rebalancer, tax-loss harvesting engine and data warehouse as disconnected point solutions, each with its own data model and vendor relationship. VIRA consolidates these into one platform, eliminating duplicated data entry and the manual reconciliation work that currently absorbs operations staff.

Boston – September 19, 2026 -- ActBlue said an independent forensic review of its 2023 contribution data found that 99.99% of nearly $990 million in political donations came from donors who provided a U.S. address or a valid U.S. passport number, directly rebutting Congressional Republican claims that the platform facilitated illegal foreign contributions.

Forensic audit shows foreign-address donations were rare and screened

Only 0.13% of all 2023 contribution dollars came from Americans living abroad, with 99.87% originating from donors listing domestic addresses, according to the review. ActBlue said its compliance policy required any donor entering a foreign address to supply a U.S. passport number before a contribution could be submitted, regardless of payment method.

Scottsdale – September 19, 2026 -- equipifi, a Buy Now, Pay Later infrastructure provider for banks and credit unions, was named a Best of Show winner at FinovateFall 2026, standing out among eight winners selected from 72 companies that demoed live on stage.

Finovate audience votes equipifi among eight standout demos from 72 fintechs

The award was determined by a vote of banking executives, investors, and industry press attending the event. equipifi founder and CEO Bryce Deeney presented the demo, walking through how account holders discover personalized purchasing power, shop, and complete payments entirely within their bank's digital app.

Lincoln, Neb. – September 19, 2026 -- Nelnet, Inc. (NYSE: NNI) has appointed Angie Klein and Ed Pallesen to its board of directors, expanding the panel to 10 members.

Apple executive Klein joins after nearly 25 years at Verizon

Klein currently serves as head of U.S. consumer channels for Apple, overseeing sales and distribution partnerships with retailers including Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Costco. She spent nearly 25 years at Verizon, holding roles as chief content officer, senior vice president of growth marketing, and inaugural president of Verizon Value, where she led a multi-brand prepaid portfolio serving millions of customers. Klein will sit on Nelnet's Nominating and Corporate Governance, People Development and Compensation, and Compliance committees.

Chicago – – September 18, 2026 -- Old Republic International Corporation (NYSE: ORI) has entered a national charitable partnership with the American Red Cross through its Disaster Responder Program, committing advance funding to strengthen the humanitarian organization's emergency-response capacity.

Red Cross handles 60,000 disasters annually across the US

The American Red Cross responds to roughly 60,000 disaster events each year nationwide, delivering shelter, meals, emotional support, relief supplies and recovery resources to affected families. The Disaster Responder Program pools advance contributions from corporate members to fund the personnel, infrastructure, supply chains, technology and training the Red Cross needs to mobilize quickly when disasters strike.

St. Petersburg, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- CCI Insurance, a Higginbotham Partner, has rebranded its proprietary CompCorrect platform as RiskCorrect and opened it as a standalone offering to companies outside its existing client base facing complex risk profiles and significant claims exposure.

Platform expands beyond workers' compensation origins since 2020 launch

Since launching in 2020, the technology has grown from a workers' compensation claims-management tool into a broader system linking incidents, safety activity, root-cause analysis, corrective action and underwriting strategy in a continuous risk cycle. Tobin Robeck, Higginbotham | CCI Managing Director and Regional Sales Director who co-founded the platform, said RiskCorrect now helps companies identify loss drivers, connect claims and incidents, and demonstrate that corrective changes are working.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- Footprint, a builder of AI systems for financial-crime compliance, has closed a $25 million Series B round led by QED Investors, with participation from MUFG, Commerce Ventures, LightBank and Alumni Ventures.

Funding doubles engineering and sales headcount as Footprint opens San Francisco office

Existing investors Index Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup, Operator Partners and Animal Capital also joined the round. The capital will double Footprint's engineering and sales teams and fund a new San Francisco office to support West Coast expansion of its agentic AI infrastructure for enterprise financial institutions.