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Official Topical Pain Relief Partner of Notre Dame Athletics rewards Fighting Irish fan endurance with campus activations, prize packs, and targeted pain relief

- Icy Hot and Fighting Irish football legend Zack Martin have teamed up to celebrate Notre Dame fans for the physical effort of their touchdown push-ups tradition.

- The campaign features campus activations and a November 21 contest crowning the Official Icy Hot x Notre Dame Push-Ups Champion with a $1,000 grand prize.

- Committed to optimizing gameday recovery, Icy Hot provides fast muscle and joint pain relief so athletes and fans can bounce back quickly.

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As it enters its second year as the Official Topical Pain Relief Partner of Notre Dame Athletics, Icy Hot® recognizes that one of college football's most historic gameday traditions can be almost as physically demanding for fans as the sport itself. On Saturday gamedays in South Bend, the legendary touchdown push-ups ritual turns into a high-intensity workout demanding serious grit. By delivering powerful, targeted pain relief directly to hardworking arms, Icy Hot is the perfect teammate to relieve the muscle and joint pain that follows.

With fans averaging a staggering 147 to 189 push-ups per home game*, Icy Hot is launching a new campaign with Fighting Irish legend Zack Martin to reward – and soothe – the physical effort of gameday fandom, culminating in the crowning of the Official Icy Hot x Notre Dame Push-Ups Champion.

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Gameday Recognition and Season-Long Campus Activations

"I'm incredibly excited to partner with Icy Hot and reward the best fans in college football," said Martin, a former Notre Dame captain. "The players on the field aren't the only ones putting in the work on Saturdays. Fans are grinding out push-ups every single touchdown, and their arms are going to feel it. Icy Hot was always my go-to for recovery after battling on the field, and I still rely on it today after a heavy workout. It's awesome to team up and give these fans the relief and recognition they've truly earned."

The hard work extends beyond gamedays, with Icy Hot and Notre Dame collaborating across campus on unique social content, live on-site activations, product giveaways, and more.

The season-long campaign will culminate on Saturday, November 21, when Icy Hot will host a live push-ups contest ahead of the final home regular season game. The fan who completes the most push-ups will be officially crowned the Official Icy Hot x Notre Dame Push-Ups Champion, winning a $1,000 grand prize and an Icy Hot prize pack.

Targeted Muscle and Joint Pain Relief for Athletes and Fans

"We are thrilled to work with Notre Dame Athletics and Fighting Irish legend Zack Martin to reward fans all season long," said Rob Carter, Head of Brand & Innovation, Topical Pain at Opella. "Our mission at Icy Hot is to deliver powerful, targeted pain relief directly to where it hurts – whether you're out on the field or a fan in the stands doing push-ups. Extending our targeted muscle and joint relief to these passionate fans ensures they can quickly conquer gameday soreness and keep the stadium's energy unmatched from kickoff to the final whistle."

Icy Hot is proud to leverage its role as Notre Dame's first Official Topical Pain Relief Partner to support the diehard fans in the stands. Rewarding fans for their unrelenting efforts reinforces a shared commitment to optimizing recovery from everyday muscle and joint soreness, aches and pains.

Be sure to follow all the action as it unfolds across Icy Hot's Instagram (@icyhot) and TikTok (@icyhotus) channels.

For more information about Icy Hot products, visit icyhot.com.

FAQs:

Q: Why is Icy Hot sponsoring Notre Dame fans?

A: While Icy Hot proudly supports elite student-athletes, Notre Dame gamedays also demand serious physical endurance from the fans in the stands. With fans completing an average of 147 to 189 push-ups per game, we are validating their hard work and promoting the power of Icy Hot to relieve their post-workout muscle and joint pain.

Q: What is the Icy Hot x Notre Dame Push-Ups Champion contest?

A: Ahead of the home game on Saturday, November 21, Icy Hot will host a live, on-site push-ups contest at the University of Notre Dame. The fan who completes the most push-ups will be officially crowned the Official Icy Hot x Notre Dame Push-Ups Champion, winning a $1,000 grand prize and an Icy Hot prize pack.

Q: Why did Icy Hot partner with former Fighting Irish star Zack Martin?

A: As a former Notre Dame offensive lineman, Zack Martin knows firsthand the physical toll a football season takes on the body. This makes him an ideal ambassador to help us celebrate gameday fandom and highlight the importance of topical pain relief for recovery.

*Statistics provided by Notre Dame Athletics.

About Icy Hot®

One of America's top topical pain relief brands, Icy Hot® makes powerful over-the-counter pain relief products that fuel your comeback from pain. Its extensive line of products provides powerful, fast-acting relief to give you targeted relief. Ice Works Fast, Heat Makes it Last™. The Icy Hot brand is brought to you by Opella, which provides over-the-counter drugs such as topical analgesics, allergy medications, constipation and heartburn medications.

About Opella.

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world's most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. B Corp certified globally, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.

Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

About Notre Dame Athletics

As it pertains to athletic and academic success, the University of Notre Dame has few peers across the nation. Sponsoring 26 varsity athletic programs, Notre Dame teams have won 40 national championships that span over 100 years of competitive excellence. The University's first national title was earned by football in 1924, led by legendary head coach Knute Rockne. Notre Dame athletic teams have continued to claim noteworthy national championships recently, including back-to-back titles by men's lacrosse in 2023 and 2024 and the fencing team earning its 16th team national title in 2026. The Fighting Irish football team also appeared in the 2025 College Football Playoff Championship Game. Notre Dame athletic teams have produced the third-most Academic All-Americans among Division I schools and Fighting Irish student-athletes have ranked first or second among Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the NCAA's Graduation Success Rating for 19 straight years.

About Notre Dame Global Partnerships

Notre Dame Global Partnerships (NGDP) manages the sales, marketing, sponsorship, multimedia rights, and branding services for the University of Notre Dame's Athletics programs. Founded in 2018, NDGP is a joint venture between JMI Sports and Legends, formed to build integrated partnerships with industry-leading partners that share the University's commitment to both academic and athletic excellence. Notre Dame's status as one of the most recognizable and iconic institutions in collegiate athletics offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with fans, students, and alumni globally. NDGP is creating new and innovative partnerships that contribute to the University's mission while also upholding its storied history and tradition.

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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is proud to announce that NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., has been named to The NonProfit Times (NPT) 2026 Power & Influence Top 50 list. He will be honored at the 20th Power & Influence Top 50 Gala, which will take place September 17 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

In recognizing Gillison, The NPT stated: "Gillison modernized the nation's largest grassroots mental health nonprofit, built cross-sector coalitions and secured investments from donors, including MacKenzie Scott, who gifted $59 million. He launched the National Collaborative for Crisis Systems Innovation, a hub for alignment, learning and action in behavioral health crisis care to strengthen the 988 Suicide and Crisis helpline program."

Gillison is among 51 trailblazing honorees, joining leaders of other nonprofits like the AARP Foundation, National Council on Aging, American Humane Society, Rotary International, NAACP, American Heart Association, Habitat for Humanity International, and YMCA of the USA.

"I'm honored to be recognized alongside leaders who are tackling some of the most consequential challenges facing our communities," said Gillison. "The nonprofit sector is at its best when we bring people together, build partnerships across sectors and turn shared purpose into meaningful change. This recognition reflects the extraordinary work of the entire NAMI community, and I'm proud of what we continue to accomplish together."

With this year's list, The NPT recognizes the groundbreaking work of nonprofit leaders who overcame considerable headwinds this past year and built coalitions that will "continue to serve their communities, constituents and the nonprofit sector as a whole."

Gillison was previously honored in 2022 as part of NPT's 25th annual Power & Influence Top 50 list.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.

Join the conversation: NAMI.org | Facebook.com/nami | Instagram.com/namicommunicate | Twitter.com/namicommunicate | TikTok.com/@nami | LinkedIn.com/company/nami | YouTube.com/NAMIvideo

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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mutations are changes in the molecular "letters" that make up DNA, the genetic blueprint for cells. Mutations build up with age in every cell when DNA is damaged or when cells make mistakes in fixing or copying it. Most mutations are harmless, but when they disrupt genes, they can cause cancer and other diseases.

Past studies in animals have shown that a large reduction in the number of calories they consume, called caloric restriction, extends their lifespans and slows aspects of aging. But whether caloric restriction also slows the rate at which mutations occur with age had not been investigated across the genome, the complete set of genetic material present in every cell.

Now a new study, published online September 9 in Cell, showed that caloric restriction reduced the level of mutations across several tissues in mice that were fed 30 percent fewer calories than they would have ingested if allowed to eat freely. While prior studies have looked at how such caloric restriction changes mutations in single genes, the new work determined for the first time its impact on mutation patterns across a large portion of the genome.

Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health and University Hospitals Cleveland, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health, the study analyzed the effect of caloric restriction on different types of genetic changes. They found that, to varying degrees across tissues, it dialed down the level of substitution mutations, in which one DNA letter is swapped for another, and insertion and deletion mutations, in which one or more DNA letters are added to or missing from the genome. The authors reached these conclusions using advanced DNA sequencing technology, which detects mutations in DNA with great accuracy.

"While links between diet and lifespan have been established in animals, our results show that diet and mutations across the genome are also linked," said co-corresponding study author Gilad D. Evrony, MD, PhD, a core member of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics at NYU Langone and the Jacob D. Goldfield Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. "Mice on a calorie-restricted diet are healthier for longer, but this diet is too challenging for humans. Nevertheless, considering the role mutations play in cancer and many other diseases, it's exciting to have found a way to decrease mutations, which we can now work to understand."

Caloric Restriction's Effect Strongest in Least Active Genomic Regions

The study results also showed that the impact of caloric restriction varies across tissues and cell types as well as across the genome, providing further insight into how diet is linked to the genome. For example, liver cells showed a greater reduction in mutation burdens with caloric restriction than kidney or brain cells. This makes sense, said the authors, because of the vast diversity of cell types, and the differences in the ways DNA is damaged and repaired in each.

