AI & Finance™ | News for the Week Ending 10/9/26

AdvizorPro, a leading wealth management and financial advisor intelligence platform for smarter prospecting, today announced new private placement data for sponsors and issuers raising capital through private offerings. These include REITs, DSTs and 1031 exchanges, opportunity zones, private equity, private credit, and oil and gas. The data shows which broker-dealers and representatives are actively placing offerings in each category, so sponsors know who to approach. Until now, reaching these professionals took years of relationship building, cold outreach and time on the conference circuit, and even then the results were uneven. 

Placement activity is disclosed in Form D filings, but the filings are scattered and inconsistent, and they don’t include the contact information needed to reach the right representative. AdvizorPro has solved this. Its data engine collects Form D and Form D/A filings, registrations, firm disclosures and public records. It then structures, cleans and maps that data to the advisor and firm profiles already in the AdvizorPro platform, using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and a dedicated data team. 

The result is a working view of who is raising money for offerings like a sponsor’s own. A live feed of filing amendments shows which firms just reported new sales. Each offering links to the specific reps who placed it. A co-placement network shows which broker-dealers regularly distribute the same deals together. Each firm’s full offering track record is available in one view. 

Alight, Inc. (NYSE: ALIT), a leading benefits administration provider of health, wealth and leave solutions, today announced its acquisition of Abett, a healthcare and benefits data technology company, that acts as a data infrastructure layer for Fortune 500 employers and their benefits vendors. 

Abett’s core product, the Data Engine, unifies benefits ecosystem data from medical, pharmacy, partners, point solution vendors and additional data sources, allowing employers to integrate, engage and better measure the impact of their employee benefit programs. 

By bringing those capabilities together with Alight Worklife® and Alight’s recurring participant interactions through enrollment, benefits administration, customer care, navigation and ongoing service events, Alight is well-positioned to guide people during the moments that matter most as they make decisions about their health, finances, retirement and benefits. 

Allvue Systems, LLC (“Allvue”), a leading technology provider for private capital markets, today unveils its next generation of agentic and Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities at Allvue Access 2026, demonstrating its continued commitment to making private markets transparent, efficient, and connected. 

Over the past 12 months, Allvue has shipped AI and Intelligence products across every stage of the private markets investment lifecycle, unifying data, automating workflows, and delivering actionable insights to credit, private equity, and fund administration teams. Last week also brought the release of Moody’s Analytics EDF-X Private Credit Model, powered by Allvue, giving investors and lenders a deeper lens into underlying stress in private credit markets. 

Allvue is extending its platform to enable teams across the private markets ecosystem to connect their preferred AI tools directly to Allvue workflows and data, without the data errors, security risks and manual handoffs that typically sit between systems. This reduces manual work, accelerating and improving decisions across the investment lifecycle. 

Arcesium, a leading global financial technology provider to the investment industry, today announced an integration with MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, to provide investment firms with seamless data solutions across the fixed income trade lifecycle. With the integration of MarketAxess CP+™ and TraX® market data into Arcesium’s Aquata® and Opterra® platforms, hedge funds, institutional asset managers and capital markets firms can now connect front-to-back workflows and improve data accuracy across investment and operational processes. 

The integration with Arcesium’s platforms enables mutual clients to embed MarketAxess’ pricing, liquidity and transaction data directly into their fixed income operational workflows. MarketAxess CP+ is an AI-powered algorithmic pricing engine for global credit and rates markets. MarketAxess TraX, provides daily trade volumes and transactional data for more than 42,000 global fixed income instruments. Together, these datasets provide the market context needed for more efficient liquidity analysis, price discovery, relative value assessment and risk analytics, without custom integration efforts. 

Arcesium has also integrated with MarketAxess Repo Match since June 2024. Through the integration, Arcesium submits Opterra clients’ repo trades directly to Repo Match for trade-date matching against counterparty confirmations, including lifecycle events such as re-rates and close-outs. This enhances efficiency in the repo market by supporting straight through processing, earlier exception resolution and automated books and records updates. Repo Match connects 127 buy-side and sell-side firms, with over US$700 billion in matched average daily volume. 

Ascensus, the engine at the center of America’s savings ecosystem, today announced the launch of its workplace-to-wealth platform, a new offering designed to help connect retirement savers with professional financial advisors during some of life’s most important financial moments, including job changes, retirement, and other major transitions. 

Serving more than 16 million savers, Ascensus is uniquely positioned to help address one of the retirement industry’s most persistent challenges: helping individuals access professional financial advice alongside their workplace savings and as their financial needs evolve. According to Cerulli U.S. Retirement End-Investor 2025, 63% of active 401(k) participants do not have access to a financial advisor. Through its advisor-first model, Ascensus helps create connections between savers and trusted financial professionals without competing for those relationships. 

