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Johnson Fistel, PLLP is investigating potential claims on behalf of current, long-term shareholders of DICK’S Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) against certain of its officers and directors for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.

Johnson Fistel, PLLP is investigating Coastal Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: CCB) on behalf of investors who suffered losses and whether those losses may be recoverable under federal securities laws. If you purchased Coastal Financial securities and suffered losses, click here to join the investigation.

Johnson Fistel, PLLP is investigating potential claims on behalf of current, long-term shareholders of REGENXBIO Inc. (NASDAQ: RGNX) against certain of its officers and directors for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.

KBRA assigns a long-term rating of AA to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (MTA Bridges and Tunnels) Real Estate Transfer Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 2026A (TBTA Capital Lockbox Fund). Concurrently, KBRA affirms the AA rating on outstanding parity bonds. The Outlook is Stable.

Five Hicks Thomas attorneys have been named to the 2026 edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers guide.

Giadzy is expanding its retail presence with the nationwide launch of its gluten-free pasta at Sprouts Farmers Market. Created by entrepreneur and celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis, the Italian-made pasta is now available at 480 Sprouts locations nationwide, marking Giadzy’s first partnership with a national retail chain.

Coforge Limited (NSE: COFORGE), a global AI-native engineering services leader, has been recognized by HFS Research as a Non-Linear Leader in The HFS Non-Linearity Index (CY Q4 2025 and Q1 2026). HFS Research has analyzed more than 25 major service providers in this report.

Accertify, a leading fraud decisioning provider whose Predictive Yes Platform helps merchants say yes to more good customers, more revenue, and more growth, today announced it has achieved HIPAA compliance, expanding the company's ability to help healthcare organizations and healthcare-adjacent businesses combat payment fraud, account takeover, and other forms of digital healthcare fraud while safeguarding protected health information (PHI).

KBRA announces the assignment of preliminary ratings to seven classes of CHI 2026-FRKLN, a CMBS single-borrower securitization. The collateral for the transaction is a $340.0 million floating rate, interest only mortgage loan. The loan is expected to have an initial two-year term with three, one-year extension options and will require monthly interest-only payments. The loan will be secured by the borrower’s fee simple interest in The Franklin, a Class A, LEED Gold certified office complex comprised of two towers and approximately 2.5 million sf located in the West Loop submarket of Chicago. The 60-story tower at 227 West Monroe Street was built in 1989 and the 35-story tower at 222 West Adams Street was built in 1992. The property was acquired by the sponsor in 2004 and as of August 2026, the property was 79.1% leased to 93 unique tenants. The five largest tenants by base rent include The Options Clearing Corp. (9.3% of total base rent), RW Baird (9.3%), Amazon Web Services (9.1%), Guggenheim (6.8%), and Trade Desk (4.0%). Together, these top five tenants account for 38.5% of total base rent and 30.5% of the total sf.

Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, and PitchBook, a Morningstar company and a leading private capital markets intelligence platform, today announced upcoming Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services. Together, Morningstar and PitchBook provide a comprehensive view across public and private markets, helping investors securely access intelligence spanning investment research, fund analysis, company data, transactions, and private capital activity directly within Gemini Enterprise.

Generational Group, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisory firm for privately held businesses, is pleased to announce the sale of Advanced Equipment and Services, Inc. to Integrated Water Services, Inc., a portfolio company of Sciens Water Opportunities Management, LLC. The acquisition closed August 7, 2026.

Stand Up for Heroes, New York City’s highly anticipated night of hope, healing and laughter, presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a return to David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, November 9. The milestone show will feature special musical performances by Bruce Springsteen, The Resilient, and Alex Warren, and headline comedy sets from Josh Johnson, Hasan Minhaj, and Jon Stewart. The event is featured as part of the New York Comedy Festival, the largest and longest-running annual comedy festival in the United States, running November 6-15. The star-studded evening will also feature an unforgettable tribute to the people behind 20 years of on-stage stories at the center of each show. Stand Up for Heroes has raised $117 million for veterans, military families and caregivers since its inaugural show in 2007.

