SS&C Black Diamond Expands Insurance and Annuity Tools for Financial Advisors
SS&C Technologies Holdings is expanding the insurance capabilities available to financial advisers through Black Diamond Wealth Solutions, deepening its effort
SS&C Technologies Holdings is expanding the insurance capabilities available to financial advisers through Black Diamond Wealth Solutions, deepening its effort
OpenAI has introduced a structured system for identifying, investigating and disclosing cases in which artificial-intelligence models behave outside their inten
Almonty Industries Inc. has secured a long-term commercial outlet for tungsten expected to be recovered from waste material at its Los Santos Mine in Spain, sig
Microsoft, Marvell Technology and Utimaco have introduced Azure Payment HSM v2, a new managed cloud-security platform aimed at moving highly sensitive payment c
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed one of the more substantial revisions in years to the operational rules governing U.S. proxy solicitations,
Janus Henderson has expanded its systematic active exchange-traded fund lineup with the launch of the Janus Henderson International Core Alpha ETF, introducing
New Zealand’s economy expanded modestly in the second quarter of 2026, with official figures showing gross domestic product increased 0.2% from the previous thr
Amer Sports Inc. raised its third-quarter 2026 revenue growth outlook on September 16, extending the strong momentum that has carried the premium sports and out
AlphaCore Wealth Advisory is expanding deeper into the family-office market through its acquisition of Streamline Family Office, creating a dedicated affiliate
Apple has published a detailed technical account of Apple Reference Image, outlining a camera-to-cloud security architecture intended to make photographs captur
Amazon has suspended cargo operations with 21 Air following the deadly runway overrun of an Amazon-branded Boeing 767 at Miami International Airport, removing a
Reseda Group has launched Bolt, a Banking-as-a-Service platform designed to connect fintech companies with regulated financial institutions through modern appli
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is bringing a tokenization provider into one of the central operating networks of the U.S. investment-fund indus
EMXETF has added a broader China-focused artificial-intelligence strategy to the U.S. ETF market with the debut of the China AI ETF, or AICH, an actively manage
U.S. import prices rose sharply in August as higher costs for capital goods, industrial materials and consumer products outweighed another decline in imported f
LuxExperience B.V. entered fiscal 2027 with stronger sales momentum and a materially improved operating profile after its fourth-quarter results showed growth a
Arlington is bringing its $16 billion multi-family office platform to Dallas, establishing a permanent Texas presence as competition intensifies for ultra-high-
Perplexity has brought its Portable Computer AI agent to Windows PCs equipped with high-memory NVIDIA RTX graphics processors, expanding a local-first computing
Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline is expected to remain heavily disrupted for several weeks after a drone attack damaged critical infrastructure along the s
CodeCoin has advanced its push into regulated digital payments by securing a Kazakhstan authorization covering fiat-stablecoin issuance and entering a cooperati
Columbia Bank has priced a $250 million subordinated note offering that will add a new long-dated layer to its regulatory capital structure while creating room
Corgi Strategies has brought nine September-series structured buffer ETFs to market, adding a broad set of defined-outcome equity strategies covering U.S. large
French inflation accelerated in August as a renewed surge in energy prices outweighed softer underlying price pressures, highlighting the growing importance of
Forgent Power Solutions closed fiscal 2026 with its strongest quarter to date, combining rapid revenue growth, record bookings and a substantially larger backlo
Australian retirees are confronting a fundamental trade-off in retirement planning: the desire for an income that cannot be outlived versus the need to keep eno
Salesforce is reversing part of an ambitious product-branding overhaul that placed its Agentforce name across established enterprise software franchises, restor
Tesla has established a subsidiary in Vietnam, giving the U.S. electric-vehicle manufacturer a formal legal platform from which it can pursue commercial operati
TabaPay Inc. has moved into the formal Federal Reserve review process for its proposed acquisition of Transact Bank, National Association, a step that would tra
Brompton Funds Limited expanded the currency options available on one of its preferred-share strategies on September 14, launching U.S.-dollar-denominated units
New Zealand’s services sector recorded its strongest performance in nearly three years in August, extending a tentative recovery and providing another indicatio
Coda Octopus Group delivered higher fiscal third-quarter revenue and earnings as accelerating U.S. defense activity more than compensated for a downturn in its
Citi Private Bank has recruited Teresa Radzinski from Bank of America Private Bank, adding an experienced adviser who oversaw approximately $3 billion in assets
