Finance, Banking & Insurance

Toronto – September 18, 2026 -- Thomson Reuters has become the only provider named a Leader across four IDC MarketScape categories covering value-added tax, sales and use tax, global trade, and e-invoicing compliance.

ONESOURCE Pagero earns Leader status in worldwide e-invoicing assessment

IDC positioned the company's e-invoicing and continuous transaction control (CTC) solution as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Compliant e-Invoicing 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #EUR154882626, September 2026). The platform now covers compliance across more than 90 jurisdictions, serving over 65,000 active e-invoicing customers and a business network reaching approximately 14 million companies globally.

Washington, D.C. – September 18, 2026 -- The fourth annual CBC Summit USA will convene 200 executives, regulators and legislators on Sept. 17, 2026, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to address crypto banking, compliance and stablecoin infrastructure.

Wyoming Stable Token Commission and Congressman Kevin Kiley headline keynote sessions

The one-day program brings together traditional financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, fintechs, government agencies, law firms and compliance organizations. Panel discussions will incorporate audience questions alongside keynote appearances from the Wyoming Stable Token Commission and Congressman Kevin Kiley.

Providence, R.I. – September 18, 2026 -- Wealthbox, a CRM software provider for financial advisors, has become a launch partner for Claude for Financial Advisors, a new offering from Anthropic that embeds the Claude AI model into advisor workflow tools.

Wealthbox connector brings client history directly into Claude

The new Wealthbox connector for Claude includes prebuilt skills that let advisors pull client history, notes, and activity stored in Wealthbox directly into Claude's reasoning environment. Advisors can use the tool to prepare meeting agendas, organize post-meeting follow-up that saves back into Wealthbox, summarize recent client activity, draft client communications, and identify outstanding tasks.

Chicago – September 18, 2026 -- CME Group's 100-Ounce Silver futures traded 2,387 contracts during the first weekend of round-the-clock trading, representing over $15 million in notional value.

Silver follows gold's weekend trading breakthrough

The launch builds on CME's 24/7 trading in 1-Ounce Gold futures, which began July 24 and has since drawn more than 140,000 contracts in weekend sessions, equal to over $600 million in notional value. CME Group describes this as the largest liquidity pool for weekend trading in Gold futures.

Tavares, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- A signed 1952 Topps baseball card collection assembled by Destiny Family Office Founder and CEO Tom Ruggie has been named the 2026 PSA Baseball Set of the Year, selected from more than 157,000 registered sets on the PSA Set Registry.

Ruggie has secured PSA-authenticated signatures on 406 of the 407 cards in the original 1952 Topps set

The set includes signed cards of Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and Yogi Berra. Card #342, featuring Al Benton, remains the sole missing signature after a pursuit Ruggie says has spanned five decades.

PSA presented Ruggie with a one-of-one canvas artwork embedding an authenticated Mickey Mantle cut autograph

The award was given at the 2026 PSA Set Registry Awards Dinner in Rosemont, Illinois, during the National Sports Collectors Convention. The piece was created by artist Murray Henderson.

Windsor, Conn. – September 18, 2026 -- Nearly six in ten pre-retirees (59%) rate themselves highly prepared for retirement, yet 76% have either no written plan or spent fewer than five hours in the past year developing, reviewing, or updating one, according to LIMRA's 2026 Retirement Income Readiness Report.

Confidence outpaces action among workers nearing retirement

The survey found 88% of pre-retirees — defined as workers age 45 and older planning to retire within 10 years — say they have thought about how they'll generate income after leaving the workforce. But half (50%) either lack a written retirement plan or have one they haven't updated recently, exposing a gap between stated confidence and actual planning behavior.

Vancouver – September 17, 2026 -- First Mining Gold Corp. (TSX: FF; OTCQX: FFMGF; FRANKFURT: FMG) will join the MVIS Global Junior Gold Miners Index (MVGDXJ), the benchmark tracked by the VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ), effective at the close of trading on September 18, 2026.

Index inclusion follows semi-annual GDXJ rebalancing

The addition comes through the MVGDXJ's scheduled semi-annual review, placing First Mining among the most liquid small-cap gold and silver mining, development and exploration companies tracked globally. The MVGDXJ is a modified market-cap-weighted index restricted to companies generating at least 50% of revenue from gold or silver, or holding at least 50% of mineral resources in those metals.

New York – September 17, 2026 -- Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC, which manages more than $4 billion in assets as of September 8, 2026, has made its lineup of six income-focused ETFs available to advisors through the SMArtX Advisory Solutions platform.

Six ETFs join a multi-custodian TAMP used by RIAs and broker-dealers

The strategies now accessible on SMArtX include the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFA), InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFR), InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA), Infrastructure Capital Equity Income ETF (NYSE Arca: ICAP), Infrastructure Capital Small Cap Income ETF (NYSE Arca: SCAP), and Infrastructure Capital Bond Income ETF (NYSE Arca: BNDS). SMArtX operates as a managed account technology and turnkey asset management platform serving RIAs, broker-dealers, asset managers, custodians and fintech firms.

New York – September 17, 2026 -- Galaxy Digital Inc. (Nasdaq: GLXY) has appointed Taylor Reinhardt as Head of Investor Relations, reporting directly to Chief Financial Officer Tony Paquette.

Reinhardt brings a decade of Wall Street investor communications experience to Galaxy

Reinhardt joins from Perella Weinberg, where she served as Head of Investor Relations, Marketing and Communications since 2021, a role she took on alongside the firm's Nasdaq listing. She previously spent six years in investor relations and corporate communications at Apollo Global Management, and began her career at Teneo Holdings in the same function.

Beijing -- Jianpu Technology Inc. (OTCQB: AIJTY) confirmed that FINRA has fixed September 17, 2026 as the ex-dividend date for the special cash dividend the Chinese fintech platform announced on September 17, 2026.

Dividend payout of $0.499 per ADS exceeds a quarter of share price, forcing regulatory intervention

The special cash dividend of US$0.02495 per ordinary share, equivalent to US$0.499 per American depositary share, surpasses 25% of Jianpu's ADS trading price. Under FINRA rules, this threshold requires the ex-dividend date to fall on the first business day after the payment date rather than before it, pushing the ex-dividend date to September 17, 2026, one day after the scheduled September 17, 2026 payout.