Seattle – October 02, 2026 -- ORSNN, an electronic trading platform for institutional whole loan markets, has named Aaron Khoo as Chief Product Officer and Werner Koepf as Chief Technology Officer, while adding Ken Plank as Senior Advisor, Credit Unions, as the company nears completion of a new capital raise.

Scottsdale, Ariz. – October 02, 2026 -- equipifi has grown BNPL transaction volume on its platform by 128% year over year while nearly doubling its headcount following a Series B raise earlier this year.

San Francisco – – October 02, 2026 -- GoodLeap, LLC has closed a $434 million securitization backed solely by home improvement loans it originated, marking the sixth such issuance for the fintech lender.

Chicago – October 02, 2026 -- Setara Financial Corp. has advanced development of its Reference Layer, a benchmark and reference-data infrastructure designed to bring standardized measurement to the fragmented global compute market.

Stamford, Connecticut – October 02, 2026 -- Steward Partners placed three senior executives as finalists in the 2026 Wealth Management Industry Awards, drawing national attention across leadership, compliance and M&A categories in a single cycle.

San Diego – – October 02, 2026 -- A national survey of 5,000 U.S. adults has found that Americans rate a family birthday party as a more awkward setting for discussing inheritance than a funeral, upending assumptions about when families confront estate planning. Trust & Will's 2026 Death & Inheritance Report found 63% of respondents call a birthday the most awkward occasion for the conversation, compared with 41% for a funeral or wake and just 32% for an ordinary phone call.

Toronto – October 01, 2026 -- Manulife Financial Corporation has closed a reinsurance transaction transferring biometric risk on a block of long-term care policies carrying $3.2 billion in reserves to Munich American Reassurance Company, a US subsidiary of Munich Re Group.

Las Vegas – October 01, 2026 -- Bold Penguin, the Digital Broker for commercial insurance, has entered a global strategic partnership with bolttech, an insurtech operating in 39 countries across four continents, to build a joint commercial and personal lines offering for agents, insurers and embedded partners in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Toronto – – October 01, 2026 -- Info-Tech Research Group has appointed Kim Chanderbir as Senior Managing Partner II for Financial & Professional Services, adding more than 30 years of executive leadership experience to its advisory bench as demand grows for outcomes-driven consulting in regulated sectors.

Stamford, Conn. – October 01, 2026 -- Steward Partners added six advisor teams managing a combined $2.2 billion in client assets during the third quarter of 2026, with five of the six joining through the firm's M&A channel.