Surprisingly, in liver and kidney cells, the reduction in the number of mutations from caloric restriction was greatest in the least active regions of the genome, which contain either no genes or genes not being used by a given cell. The authors said one possible explanation is that if caloric restriction reduces DNA damage across the genome, active regions of the genome would not benefit as much because those regions already repair DNA damage frequently.

"We didn't expect to find this asymmetry across the genome," said co-corresponding author Jonathan Shoag, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Urology at University Hospitals Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. "By profiling more dietary interventions and mutations in additional tissues and cell types, we hope to learn what drives the connection between diet and mutations."

"Understanding these mechanisms could eventually reveal new ways to reduce mutations – without the challenges and risks of an extreme diet—to counter diseases of aging," said first study author Marta Grońska-Pęski, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Evrony's lab.

Other authors were Victoria Acosta-Rodríguez and Amanda Garrido of the Translational Gerontology Branch of the National Institute on Aging; Shany Picciotto at University Hospitals Cleveland; and Carla Green and Joseph Takahashi in the Department of Neuroscience and the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

"We were fortunate to have collaborated with Dr. Victoria Acosta-Rodríguez, Dr. Joseph Takahashi, and Dr. Carla Green, who established this mouse caloric restriction cohort," said Dr. Evrony. Another study author from NYU Langone's Center for Human Genetics and Genomics was Amoolya Srinivasa.

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants T32AG052909, F32AG076287, and UH3NS132024, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Jacob Goldfield Foundation, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Smythe Family Impact Fund, the Vail family, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

About NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone No. 1 out of 118 comprehensive academic medical centers across the nation four years in a row, and it continues to have the most No. 1–ranked specialties and the most top-10 ranked specialties among medical centers in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across seven inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and more than 330 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. The system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise.

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BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- West Virginia American Water is pleased to announce a $275,000 water infrastructure project on Thompson Avenue in Bluefield.

"Ongoing, proactive investments are critical to help maintain and improve the reliability and resiliency of our systems," said Scott Wyman, President of West Virginia American Water. "This infrastructure upgrade project on Thomspon Avenue will help maintain safe, reliable water service for the Bluefield community."

The project will take place on Thompson Avenue, from Walton Avenue to Maryland Avenue. Crews will replace 600 feet of aging pipe with 2-inch PVC main, with work scheduled to be completed by the end of October. Final street restoration will be completed in fall 2026. Work will occur Monday through Friday between 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., and traffic restrictions will be in place for the duration of the project.

This infrastructure upgrade project is part of West Virginia American Water's plan to invest more than $129 million in ongoing infrastructure upgrades across the state in 2026, supporting the economic health of communities across the company's service area. Economic impact studies show that for every $1 million invested in water infrastructure, upwards of 10 jobs are generated throughout local economies.

Over the past decade, West Virginia American Water has invested over $805 million in infrastructure projects and capital upgrades to address aging infrastructure across the Mountain State, including more than 168 miles of new water main. To learn more about these ongoing investments, visit the company's interactive upgrade map.

During construction, customers may experience temporary service interruptions, discolored water, and/or lower than normal water pressure. Crews will work as quickly as possible to shorten the length of these temporary inconveniences. To report water related emergencies such as leaks, main breaks or other service disruptions, customers can submit a service request on the company's website.

About American Water 

American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, and celebrating 140 years in 2026, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to approximately 14 million people with regulated operations in 14 states and on 19 military installations. American Water's approximately 7,000 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company's national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders.

For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Instagram.

About West Virginia American Water

West Virginia American Water, a subsidiary of American Water, is the largest regulated water utility in the state with approximately 315 dedicated employees working to provide safe, clean, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services to approximately 610,000 people.

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Nonco Expands Institutional Collateral Toolkit from Tokenized Money Market Funds to Secured Sovereign Debt

Early adopter of tokenized money market fund collateral adds USDM1, the world's first natively issued secured sovereign bond, as collateral across derivatives, financing and institutional trading

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nonco, an institutional digital asset firm with businesses spanning derivatives, lending, OTC liquidity, market making and institutional execution, today announced that it will accept USDM1 as collateral from eligible counterparties and post USDM1 across its derivatives, financing and institutional trading activities.

The adoption marks the latest expansion of Nonco's institutional collateral toolkit. The firm, which has surpassed $100 billion in bilateral OTC trading volume and onboarded more than 900 institutional counterparties, was an early participant in the use of tokenized money market fund shares as collateral in live derivatives transactions, including the use of Superstate's USTB in a bilateral BTC/USD options trade.

Where payment stablecoins are generally structured as corporate obligations and tokenized money market funds represent interests in investment funds, USDM1 is a natively issued, secured sovereign bond - with different legal rights, economic characteristics and applications across 24/7 institutional markets.

