Finance, Banking & Insurance

Amsterdam – September 24, 2026 -- Morgan Stanley B.V. has published its interim report and financial statements for the six-month period ended June 30, 2026, in compliance with Article 5.25d of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht).

Morgan Stanley B.V. releases mandated interim disclosure under Dutch financial law

The Amsterdam-based entity confirmed the disclosure requirement stems directly from the Wet op het financieel toezicht, the regulatory framework governing financial supervision in the Netherlands. The filing covers the first half of fiscal year 2026.

Report is publicly accessible via the Morgan Stanley website

The company made the full interim report and financial statements available for public download through its official prospectus portal, allowing investors, counterparties and regulators to review the six-month financial position.

NEW YORK – September 24, 2026 -- XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative) and Veridion have launched a partnership that merges engineering-based climate risk modeling with corporate site intelligence covering roughly 600 million companies and more than two billion buildings worldwide.

XDI's climate models now draw on Veridion's global building and company database

The tie-up combines XDI's Multiple Company Intelligence (MCI) platform, which already assesses physical climate risk across more than 40,000 companies and subsidiaries, with Veridion's site-level data on operational activity, scale and status. XDI CEO Dr Karl Mallon said Veridion's data lets analysts understand what happens at each site and how critical it is to the wider business, enabling more sophisticated risk and resilience questions.

Jakarta – September 24, 2026 -- PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (IDX: BBRI) reported net profit of IDR 31.2 trillion for the second quarter of 2026, up 17.5% year on year, driven by double-digit growth in assets, loans and financing.

BRI net profit climbs 17.5% as loans surge past IDR 1.6 quadrillion

On a consolidated basis, BRI's assets reached IDR 2,352 trillion, an 11.7% year-on-year increase, while loans and financing rose 16.2% to IDR 1,646 trillion. Third-party funds grew 6.7% to IDR 1,581 trillion, net interest income increased 9.9% to IDR 80.5 trillion, and pre-provision operating profit rose 12.8% to IDR 65.7 trillion.

BRI President Director Hery Gunardi said the results show the bank's transformation program is starting to deliver returns, with growth increasingly built on stronger fundamentals rather than volume alone.

New York – – September 24, 2026 -- More than 750 business leaders, investors and policymakers concluded the UN Global Compact's 2026 Leaders Summit in New York, pressing companies to convert sustainability commitments into measurable capital, operational and supply-chain decisions amid geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility.

Global Compact plans shared infrastructure by 2027 to de-risk sustainable investment

The two-day summit, held during UN General Assembly high-level week, focused on Driving Sustainable Growth and Resilience. The Global Compact announced plans to build shared infrastructure by 2027 spanning climate, living wages, gender equality and sustainable finance, aimed at aggregating demand, de-risking investments and scaling solutions across global value chains.

Sacramento – – September 24, 2026 -- Ten California home insurers have requested $571 million in combined rate increases under Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's climate-model rules while committing to sell only 12,000 new home insurance policies, according to an analysis of Department of Insurance filings by Consumer Watchdog.

San Francisco – September 24, 2026 -- None of the 15 major institutions interviewed by Bitwise Asset Management reduced their crypto allocations during a roughly 50% market drawdown between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, with several increasing positions instead, according to the firm's new Institutional Crypto Adoption report.

Bitwise, a crypto asset manager overseeing $9 billion in client assets, conducted in-depth interviews with senior investment professionals at endowments, foundations, public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, multi-family offices, investment consultants, and public companies to determine what institutions hold, why, and what would trigger a sale.

Durham, N.C. – September 24, 2026 -- Avalara, Inc. unveiled Avalara Aviator, an AI agent hub designed to cut manual tax and compliance work from days to minutes, at its CRUSH customer and partner conference.

Avalara Aviator connects specialized AI agents to close gaps between automated compliance tasks

For years, tax software automated discrete steps such as calculations, filings, and exemption certificate management, leaving finance teams to manually bridge the gaps, chasing approvals, interpreting reports, and building business logic. Avalara says it is the first company to unify specialized AI agents, compliance workflows, and its trusted tax technology into one connected agent hub. Customers interact via Avi, an orchestrator agent that delegates to lead agents overseeing research, certificates, and returns, validating and executing work while leaving judgment-based decisions to humans.

Paris – September 24, 2026 -- Murex has achieved certification to deploy its MX.3 capital markets platform on Google Cloud, giving financial institutions a new cloud option for trading, risk and treasury workloads.

Murex clients begin testing MX.3 on Google Cloud infrastructure

Multiple Murex clients have already started exploring MX.3 deployment on Google Cloud, according to the companies, signaling demand for secure, resilient cloud transformation in capital markets. MX.3 serves more than 60,000 daily users across 65 countries, spanning trading, treasury, risk, post-trade operations and investment management for private and public assets.

Waltham, Mass. – September 24, 2026 -- Veralto Corporation (NYSE: VLTO) has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share of common stock, the company announced.

Veralto sets October 30 payout date for shareholders of record

The dividend will be paid on September 24, 2026 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 24, 2026. Veralto, a global provider of water and product quality solutions, reports annual sales of approximately $5.5 billion.

Board decision reflects routine capital return to investors

The Waltham, Massachusetts-headquartered company employs approximately 17,000 associates globally. Veralto's board authorized the payout as part of its ongoing quarterly dividend program.

Greenwich, Conn. – September 24, 2026 -- AdminaHealth has launched an AI-powered data assistant for Enterprise customers of its Billing Suite, letting users query billing, enrollment, and reconciliation data using plain-language questions instead of navigating reports screen by screen.

Assistant answers billing queries directly from workspace records

Users can ask what a group's bill totaled for a given month, where a mid-period adjustment originated, or which member's coverage changed, and receive a direct answer drawn from that workspace's data.