Ascensus’ new platform combines participant connectivity, advisor engagement capabilities, referral workflows, and insights designed to connect savers with their plan advisors throughout their financial journeys, particularly at key financial transitions. The offering is intended to create a more connected experience across workplace savings and personal wealth management while preserving the trusted relationships between savers, advisors, employers, and financial institutions, and doing so consistent with data privacy requirements and best practices. Ascensus is also enhancing the participant digital experience to deliver more personalized support, AI-powered assistance, and connected experiences that help savers make informed decisions and connect with the advisor serving their plan when they need guidance. 

Benekiva, a provider of claims technology for insurance carriers, today announced the market introduction of Kiva, its AI Smart Claims Assistant. Embedded in the Benekiva Claims Workbench, Kiva helps claims professionals navigate requirements and next steps while keeping human judgment at the center of the process. 

Kiva brings guidance directly into the claim workflow, surfacing relevant reminders, flagging incomplete information and helping examiners identify what needs attention before a claim moves forward. 

Kiva is designed to assist claims professionals rather than act as an independent claims decision-maker, preserving human oversight while making guidance and next steps easier to access. 

During a livestreamed event today, Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng and VP of Product Jeff Li unveiled Binance Intelligence, an AI product stack built into the world’s largest digital assets exchange to close the knowledge gap between everyday users and market professionals. 

For nine years, Binance has used blockchain to make finance more open, global, and always on. But access to markets is not the same as having the knowledge to navigate them. As digital assets and traditional markets become more connected, users face more information than they can process, scattered across disconnected tools. Binance is using AI to close the gap. 

For the first time, users at every level – from someone exploring their first financial product to advanced traders developing algorithmic strategies – can access AI built specifically for their financial needs, all in one place. 

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced that it has been selected by SITA, the world’s leading specialist in air transport technology, as the implementation and transformation partner for SITA’s SKY program. The groupwide, finance-led initiative will help SITA implement a modern cloud platform across finance, procurement and supply chain processes, designed to deliver measurable business value across SITA’s global operations in more than 200 countries and territories. 

The transformation is designed to move finance beyond reporting and operational processing, establishing it as a more strategic, growth-focused partner to the business. Cognizant will work with SITA to implement a cloud-based ERP and management platform spanning planning, performance, project management and procurement. By connecting these functions through a shared data foundation, consistent ways of working and AI-led insights, SITA aims to strengthen planning, identify opportunities earlier and align resources more closely with its growth priorities. 

Cognizant’s AI-first approach combines deep finance transformation expertise with generative AI implementation agents, informed by intellectual property developed through more than 800 cloud ERP projects. It draws on embedded platform AI capabilities and custom agents built using Cognizant’s agentic AI capabilities to embed intelligence into planning, forecasting, project management and day-to-day finance activities — helping SITA accelerate delivery and put AI to work across live finance, procurement and project management processes. 

ConnexPay, the unified payments platform that connects customer PayIns to supplier PayOuts, and MIDOCO, a leading provider of Mid- and Backoffice software for the travel industry, today announced an expanded technology partnership that integrates ConnexPay’s payment capabilities with the MIDOCO platform. 

Through the API integration, travel agencies, travel management companies (TMCs), tour operators and online travel agencies can access ConnexPay’s PayIn and PayOut capabilities within their existing MIDOCO workflows. The integration supports customer payment acceptance and virtual card issuance for supplier payments alongside the booking, reconciliation and accounting processes already managed through MIDOCO. 

Payments are a core part of the operational workflows that follow a travel booking. Customer payments must be captured and reconciled, suppliers need to be paid, and transaction data must flow accurately through financial and accounting systems. Connecting ConnexPay and MIDOCO helps reduce the need to manage these processes across separate payment and backoffice environments. 

Conquest, a global fintech company delivering a verifiable AI financial advice engine for continuous advice at scale, today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for AI management systems. The certification provides independent validation of the governance practices behind Conquest’s approach to AI as financial institutions look to expand its use without sacrificing rigor or human judgment. 

ISO/IEC 42001 sets requirements for how organizations establish, maintain and continually improve systems for managing AI, including risk management, transparency, data governance, accountability and human oversight. 

As AI becomes more deeply embedded in financial services, institutions need clear controls for how the technology is developed, deployed and monitored. This is especially important in financial advice, where firms need auditable processes for understanding how technology contributes to the guidance investors receive while remaining in compliance. Conquest has long focused its approach to building and deploying AI on verifiability and auditability, giving advisors and financial institutions the ability to understand and explain the reasoning behind financial recommendations rather than rely on black-box outputs. 

DeepVest, the agentic front office for financial advisors, today announced the launch of the DeepVest Day One Program, to provide discounted platform access to early-stage registered investment advisors (RIAs). Offered to firms within their first two years of operations with three or fewer total advisors, the program grants full access to DeepVest’s hallucination-free AI investment platform for only $100 a month per advisor for the first 12 months.  

The Day One Program comes as AI-driven workplace reductions and a broader push toward leaner operating models are reshaping the financial services workforce. DeepVest is aiming to support wealth management professionals considering starting firms of their own by easing the burden of investing separately in research, proposal, monitoring and compliance tools before revenue has had time to scale. Choosing the appropriate tech-enabled tools to run a wealth management firm is critical for managing the complete business cycle, and the Day One program gives early-stage RIAs access to sophisticated investment and operational capabilities of larger firms without requiring the same technology budget or resources.  