AstroNova, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALOT), a leading provider of mission critical identification and marking solutions across the aerospace & defense and labeling & packaging industries, announced that at a Special Meeting of shareholders held virtually earlier today, its shareholders voted to approve the acquisition of the Company by Arcline Investment Management.

Taiwan Expo USA 2026 returns to Dallas this September for its second consecutive year, marking another step forward in U.S.-Taiwan relations and Taiwan’s growing economic and technology ties with Texas. Free and open to the public, the three-day event will take place September 24–26 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, with registration now open for business, B2B matchmaking, and public attendees.

The LYCRA Company, a global leader in fiber and technology solutions for the apparel industry, is reimagining the trade show experience at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Autumn Edition, which opened today in China. Building on the success of last year's ALL IN concept, the company has expanded its co-creation vision into a 356-square-meter Lifestyle District featuring partners Jingzili New Material, JYT Textile, Lianxingfa Knitting, and Trend Textile. The district is part of a larger 895-square-meter pavilion showcasing a total of 19 co-exhibitors. Together, they demonstrate how innovations in fiber, fabric, and garments can be combined to create compelling solutions for both work and play.

SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: SBAC) (“SBA”) announces that Brendan Cavanagh, President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to speak at the Goldman Sachs 2026 Communacopia + Technology Conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM PT. The conference will be held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. The audio presentation for SBA can be accessed by visiting www.sbasite.com.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) and participating member financial institutions awarded more than $1.8 million to 71 community‑based organizations through its Partnership Grant Program (PGP) as the program marks its 30th anniversary. The awards were made in partnership with 44 member institutions in FHLB Dallas’ five‑state District of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.

Zencore, an independent Google Cloud consultancy founded in 2021 by former Google Cloud leaders, today announced a strategic investment from Superstep Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm exclusively focused on digital services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Ataraxis AI, a frontier clinical artificial intelligence (AI) company developing AI-powered tools for oncology, today announced that its laboratory has received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and a clinical laboratory license from the State of California, expanding access to the Ataraxis Breast platform for clinicians and patients across the state.

BitRipple, a real-time data acceleration and resiliency software company, today became the Official Communications Acceleration Partner to Aotearoa Ocean Racing (AOR) for The Ocean Race Atlantic.

Samuel Merritt University (SMU) announced 16 signed partnership agreements with colleges, universities, health systems and community health organizations across Northern California, with eight more contracts under review. Students and employees at partner organizations may apply to SMU's nursing and health sciences programs under set terms and, upon approval, pay less than they would otherwise.

Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, today announced major enhancements to the Airbyte Agents platform, making it easier for AI agents to discover relevant enterprise knowledge while ensuring organizations maintain precise control over what agents and users can access.

Nordis Technologies, a fast-growing leader in omnichannel customer communications management and payments technology solutions, today announced the launch of ExpressoPay One-Click™, a new capability that instantly connects businesses and consumers, making it easier to collect digital payments and issue disbursements on the spot.

Base Power today launched Base Energy for Business, expanding its retail electricity offering to Texas businesses. Base Energy for Business brings the same fixed-rate, no-hidden-fee model it built for residential members to small, medium, and large commercial accounts.

Series Entertainment today officially debuted RUN, an AI-native ecosystem designed to collapse the distance between a creative spark and a sustainable career. By providing a full-stack pipeline that handles the friction of infrastructure, distribution and monetization, RUN allows creators to stop managing technical hurdles and start building the next generation of interactive shows and games in days rather than years. RUN gives creators the flexibility to build and publish to all top platforms, including mobile and web with smart TVs and Steam support coming soon. To immediately kickstart this new era of independent production, Series has launched a One Million Dollar Content Support Fund alongside its official beta, providing the capital, education, and global reach needed to turn ambitious ideas into profitable realities.