Meta is modifying the way its artificial-intelligence assistant generates suggested questions after a viral account showed the system prompting a user to invest
Canadian supermarkets are beginning to treat country of origin as a core supply-chain variable rather than simply a marketing detail as a consumer campaign agai
SINGAPORE — Alpha Ladder Finance has expanded its WealthX investment platform into tokenized equities, launching access to Payward’s xStocks for institutional a
Brightspeed, the broadband provider backed by Apollo Global Management, is negotiating with major creditors over financing options that could provide fresh capi
Franklin Templeton’s proposed Franklin DATCO Index ETF reached the September 11 effective date specified in its most recent regulatory amendment, bringing to an
Canadian household finances strengthened on several key measures in the second quarter of 2026, with rising equity values, improving income growth and slower bo
Hooker Furnishings Corporation returned to year-over-year quarterly operating profitability in its fiscal 2027 second quarter as tariff recoveries, higher selli
UBS is opening a new channel between institutional asset managers and Asia’s private-wealth market, offering high-net-worth investors and family offices access
A previously undisclosed episode involving autonomous artificial intelligence agents associated with OpenAI has brought renewed scrutiny to the security boundar
Stellantis is discussing a potentially far-reaching industrial partnership with Chinese technology group Huawei and automaker JAC Group involving its struggling
MassPay has launched MassPay Collect, a new payment collection product that allows businesses and platforms to receive stablecoins and cryptocurrencies through
EQT has agreed to acquire a majority stake in specialty insurance and reinsurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2 billion, handing one of
Leverage Shares by Themes is preparing a three-fund lineup designed to let traders make amplified bullish and bearish bets on Anthropic once the artificial-inte
TOKYO — Japanese household spending declined sharply in July, extending a prolonged contraction in consumer demand and underscoring the difficulty policymakers
Ambarella reported stronger fiscal second-quarter 2027 revenue and a substantially narrower quarterly loss as the semiconductor designer benefited from expandin
U.S. retirement savers entered the second half of 2026 with record account balances and savings rates close to a widely cited long-term retirement target, highl
Salesforce is redesigning the commercial structure around its flagship enterprise applications, introducing a three-tier lineup that embeds artificial intellige
Chinese rare-earth suppliers are withholding some shipments to U.S. customers as geopolitical and compliance risks complicate a trade that sits at the center of
Colombian financial technology company Plenti has closed a $3 million seed funding round led by Tether, adding one of the digital-asset industry’s largest compa
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving to dismantle one of the asset-management industry’s most consequential political-contribution comp
State Street Investment Management has introduced one of the most heavily capitalized new exchange-traded funds in the history of the U.S. market, launching the
German factory orders rose more strongly than expected in July, extending a run of monthly gains and adding to signs that the country’s industrial sector may be
Planet Labs PBC delivered its strongest quarterly revenue performance to date in the fiscal second quarter ended July 31, underscoring how rapidly sovereign sat
New Mountain Capital has exited its investment in Lincoln Investment Capital Holdings, ending a six-year private-equity partnership and returning full ownership
PlusAI is turning to the public markets as it approaches what could be the most consequential phase of its autonomous-trucking strategy, agreeing to combine wit
Uber Technologies is eliminating roughly one in 10 corporate positions in its biggest workforce reduction since the COVID-19 pandemic, a restructuring that Chie
Immediate has raised $13 million in Series B financing as the earned wage access provider moves to expand beyond its traditional employer channel and build a la
India’s banking system entered September with an unprecedented volume of surplus cash after a central-bank program designed to attract foreign currency generate
21Shares is consolidating the shares of its leveraged Dogecoin exchange-traded fund after the product’s per-share value moved into the low-single-digit range, s
U.S. manufacturing productivity performed better in the second quarter than previously estimated, while the cost of labor required to produce each unit of facto
Genesco Inc. raised its fiscal 2027 profit expectations after stronger margins, expense discipline and improving performance at two of its most important footwe
Orion is broadening its push into personalized portfolio implementation by adding investment models from BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and Vanguard to Tailore
The European Union has brought ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox into the strictest tier of its Digital Services Act, widening Brussels’ direct oversight of some of th
BASF has completed a major modernization of its acid chlorides and chloroformates production operation in Ludwigshafen, Germany, increasing capacity at the site
