Finance, Banking & Insurance

Chicago – September 17, 2026 -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (CBOE) will send four top executives to present at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York City on September 16 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Cboe's CEO and three senior leaders will address investors at the New York conference

Chief Executive Officer Craig Donohue will be joined by Prashant Bhatia, Executive Vice President and Head of Enterprise Strategy & Corporate Development; Jill Griebenow, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Rob Hocking, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Derivatives.

Cboe will stream the session live and archive it within an hour

The presentation will be webcast live and later archived on ir.cboe.com under the Events and Presentations section, with the recording expected to be available within an hour of the live event.

Chicago – September 17, 2026 -- Ziegler, a specialty investment bank, has appointed Michele Saunders as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for its Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice, bringing more than 20 years of healthcare and senior living experience to the firm.

Saunders joins with a track record spanning growth, sales and marketing leadership in senior living and healthcare

Prior to Ziegler, Saunders served as Chief Growth Officer at Go Icon, an engagement software company, and spent nearly 11 years with HealthPRO Heritage, a former Link-age Fund portfolio company. A trained physical therapist, she also has AgeTech experience, most recently with AI startup Meela.

Toronto – September 16, 2026 -- Manulife has appointed Sarah Chapman as Global Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer, effective September 16, 2026, giving her oversight of brand, marketing and customer experience strategy for a company serving more than 37 million customers worldwide.

Chapman joins Manulife's Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to CEO Phil Witherington

Chapman will lead Manulife's Global Marketing organization and report to President and Chief Executive Officer Phil Witherington. Witherington said the appointment reflects internal succession planning and cited Chapman's track record leading transformation as key to advancing Manulife's goal of becoming the top choice for customers.

Baltimore -- T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.87 trillion in client assets as of September 16, 2026, is rolling out Anthropic's Claude across its investment organization, giving portfolio managers, analysts and developers direct access to the AI system for research and tool-building.

Portfolio managers and analysts gain Claude Cowork for research synthesis

Investment professionals will use Claude Cowork to process large volumes of information and support multistep, knowledge-intensive workflows. The firm frames this as increasing capacity for research, analysis and debate rather than replacing analyst judgment.

Developers adopt Claude Code to build proprietary investment tools

T. Rowe Price's technology teams are deploying Claude Code to build and improve tools intended to enhance productivity across investment and operating workflows firmwide.

Norwalk, Connecticut – September 16, 2026 -- Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) reported total crypto, cash and marketable securities holdings of $15.7 billion, with Ethereum holdings reaching 5,929,198 ETH as of September 16, 2026, 2:00 p.m. ET.

Bitmine controls 4.9% of the entire ETH supply, nearing its 5% acquisition target

The company's ETH position equals 4.9% of the 122.0 million total ETH in circulation, putting Bitmine 97% of the way toward its stated 'Alchemy of 5%' goal just 15 months after launching its treasury strategy on September 16, 2026. Bitmine acquired 28,086 ETH in the past week alone, maintaining a streak of weekly purchases since the strategy's inception, a record the company says is unmatched by any publicly traded firm globally.

Cambridge, England – September 16, 2026 -- Risilience has been rated "market-leading" by independent analyst firm Verdantix in both asset-level risk analysis and integrated climate/non-climate risk analysis, the highest tier awarded in the newly published Verdantix Smart Innovators: Physical Climate Risk Solutions (2026) report.

The benchmark evaluated eleven physical climate risk solution providers as financial losses from natural hazards escalate globally. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) put the 2025 global damage cost from natural hazards at $224 billion, intensifying pressure on real asset owners, investors and financial institutions to forecast and price physical climate exposure.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- ProphetX, America's first federally regulated sports-native prediction market, has partnered with Agg Market to move its full contract catalog onto the Solana blockchain, delivering 100% market coverage through the integration from launch.

ProphetX opens CFTC-regulated contracts to onchain traders via Agg's Solana infrastructure

Every contract listed on ProphetX is now accessible through Agg Market's Solana-based integration, giving onchain traders and builders a direct channel into a federally supervised sports prediction venue. The arrangement does not alter the terms, execution, or settlement framework of ProphetX-listed contracts.

Valley Forge, Pa. – September 16, 2026 -- Vanguard ranked third among 17 retirement plan providers for website experience and fourth for mobile app experience in the JD Power 2026 U.S. Retirement Plan Digital Experience Study, with both channels scoring above industry averages.

Vanguard outperforms industry average across all four measured categories

The firm scored above the industry benchmark in design, system performance, information and content, and tools and capabilities, according to the study, which surveyed more than 6,500 retirement plan participants between May and July 2026. JD Power evaluated the 17 providers on a 1,000-point scale and, for the first time, ranked mobile applications and websites separately.

San Francisco – September 16, 2026 -- cfo.ai, formerly known as Runway, has launched Ari, an AI CFO designed to give founders a continuous finance partner that builds and maintains a live financial model of their business.

Ari connects directly to core financial systems to build live models

Ari integrates with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Rippling, ADP, Mercury, Brex, Stripe, Salesforce, Snowflake, Google Sheets and Excel to construct a financial model that updates automatically as underlying data changes. Founders can use it to forecast cash, analyze hiring plans, explain variances, prepare board updates or model the financial impact of a decision before it is made.

Boston – September 16, 2026 -- FINTRX, a provider of private wealth intelligence, has launched an AI agent called Fin that pushes data and alerts directly into email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Google Calendar, extending its existing platform AI into the tools investment professionals already use daily.

Fin Monitors 850,000 Financial Firms and Contacts Without Being Asked

Unlike conversational AI tools that require a prompt, Fin continuously scans the private wealth industry and proactively delivers alerts, prospect lists and meeting-prep briefs. The rollout covers intelligence on more than 850,000 financial firms and contacts, including 45,000 registered investment advisor (RIA) and broker-dealer firms, 790,000 registered reps, over 4,600 family offices, and 1,900 banks and trust institutions.