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Austin, Texas – – September 13, 2026 -- Moment Energy has become the first battery energy storage system (BESS) provider in North America to secure third-party verified non-Prohibited Foreign Entity (non-PFE) status and full Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) compliance, the company announced. A Top 10 U.S. law firm conducted the independent review, examining Moment Energy's corporate ownership, effective control and debt financing structure.

Independent legal review confirms compliance status ahead of tightening federal rules

The verification arrives as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has significantly raised FEOC and PFE requirements for companies seeking federal Investment Tax Credits (ITC). The U.S. Treasury has issued interim guidance through Notice 2026-15 to help taxpayers interpret the new rules, with further clarification expected as implementation proceeds.

Atlanta – September 13, 2026 -- Middle-market M&A buyers are tightening acquisition criteria even as deal activity persists, with recurring revenue, cash conversion and AI exposure now central to valuation decisions, according to Bennett Thrasher, an Atlanta-based accounting and advisory firm.

The firm's Transaction Advisory Services practice, which supports deals ranging from $20 million to $250 million in enterprise value, identified five trends driving buyer behavior in the current cycle.

Kirkland – September 13, 2026 -- MacroHealth, a marketplace platform connecting healthcare payers and plan administrators with vendor partners, has appointed Erica Tingley as Chief Financial Officer to oversee financial and operational scaling as the company expands its service categories.

Tingley brings 25 years of healthcare finance experience to the CFO role

Tingley's background spans investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and operations. She most recently served as President and CFO of Knowtion Health, a revenue cycle management partner to health systems, where she managed both financial strategy and solution delivery. Before that role, she was COO and CFO of Bluesight, where she worked on driving consistent, profitable growth. Earlier in her career, she held positions at The Advisory Board Company and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Berlin – September 13, 2026 -- Germany's largest doctors' association, the Marburger Bund, has warned lawmakers that a draft reform of emergency medical care could hand health insurers de facto control over which local emergency sites survive, ahead of a public hearing before the Bundestag's Health Committee.

Marburger Bund backs the goal of linking outpatient and inpatient emergency care but flags flaws in the bill

Dr. Susanne Johna, chairwoman of the Marburger Bund, told the committee that better integration of ambulatory and hospital-based emergency structures is needed so patients reach the appropriate care point reliably. She cautioned, however, that the current draft contains provisions that could create new operational problems in practice.

Berlin – September 13, 2026 -- German Sunday broadsheet WELT AM SONNTAG will retire its blue masthead for the first time since 1952 as part of a full relaunch set for the print edition of September 12/13, 2026. The redesign marks the most significant change to the paper's title header in 74 years, according to publisher PREMIUM-GRUPPE.

New masthead drops blue background for white design shared with daily WELT

The white lettering on blue ground that has defined the title since 1952 disappears. The logo replaces the bold bar with the lighter WELT brand mark on a white background and introduces the globe symbol taken from the daily edition into the Sunday paper for the first time, visually linking the two titles within the print family.

Vancouver, BC – September 13, 2026 -- Time Out and Rival Technologies have won a 2026 Esomar Award for Excellence in Global Research, announced at the Esomar Congress in Valencia, Spain.

Global City Survey engaged 18,500 people across nearly 60 countries

The award-winning project surveyed participants in 45 languages, generating approximately 1.6 million data points and an 86% completion rate. The research underpins Time Out's Best Cities ranking, a decade-long global editorial initiative built on resident feedback and Time Out's journalism.

Rival's conversational platform replaced traditional survey formats

Time Out partnered with Rival Technologies to shift the Global City Survey from a standard survey format to a mobile-first, chat-like research experience while preserving the scale needed for a global program spanning dozens of markets.

Ahmedabad, India – September 13, 2026 -- Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL) has signed binding agreements to raise ₹9,825 crore (approximately $1 billion) in primary capital from a consortium of Alpha Wave Global, Premji Invest, Temasek and funds managed by BlackRock.