USDM1 is a USD-denominated sovereign bond secured on a 1:1 basis by short-dated US Treasuries pledged to a US trust company in a bankruptcy-remote structure. Its issuance, collateral and redemption arrangements are governed by New York law, with an explicit customary waiver of sovereign immunity. As a dual-recourse instrument, holders maintain enforceable rights to par redemption against a sovereign issuer and a first-priority perfected security interest in Treasury collateral under Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advised as issuer's counsel. M1X Global serves as coordinating agent.

Sovereign securities have long served as foundational collateral assets across global institutional financing markets, with roles spanning derivatives margin, repo, secured financing and liquidity management. USDM1 pays a sovereign coupon and, when unencumbered, has been structured to support look-through to HQLA[1] with 24/7, T+0 settlement. It is compatible with industry-standard ISDA, GMRA and GMSLA documentation, benefiting from robust US close-out netting protections.

For institutional trading firms, the legal and financial characteristics of collateral can directly affect financing flexibility, counterparty exposure, liquidity management and the amount of balance sheet capacity required to support trading activity.

"Nonco was early in demonstrating that tokenized fund interests could become productive collateral rather than simply investment products," said Jeffrey Howard, Head of North America and Partner of Nonco. "Natively issued sovereign debt adds another important building block to our toolkit. Institutional markets have always optimized among different forms of high-quality collateral depending on the transaction. As markets move onchain, the same principle applies."

"Tokenization is a technology, not an asset class," said Jordan Goldman, President and COO of M1X Global, the coordinating agent for USDM1. "A payment stablecoin, a fund share and a sovereign bond can all move onchain, but they remain fundamentally different financial instruments. Two assets with the same dollar value can have very different collateral economics depending on their legal rights, eligibility, netting treatment and financing characteristics."

Institutional custody and settlement infrastructure supporting USDM1 includes Anchorage Digital Bank, BitGo Bank & Trust, N.A., and tZERO's regulated broker-dealer custodian. USDM1 is also offered through Tradeweb and accepted by FDIC-insured Bank of Guam.

Most recently, USDM1 served as the sovereign securities collateral leg in the first fully onchain repo transaction with Virtu Financial through Tradeweb, demonstrating its use within established institutional financing frameworks.

About Nonco

Nonco is a digital asset firm purpose-built for institutions. They provide institutional-grade liquidity with bespoke execution and 24/7/365 counterparty support. Trusted by some of the most sophisticated players in the market, they deliver reliability, precision, and scale at the intersection of digital assets and traditional finance. Backed by leading investors including VanEck, Hack VC, Morgan Creek, and Valor Capital, Nonco combines deep market expertise with world-class infrastructure to serve the next generation of institutional finance.

About USDM1

USDM1 is a fully collateralized, USD-denominated sovereign bond natively issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It is structured in the style of a Brady bond under New York law, with an explicit customary waiver of sovereign immunity, and secured on a 1:1 basis by short-duration US Treasury instruments pledged to a US trust company in a bankruptcy-remote structure.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands operates exclusively on the US dollar standard under its Compact of Free Association with the United States. As a dollar-denominated sovereign obligation, USDM1 does not carry foreign-exchange or convertibility risk. Holders maintain enforceable rights to par redemption against a sovereign issuer and a perfected, first-priority security interest in Treasury collateral under UCC 8/9. For more, see https://usdm1.com

USDM1 is compatible with ISDA, GMRA and GMSLA agreements for derivatives, repo and securities lending, and is eligible for robust US close-out netting protections. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP serves as issuer's counsel and advised with respect to the structuring of the instrument under New York law, with the participation of partners specializing in sovereign debt, UCC and secured transactions, creditors' rights, netting and digital asset markets.

About M1X Global

M1X Global is a sovereign financial infrastructure and technology company bridging public finance and onchain capital markets. Operating in public-private partnership with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, M1X Global coordinates the legal, compliance, technology, custody and institutional infrastructure behind sovereign digital instruments.

Disclaimer

The content of this communication is for informational purposes only and is not intended to market, offer, or solicit you to buy or sell USDM1 or any financial product directly from Nonco, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, M1X Global or otherwise.

USDM1 is being offered and sold solely outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Republic of the Marshall Islands has not registered any offering of USDM1 under the US Securities Act, or any other US federal and state securities laws. Accordingly, USDM1 may not be offered, sold, pledged or otherwise transferred in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, US Persons (as defined in Regulation S), unless they are registered, or exempt from, or not subject to, registration under the Securities Act.

Nothing in this communication constitutes, or should be construed as, a recommendation by Nonco, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, M1X Global or any third party to acquire or dispose of USDM1 or any other security, or to engage in any investment strategy or transaction.

Prospective investors are urged to carefully read the offering memorandum prepared in connection with the offering of USDM1 in its entirety, including all annexes, appendices, and supplements thereto, before making any investment decision. The offering memorandum contains important information regarding, among other things, the terms of the securities, the risks associated with an investment therein, and the financial condition and business of the issuer. Prospective investors are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security or strategy, or any other product or service, is appropriate or suitable for them based on their investment objectives and personal and financial situation. Prospective investors should consult an attorney or tax professional regarding their specific legal or tax situation.