RIAs enrolled in the Day One Program will gain access to the full DeepVest workspace across four connected Labs: AdvisorLab, which turns prospect account statements into portfolio diagnostics and client-ready proposals; DataLab, an AI-native investment research terminal spanning equities, ETFs, crypto, foreign exchange, commodities, rates and macroeconomic data; AgentLab, which provides AI-powered portfolio analysis, optimization, scenario modeling, stress testing and rebalancing; and the recently released MonitorLab, a comprehensive market monitoring and alerts platform layer helping advisors, wealth managers and investors stay aware of and react to market-moving developments. 

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced a series of investments and capabilities designed to help insurers modernize critical operations, improve productivity, and adopt AI without disrupting the systems their businesses depend on. 

Unveiled at the DXC Connect Insurance Executive Forum in London, the announcements build on DXC’s Protect, Extend, Transform strategy and Smart AI approach, helping insurers modernize critical operations and apply AI with the governance, human oversight and accountability essential to insurance. Together, they provide (re)insurers and brokers with a secure foundation for innovation, spanning workflow modernization, platform innovation, London Market investment, and continued enhancement of critical insurance systems. 

DXC continues to expand the capabilities of its Assure Platform, providing insurers with a secure, governed foundation for modernization and innovation. Built to support DXC’s Assure Architecture strategy, Assure Platform brings together platform services, insurance services, integrations, and Smart AI, helping insurers improve resilience and strengthen operational control. 

Edward Jones today announced a significant expansion in the firm’s workplace business with the development of an innovative, AI-powered, end-to-end retirement plan management tool in collaboration with Aboon and Retirement Plan Advisory Group, LLC (RPAG®) – part of Great Gray Group, LLC. 

The expansion aims to enable financial advisors to best serve business owners and their employees with workplace retirement plans and strengthens the firm’s ability to serve clients across every stage of their financial journeys.  

To better enable financial advisors to serve business owners with workplace retirement plans, Edward Jones is collaborating with Aboon and RPAG to develop a workplace retirement plan management solution.  

The Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), the leading membership organization and trade association for CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professionals, today announced the launch of the rebuilt FPA PlannerSearch®, a platform designed to modernize how consumers find and connect with financial planners. 

Rather than relying primarily on location and asset level, PlannerSearch® connects consumers with CFP® professional members of FPA based on their financial goals, life events, preferences, and decision-making styles. The launch comes as consumers increasingly turn to search engines and generative AI with highly specific financial needs, creating greater demand for tools that help them find human financial planners whose expertise and approach fit their individual circumstances. 

Developed in partnership with marketing technology leader Snappy Kraken and financial software developer The Smyth Group, the rebuilt PlannerSearch® drew on extensive research, including focus groups and individual interviews with financial planners, consumer-behavior research, prototype development, and testing. FPA members can add Snappy Kraken lead nurturing to their profiles for a fee, helping them quickly engage consumers who inquire through the platform. Snappy Kraken serves more than 200 enterprises, 4,000 firms and 7,000 advisors, representing over $1 trillion in combined assets under administration (AUA). 

Financial Software Solutions (FSS), the cloud-native technology innovator of enterprise-level case management software for bankruptcy trustees, fiduciaries, and professionals, has announced its latest AI-powered technology release, the FSS Intelligence Engine. 

This new technology streamlines one of the most time-intensive steps in case preparation for fiduciaries and bankruptcy trustees: reviewing and analyzing multiple documents. With the FSS Intelligence Engine, information from ECF emails, bank statements, tax returns, and document checklists is automatically read, analyzed, extracted, matched, and prioritized the moment paperwork arrives. The process happens hands-free, giving trustees faster access to the information that matters and helping them move cases forward more efficiently.  

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced that BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO) has enhanced its payments infrastructure with Finastra’s modern Global PAYplus (GPP), reinforcing the bank’s ability to support growing transaction volumes, strengthen operational resilience, and advance interoperability across the payments ecosystem. 

As a leading universal bank in the Philippines, BDO serves retail, commercial, and institutional clients across a broad range of banking and financial services. The bank also supports correspondent banking and fintech partners with payment distribution capabilities into the Philippine market. 

The deployment of GPP’s high-value and mass-payments capabilities provides a scalable foundation for current and future payment requirements. BDO currently utilizes the platform for Swift and inbound PESONet processing and is the largest commercial bank in the Philippines leveraging GPP. 

FINBOA, a leading provider of intelligent process automation software for financial institutions, today announced the appointment of Kevin Feagan as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Feagan joins FINBOA as it scales its revenue organization and positions the company for continued growth in 2027 and beyond. 

As CRO, Feagan will lead FINBOA’s revenue strategy and go-to-market organization, overseeing Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Partnerships, Customer Success and Account Management. 

Feagan brings 21 years of experience across payments and fintech, along with a track record of scaling companies, building go-to-market organizations and developing strategies to accelerate revenue growth. 