The NRP Group, a vertically integrated, best-in-class developer, builder and manager of multifamily housing, today announced the groundbreaking of Stone Ridge at High Street, a 150-unit affordable housing community located along South High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Developed in partnership with the City of Columbus and the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, the project will provide much-needed housing for working professionals and families earning up to 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI).

Sprocket Sports, a leading provider of software and services for youth sports clubs, today announced the launch of its “Ask Coach John” chatbot, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered tool in the Sprocket mobile app that gives real-time advice to the parents of young athletes regarding common issues such as playing time, sideline behavior, player progress, handling disappointment and more.

CPV Retail, an affiliate of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), and provider of low-carbon, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions for C&I customers, strengthened its position as a leading supplier in the competitive energy market by ranking #7 in Overall Satisfaction in the 2025 ERCG ABC Study. The annual study, conducted by Energy Research Consulting Group (ERCG), benchmarks retail energy suppliers based on feedback from Aggregators, Brokers, and Consultants (ABCs) across the United States. CPV Retail also scored strongly in Ease of Doing Business and End User Customer Experience.

Pacific Fusion today broke ground on a $1 billion Research & Manufacturing Campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the company will build a fusion facility designed to achieve two first-ever milestones: net facility gain, an essential breakthrough on the path to commercial fusion power, and high-yield fusion, a critical capability for U.S. national security.

Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV), a global industrial technology leader, today announced it is supporting NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2, to help customers accelerate the deployment of production-ready physical AI and intelligent edge systems. The announcement builds on prior collaboration to support commercially deployable edge AI platforms based on NVIDIA Jetson, including Jetson Thor.

InPipe Energy Inc., a U.S.-based renewable energy and smart water infrastructure company, and BluePath Finance, Inc., a leading financier of sustainable infrastructure, today announced a strategic collaboration designed to help address the capital barrier that has historically slowed clean energy adoption across America’s water systems.

The National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) will host its highly anticipated annual meeting, the R3 (Renovate, Retrofit, Reduce) Conference & Innovation Expo, at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk in San Antonio, Texas, November 17–19, 2026.

Schneider National, Inc. (NYSE: SNDR), a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services, is celebrating the third anniversary of its acquisition of M&M Transport Services, marking three years of continued growth, customer retention and operational success. Since joining Schneider in August 2023, M&M has leveraged Schneider's scale, technology and nationwide footprint to expand capabilities while maintaining the service and relationships M&M’s customers have trusted for decades.

Capital One announced that its limited time travel credit offer for new Spark Cash Plus and Spark Cash business credit card customers will end on September 7, 2026.

Hart Energy, the energy industry’s leading source for news, data, and analysis, today announced that Ezra Yacob, CEO of EOG Resources, will join the SUPER DUG 2026 speaker lineup, bringing one of the oil and gas industry’s most influential thought leaders to Houston on September 15-17th.

Palladius Capital Management (“Palladius”), a vertically-integrated real estate investment manager with both debt and equity investment strategies, announced that it has provided construction financing for the development of the initial phase of Seguin Commerce Park, a new flex-industrial development in Seguin, TX.

Aquila Energy, LLC ("Aquila"), a renewable energy infrastructure company specializing in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solutions, today announced the closing of a strategic investment by CenterNode, an alternative energy investment platform with more than $800 million in institutional capital commitments.

KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to ten classes of mortgage pass-through certificates from CROSS 2026-NQM10 Mortgage Trust, an RMBS transaction issued under the CROSS shelf, where Hildene-CCC Loan Acquisition II, LLC and CrossCountry Capital are the co-sponsors. This $836.7 million transaction is collateralized by a pool of 1,680 residential mortgages, including a meaningful concentration of collateral that KBRA considers to be “non-prime” (72.0%), with fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) and hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) making up 82.0% and 18.0% of the pool, respectively. Most loans are either classified as non-qualified mortgages (Non-QM; 62.9%) or exempt (36.1%) from the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage (ATR/QM) rule due to being originated for non-consumer loan purposes.