Investors value AAHL at an $18 billion pre-money equity valuation

The transaction marks one of the largest primary capital investments by financial institutions in India's airport infrastructure sector. AAHL, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited and one of India's largest private airport operators, will issue new common shares to investors across three tranches, with the final tranche expected to close by July 2027. Upon completion of all three tranches, the investor consortium will collectively hold approximately 5.54% of AAHL.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- The worldwide Network Security market reached nearly $8 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 18 percent year-over-year, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Firewall growth accelerated sharply, climbing from 9 percent in the first quarter to 18 percent in the second, as enterprises pushed ahead with lifecycle refreshes, capacity additions, branch modernization, and virtual enforcement deployments.

Firewall refresh cycle doubles in pace within a single quarter

Mauricio Sanchez, Sr. Director for Enterprise Security and Networking at Dell'Oro Group, said firewall spending reaccelerated because customers had concrete drivers: aging infrastructure, higher throughput requirements, branch redesigns, and expanding private-cloud workloads. He characterized the activity as a targeted modernization cycle rather than an estate-wide replacement wave.

Lake Nona, Fla. – – September 13, 2026 -- Beep, Inc. has closed a Series B funding round led by Mobileye, bringing the autonomous mobility provider's total capital raised to approximately $130 million.

Mobileye Leads Round With Backing From Existing Investors

Beep, a Lake Nona, Florida-based provider of autonomous mobility solutions, confirmed the round was led by Mobileye, the Nasdaq-listed autonomous vehicle technology company majority-owned by Intel, with additional participation from Beep's existing investor base. The financing lifts Beep's cumulative funding to roughly $130 million.

Tokyo – September 13, 2026 -- Nasdaq-listed LEIFRAS Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: LFS) has secured a three-year contract renewal from the City of Nagoya to operate the "Nagoya School Club Activities Human Resources Bank," extending a program it has run since April 2022 into a new term beginning September 1, 2026.

Nagoya renews Leifras deal to staff after-school programs across 16 wards

The contract covers the recruitment, training, and matching of instructors for "new sports and cultural activities" offered to grades four through six at municipal elementary schools across Nagoya's 16 wards. The initiative forms part of Japan's broader shift of school club management from school-based staffing to outsourced, community-based operation, a transition driving demand for vetted, professionally trained local instructors.

Atlanta – September 13, 2026 -- Apparel brand Comfrt attracted more than 2.3 times its projected number of college athlete participants in a recent marketing campaign run through NIL Club, the largest team-based NIL platform in college sports, reaching capacity faster than either company anticipated.

Athletes signed up faster than Comfrt or NIL Club forecast, filling the campaign ahead of schedule

Participating athletes selected a Comfrt hoodie and sweatpants set, produced an Instagram Reel depicting a real moment from their day, and received reimbursement for the apparel plus a 10 percent commission on every sale generated by their content.

Tampa – – September 13, 2026 -- Greg DuPey, owner of a Pillar To Post Home Inspectors franchise in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2026 Franchisee of the Year by the International Franchise Association (IFA), the trade group's highest honor for individual franchise owners.

DuPey grew his territory nearly fourfold since buying an existing franchise in 2012

DuPey, a former foodservice operations executive, and his wife Theresa acquired the Morrisville franchise in 2012. Under their leadership, the business expanded to nearly four times its original size, according to Pillar To Post.

DuPey rebuilt the business after a severe roof-fall injury left him in a body cast

Shortly after taking ownership, DuPey suffered a serious back injury falling from a roof. He continued working through recovery, and the couple steered the franchise through the injury and subsequent economic downturns while continuing to scale operations.

Denver – September 13, 2026 -- Galloway & Company, LLC has acquired Hafer Inc., a 70-person architecture, interior design, and MEP engineering firm based in Evansville, Indiana, growing Galloway's footprint to 21 offices across 13 states.

Galloway adds four Midwest offices through the Hafer deal

Hafer, founded in 1978, operates from Evansville, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Owensboro, Kentucky; and Carbondale, Illinois. The firm delivers architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and sustainable design services across healthcare, civic, corporate, higher education, K-12, religious, retail, restaurant, library, and aquatics projects.