Foundation Source, the leading provider of philanthropic solutions for donors, nonprofits, institutions, and the wealth advisors who serve them, today announced the appointments of Manu Sood as Chief Technology Officer and Hetal Patel as Head of Product, as part of the company’s continued investment in technology, AI and product innovation to support the growth of its PhilTech platform. 

Foundation Source has significantly expanded its offering across private foundations, donor-advised funds and planned giving. The appointments of Ms. Sood and Ms. Patel represent the latest investment in the technology, talent and capabilities supporting that growth, including an increased focus on AI and the addition of a dedicated Head of Product role. 

Ms. Sood brings 26 years of technology leadership experience across fintech, digital banking, and enterprise technology. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at AvidXchange, where she led enterprise technology operations and AI transformation for the B2B payments platform. Previously, she held technology leadership roles at Varo Bank, Western Governors University and Rio Tinto, leading large-scale modernization, cloud transformation and digital platform initiatives. 

Global X Management Company LLC (“Global X”), the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced the launch of the Global X LLM ETF (ticker LLMA). 

LLMA (“the Fund”) seeks to provide targeted exposure to the companies building and deploying large language models (LLMs), as well as those developing products and services based on those models. 

Global X first deployed this focused portfolio management approach in connection with the Global X MLCC & Electronic Components ETF (ticker MLCC), which launched in September. It seeks to invest in the manufacturers of multi-layer ceramic capacitors – key building blocks of modern electronic devices, including artificial intelligence (AI) servers, electric vehicles, smartphones, and other items – and related components. 

Govineer Solutions (“Govineer” or “the Company”), a provider of software and payments solutions for local governments, has expanded its leadership team with the appointments of Manav Thiara as Chief Product & Technology Officer and Frank Pollock as Vice President and General Manager of Payments. The appointments represent Govineer’s first senior hires since receiving a strategic growth investment from TA Associates (“TA”) earlier this year and will support the company’s continued investment in product development, AI and payments. 

As Chief Product & Technology Officer, Thiara will bring Govineer’s product and technology organizations under unified leadership, leading the Company’s product strategy and technology functions, including engineering, architecture, data and AI. As Govineer accelerates its vision of becoming an AI-powered operating system for local governments, he will focus on developing an integrated product and technology roadmap, expanding data and AI capabilities across a shared platform, and translating the Company’s AI strategy into practical solutions for customers. 

Thiara joins Govineer from Sage, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Engineering & Platforms, leading its Data, AI and Platform Engineering organization. He brings extensive experience in enterprise technology, data and AI, including establishing Sage’s AI Center of Excellence. He previously held senior technology roles at TD, First Data and Microsoft. 

Guidehouse, a global professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors, has partnered with Alpha7X, a leading technology platform and operating system for the mortgage industry. 

The alliance combines Alpha7X’s technology with Guidehouse’s deep experience in mortgage operations, lending transformation, securitization, and regulatory compliance to help companies modernize and scale operations across the mortgage lifecycle. Together, Guidehouse and Alpha7X will help financial institutions automate routine activities, accelerate processing, improve data quality and consistency, strengthen operational resilience, and position themselves for long-term growth in an increasingly digital mortgage ecosystem. 

Unlike approaches that require organizations to replace core systems or manage siloed tools, the combined offering is designed to work within existing operating environments and workflows. This allows financial institutions to modernize operations incrementally and scale AI-enabled processes while preserving the governance, auditability, and operational oversight required in highly regulated environments. 

Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) today announced the appointment of Dan Brown as Chief Product Officer. Reporting to Chief Executive Officer Mike Rosenbaum, Brown will lead Guidewire product strategy and execution, leveraging his deep experience in successfully building and scaling enterprise software organizations, to embed AI across Guidewire’s suite of core applications and transform how global P&C insurers underwrite risk and manage claims. 

Brown brings more than 25 years of enterprise software experience, leading product strategy for top software companies. He joins Guidewire from Celonis where he served as Chief Product Officer. Prior to that, Brown held the Chief Product Officer role at Certinia and several product, R&D, and leadership positions during his 15-year tenure at Microsoft. 

Infrastructure AI is introducing Agentic Asset Valuation, a new capability of its vision to transform how buildings and physical infrastructure are understood, managed, financed, and valued through the Galaxy Agentic Operating System (GAOS), an agentic intelligence platform designed to convert real-time operational data into financial-grade intelligence. 

For more than a century, commercial buildings and infrastructure assets have been valued largely through periodic assessments: appraisals, comparable transactions, historical financial performance, replacement-cost analysis, engineering reports, occupancy data, and projected cash flows. These methods remain foundational to real estate and infrastructure finance, but they generally provide a view of an asset at a particular point in time. 

Every day, critical systems operate under changing conditions. HVAC equipment, pumps, elevators, electrical infrastructure, water systems, safety systems, and energy-management technologies generate operational data that can reveal equipment condition, efficiency, maintenance quality, reliability, risk exposure, and future capital needs. Despite the volume and potential value of that information, much of it remains fragmented across building-management systems, sensors, maintenance logs, equipment controllers, and specialized technical platforms. 

