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Keesler Federal Credit Union to Use Black Knight’s Full Suite of Mortgage and Home Equity Origination and Servicing Solutions
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI) announced today that Keesler Federal Credit Union, the largest credit union in Mississippi with more than $3 billion in assets, has signed an agreement to implement a comprehensive suite of Black Knight solutions, including the Empower loan origination system (LOS) and the MSP servicing system, to manage both its first mortgage and home equity portfolios. Keesler Federal Credit Union will use Black Knight solutions across the mortgage life cycle to support improved operational efficiency and help reduce risk.
“To support our growth, we wanted best-in-class servicing and origination systems with proven capabilities offered by a mortgage industry leader that we can trust to invest in its systems and provide ongoing support,” said Delma Powell, senior vice president and chief lending officer for Keesler Federal Credit Union. “After completing our internal due diligence, it became clear that Black Knight stood alone in fulfilling our needs.”
Empower originates both first mortgages and home equity loans on one platform and supports retail, wholesale, consumer direct and correspondent lending channels. To help Keesler Federal Credit Union get on the system more quickly, they will take advantage of the Empower Now! implementation model – which enables faster deployment with lower costs.
Keesler Federal Credit Union will use Black Knight’s suite of productivity solutions that are seamlessly integrated with Empower. These solutions include AIVA, the company’s artificial intelligence solution, to help with document classification and data extraction capabilities; a comprehensive fee monitoring service, complemented by state and federal loan-level compliance testing, third-party ordering and aggregation software; and Black Knight’s eClosing solution.
Black Knight’s suite of origination digital solutions will also enable Keesler Federal Credit Union to provide its members with easy-to-use tools. The company’s AI-augmented point-of-sale solution enhances the customer experience throughout the loan prequalification and application process, while Black Knight’s new loan officer capability will enable Keesler Federal Credit Union to easily track, monitor and provide assistance to the customer’s experience, step-by-step through the loan application process leveraging an intuitive user interface.
Keesler Federal Credit Union will also leverage the Black Knight MSP servicing system, which provides a robust, scalable and cost-effective servicing process, with the utmost focus on member satisfaction and regulatory compliance. MSP helps servicers manage all servicing processes – from loan boarding and payment processing to escrow administration, default management and more – to support greater operational efficiency, improved risk management and superior service. More advantages about the MSP system can be found here.
The MSP system will be complemented by Black Knight’s Servicing Digital, a mobile solution that will help Keesler Federal Credit Union deliver detailed, timely and highly personalized loan information to its members about the value of their homes and how much wealth can be built from these real estate assets. Servicing Digital will also help Keesler Federal Credit Union to deepen relationships and increase retention by presenting members with customized, home-related opportunities, such as refinancing, tapping home equity or the purchase of another home.
To gain maximum visibility into its originations and servicing operations, Keesler Federal Credit Union will implement Black Knight’s Actionable Intelligence Platform (AIP). This advanced data delivery framework combines Black Knight’s extensive data assets, big data ecosystem and enterprise business intelligence capabilities into a single solution. Using an array of pre-configured suites, Black Knight’s AIP helps both lending and servicing clients gain and retain customers, reduce risk and decrease operational costs.
“Black Knight is laser-focused on providing innovative technology to help credit unions better support their valued members,” said Joe Nackashi, president of Black Knight, Inc. “By leveraging multiple Black Knight solutions integrated across the loan life cycle, Keesler Federal Credit Union will gain significant value to help drive growth, increase insight across the enterprise and enhance its member experience.”
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:
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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.
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Ordinary shares |
Class C shares1
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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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