Forward-Looking Statements

This communication may contain forward-looking statements. These statements are statements that are not historical facts. The words "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "expects", "plans" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements regarding trends relating to the Republic of the Marshall Islands or USDM1, and future expansions or projects relating to Republic of the Marshall Islands or USDM1 are examples of forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. There is no guarantee that the expected events, trends or results will actually occur. The statements are based on many assumptions and factors, including general economic and market conditions, industry conditions, and operating factors. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.

Footnotes

HQLA1 classification is subject to the applicable regulations and regulatory determinations of each financial institution's prudential supervisor. Each institution is responsible for its own regulatory capital and liquidity analysis.

[1] HQLA classification is subject to the applicable regulations and regulatory determinations of each financial institution's prudential supervisor. Each institution is responsible for its own regulatory capital and liquidity analysis. M1X Global

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Nutrient Data Extraction transforms PDFs, scans, images, and Office files into structured document data — parsing content into spatial JSON or Markdown, and extracting schema-defined fields with per-field confidence signals and citations back to the source, helping enterprises operationalize agentic document workflows with reliable structured data.

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutrient Data Extraction API, a document parsing and structured data extraction service, is now generally available for enterprises building AI agents, RAG systems, large corpus document query, and enterprise automation. Nutrient Data Extraction helps organizations operationalize AI by transforming complex documents into reliable structured data for production-ready agentic workflows.

Nutrient Data Extraction parses PDFs, scans, images, and Office files into spatial JSON or Markdown, and extracts schema-defined fields with per-field confidence signals and source citations, giving enterprises accurate structured data from documents enabling production-capable agentic workflows.

Nutrient Data Extraction at a glance:

- Inputs: PDFs, scans, images, and Office files

- Parse outputs: spatial JSON or Markdown

- Modes: text, structure, understand, and agentic

- Structured extraction: customer-defined JSON Schema

- Extraction grounding: page references, bounding boxes, source blocks, match labels, and confidence signals

- Routing: fuzzy_match and not_found can go to human review

- Access: REST API, free tier, Studio, and getting-started guide

- Languages: 100+ for OCR

- Security: HTTPS/TLS encryption in transit, SOC 2 Type 2 audited infrastructure

The reliability gap in agentic document workflows

AI has made document intelligence possible at enterprise scale. Documents can now be read, summarized, classified, extracted, and acted on in seconds.

But generic LLM extraction is inherently probabilistic: the same document can produce different outputs under different conditions, lose structure, and return values with no traceable link back to the page they came from. Teams either accept the risk of unverified data flowing into ERPs, claims systems, and approval workflows, or they revert to manual review.

Organizations heavily need data that is reliable, explainable, and traceable back to its source for agentic workflows to be trustworthy and ready for production.

That's the reliability gap Nutrient Data Extraction was built to close. Most LLMs can extract data from documents. Far fewer systems can extract it accurately, consistently, and explain where it came from at a quality level that stands up in an audit.

That's the difference between model output alone and source-grounded document infrastructure built for production-ready agents. It's the difference between AI that's impressive in a demo and AI that can be relied upon by the human signing off on the business outcome.

And because Nutrient Data Extraction is a foundational part of Nutrient's broader document platform, teams can move from parsing and extraction to unlocking routing, governance, human review, and execution all without downstream workflow automation losing the auditable link back to the source document.

Built for multiple levels of understanding.

Teams, including Nutrient's implementation teams, are able to customize the output format per request based on the type and complexity of the document and the system requirements whether that's spatial JSON for layout-aware elements with reading order, bounding boxes, tables, and key-value regions, or Markdown for RAG, search indexing, and general document Q&A. Nutrient Data Extraction detects tables, forms, formulas, charts, handwriting, checkboxes, and headings, and supports more than 100 different OCR languages.

Not every document requires the same level of analysis and reasoning to get to accurate structured data. Nutrient Data Extraction lets teams optimize for speed, cost, or depth through four processing modes: text, structure, understand, and agentic, allowing processing to scale only when additional understanding is required.

Every extracted value traces back to the source

The extract endpoint maps a document to a customer-defined or intelligently generated JSON Schema and returns each requested field with a bounding box, page reference, the source blocks it was drawn from, a confidence signal, and a label describing how the value was grounded. Source grounding can drive workflow decisions automatically. Fields labeled "fuzzy_match" or "not_found" can be routed to human review, while high-confidence matches continue directly into downstream workflows.

Unlike tools that present confidence as a probability, Nutrient Data Extraction treats confidence as a relative signal. That distinction helps organizations structure and make better workflow decisions instead of over-interpreting a single score.

"Most agents can pull data out of a document. Almost none of them can prove where the data came from," said Jonathan Rhyne, co-founder and CEO of Nutrient. "Every field we return points back to the exact spot in the source, and when we can't find something, we say so instead of guessing. In production, 'Trust us' isn't an answer enterprises can take to their auditors or something accountable parties will rely on."