XYPN, the leading business support platform for fee-only financial planners, today announced a new partnership with Jump, the artificial intelligence platform helping advisors and financial professionals automate the entire client meeting lifecycle — from meeting preparation and note-taking to follow-up communications, CRM updates, business intelligence, and account opening. 

Through the partnership, XYPN members will receive discounted access to Jump’s Meet, Onboard, and Grow capabilities, providing access to one of the industry’s most sought-after AI-powered advisor productivity solutions. 

The partnership reflects growing demand among advisors for compliant technology that helps reduce operational burdens and create more time for client relationships. AI efficiency tools ranked as XYPN’s most-requested partnership category in 2025 and 2026, while Jump was the category’s most requested tool in the Network. 

Kinective, the company delivering intelligent banking to over 4,300 banks and credit unions, and SWIVEL, a subsidiary of SWBC and a leading fintech company specializing in integrated solutions, today announced a core connectivity partnership. SWIVEL will use Kinective Gateway, an advanced API integration platform, to streamline implementation and onboarding for Connect2Core (C2C), a real-time payment posting and transaction visibility hub for financial institutions. 

SWIVEL’s C2C hub integrates directly into financial institutions’ core processing systems and supports real-time payment data posting for instant visibility of account transactions. With Kinective Gateway, C2C is now equipped with a more resilient, standardized core connectivity layer that powers faster implementation and onboarding, enhanced service and future innovations for C2C users—including real-time money movement through SWIVEL Instant Payments via FedNow® and RTP®. C2C’s existing client base will remain uninterrupted throughout the transition. 

The move also accelerates onboarding for new SWIVEL clients. Kinective Gateway offers the largest portfolio of core and business system integrations, backed by relationships with more than 40 core systems and over 100 fintechs. The partnership positions SWIVEL to introduce its real-time payment capabilities to thousands of new financial institutions without the lengthy custom integration work that has traditionally come with core connectivity projects. 

KKR, a leading global investment firm, today announced the agreement to acquire Gen II Fund Services, LLC (“Gen II”), a global leader in private capital fund administration, for a total enterprise value of $5.1 billion. KKR is acquiring Gen II from Hg, General Atlantic and other minority investors through its Core Private Equity strategy. Led by CEO Steven Millner, Gen II has built an experienced leadership team that will continue to lead the company. 

The strategic partnership with KKR is intended to support Gen II’s next phase of growth as private market managers increasingly seek scaled, technology-enabled solutions to navigate more complex fund structures, investor needs and regulatory requirements. KKR plans to work alongside Gen II’s management team to support the company’s continued expansion in the U.S. and internationally, broaden its capabilities across asset classes and services and invest further in proprietary technology and AI-enabled solutions. KKR also plans to help implement a broad-based employee ownership program, giving all Gen II employees the opportunity to participate in the company’s future growth. 

Gen II is a leading fund administrator serving the private markets industry, providing fund administration services to more than 275 investment managers representing over $2 trillion in assets, alongside a growing suite of tax, compliance, treasury and technology-enabled solutions. Gen II was founded in 2009 by Steven Millner, Steven Alecia and Norman Leben, and has built a 17-year track record of service excellence and strong client retention. 

Milliman, Inc., a leading global actuarial and consulting firm, today released Milliman Opensource Platform System, an AI-enhanced platform for executing, managing, and deploying actuarial Python models at scale. 

The Milliman Opensource Platform System brings model execution, workflow orchestration, and governance into a single environment, with on-demand compute, native connections to code repositories and data sources, and complete role-based access and audit trails. At its center is an embedded agentic AI assistant that carries out multi-step tasks alongside the actuary—setting up runs, tracing dependencies, and handling routine model operations—so teams spend less time maintaining infrastructure and more time on analysis. 

With the Opensource Platform System and Milliman IntegrateTM, Milliman’s actuarial modeling solutions now span from open, Python-based development to flexible, governed modeling on trusted calculation libraries. Milliman’s investment in AI also extends to Integrate, where Ask Integrate, a knowledge assistant grounded in vetted actuarial frameworks and workflows, is already at work, with agentic capabilities in development. 

MyFreeScoreNow today announces the expansion of free tools available to all members with complimentary accounts to include Optimal Path™ from Equifax, an artificial intelligence-powered credit planning capability that helps consumers meet their credit score goals through personalized recommendations and actionable guidance. 

Since first becoming available to the public in March 2026, more than 230,000 consumers have enrolled on the new MyFreeScoreNow platform, with more than 15,000 MyFreeScoreNow users already creating personalized credit score improvement plans using Optimal Path. The strong early adoption reflects growing consumer demand for financial tools that provide personalized guidance designed around their unique credit profile and financial goals rather than generic credit education. 

By transforming complex credit data into clear, personalized recommendations Optimal Path provides a personalized roadmap that identifies actions that can help a consumer meet their credit score goal. Whether preparing to purchase a home, finance a vehicle or simply improve their financial well-being, consumers can establish personalized credit goals and receive recommendations tailored specifically to their circumstances. 

