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Envestnet | Yodlee Recognizes Citi FinTech Global Open Banking, FinTech Sandbox and Domuso for Outstanding Innovation at 2019 Benzinga Fintech Awards
Last night, at the 5th annual Benzinga FinTech Awards, Envestnet | Yodlee, a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform for digital financial services, and official partner of the event, announced three organizations as recipients of Envestnet | Yodlee FinTech Innovation Achievements. This exclusive award honors organizations in three categories who go above and beyond to create progress for the entire FinTech ecosystem through innovative thinking, outstanding technology and trailblazing business strategy.
Recipients of the Envestnet | Yodlee FinTech Innovation Achievements are as follows:
- Citi –
- Citi FinTech – for driving innovation, financial wellness, and Open Banking strategic partnerships
- Citi Developer Hub – for creating communities and ecosystem networks to solve financial problems
- FinTech Sandbox – for influence across the FinTech ecosystem to solve financial problems and provide financial wellness solutions to the underserved
- Domuso – for unique use of financial data and market traction
“The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards have always been about celebrating innovation,” said Patrick Lane, Benzinga’s Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. “Our goal is to put early-stage startups next to unicorns and institutions and showcase how each part of the ecosystem works to propel the industry forward. Our third-party judge’s panel, comprised of industry veterans, grade each company based on criteria such as the significance of the problem their product solves and how adept it is at doing so.”
With a focus on enabling innovation that drives financial wellness, Envestnet | Yodlee has worked with leading financial institutions and FinTechs for more than 20 years, providing the world’s most comprehensive and accurate financial data with cutting-edge data intelligence and analytics.
“At Envestnet | Yodlee, our team of experts and developers have seen all sorts of innovation in FinTech, so I believe we’re uniquely equipped to evaluate greatness in our ecosystem,” said Christine Loredo, Envestnet | Yodlee’s Vice President of FinTech Evangelism. “We partnered with Benzinga this year to ensure that the FinTech world is aware of the magnitude of the contributions made by these three organizations.
Envestnet | Yodlee has a deep footprint in fostering FinTech start-ups and early-stage entrepreneurship. Through its Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator, the company has provided guidance and mentorship to startups and their founders to drive innovation in the FinTech industry. Leveraging Envestnet | Yodlee’s financial data platform capabilities and the team’s vision and assistance, Incubator graduates have gone on to achieve success across many critical benchmarks. Forty early-stage startups have come through the Incubator, 32 of which are still active, and these firms have raised over $100 million in venture capital.
SOURCE Benzinga
LONDON, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), the AI-enabled, agile content business, has announced a strategic partnership with creative intelligence startup Sundogs, leveraging AI to deliver greater creative performance for its global clients.
The partnership harnesses Sundogs’ deep expertise in AI-driven consumer understanding, combining AI with data and creative capabilities to see inside ads and maximize creative performance. This methodology directly feeds and influences ITG’s own AI-enabled, agile content model.
Joining forces with Sundogs empowers ITG to know what content to create to resonate most effectively with different audience segments, on different channels, and in different markets — ensuring that content is crafted to maximize creative performance, from the point of production.
“This feels like a very natural meeting of our two companies, given Sundogs’ unique ability to enhance creative effectiveness through AI, which marries perfectly with our own AI-enabled, agile content model,” said Andrew Swinand, ITG CEO. “Partnering with Sundogs makes us better and smarter in the way we craft content, equipping our clients with a deeper understanding of their audience, and the ability to deliver intelligent creative campaigns at speed — with each asset tailored to meet the requirements of every possible customer interaction.”
Already working with global clients such as Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), PUMA, KFC and more, ITG’s partnership with Sundogs will uncover new opportunities for creative effectiveness, including the development of a scoring system to identify assets most likely to drive performance, and enhanced templates for content automation through its Gartner-recognized Storyteq platform.
Storyteq was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for both Content Marketing Platforms and Digital Asset Management — the only vendor worldwide to be recognized as a Leader in both categories.
Ben Jones, Sundogs CEO & Founder, commented, “What’s happening inside of video content is the new frontier of performance. We know more about how people take in information, what moves them, and what creates lasting business impact than ever before. Making sure that is applied at scale and speed is what makes this partnership with ITG so exciting.”
About Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)
ITG is the leading Halo content partner to businesses around the world. It eliminates marketing complexity and delivers AI-enabled, agile content at speed and scale to drive business growth and reduce marketing costs. Clients include Heineken, Microsoft, Samsung, Haleon, KFC, John Lewis Partnership and more. ITG employs over 2,000 people throughout its global offices and its Storyteq platform is recognized by Gartner as a global Leader.
