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INVESTMENTS

Waller Helms Advisors | May 26, 2022

Waller Helms Advisors, a leading specialist investment bank, has announced an agreement to acquire Park Sutton Advisors, an M&A focused bank. PSA was founded in 2008 and has completed 25 wealth management deals in 2021. The organization has maintained its momentum through 2022. This combination is game-changing. The addition of Park Sutton significantly enhances our capabilities in the wealth and investment management sector and creates a specialist firm ...

Business Wire | October 01, 2020

Kasasa®, an award-winning financial technology and marketing provider, has partnered with NXTsoft, the market leader in API connectivity, to enhance the lending process for community banks and credit unions and their borrowers. Together, NXTsoft and Kasasa will provide a level of ease and flexibility to the lending processes that borrowers have never seen before. The capabilities and functionality of online loan interactions become a non-issue because of the end-to-end connection of data tha...

Apple | January 29, 2020

U.S. stock indexes rose on Wednesday, boosted by shares of Apple, Boeing and General Electric following their results, while investors assessed the economic damage of the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. The Federal Reserve is also in focus, with the central bank expected to release its monetary policy statement at 2:00 pm ET, followed by Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. With interest rates expected to remain on hold, market participants are keen to know the central bank&rsquo...

BlackRock | January 15, 2020

BlackRock Inc.'s assets scaled $7 trillion for the first time, putting the spotlight on the world's largest money manager's growing reach. The investment giant took in $128.8 billion in net new money in the fourth quarter of 2019, where exchange-traded funds drew big inflows. That is up from the $49.8 billion in net flows in the year-ago period. BlackRock's quarterly net profits rose 40 percent to $1.3 billion. The company's fourth-quarter earnings of $8.29 a share exceeded W...