Published accuracy benchmarks

Nutrient publishes open accuracy benchmarks and updates the published results as new versions ship. In our latest test run, understand mode scored 0.932 overall accuracy on the publicly available 200-document opendataloader-bench corpus, across reading order, table structure, and heading hierarchy. Text and structure modes are scored on the public leaderboard, while understand and agentic modes were evaluated internally against the same corpus. The original open-source comparison was run on July 6, 2026 and the current results and methodology are maintained at nutrient.io/api/data-extraction-api/benchmarks.

Separately, Nutrient has published two open grounding artifacts on Hugging Face: grounding-en, a model that scores whether an extracted value is supported by evidence in the source document, released under Apache-2.0; and the grounding benchmark dataset it is evaluated against, released under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

What it handles in practice

Nutrient publishes interactive extraction demos with no signup or API key required, where hovering an extracted field highlights the exact region of the source document it came from:

- Healthcare: Table-row extraction from a CMS-1500 claim form, including the dropout-red ink grid that defeats most scanners.

- Government and vital records: Signature block detection on a mixed handwritten and printed birth record, separating a printed name from the adjacent cursive signature.

- Mortgage and financial services: Value isolation in a dense three-column financial table where Monthly Income, Total Assets, and Total Expenses sit side by side under near-identical labels.

- Legal and contracts: Full multi-sentence narrative extraction from a free-text field in a small claims filing, plus cross-page extraction across three pages.

- AI, search, and RAG: An appraisal report decomposed into semantic blocks with spatial coordinates, so a retrieval pipeline can cite its exact source.

Availability

Nutrient Data Extraction is generally available via a REST API or can be built into custom solutions by our implementation teams. New accounts receive 5,000 Data Extraction API credits per month at no cost, with no credit card required. Signup is agent-compatible.

Developers and agents can send a first request in minutes using the getting-started guide, or open the interactive demos in a browser with no account. Nutrient Data Extraction Studio provides a visual testing environment for evaluating documents before writing any code.

All API communication uses HTTPS/TLS encryption, and the platform is SOC 2 Type 2 audited, with reports available under NDA. Processing-run retention varies by plan. Customers can delete runs and runs expire after the plan-specific retention period. On plans without internal data retention, documents are explicitly not retained for service improvement or model training.

To view documentation, review the published benchmarks, or get a free API key, visit nutrient.io/api/data-extraction-api.

About Nutrient

Nutrient is the deterministic document platform organizations rely on to operationalize production capable agentic systems for document centric workflows. It combines reliable document processing infrastructure for agents, intelligent routing and governance, and interfaces for the human in the loop. Built on a decade of enterprise document expertise, Nutrient provides agentic document workflow solutions for thousands of organizations worldwide, including more than 15 percent of the Global 500, thousands of commercial businesses across 80 countries, and more than 130 public sector organizations in 24 countries. Backed by Insight Partners, Nutrient is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with offices in England, France, and Austria. Learn more at nutrient.io.

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LONDON, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MVB Financial Corp., a leading banking partner to fintechs and innovation-driven companies, and Velocity, an enterprise payments and treasury platform powered by stablecoins, today announced that MVB will participate in a Visa Direct pilot supporting stablecoin-enabled funding and settlement for eligible push-to-card payouts. Availability varies by eligibility and geography. Please contact your Visa representative for more information on availability.

Through the partnership, MVB will be able to use stablecoins to settle its Visa Direct payouts. The infrastructure brings stablecoin liquidity directly into MVB's banking and payments operations, enabling more flexible pre-positioning and settlement options across MVB's customers and the bank itself. Enabled through Visa Direct, the arrangement allows eligible MVB participants to use stablecoins in connection with certain funding and settlement obligations. Digital-asset conversion, wallet connectivity and on-chain controls are performed by licensed partners. Delivered through a single API and regulated wallet infrastructure, the offering gives MVB customers access to stablecoin-enabled funding and settlement through the banking relationship and operational workflows they already use.

For MVB and Velocity, the partnership reflects a broader shift in how stablecoins are being adopted by financial institutions. Rather than operating as a separate digital asset product, stablecoin rails can sit underneath existing banking and payments infrastructure, giving institutions a new way to move and deploy liquidity while preserving the controls, relationships and systems already familiar to their customers.

"Banking is being rebuilt in real time, and stablecoins are at the center of that transformation," said Larry F. Mazza, Chief Executive Officer of MVB Financial. "By allowing stablecoins to solve inefficiencies in capital movement for payouts, we're giving our clients faster, more flexible ways to move money."

The strategy aligns closely with emerging initiatives from major card networks, including solutions that allow sponsor banks to settle Original Credit Transactions (OCTs), issuer obligations, as well as traditional settlement in stablecoins.

For payments companies and fintechs, this can create greater flexibility over how capital enters and moves through the banking system. Velocity enables funds to be brought onchain, held as stablecoins and deployed into payment flows without requiring customers to manage separate infrastructure or fundamentally change how they interact with MVB.

