NORFOLK – – November 02, 2026 -- PRA Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRAA), which runs nonperforming loan portfolio operations in 18 countries, marked its 30th anniversary by ringing the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell in New York City's Times Square.

CEO Sjolund and co-founder Fredrickson lead the bell ceremony

President and CEO Martin Sjolund rang the bell with co-founder and Executive Chairman Steve Fredrickson, the senior leadership team and employees representing the company's global workforce.

PROVIDENCE – November 02, 2026 -- Wealthbox, the advisor CRM provider, has hired Anand Sheth, founder and former CEO of Pulse360, to build AI and enterprise features for the large RIAs, broker-dealers and advisor networks that make up a fast-growing share of its customer base.

Philadelphia – November 02, 2026 -- The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has registered Sporttrade as both a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), allowing the Philadelphia-based platform to run a regulated sports event contract exchange and its own clearing house.

Summit, N.J. – November 02, 2026 -- Simplicity Group has appointed Albert Cohen and Nandha Srinivasan as Partners and EVPs of Securities Technology, splitting technology leadership at Simplicity Securities between platform architecture and advisor experience.

The two executives will lead Simplicity Securities' technology growth, driving platform scale and elevating the advisor experience. Partner and CEO Bruce Donaldson said the split allows the firm to scale its infrastructure while keeping advisors and their clients central to what it builds.

COLUMBUS – November 02, 2026 -- Aflac Incorporated will promote deputy presidents Shinsuke Morimoto and Frederic J. Simard to lead Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. (Aflac Japan) and Aflac U.S., respectively, effective January 1, 2027.

New York – November 02, 2026 -- Loews Corporation reported third-quarter 2026 net income of $306 million, or $1.50 per share, down from $504 million, or $2.43 per share, a year earlier. A $125 million after-tax long-term care reserve charge at CNA Financial, weaker Property and Casualty underwriting and higher catastrophe losses drove the decline.

NEW YORK – – November 02, 2026 -- WealthFeed, an AI-powered growth platform for financial advisors, has added Form 5500 data covering more than 780,000 retirement plans, extending its prospecting tools from individuals and households to plan sponsors.

Advisors can search the plans and receive alerts when new filings show changes that may point to a business opportunity. Because the data sits inside the existing platform, advisors can run the same automated outreach they use for individual prospects.

LONDON – November 02, 2026 -- SimCorp has appointed Fiona O'Donnell, a State Street executive with more than 18 years of client-transformation experience, to the newly created role of Chief Delivery Officer, placing client delivery under one accountable executive for the first time at the company.

Tel Aviv – November 02, 2026 -- Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services (TASE: HARL), Israel's largest insurer by the company's own description, will publish its third-quarter 2026 financial statements on Monday, November 23, 2026. The group reports about NIS 630 billion (USD 218.5 billion) in assets under management and annual premiums and deposit inflows of NIS 45.7 billion (USD 15.2 billion).

HONG KONG – November 01, 2026 -- HashKey On-Chain and RD Technologies will deploy the RDUSD US dollar stablecoin on HSK Chain, an institutional-grade Ethereum Layer 2 network, as the first step of a partnership targeting cross-border trade, corporate payments and institutional finance.

The collaboration will span digital asset on-chain trading, settlement, treasury management and asset tokenization. The aim is to extend RDUSD beyond digital asset trading into real-world business use.