Homestream, a mobile app that automatically syncs a team’s local radio broadcast to the live national or regional televised game, launches this fall at Duke, Auburn and Georgia Tech for college football, and debuts in November for all three men’s college basketball programs for every televised game across the 2026-27 seasons. Homestream is a premium subscription service where fans are able to order the full season of football or basketball for $79.99, roughly $3-6 per game (depending on sport), combine their favorite team’s full basketball and football season packages for $129.99 or pay a la carte for any marquee game for $9.99. The Homestream app is currently available in the Apple and Google Play App Stores.

NeverBlink, the world’s first AI database administrator (DBA), today announced support for ClickHouse, extending its AI‑native database resilience and optimization platform to ClickHouse clusters. The integration delivers continuous health checks, automated root‑cause analysis, and prioritized remediation guidance to help teams prevent downtime, troubleshoot faster, and reduce database costs.

Transcarent, the first agentic AI-powered health and care platform, today announced a first-of-its-kind bundled payment model for bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) and CAR T therapies delivered through high-quality community providers, further enhancing their industry-leading complex care Centers of Excellence (COE) capabilities. The model enables Transcarent’s Cancer Care experience to bring advanced cancer care closer to where Members live while giving employers a more predictable way to manage rising oncology costs.

Quality Growth Companies (QGC) today announced that Blake Thompson has joined the company as Vice President, Mission Advancement and Brand Ambassador.

Today, AEG Presents announced United Heritage Hall, a new state-of-the-art, 4,000-capacity live music venue in Austin, Texas, opening in spring 2027. Named through a partnership between AEG Presents and United Heritage Credit Union, the venue will blend Austin’s legendary live music heritage with a bold vision for the future of live entertainment. The venue will pair world-class production with an intimate, fan-first experience, creating a new destination for live music in one of the world's most celebrated music cities.

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired announces the appointment of Anil Lewis as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 8, 2026. Headquartered in San Francisco, LightHouse is one of the largest and most established comprehensive blindness organizations in North America.

Corvias, a trusted infrastructure and resiliency partner to the U.S. military and higher education institutions, announced today that its unaccompanied military housing communities, Randolph Pointe and Reece Crossings, earned “Outstanding” ratings in every major category of the Army's 2026 Tenant Satisfaction Survey for the second year in a row. Both properties achieved the prestigious CEL A List recognition for resident satisfaction and operational performance.

Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP, a leading national shareholder rights law firm, announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired GoDaddy Inc. (“GoDaddy” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GDDY) securities between September 3, 2025 and February 24, 2026, inclusive (the “Class Period”). GoDaddy Inc. investors have until October 20, 2026 to file a lead plaintiff motion.

Cree LED®, a Penguin Solutions brand (Nasdaq: PENG), and Nanolumens today announced that they have entered into a mutually beneficial patent cross-license agreement that resolves a patent infringement dispute involving Cree LED’s patents related to LED components commonly used in LED displays.

Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP, a leading national shareholder rights law firm, today announced that it has commenced an investigation on behalf of XTI Aerospace, Inc. (“XTI Aerospace” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: XTIA) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of the federal securities laws.

Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced a partnership with Radity, a Zurich-based software development and engineering firm. Together, Insurity's cloud-based insurance solutions and Radity's expertise in engineering, systems integration, portal design, legacy modernization, and orchestration will help carriers and MGAs accelerate transformation initiatives while reducing implementation complexity.

Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS), a fully integrated service provider for owners of energy infrastructure assets, announced today that it has been selected as one of The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) for 2026. The recognition marks the CAMS’ fifth consecutive appearance on the national list.

Amsterdam & Partners LLP today condemns the brutal murder of Monk Varsanofy (Turyansky) at the Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra, warning that the attack cannot be separated from the campaign of persecution targeted against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) fostered by the Zelensky administration and the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS).

BeOne Medicines Ltd. (Nasdaq: ONC; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for TEVIMBRA® (tislelizumab) in combination with ZIIHERA® (zanidatamab) and chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive (HER2+) gastric, gastroesophageal junction, or esophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA). The approval is supported by results from the Phase 3 HERIZON-GEA-01 trial, which were published in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this year.

