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Maridea Wealth Management Expands $2 Billion Advisory Platform Into Ohio With River Cities Financial Services And DFW Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Maridea Wealth Management is expanding into Ohio for the first time by adding River Cities Financial Services and Dietz, Futrell & Walters Insurance, bringing two affiliated Marietta-area financial services firms to its growing national wealth management platform. The combination adds an established operation offering both investment advisory and insurance services while extending Maridea's geographic footprint into a new state.

FintechOS Raises $28 Million To Expand AI-Native Financial Services Platform After 130% U.S. Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

FintechOS has raised $28 million in combined equity and debt financing as the financial technology company accelerates expansion of its AI-native platform for banks, insurers and other financial services organizations across the United States and Europe.

BlackLine Acquires AI Credit Risk Platform NetNow To Expand Invoice-To-Cash And Agentic Finance Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

BlackLine has acquired NetNow, an AI-enabled B2B customer onboarding and credit risk management platform, expanding its Invoice-to-Cash offering and adding upstream credit intelligence to its Agentic Financial Operations Platform.

Lumen Launches Intelligent Internet With On-Demand Bandwidth Up To 100 Gbps For AI And Cloud Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Lumen Technologies has launched Lumen Intelligent Internet, a new enterprise connectivity service designed to provide cloud-like flexibility by allowing businesses to provision internet service in minutes and dynamically scale bandwidth as AI, cloud and other workloads change.

Mayer Brown Adds Former Federal Reserve Senior Special Counsel Andrew Hartlage As Washington Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Mayer Brown has added Andrew Hartlage as a partner in its Public Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs practice in Washington, D.C., strengthening the global law firm's capabilities in banking regulation, financial services policy and government affairs.

Dragos Acquires NetRise And runZero To Expand xOT Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Dragos has completed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero, expanding its industrial cybersecurity platform with exposure management and software supply chain security capabilities following the closing of Accenture's majority investment in the company earlier this year.

Searchable Acquires Meridian In Seven-Figure Deal To Expand AI Search Visibility Platform In U.S.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Searchable has acquired New York-based Meridian Tech in a seven-figure transaction, expanding the AI visibility company's U.S. presence and adding customers to its growing answer engine optimization platform.

EQUS: Interview With CEO Sandy Carter About AI Data Ownership And Digital Identity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

EQUS is building technology designed to give individuals greater ownership and control over the data, identity, and reputation that power their AI experiences. The company is developing consumer and enterprise capabilities around personal AI, portable data, verifiable credentials, and trusted agentic action, with the premise that the layer between a person and an AI model should belong to the individual rather than the platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed EQUS CEO Sandy Carter to learn more.

Fluxnium Raises $7 Million Seed Round To Develop Uranium-From-Seawater Technology For Domestic Nuclear Fuel Supply

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Fluxnium has raised $7 million in seed funding to commercialize technology designed to extract uranium from seawater, giving the company additional capital to develop a potential domestic source of the critical mineral used across civilian nuclear power and defense applications. The round was led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture investing organization within Constellation, and Active Impact Investments, a Canadian climate technology seed investor.

Novo Nordisk Targets More Than $23 Billion In Pipeline Sales By 2035 With Five New Multiblockbuster Drugs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Novo Nordisk is targeting more than DKK 150 billion, or approximately $23 billion, in annual sales from pipeline medicines by 2035 as the pharmaceutical company lays out an aggressive plan to launch multiple new blockbuster drugs and diversify beyond its dominant obesity and diabetes franchises, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Starbucks To Open Chennai Technology Hub In FY27 To Bring More Technology Work In-House

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Starbucks plans to open a new technology hub in Chennai, India, during fiscal 2027 as the coffee company expands its global technology organization and brings more work currently handled by third-party service providers in-house.

Volvo Cars Names Klaus Zellmer As President And CEO To Lead Next Growth Chapter

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer as President and Chief Executive Officer, selecting an automotive industry veteran with more than three decades of experience across Škoda Auto, Volkswagen and Porsche to lead the company through its next phase of development.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Rejects Calls To Slow Artificial Intelligence Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected predictions that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity within the next several years, saying there is a “0% chance” of such an outcome by 2030, according to The Guardian.

SoftBank Launches $11 Billion Bond Sale To Finance OpenAI Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

SoftBank Group has launched approximately $11 billion of bond offerings to help finance its planned investment in OpenAI, according to Reuters. The Japanese investment company is marketing about $10 billion of dollar-denominated bonds alongside a roughly €1 billion offering. SoftBank intends to use the proceeds primarily to fund its $10 billion commitment to OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.