San Jose, Calif. – October 06, 2026 -- Incognia has introduced AI Agent Detection, a new capability designed to help financial institutions distinguish between a legitimate AI agent and an authorized action, as AI agents increasingly make purchases, payments and account changes on behalf of consumers.

San Francisco – October 06, 2026 -- Checkr has expanded its mortgage verification offering to cover more than 97% of U.S. workers with a 75% completion rate, adding new data sources as borrower income grows increasingly volatile.

St. Louis – – October 06, 2026 -- Edward Jones has placed No. 7 on Great Place to Work's 2026 list of Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance, a ranking based entirely on feedback from its more than 55,000 associates across North America.

Stockholm – October 06, 2026 -- Vermiculus has launched VeriAct, a cloud-native corporate action system already deployed by B3, one of the world's largest market infrastructure operators.

Redmond, Wash. – October 06, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has released ezAccounting 2026 with an IRS-authorized eFile add-on ahead of the Q3 Form 941 filing deadline on November 2, 2026, giving small businesses and accountants a direct electronic submission channel to the IRS.

Toronto – October 06, 2026 -- Prophix, a financial performance management provider, has entered a strategic collaboration with PwC Belgium to help enterprise clients automate budgeting, reporting, and financial close processes.

Prophix and PwC Belgium combine technology and advisory services for finance automation

The relationship pairs Prophix's Autonomous Finance Platform with PwC Belgium's advisory expertise to help organizations move beyond compliance-driven finance operations toward automated, insight-driven decision-making.

Tallinn, Estonia – October 06, 2026 -- Bringin has opened an invite-only beta of euro business accounts that allow companies to hold, accept and pay in Bitcoin and stablecoins while retaining full owner control of their coins. The accounts run SEPA payments from a virtual IBAN issued in the company's own name, extending a consumer platform that has already processed more than €15 million.

Zurich – October 06, 2026 -- The number of companies linked to greenwashing reached 1,594 in the year to June 2026, a 28% year-on-year increase, according to RepRisk's fifth annual Greenwashing Report. Over the five-year period, greenwashing risk incidents rose 112%, with the latest increase marking a second consecutive annual rise following a 12% decline in 2024.

DUBAI – October 05, 2026 -- Caladan's Dubai entity, CLDN Broker Dealer FZE, has secured In-Principle Approval (IPA) from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for Broker-Dealer Services, under reference IPA/26/09/004, dated September 15, 2026.

New York – – October 05, 2026 -- Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source delivery-versus-payment escrow program that compresses securities settlement from one to two days into a single atomic transaction settled in seconds.