Neptune Insurance Holdings, Inc. (“Neptune”) (NYSE: NP), the largest private flood insurance provider in the United States, today highlighted a new way for consumers to shop for flood insurance: asking their personal Muse agent to do it for them. 

The emergence of AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, capable of browsing the web, completing forms, and performing multi-step tasks has the potential to fundamentally simplify how consumers shop for financial products, including insurance. 

Neptune’s AI-powered quoting system processes tens of thousands of quotes daily, providing pricing in seconds, and expanding access to flood insurance for customers nationwide. As consumers increasingly delegate online research and purchasing tasks to AI agents, Neptune’s digital platform provides a seamless experience that is well suited to this new way of shopping. 

Ondo Finance today announced four new Ondo-designed portfolios, expanding Ondo Intelligent Portfolios to seven offerings. The new portfolios join the three initial portfolios powered by BlackRock and give non-US investors onchain access to some of the markets most closely watched themes, from big tech and artificial intelligence to income.  

This expanded lineup includes MAG7Xon, which pairs the Magnificent 7 with crypto; BRAINon, a portfolio of AI leaders, YLD5on, which targets 5% income; and YLD8on which targets 8% income. Each portfolio combines multiple assets in a single onchain token, with transparent holdings and pragmatic rebalancing. Investors get diversified exposure in one position.  

This expansion marks an early step in a generational shift in how the world invests. It brings more institutional asset allocation expertise onchain and expands who can access it. All seven portfolios are available today to eligible investors on Ethereum and BNB Chain through leading wallets, exchanges and DeFI apps.  

Today, Orion announced the next phase of its flexible ecosystem, with expanded capabilities for integration providers and a roadmap for future innovation designed to create more ways to securely and reliably connect to data through Orion, build across the ecosystem, and unlock new opportunities with AI. As advisor technology becomes more interconnected, firms increasingly rely on secure access to data across platforms, applications, and AI-enabled tools to power the experiences they deliver to investors. 

With the broadest and most open ecosystem in wealth management1, Orion has evolved into one of the industry’s most significant channels for technology providers seeking to reach advisory firms, with more than 500 integration providers connecting to firms through Orion. That scale also gives advisors greater flexibility to choose the technology, data, and workflows that work best for their firm and clients. As AI changes how advisors work, open, secure, and governed access to data matters more than ever: AI tools are only as useful as the data they can securely access. This next phase of Orion’s flexible ecosystem expands provider connectivity while establishing clearer, more consistent standards for how providers connect to and build across Orion. 

Together, these capabilities strengthen Orion’s flexible ecosystem, giving technology providers more ways to innovate across Orion while giving advisors greater choice in the technology and tools they use to serve their clients. 

PayNearMe, the fintech company pioneering Payment Experience Management, today launched its AI Servicing and Collections Agent, a new agent  built directly into the PayXM™ platform to expand inbound self-service and outbound engagement. The Agent calls and texts customers, answers inbound calls, and helps customers make or schedule payments, resolve payment issues, and address other account needs, connecting them to support staff only when needed. It combines agentic AI with PayXM’s data, rules and workflows to interpret customer intent, determine the appropriate next step and take action. By handling routine servicing and proactively guiding customers toward resolution or payment, the Agent helps support teams scale while lowering the cost to serve. 

PayNearMe introduced its AI-powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) in October 2025 as an alternative to traditional menu-based interactive voice response systems. The AI Servicing and Collections Agent builds on that foundation with expanded inbound self-service and new outbound capabilities that enable proactive customer outreach. Together, these capabilities give customers a direct path to resolve routine account and payment needs, whether they initiate a call or respond to outbound outreach.  

As part of a pilot program, Indiana Finance Company used the AI Servicing and Collections Agent to conduct proactive payment outreach campaigns and support inbound customer interactions. 

Prosperum Fintech Holdings (“PFH”), a leading fintech holding company focused on innovative technologies that empower investors, today announced the acquisition of Yellow Tunnel, an AI-powered investing platform that helps retail investors identify opportunities, analyze markets, and make more informed trading decisions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 

Option Hotline and Yellow Tunnel will be the core brands under the firm’s new Investor Terminal. 

The acquisition marks a significant milestone in PFH’s strategy to build a portfolio of complementary fintech businesses that leverage artificial intelligence to help individual investors navigate increasingly complex financial markets. 

Redhawk Federal Solutions (“Redhawk”) today announced a new banking relationship with Regions Bank to support Redhawk’s acquisition of Geneva Software Inc. (“Geneva”) and the company’s continued growth. The relationship with Regions Bank includes a new line of credit, enhanced treasury management tools, and a delayed draw term loan (DDTL) facility to support future acquisitions. 

Regions’ new line of credit and DDTL facility provide Redhawk with committed capital to support both near-term working capital needs and a pipeline of future acquisitions, while Regions’ treasury management platform gives Redhawk enhanced visibility and control over cash management across its growing platform of operating companies. 

