İşbank Teams Up with Instabase to Transform Money Order Processing
İşbank, Turkey’s largest privately-owned bank, has announced a partnership with Instabase, an AI platform specializing in extracting insights from unstructured data. Facilitated by İşbank’s subsidiary, Maxitech, this collaboration aims to revolutionize the bank’s money order processing system, a task historically…
Milken Institute Opens 2025 Applications for Expanded HBCU Fellowship
The Milken Institute has officially opened applications for the 2025 cohort of its expanded Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Fellowship program. This eight-week academic curriculum, combined with a summer practicum, aims to create fast-track opportunities for underrepresented students in…
FPT Software and Vilja Partner to Drive Digital Banking Innovation
Global IT company FPT Software has announced a strategic partnership with Vilja, a leading Nordic provider of core banking services. Through this collaboration, FPT Software aims to enhance its financial services portfolio by offering innovative digital banking solutions to customers…
Crain’s Chicago Business Recognizes Arla Lach of Grant Thornton as a Notable Accounting Leader
Grant Thornton, one of the largest U.S. firms offering audit, assurance, tax, and advisory services, celebrates a new achievement in Chicago with Arla Lach, the market managing principal of the firm’s Chicagoland headquarters, being named a “Notable Leader in Accounting”…
Schwab Trading Activity Index™: Moderate Levels Persist Despite August Decline
The Schwab Trading Activity Index™ (STAX) fell to 53.16 in August, down from 54.81 in July. As the only index of its kind, STAX is a proprietary tool that examines retail investor stock positions and trading activity from Schwab’s millions…
TradingHub Announces Australian Expansion
TradingHub, a leading provider of risk-based trade surveillance software for the global financial services industry, is excited to announce its expansion into Australia with the opening of a new office in Sydney. Serving half of the world’s largest global banks…
East West Bank Celebrates 25 Years on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange
East West Bank, the largest publicly traded bank based in Southern California, marked its 25th anniversary on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange today. Chairman and CEO Dominic Ng celebrated the occasion by ringing Nasdaq’s opening bell. “This is a significant day…
Paystand Announces Gold Sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2024
Paystand is excited to announce its Gold level sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2024, Oracle NetSuite’s premier event for customers and partners, happening September 9-12, 2024, at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas and online. This year’s theme, “All Systems Grow,” will explore…
Advance Partners Appoints Kendra Cato as Director of Strategic Partnerships
Advance Partners, a Paychex company specializing in payroll funding and comprehensive back-office solutions for staffing firms, has announced the appointment of Kendra Cato as its new Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this newly created role, Cato will leverage her nearly…
C.J. Lawrence’s Strategies Reach $3 Billion in UIT Sales at Advisors Asset Management
C.J. Lawrence (CJL) is excited to announce that, according to Advisors Asset Management’s (AAM) August 13, 2024, press release, AAM has surpassed $3 billion in cumulative unit investment trusts (UIT) sales, including $2 billion in CJL’s flagship Bulldog Portfolio. CJL…
Better.com Launches FHA Streamline Refinance Product
Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), commonly known as Better.com, has launched its FHA Streamline Refinance program, designed to simplify the refinancing process for qualified borrowers with existing Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans. This fully digital option allows…
Scienaptic CUSO Receives Strategic Investment from Credit Union Clients
Scienaptic AI, a leading AI-powered credit underwriting platform based in New York, announced that its Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) has secured strategic equity investments from six of its credit union clients. The credit unions involved—ELGA Credit Union, Wildfire Credit…