About Sundogs
Sundogs was founded by Ben Jones, who pioneered creative guidance as the founder of Unskippable Labs at Google, and entrepreneur Jonathan Savitch, who brought rich content to flight shopping at Routehappy, and acquired by ATPCO. Leveraging the power of creative storytelling, data, and AI, Sundogs delivers outstanding creative, backed by its team of Cannes-winning creatives, leading data scientists, and content strategists.
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STOCKHOLM, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Between 24 March 2025 and 28 March 2025 EQT AB (LEI code 213800U7P9GOIRKCTB34) (“EQT”) has repurchased in total 571,000 own ordinary shares (ISIN: SE0012853455).
The repurchases form part of the repurchase program of a maximum of 4,931,018 own ordinary shares for a total maximum amount of SEK 2,500,000,000 that EQT announced on 11 March 2025. The repurchase program, which runs between 12 March 2025 and 16 May 2025, is being carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.
EQT ordinary shares have been repurchased as follows:
|
Date: |
Aggregated volume (number of shares): |
Weighted average share price per day (SEK): |
Aggregated transaction value (SEK):
|
|
24 March 2025 |
106,000 |
331.7656
|
35,167,153.60
|
|
25 March 2025 |
110,000 |
328.5135
|
36,136,485.00
|
|
26 March 2025 |
115,000 |
321.9059
|
37,019,178.50
|
|
27 March 2025 |
115,000 |
311.4573
|
35,817,589.50
|
|
28 March 2025 |
125,000 |
313.7998
|
39,224,975.00 |
|
Total accumulated over week 13 |
571,000 |
321.1303
|
183,365,381.60
|
|
Total accumulated during the repurchase program |
1,440,966 |
317.4781
|
457,475,190.19
|
All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on behalf of EQT.
Following the above acquisitions and as of 28 March 2025, the number of shares in EQT, including EQT’s holding of own shares is set out in the table below.
|
Ordinary shares |
Class C shares1
|
Total
|
|
|
Number of issued shares2 |
1,241,510,911 |
496,056
|
1,242,006,967
|
|
Number of shares owned by EQT AB3 |
61,365,157 |
–
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61,365,157
|
|
Number of outstanding shares |
1,180,145,754 |
496,056
|
1,180,641,810
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1) Carry one tenth (1/10) of a vote
2) Total number of shares in EQT AB, i.e. including the number of shares owned by EQT AB
3) EQT AB shares owned by EQT AB are not entitled to dividends or carry votes at shareholders’ meetings
A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.
Contact
Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15
EQT Press Office, press@eqtpartners.com, +46 8 506 55 334
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The following files are available for download:
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https://mb.cision.com/Main/87/4128158/3357232.pdf |
EQT Transactions 20250324 to 20250328 |
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EQT AB Group |
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PANAMA CITY, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — K9 Finance DAO, the leading liquid staking platform and largest validator on the Shiba Inu Layer-2 blockchain, Shibarium, is joining the Google Cloud for Startups Program, which will allow it to utilize Google Cloud credits and access Google Cloud’s infrastructure and technologies.. This will power the development of critical infrastructure on Shibarium by enhancing the ecosystem’s scalability, security, and liquidity through innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions. Additionally, K9 Finance DAO’s membership in the Google for Startups Cloud Program will support the creation of AI-powered DAO governance and operational tools, such as an AI agent to streamline community participation, further strengthening K9 DAO’s role in the Shiba Inu ecosystem.
“We’re honored to join the Google for Startups Cloud Program,” said Buzz, K9 DAO lead. “This accelerates our mission to bring advanced decentralized finance tools to Shibarium’s infrastructure. It also gives significant room to innovate in the AI sector for the Shiba Inu community.”
K9 Finance DAO enables users to stake their BONE tokens, receiving liquid tokens in return that unlock a range of DeFi opportunities while keeping assets accessible.
As the largest validator on Shibarium, K9 Finance DAO secures the network with over 2.5 million BONE tokens delegated to its validator, maintaining a perfect 100% uptime, according to Shibarium’s validator data. This leadership role reinforces Shibarium’s decentralization and reliability. Additionally, K9 Finance holds the highest Total Value Locked (TVL) on Shibarium, currently at $1.31 million, as reported by DeFiLlama and https://defillama.com/chain/Shibarium, highlighting its dominance in the ecosystem’s DeFi landscape.
K9 DAO has also open-sourced all Shibarium blockchain data using Google’s BigQuery to give further transparency to the ecosystem and give future builders the tools they require to create a decentralized financial future within the Shib Inu community.
About K9 Finance DAO
K9 Finance DAO is the official liquid staking platform and largest validator on Shibarium, committed to advancing DeFi within the Shiba Inu ecosystem. By allowing BONE holders to stake their tokens, earn rewards, and participate in governance with liquid assets, K9 Finance drives innovation and strengthens Shibarium’s infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.k9finance.com.
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