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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to 96 classes of mortgage pass-through certificates from J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2026-9 (JPMMT 2026-9). The pool comprises 292 first-lien, fixed-rate residential mortgage loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $340.9 million as of the October 1, 2026 cut-off date. The pool includes both non-conforming (79.3%) and conforming (20.7%) loans. The weighted average original credit score is 770, which is consistent with prime...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sterlington is pleased to announce the arrival of a nine-member patents team led by former Holland & Hart partners J. Scott Karren and Thomas Anderson. The team includes four counsel, two patent agents and an IP specialist. Its arrival significantly expands Sterlington’s ability to advise technology companies on global patent portfolio strategy, preparation and prosecution, with particular depth in wireless communications, standards-related technologies, semicondu...

HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software and analytics for the property and casualty insurance industry, announced that EMC Insurance has received the Excellence in Operational Efficiency award at the 2026 Excellence in AI & Insurance conference. The award recognizes an insurance organization that has eliminated manual work and streamlined operational processes to improve efficiency, increase productivity, reduce complexity, and deliver measurab...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H2O.ai, the trusted Sovereign AI Platform with the software and expertise to run predictive, generative, and agentic AI in production, today released TimeH2O-v1, a time-series foundation model that ranks first of 32 models on the fev-bench leaderboard by win rate. TimeH2O-v1 posted a 91.9% win rate and a skill score of 50.8 across the benchmark's 100 forecasting tasks, ahead of Timestral-209M, t0-gamma, TimesFM-3, and Chronos-2. Forecasts run the business...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dubai Chambers Launches World's First Agentic AI Marketplace by a Chamber of Commerce...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Derek Herbert has joined Houlihan Lokey's Equity Capital Solutions platform as a Managing Director, based in New York. He will focus on Direct Equity....

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retiree Alleges Morgan Stanley Covered Call Strategy Cost Him His Apple and NVIDIA Shares; Reif Law Group Files Financial Elder Abuse Claims...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SBGA, an organization dedicated to helping small businesses succeed, has announced the launch of the SBGA Scholarship, a new $2,500 award for students interested in pursuing careers in business, entrepreneurship, or the nonprofit sector. The scholarship is open to eligible students across the United States, with applications being accepted through January 31, 2027, at sbgascholarship.com. For nearly two decades, SBGA has worked closely with small-business owners, hel...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Assembly Group, a leading boutique executive search firm serving private equity-backed software and technology companies, today announced that Sam Boynton has joined the firm to further expand its work with growth equity clients. Based in Boston, Sam will focus on helping growth investors and their portfolio companies recruit world-class executive teams, with particular emphasis on executive leaders across functions who can harness AI to drive innovation, transfo...

SAN FRANCISCO & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rillet, the agentic ERP, and CrossCountry Consulting, a leading business advisory and technology solutions firm, today announced a strategic alliance to help organizations modernize finance operations. The partnership brings together CrossCountry’s advisory and transformation expertise with Rillet’s modern ERP capabilities to help finance teams improve efficiency, visibility, and control across core workflows, including record-to-report.CrossCountry w...