Priority Courier Experts (“PCE”), a leading provider of same-day logistics services backed by Trident Management and Bluejay Capital, has acquired Priority Dispatch, Inc. and Diamond Expedited (PD/DX), same-day medical, courier and freight delivery and logistics businesses serving the Midwest market.

Maxis AI today introduced MaxisAI Holarchy, its Verticalized Context Layer, a governed institutional memory that gives life sciences enterprises the trusted organizational context AI agents need to support clinical execution across the development lifecycle. It sits between every AI agent and every model; grounds each call in the standards, compliance, and policies an organization runs on; checks it against the rules its regulator enforces; and seals the whole path into an inspection-ready record. It is available as an independent product or within the MaxisAI platform.

Economics Arkansas announced its endorsement of the Advanced Placement (AP) Business with Personal Finance course. The organization is advocating for the course to be recognized as a pathway for Arkansas students to fulfill the state’s personal financial literacy graduation requirement.

CLEAResult, the largest provider of energy efficiency, energy transition, and energy sustainability services in North America, has acquired Connected Energy, a technology company providing demand management and distributed energy resource management (DERMS) solutions to electric utilities across the U.S.

OutSystems, a leading Agentic Systems Platform for the enterprise, announced today that it has earned top honors across three distinct G2 Fall 2026 Grid® Reports, including securing the #1 spot for AI App Builder in the Enterprise category alongside Leader rankings in G2’s Grid® Reports AI Agent Builders and Agentic AI categories. The recognition from G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, reflects OutSystems momentum as enterprises look to build, orchestrate, and govern AI-powered applications and agentic systems at scale.

Enterprises shouldn't have to choose between searching their data and protecting it. Today, Skyflow, the runtime data control platform for agentic AI, announced Skyflow for Glean: a data security and governance layer for enterprise context. Enterprise context is the millions of documents and billions of records spread across systems that were never built to work together. Skyflow already protects billions of sensitive records for Fortune 500 companies. This launch extends that protection to the knowledge that powers enterprise AI search, starting with Glean deployments.

Westinghouse Electric Company has successfully completed zero-power criticality testing for its eVinci™ microreactor, which validated the models and core design assumptions of the technology. The test was completed in partnership with Los Alamos and Idaho National Laboratories at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC), a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), on August 24, 2026 at 10:39 a.m. PT.

Blykalla, a global leader in advanced nuclear technology, today submitted its application to the Swedish government for a second commercial advanced nuclear reactor park. The proposed facility, located at Untra in Tierp municipality (Uppsala county), would feature up to eight lead-cooled advanced modular reactors (AMRs) with a combined electrical capacity of up to 440 megawatts (MW). This follows Blykalla's first application submitted in May 2026 for a facility in Norrsundet, Gävle municipality.

WellStack today announced the acquisition of DeLorean AI, a healthcare-focused artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive analytics, risk stratification, and action-oriented decision support.

US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD), one of America’s leading foodservice distributors, today announced its 2026 class of US Foods Scholars, the largest class in the program’s history. This year’s cohort includes 20 exceptional students from 18 schools nationwide who are pursuing 2- or 4-year post-secondary degrees in culinary arts, hospitality, baking and pastry, or business management programs. Each recipient will receive a $20,000 scholarship to help advance their post-secondary education, along with access to professional development opportunities through US Foods.

Pumpkin spice season just got even sweeter! Krispy Kreme® is bringing back its fan-favorite Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed® Doughnut for four days only, Aug. 27-30, giving fans another delicious reason to celebrate fall flavors. And its return comes with an irresistible deal: purchase any dozen at regular price and get a dozen Pumpkin Spice Original Glazed® Doughnuts for just $5.

Priority Commerce today announced a new multi-year partnership with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With this partnership, Priority Commerce will provide a new ticketing payment process for the organization and deploy its Passport treasury orchestration solution. This technology will help the Buccaneers optimize payment costs, monitor ticket transactions and interchange activity, and streamline day-to-day operations.