"This is exactly where we believe stablecoins become most meaningful: when they disappear into the financial infrastructure businesses already rely on," said Eric Queathem, Founder and CEO of Velocity. "MVB has built its business around serving some of the most forward-thinking companies in payments and fintech, and we're excited to help bring these capabilities directly into that ecosystem. Visa Direct is a powerful starting point because it shows how stablecoin liquidity can connect directly into established global payment rails."

The partnership also lays the groundwork for MVB to extend stablecoin infrastructure across a broader range of treasury, settlement and payment use cases. As stablecoins become increasingly integrated into established financial networks, MVB and Velocity intend to continue building the infrastructure required for institutions to use them as part of their day-to-day financial operations.

Together, MVB and Velocity are building toward a model in which stablecoin capabilities are a native part of banking infrastructure, giving financial institutions and their customers faster, more flexible and always-on ways to fund and move money while remaining connected to the payment networks they already use.

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In the news release, Casepoint Launches Casepoint IQ, the Intelligence Foundation Powering Agentic and Assistive AI Across Its Unified Platform, issued 09-Sep-2026 by Casepoint over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end:

Casepoint Launches Casepoint IQ, the Intelligence Foundation Powering Agentic and Assistive AI Across Its Unified Platform

Full agentic, predictive, and assistive AI capabilities now available in one secure, scaled, and

governed intelligence layer with human control built in.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Casepoint, a leading provider of secure, unified eDiscovery, legal hold, FOIA, investigations, and compliance solutions, today introduced Casepoint IQ™, the intelligence foundation of Casepoint's platform.

Casepoint IQ is a single framework across Casepoint's full range of AI capabilities, spanning semi- and full-autonomous agentic AI; assistive AI; CaseAssist® machine learning and predictive coding; and Casepoint Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server enablement. As Casepoint adds new agentic capabilities to that framework, customers can add them within the same platform they already use.

Casepoint IQ eliminates the burden of agentic AI as a series of separate point solutions by providing a shared intelligence and governance layer across the entire Casepoint platform. This capability accelerates all tasks across eDiscovery, legal hold, FOIA, investigations, regulatory, and compliance workflows within a unified, secure, governed architecture. Customers are able to expand AI capabilities and mete out adoption across their teams, without introducing separate tools, credentials, or governance models.

"Organizations are facing increased pressure to move faster while defensibly managing increasing data volumes and regulations," said Paul Colangelo, CEO at Casepoint. "Casepoint IQ allows customers to leverage the capabilities of AI within their teams where consequential work gets done, without sacrificing security or oversight and control."

Accelerating Defensibility

Casepoint IQ addresses the requirements government, legal, and compliance teams need for documenting how and why an AI agent reached a decision to ensure the workflow holds up under legal and regulatory scrutiny, while retaining control over the outputs. This includes:

- Human-in-the-loop governance ensures every AI-driven decision in Casepoint IQ is transparent and defensible.

- All decisions and AI actions are permissions-aware, logged, and traceable to source.

- Agentic workflows can be added alongside other assistive AI-powered tools within the platform without changing systems or impacting security or governance controls.

The Casepoint platform is authorized under FedRAMP® High and DOD Impact Level 5 and 6 standards. Because Casepoint IQ runs on that same credentialed infrastructure by default, adding agentic workflows will not trigger a new vendor risk assessment, a separate security review, or new credentials to manage. Organizations can also connect to an external model or system through Casepoint's MCP support as needed.

"We've always believed intelligence should be built at the platform level, not confined to individual products," said Vishal Rajpara, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Casepoint. "Casepoint IQ offers the foundation where an innovation developed for one workflow can create value across the entire platform. Customers benefit by continuous learning and connectivity that makes the entire system smarter and defensible as the technology and organizational needs evolve."

"Our customers have been clear: they want AI to take on more of the heavy-lifting work, but they still want visibility into, and control over how decisions are made, and have the final approvals," said Colangelo. "We're increasing what the agentic AI technology can do across the whole Casepoint platform while keeping the work transparent, defensible, and under human control."

Casepoint IQ is live today, running in early access with select customers and available for demonstrations. Organizations can request a demo at https://www.casepoint.com/request-a-demo/.

More information is available at casepoint.com/casepoint-iq.

About Casepoint

Casepoint empowers government agencies and regulated enterprises to discover, secure, and act across their most critical legal, regulatory, and compliance workflows. Casepoint brings together 30+ years of deep government expertise with a decade of cloud-native eDiscovery innovation, serving hundreds of federal civilian and defense agencies and enterprises — including the U.S. Department of War — and unifying legal hold, eDiscovery, investigations, FOIA, regulatory, and compliance workflows in one secure platform.

Built on a cloud-native foundation with FedRAMP® High and DOD Impact Level 5 and 6 authorizations, Casepoint is an AI-forward platform that leverages assistive, predictive, and agentic AI, along with an open MCP for "bring your own agent" support. Every AI-driven decision is transparent and auditable, with human-in-the-loop governance built in. Backed by a white-glove, partnership-oriented approach to every customer relationship, Casepoint helps teams move faster, reduce risk, and maintain control under constant scrutiny. For more information, visit www.casepoint.com.