The Regions relationship complements Redhawk’s existing capital partnerships, including Genesis Park, as the company continues to execute its acquisition strategy across the federal technology market. 

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) today announced the latest updates to S&P Capital IQ Pro, led by an expanded ChatIQ experience that brings conversational AI deeper into the platform. The enhanced ChatIQ helps financial professionals ask natural-language questions and quickly access S&P Global data and insights in one place. 

ChatIQ brings multi-source analysis, screening and charting into a single conversational experience. Users can ask questions across company, market, credit and economic data, alongside financial documents, news and research, helping them spend less time moving between tools and more time analyzing reliable information. 

The latest Capital IQ Pro release brings AI-powered research, modeling and presentation tools together with expanded data and analytics across valuation, private markets, fixed income, credit and broader market use cases. 

Sapiens International Corporation N.V. (“Sapiens”) today launched Sapiens Brain, the proprietary AI foundation at the heart of SapiensAIP, the company’s recently announced AI platform for the insurance industry. Sapiens Brain codifies decades of Sapiens’ insurance domain expertise – including millions of lines of code, product documentation and design artefacts – into an insurance-native foundation that grounds AI models in the language, logic and regulatory reality of insurance.  

Sapiens Brain is built as an interconnected memory system, modelled on the way a human brain links what it knows. Where a general-purpose AI model has learned insurance second-hand from the open internet, Sapiens Brain gives it decades of first-hand insurance memory to reason with: the products, the logic, the edge cases and the regulatory reality accumulated across 40 years of building and running insurance systems. The Sapiens Brain for Sapiens Life, for example, draws on extensive product history. This is a depth of insurance-specific memory a new entrant would need years to accumulate.  

Sapiens made a deliberate architectural decision to build SapiensAIP, and the agents that run on Sapiens Brain, outside of its core insurance systems. Core platforms are designed for the stability and control that core systems require whereas AI is evolving multiple times a day. By exposing its core systems through Model Context Protocol (MCP), Sapiens enables the SapiensAIP agents to integrate natively with its core suite without the rigid, manual mapping of traditional APIs while releasing new AI capability at the pace the technology demands, rather than the quarterly cycle of a core release.  

Savvy Wealth, the AI-native wealth management platform for independent financial advisors, today announced the launch of Savvy Custodial Platform1, its new custodial offering built for registered investment advisor (RIA) owners and firms working with its new introducing broker-dealer business, Savvy Wealth Management, LLC. 

With Savvy Custodial Platform, independent RIAs can onboard clients in as little as 90 seconds and move assets in a few clicks, replacing the paperwork and delay of legacy custodial relationships with a modern, digital, and personalized experience for both advisor and client. 

The custodial relationship is where independence hits a ceiling for RIAs. An RIA owner can control the firm, the book, and every investment decision, and still run the practice on custodial systems designed decades ago: paper forms, multi-day account openings, and service queues. Savvy Custodial Platform extends the independence that defines Savvy’s offerings for RIAs down into the custodial infrastructure layer itself to deliver more time saved and greater ease in serving clients. 

Setara Financial Corp., a financial infrastructure company developing benchmark and reference-data infrastructure for the global compute economy, today announced the next stage in the development of its Reference Layer for compute markets. As artificial intelligence drives investment in GPUs, data centers, power and connectivity, compute is becoming an increasingly important economic input. Yet the market remains fragmented across hardware, providers, geographies, contracts and data sources. Setara is developing a Reference Layer to organize, standardize and evaluate information across this ecosystem, creating governed infrastructure that can make compute more measurable, comparable and financially usable. 

Setara’s architecture begins with a governed data model designed to standardize heterogeneous compute-market information before eligible evidence enters the benchmark calculation process. Its Benchmark Calculation Engine (BCE) provides the developing framework for evidence classification, eligibility review, normalization, calculation, quality control, provenance and controlled release. 

Together, these components create a controlled path from compute-market information through standardized data and benchmark calculation to, where applicable requirements and authorization are satisfied, benchmark determinations. Setara is also developing the methodology, Rulebook, publication, correction, change-control and governance structures supporting its benchmark activities. Evaluation and methodology-development outputs are not Official Setara Benchmark determinations or live settlement references unless expressly identified as such. 

Smartstream, the trusted data solutions provider for leading global financial institutions and enterprises, today announced that Rothera, the U.S.-based CFTC-regulated event contract market, has gone live on Smartstream’s Air. Rothera has deployed Smartstream’s Cash and Data modules to automate high-volume derivatives reconciliations across its CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse business. 

As transaction volumes on the exchange grew, Rothera sought to scale and automate its existing reconciliation processes to support greater operational efficiency and robust audit controls. 

To support this growth, Rothera selected Air’s Cash and Data modules as a new implementation. The AI-powered platform ingests, matches, and reconciles high-volume data flows with minimal manual intervention, providing a fully audited environment aligned with regulatory obligations of a CFTC-regulated venue. 

