Professional & Business Services

Munich – November 10, 2026 -- AdEx Partners and Vienna-based CONSULTING AG are combining forces to form a consultancy of about 350 employees across the DACH region, adding public-sector and healthcare expertise to AdEx's portfolio.

CONSULTING AG brings about 50 staff and a public-sector focus to AdEx Partners

Founded in 1992, CONSULTING AG is an Austrian management consultancy specializing in the public sector and healthcare. It employs about 50 people and has long-standing client relationships. AdEx Partners combines strategy, technology-based transformation and AI in its offering.

Stefan Rieder, Managing Partner at AdEx Partners, said the combination will make both firms top players in their Austrian market segment and deliver a clear jump in revenue and headcount. The announcement gave no revenue figures or deal terms.

Omaha – November 10, 2026 -- Medical Solutions, one of the largest U.S. healthcare workforce solutions partners, has appointed Adrian Bartella as Chief Financial Officer, putting a executive with more than 20 years of finance leadership in charge of its financial operations.

Bartella takes charge of planning, accounting and treasury

Bartella will lead the company's finance function, covering financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury and other financial operations. He will work with the executive leadership team to guide financial decisions and align resources with strategic priorities.

OREM – November 10, 2026 -- Veracore Compliance Group, a Block Reign, Inc. subsidiary, has added digital asset platform AstraBit to its client roster. AstraBit uses Veracore to screen its marketing content against SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FTC and OFAC requirements.

Veracore replaces a full-time compliance chief with a flat monthly subscription

Clients engage senior compliance professionals on tiered flat-fee packages sized to their stage and risk, instead of hiring a full-time Chief Compliance Officer. Services include KYC and KYB program design, custom SOPs, smart contract review, regulatory memos, continuous monitoring and on-chain compliance attestation.

Marketing review is a core line of business. Veracore examines websites, social channels and marketing materials, citing social posts, podcasts, affiliate messaging and sales conversations as sources of regulatory exposure.

Frankfurt am Main – November 09, 2026 -- 64% of MDAX companies appointed at least one new supervisory board member, against 25% in the DAX40, according to the first standalone MDAX governance report from executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

The 50 MDAX companies added 87 new board members. The DAX40 added only 16. The study draws on annual reports and corporate governance disclosures for fiscal 2025. It is benchmarked against the Spencer Stuart Board Index 2026 for the DAX40, published in June.

MDAX boards are younger and open the door to first-time members

Members under 50 make up 21.8% of MDAX supervisory boards, versus 12% in the DAX40. At 22 of the 50 companies, that age group holds more than a quarter of board seats. Of the newly appointed MDAX members, 23% hold their first supervisory board mandate.

MILWAUKEE – November 07, 2026 -- Democrats' recapture of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections will hand them control of the tax-writing committees in the new year, but Wipfli advisers expect the President's veto to confine enacted change to areas of bipartisan agreement.

Those areas include improved IRS services, housing, healthcare affordability, digital assets, retirement and domestic investment, according to Brian Coddington, senior manager at Wipfli. He advised businesses to track tax, AI, financial services, tariffs and healthcare together, because a change in one can carry operational and financial consequences beyond the tax function.

Immenstadt – November 06, 2026 -- Mercedes-Benz plans to let managers require full-time employees to work in the office up to four days a week without justifying the order, with the rule expected to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Michael Fuchs, founder of consultancy Five4Success, argues that attendance quotas do not fix leadership problems. In his view, the quality of collaboration depends on how a company organizes it, not on where staff sit.

Four mandatory office days do not improve communication on their own, Fuchs argues

If employees spend office days at screens, answering e-mails or joining video calls, physical presence adds little value, according to Fuchs. He adds that AI already handles tasks that once required several people, including data analysis, report drafting and first-draft solutions. Those tasks mainly require quiet and few interruptions.

Marietta – November 06, 2026 -- GDS Associates, Inc. has acquired Phoenix Consulting, a California-based energy consultancy, to build out its presence in the CAISO and Western market region. The announcement did not include financial terms.

GDS targets generation owners, utilities and regulators in the West

The deal expands GDS's relationships with generation owners and developers, marketers and traders, regulatory and oversight bodies, state agencies, utilities, trade associations, law firms and retail energy service providers. GDS describes itself as a provider of power consulting and advisory services to the U.S. energy industry.

Redmond – November 06, 2026 -- Harbinger Group, a global workforce technology and digital engineering company, has launched a Performance Enablement practice that pairs advisory work with domain-specific, AI-powered digital engineering to locate and fix operational value leakage.

Harbinger targets the gap between enterprise technology spend and workforce results

The company attributes weak returns on technology investment to disconnected systems, inefficient workflows, prolonged time to value, and a widening gap between the pace of technological change and workforce readiness. Symptoms it cites include stalled sales productivity, slow hiring and onboarding cycles, retention problems, and AI adoption that fails to scale.

Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO Dr. Vikas Joshi said the practice treats people, workflow, technology and data as one system, so that investment "becomes a decision you can justify."

SAN ANTONIO – November 06, 2026 -- PT Infomedia Nusantara has won Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Indonesian Company of the Year Recognition in digital business process outsourcing (BPO), citing its AI-powered service delivery, operational efficiency and enterprise transformation results.

Infomedia embeds AI in supervised production workflows rather than isolated pilots

The Telkom Indonesia Group unit combines technology, intelligent automation, analytics, operational consulting and managed services to address enterprise processes against measurable business outcomes. Frost & Sullivan says this approach supports lower cost-to-serve, stronger governance and improved operational efficiency. The company is also preparing to scale intelligent automation and agentic AI as enterprise requirements change.

DALLAS – – November 05, 2026 -- AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE: AMN) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $717 million, up 13% from a year earlier and 7% from the prior quarter, with adjusted EBITDA of $94 million, up 63% year over year. Labor disruption revenue, which is not expected to repeat at that scale, contributed $59 million of the quarterly total.

Earnings beat guidance on nurse staffing and a reserve release

GAAP net income was $33 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, against $29 million, or $0.76 per share, a year earlier. Adjusted diluted EPS reached $1.16 versus $0.39 in the third quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13.0%, 390 basis points above the year-ago period.