Visa is strengthening its push into real-time payments security with an enhanced version of A2A Protect, adding a unified fraud score powered by technology from
Banner Corporation has completed its acquisition of Pacific Financial Corporation, bringing Bank of the Pacific into Banner Bank and expanding the regional lend
Defiance ETFs has expanded the U.S. single-country ETF market with the launch of the Defiance KSM Israel 120 ETF, a Nasdaq-listed fund designed to give American
South Korea’s inflation rate rebounded above 3% in August, renewing attention on price pressures just days after the country’s central bank tightened monetary p
MongoDB raised its fiscal 2027 outlook after posting a 30% increase in second-quarter revenue, as expanding use of its cloud database platform and stronger Ente
FTV Capital’s investment in Kingsview Partners places fresh growth capital behind one of the faster-expanding independent wealth-management platforms in the Uni
OpenAI is moving to end a nearly four-year commercial relationship with Cursor following the AI coding company’s acquisition by SpaceX, a decision that brings q
India’s latest food-safety push is widening from a dispute over package warnings into a more consequential challenge for multinational consumer companies: wheth
Deutsche Bank has selected Thought Machine’s Vault Core as the first core platform in an ambitious effort to simplify one of the most complicated technology lay
An affiliate of Guggenheim Partners has stepped into the market for debt linked to the financial group’s asset-management arm, buying portions of a roughly $1.2
Bank of Montreal and REX Shares have added another high-leverage artificial-intelligence trading instrument to the U.S. exchange-traded market, launching the Mi
The U.S. economy generated slightly fewer jobs than previously estimated during the year through March 2026, according to a preliminary benchmark revision relea
Workday delivered another quarter of double-digit revenue growth as demand for its cloud-based human resources and financial management software remained resili
The independent advisory industry is moving into a new era of ownership transition as a growing number of financial advisors seek structured succession plans, e
GCT Semiconductor is extending its focus on next-generation wireless connectivity by entering a new UAV communications partnership, marking a strategic step tow
AstroNova shareholders have approved the previously announced acquisition of the aerospace and industrial technology company by Arcline Investment Management, m
Mastercard has announced the selection of a new cohort of Nordic and Baltic fintech startups for its Lighthouse 2026 Fall Program, reinforcing the company’s foc
ARK Venture Fund’s latest regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission highlights the continued expansion of private market access strateg
The decision by Hashdex to liquidate a bitcoin exchange-traded fund highlights a new phase in the evolution of digital asset investing, where competition is inc
The U.S. Treasury market has moved back into focus as investors evaluate what changing bond yields mean for the economy, financial conditions, and the outlook f
Toronto-Dominion Bank’s third-quarter 2026 earnings highlighted a strengthening operating environment for one of North America’s largest financial institutions,
Longer lifespans are changing the foundation of retirement portfolio planning as wealth advisors reassess strategies built around shorter retirement periods. Fo
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion is placing renewed attention on the company’s approach to custom silicon, as global technology comp
Faraday Future is expanding its technology ambitions beyond electric vehicles with a new US partner ecosystem initiative focused on EAI robotics, reflecting the
Rayls has launched its Sovereign private blockchain infrastructure, a technology platform designed to provide institutional financial markets with a dedicated e
Scotiabank and Bank of Montreal delivered earnings updates that placed renewed attention on the role of trading and wealth management businesses in supporting b
ETF markets entered the final part of August 2026 with investors closely watching fund flow rankings as competition among major issuers intensified. iShares, th
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released new data examining worker displacement patterns in the United States, offering a detailed look at how layoffs and pe
NVIDIA’s second-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings report represents one of the most closely followed corporate updates of the current technology earnings cycle. The
AmeriFlex has launched an AI-enabled Scout program designed to identify financial advisors who may be approaching succession decisions, adding a technology-driv
Thomson Reuters has launched a proprietary frontier artificial intelligence model designed to strengthen its enterprise knowledge computing capabilities, markin
Agilent Technologies’ latest financial results are providing investors with a new reference point for the health of the laboratory equipment market, a sector th
Trust Bank’s launch of a stock reward card product in Singapore represents a new phase in the development of digital banking products, where payments are increa
Barclays is undertaking a strategic reset of its investment banking operations, a move that underscores a broader transformation taking place across Wall Street