Stablecore, the platform enabling community and regional banks to offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products, today announced its official endorsement from the Montana Bankers Association, the professional organization enriching Montana’s banks as they provide capital to businesses and households, forge relationships in local communities and support economic growth across the state. 

As an endorsed vendor, Stablecore will serve as a preferred technology provider for the association’s 33 member institutions, helping banks across Montana offer stablecoin and digital asset products, stay competitive and provide added value to current and new customers. 

The challenge for depository institutions is understanding and integrating the many complex components needed to support digital asset offerings. Stablecore unifies these critical components, enabling financial institutions to offer digital asset products without changing their technology infrastructure. 

Credit Union of Denver (C∙U∙D), Colorado’s oldest state-chartered credit union, announced its partnership with Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), the leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending marketplace, to expand access to affordable personal loans for consumers while delivering a fast, convenient digital lending experience. 

For more than 95 years, Credit Union of Denver has remained committed to helping members achieve financial well-being through personalized service, financial education, and access to responsible lending solutions. Through its partnership with Upstart, C∙U∙D will be able to reach more qualified borrowers and provide additional pathways to affordable credit while maintaining its focus on putting people first. 

C∙U∙D started lending as a partner with Upstart in April 2026 to broaden access to lending opportunities for creditworthy consumers. On Upstart.com, qualified personal loan applicants who meet C∙U∙D’s credit policies receive tailored offers as they seamlessly transition into a Credit Union of Denver-branded experience to complete the online membership application and loan closing process. 

Wallace Finance Co. today announced the launch of Wallace Understudy, a platform which creates a unique, living “digital twin” of an investment advisor’s practice based on actual firm operations. Wallace Understudy streamlines advisor training, continuity, and succession by capturing and transferring the judgement and methodology that has traditionally only lived in an advisor’s head. 

Following the launch of Wallace Finance’s custom indexing and portfolio management “Terminal”, key pilot programs identified substantial friction in transferring advisor judgement and methodology along with a book of business. 

Wallace Understudy is a stand-alone platform which operates in a simple, streamlined workflow. Client files are read only on the advisor’s own computer. The Understudy reads from firm systems and never writes to them. Every methodology and rule change is logged. The Understudy belongs to the firm: it can be exported as a signed file and erased at any time. 

WealthStream, the Advice Intelligence platform that helps wealth management firms make their best planning judgment available to every advisor, today announced the appointment of Larry Roth to its Strategic Advisory Board. 

Roth is Founder and Managing Partner of Ascentix Partners, the leading growth strategy consultancy for wealth management enterprises, wealthtech platforms and private market solutions providers. He previously served as CEO of Advisor Group, now Osaic, and Cetera Financial Group, two of the country’s largest independent wealth management organizations. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Berkshire Global Advisors. 

Roth will advise WealthStream’s leadership team on enterprise strategy, market development and strategic partnerships as the company expands its work with wealth management organizations. 

Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), an online investment platform, today announced an expansion of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities, enabling eligible Webull users to leverage AI assistants to research markets, analyze their portfolios, and prepare trades through Webull’s cloud-based MCP server without requiring programming knowledge, API credentials, or software installation.  

Webull’s Cloud MCP is a fully managed, Webull-hosted server that connects compatible AI assistants to Webull’s market intelligence, account information, and investment tools. With the latest update, authorized users can move from research and portfolio analysis to trade preparation within the same AI conversation, while maintaining control over every transaction. Each trade requires separate customer confirmation before an order can be submitted to the market.  

Unlike Webull’s local MCP server, Cloud MCP does not require users to install software, generate API credentials, or manage access keys. Customers can connect their existing Webull account through supported AI platforms, authorize the accounts and capabilities they want to make available, and begin using Webull tools through a conversational interface.  

Webull Corporation (NASDAQ: BULL), a global financial technology company, today announced it is powering MOUM, Meritz Securities’ next-generation investment platform. MOUM combines access to Webull’s proprietary Vega AI tools, global investor community, and U.S. equities markets with Meritz Securities’ AI-forward, digital investing experience.  

The launch builds on the strategic partnership between Webull and Meritz, first announced in November 2025, and represents an important milestone in Webull’s plans to expand access to AI-powered investment services to retail investors.   

A core feature of MOUM is Vega AI, Webull’s proprietary investment intelligence engine. The technology is designed to help investors navigate the growing volume of information required to make informed investment decisions, enabling users to quickly analyze company filings, earnings reports and news.  

Zocks, the privacy-first AI platform for financial services, today announced its new Advisor Intelligence plugin that packages seven Claude skills developed specifically for financial services workflows. 

 The prebuilt Claude skills reason across all the client information and context Zocks ha captured from past meetings and conversations over time, including goals, concerns, life events, household dynamics, and more. The skills provide instructions for applying that data to specific advisor workflows, including custom analyses and generating client-ready deliverables, packaged together in a single installable plugin. 

 Once the Zocks Advisor Intelligence plugin is installed, advisors can type a single plain-language prompt in Claude that matches one of the seven skills, such as “what should I do next with this client” or “prep the annual review.” Claude then completes the full sequence of work in minutes.