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EnTrust Global's Blue Ocean Strategy Launches Fourth Fund For U.S. Insurance Investors With $1.3 Billion In Committed Capital

The Fund is expected to provide capital efficiency for insurance investors, and brings total capital raised for the Blue Ocean strategy to $7.6 billion.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Ocean, a maritime finance investment platform managed by EnTrust Global, today announced the successful close of the fourth vintage of its rated notes insurance fund, Blue Ocean Income Fund IV. The Fund closed with $1.3 billion in commitments and is intended to offer insurance investors (primarily U.S. insurance investors) a more capital-efficient way to access the Blue Ocean strategy. The Fund's notes were rated by a leading global rating agency.

The closing brings total capital raised across the strategy for Blue Ocean to $5.0 billion since 2023, and $7.6 billion since the strategy's inception in 2017. The Fund has already begun deploying capital to a number of transactions.

Since its founding, Blue Ocean has built a consistent track record of capital formation and deployment in the maritime finance space, providing flexible, asset-backed financing solutions to shipowners and operators across major shipping segments. The strategy fills a structural funding gap created by the retreat of traditional bank lenders, which have pulled back from maritime lending since the Global Financial Crisis due to regulation and a strategic focus on the largest listed owners, leaving the small- and medium-sized shipowners that make up the vast majority of this industry underserved and dependent on alternative capital.

Gregg S. Hymowitz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EnTrust Global: "Since the launch of our first Blue Ocean rated notes fund in 2018, we have seen interest in the strategy among insurance investors grow with each subsequent fund, and also through a number of other bespoke structures. Fund IV is our largest rated notes fund to date, and it includes significant commitments from insurance investors who are new to the Blue Ocean strategy, as well as investors who participated in prior vintages and have increased their commitments for Fund IV. Insurance investors, both in the U.S. and around the world, are an important part of our client base, and we are excited to continue to work on innovative structures and strategies to help meet their specific needs."

Svein Engh, Blue Ocean Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager: "Our continuing success, both in terms of fund raising and capital deployment, is a reflection of what we have built at EnTrust Global. The Blue Ocean team today consists of 29 professionals globally1 and our ability to source and structure opportunities is what continues to set Blue Ocean apart. Furthermore, our strong track record over more than 9 years of investing, combined with the strong demand for capital in a capital-intensive industry, helps drive our strategy forward."

As of June 30, 2026, the Blue Ocean strategy has deployed a total of $7.2 billion across 127 total investments since inception while returning approximately $3.5 billion of invested capital to investors during that period. This growth has been driven by a global team with deep maritime finance expertise and a disciplined approach to sourcing and structuring transactions across market cycles.

EnTrust Global manages capital for insurance investors in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with insurance company capital representing roughly 20% of EnTrust's client base worldwide. In line with the firm's entrepreneurial foundation, EnTrust remains dedicated to developing compelling and differentiated investment opportunities, including those specifically for insurance investors. EnTrust's Insurance Solutions group, together with the firm's investment and structuring teams, works closely with insurance investor clients to develop investment solutions that seek attractive risk-adjusted returns combined with a strong focus on capital efficiency, ratings considerations, and predictable cash flows.

About EnTrust Global

EnTrust Global is an alternative investment firm with approximately $17.8 billion in total assets and approximately 600 institutional clients worldwide, ranging from U.S. Taft-Hartley plans to Sovereign Wealth funds. Co-founded in 1997 by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gregg S. Hymowitz, the firm has dual headquarters in New York and London, with a network of 10 offices globally across key financial centers. EnTrust Global provides alternative investment opportunities across both private and public markets, with a focus on opportunistic credit and equity, as well as sector-specific strategies in maritime and sports, media, and entertainment, each of which is supported by a team of seasoned professionals. Separate from the Blue Ocean strategy, EnTrust Global's maritime business also includes Purus, a maritime infrastructure company with a fleet of gas transport and offshore infrastructure vessels with a gross asset value of over $4.5 billion.

1 Number of professionals includes operating advisers/consultants retained to assist in the sourcing and/or monitoring of certain investments. Total Assets is as of June 30, 2026. Total Assets may be based on estimates and includes mandates awarded but not yet funded, capital commitments that have not yet been called, amounts distributed to investors and contractually subject to recall, a non-binding target mandate and assets where EnTrust Global provides non-discretionary investment advisory services. There is no guarantee that all or any portion of such mandates awarded or target mandates will ever be funded, nor that amounts distributed will be recalled and, if they are not, the Total Assets amount would be reduced accordingly. Total Assets does not include capital that can be called after the expiration of the investment period to fund fees and expenses or to add to an existing investment. The firm's "Regulatory Assets Under Management" calculation differs from "Total Assets" and is reflected in the firm's Form ADV, Part 2A (Item 4). A rating is an opinion of the relevant rating agency at a specific point of time and is subject to various limitations. It is not a guarantee of performance and is subject to change.

To learn more about EnTrust Global's Blue Ocean strategy, please visit https://entrustglobal.com/blue-ocean-fund/

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