Rocky River, Ohio – September 13, 2026 -- Roundstone Insurance will hold its annual Medical Captive Forum (MCF) on May 11 and 12, 2027, in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing together hundreds of employer executives to tackle rising health plan costs.

Event targets employers moving away from fully insured health models

The complimentary two-day forum will gather CEOs, CFOs, HR leaders, benefits advisors, and healthcare innovators to discuss redesigning health plans for greater transparency, cost control, and long-term sustainability. Sessions will cover plan design, captive insurance structures, and cost containment strategies through panels, roundtables, and networking.

Roundstone reimburses attendees for lodging costs

Beyond complimentary programming, Roundstone will reimburse employers for one night's hotel stay, lowering the barrier for mid-market companies to attend.

New York – September 13, 2026 -- Michael J. Fox, founder of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), has been named a laureate of the 2026 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award, one of America's most prestigious biomedical research prizes. The Lasker Foundation cited Fox for "dispelling the stigma of the disease and spearheading a revolution in the world of Parkinson's research." More than 100 past Lasker Laureates have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

San Jose, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX) confirmed that Bloomberg TV will air an interview with Chairman and CEO Dr. Amit Kumar and breast cancer vaccine trial patient Sherie Steinberg this Saturday, September 12, at 7:00 PM ET, reaching an estimated 73 million U.S. homes.

Bloomberg TV segment to spotlight breast cancer vaccine data and patient outcomes

The interview will air on the RedChip Small Stocks, Big Money show and is also available online. Dr. Kumar is expected to detail recent progress in Anixa's cancer vaccine development program, including a breast cancer vaccine designed for three applications: treating existing disease, preventing recurrence, and reducing the risk of initial onset in high-risk patients.

St. Louis – September 13, 2026 -- Esquire magazine has featured T.A.C.T. franchise owner David Lesaffre in a profile titled "The Trauma Cleaners," documenting his expansion into three franchise territories amid rising demand for professional biohazard and hoarding remediation services.

Franchisee builds three-location operation across two states

Lesaffre, operating alongside Leanne, expanded his T.A.C.T. franchise footprint to include T.A.C.T. 48, T.A.C.T. AZ, and T.A.C.T. Fort Worth, according to the company. The Esquire feature examines how the pair navigated high-stakes scenarios spanning biohazard recovery, vehicle decontamination, and large-scale hoarding management since completing training in St. Louis.

Carlsbad, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- NAMM has opened registration for The 2027 NAMM Show, a five-day gathering expected to draw more than 60,000 industry professionals from 122 countries and representing $9.8 billion in buying power. The event runs January 26–30, 2027, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Exhibition floors open for three days of product launches and business meetings

The main show floors will be open January 28–30, offering brand experiences, product demonstrations and creator engagement across the global music products sector. Education sessions, professional development programming, networking events and industry gatherings begin two days earlier, on Tuesday, January 26.

Los Angeles – September 13, 2026 -- Vision Films will release the dystopian drama "Isolation" worldwide on Transactional VOD on September 22, 2026, through a distribution agreement with Legacy Distribution.

Deal expands independent film's reach across major streaming platforms

The film will launch on Amazon, Apple TV/iTunes, Google Play and most cable platforms in the US, Canada and UK on the same date. The agreement pairs Vision Films' VOD aggregation network, which handles over 800 titles, with Legacy Distribution's international programming and digital media distribution infrastructure.

Richardson, Texas – September 13, 2026 -- Trey Thomas-Piazza, the first-ever franchisee of Service Experts, has been named a 2026 Franchisee of the Year by the International Franchise Association (IFA), marking a milestone for the residential HVAC company's year-old franchise system.

Service Experts launched franchising in 2025 after three decades as a corporate-owned business

Thomas-Piazza, who previously served as General Manager of the company's Tulsa market after years in maintenance, installation and operations leadership, became the system's inaugural franchisee when the program launched. His transition gave Service Experts an early test case for refining franchise infrastructure while maintaining continuity for employees, customers and vendor partners in the market he already managed.