Talon Precision, Inc. (“Talon Precision”), a company dedicated to building the nation's premier precision manufacturing business, announced the acquisition of Baron Machine Company, Inc. (“Baron Machine” or the “Company”), a third-generation aerospace and defense manufacturer based in Laconia, NH. The transaction was completed on August 19, 2026.

Bailard, Inc., an independent wealth and asset management firm, today announced that Simon Smundak, CFA, has joined the firm as Senior Vice President, Private Markets & Solutions. Smundak will lead sourcing, evaluation, and monitoring of private investment opportunities for Bailard's ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients, at a time when individual investors are gaining more direct access to private markets. That work is part of the firm's broader effort to help families navigate liquidity events, concentrated stock positions, estate coordination, and multigenerational transitions. He brings more than 25 years of industry experience to Bailard's UHNW practice.

Parafin, a financial infrastructure company for embedded lending, today announced that its underwriting and capital platform now powers SpotOn Capital, the financing program built into SpotOn’s restaurant and financial technology platform. The partnership gives eligible restaurant operators better access to financing, lower costs, and faster funding.

Neat, the pioneering video technologies company, today announced the deepening of its leadership bench following its first $100 million quarter and a double-digit profitability margin. Neat has appointed Sandeep Mehra as Senior Vice President & General Manager of International. In this key executive role, Mehra will drive market expansion, commercial execution, and strategic partner ecosystems across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific regions. Mehra’s appointment is effective immediately; he will be initially based out of London.

Grove, an institutional-grade credit infrastructure protocol, today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Centrifuge, a tokenization and onchain asset management platform. As part of the parties' deepening strategic alignment, Grove has established an initial 37.8 million CFG token position. The partnership builds on the parties' longstanding protocol integration and is intended to support the continued growth of institutional-grade tokenized assets in onchain finance.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management software, today opened Early Access to the Aderant Agent Center, giving clients the first hands-on opportunity to deploy AI agents purpose-built for the operational work that keeps legal business running: financial management, work-to-cash, and beyond. Unveiled at ILTACON 2026, the program marks a defining step in Aderant's strategy to build an open, extensible AI ecosystem that lets firms automate real operational workflows, not just experiment with generic AI.

Werner Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WERN), a premier transportation and logistics provider, announced it will commemorate two major company milestones on Thursday, Aug. 27, when Chairman and CEO Derek Leathers rings the Closing Bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square.

Comcast announced today Xfinity and Comcast Business high-speed, reliable Internet services are now available to more than 3,300 homes and businesses in Columbia County. The project is made possible through a public-private partnership with the state and includes locations in and around the communities of Ellisville, Fort White, Mikesville, Springville, Suwannee Valley and Winfield. Construction is also ongoing in Columbia County to expand the fiber-powered network to more than 2,000 additional locations, with completion expected by the end of 2026.

American Family Care (AFC Urgent Care), the nation’s leading urgent care provider with more than 400 walk-in clinics across the United States, today announced Newsweek has named the company one of America’s Greatest Workplaces in Health Care 2026. Newsweek and Plant‑A Insights Group compiled the list based on an evaluation of publicly available data and a confidential nationwide employee survey. The recognition highlights organizations that prioritize employee well-being, strong leadership, fair compensation and work-life balance.

The Arbella Insurance Group (“Arbella”) is pleased to announce the appointments of Martina Conlon and Bob Bizak to Arbella’s Board of Directors. Conlon is a seasoned, results-oriented insurance technology advisor, and Bizak is a proven marketing executive with a strong independent agency and corporate sales and marketing background. Together, they bring a unique pairing of technology and agency distribution expertise to the Board, spanning from digital capabilities that shape how insurance is delivered to the agent relationships that keep Arbella close to its customers and communities.

Nacha today welcomed Finastra as a Nacha Preferred Partner for ACH Experience, ISO 20022, and Risk and Fraud Prevention.