Toronto – October 29, 2026 -- Crown Capital, a management company for roofing-related businesses, reports 15% overall savings and $150,000 in potential fraudulent fuel spending identified over 90 days after adopting Element Pay, a cardless fuel payment solution launched by Element Fleet Management Corp. (TSX: EFN).

Crown Capital also cut the time spent helping crews resolve fuel-payment issues by 25%. Element Pay is run by the company's Element Mobility unit and is designed to replace physical fuel cards.

Frankfurt am Main – October 29, 2026 -- Agile Heroes GmbH plans to offer its AI training courses to companies eligible for state funding, with subsidies covering up to 100 percent of course costs and up to 75 percent of wage costs during training. The offer depends on a certification the company has yet to complete.

CHICAGO – October 29, 2026 -- Keeper Security released version 18.1 of its iOS app, rebuilding the vault interface on Apple's Liquid Glass design system and adding support for Apple's dual-screen iPhone Duo.

The company calls the update one of the most significant UI overhauls in its history. "Friction is the enemy of enterprise security," said Craig Lurey, CTO and co-founder, who added that the redesign keeps zero-knowledge encryption intact.

Melbourne – October 29, 2026 -- HiTHIUM showed a 6.9MWh, 8-hour-native battery energy storage system (BESS) at All Energy Australia on October 28, claiming that a purpose-built 8-hour system undercuts two 4-hour systems by about 23% on cost.

Shanghai – October 29, 2026 -- AGIBOT introduced Worken, a proposed framework that measures robots by the productive work they perform rather than by units built or delivered, at its Innovation Day 2026 event. The company also unveiled its AHA3 hardware platform, the GO-3 Preview foundation model and the G2 Max industrial robot.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Broadridge has made Kalshi event contracts tradable through the front ends and APIs of its CQG unit. Access also extends to more than 1,700 buy-side clients on the NYFIX network through the CQG-NYFIX integration.

WENZHOU – October 29, 2026 -- Ruizhi Machinery unveiled three paper bag making machines at All in Print China 2026, led by the CS350T, which runs at up to 300 bags per minute and completes size changeovers in 15 minutes. The company presented the CS350T, CS450T and RZFD-250AS at Booth N3A213 during the five-day show at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.

MELBOURNE – October 29, 2026 -- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) launched TENER+, a 9MWh ultra-high capacity energy storage system, at All Energy Australia 2026 and signed three memorandums of understanding with Hitachi Energy, EPEC Group and UNSW Sydney to speed up utility-scale battery delivery and grid connection in Australia.

Leuven – October 29, 2026 -- SettleMint has integrated its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) with IBM Digital Asset Haven, giving financial institutions, governments and other regulated organizations a single environment for tokenized asset issuance, custody and transaction controls. The integration is available now.

Mountain View – October 29, 2026 -- xTool has begun worldwide shipping of the X1, a desktop laser engraver and cutter priced from $3,399 to $6,679, built around swappable laser modules that let buyers add capabilities without buying a second machine.