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William Blair is a Chicago-based investment bank and asset management firm offering equity research, M&A advisory, and wealth management services.
Wise says it has remediated every point of its US AML consent order, after the OCC denied its trust bank charter in July. The $4.2 million order equals 0.6% of a quarter's net revenue; the bigger cost is a charter with no restart date.
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Oracle shares fell more than 6% on Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl over Project Jupiter, its New Mexico AI data center. The notice protects Oracle's cash if the site runs late and makes its 2028 date the one lenders and investors now watch.
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Merck and Moderna put out no efficacy figures. Illumina still rose 16% and PacBio 18%, because an approved per-patient therapy implies a sequencing run per patient.
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The contracted number is $2.4 billion of generator deliveries across 2027 and 2028, about $1.2 billion a year against $4.2 billion of 2025 revenue, and Amazon holds an option on 1.69 million Generac shares at $200.93.
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Meta shares are up more than 25% since Muse launched, on an agent whose early users were more than 95% existing Facebook users. The pendant meant to carry that audience off the iPhone has no price yet and has had two trading sessions to show up in the stock.
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Moov Money sends transfers to a recipient's existing debit card through Jack Henry's Banno platform and the card networks' push rails. Zelle already integrates with more than 2,300 institutions and moved more than $1.2 trillion last year.
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American Express is selling small businesses a savings account, a card whose 2% rewards can be redeemed as deposits, and from early 2027 a payroll system whose AI it licenses from Gusto.
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Affirm's eleventh straight quarter above 30% growth was also its most profitable. The $64bn floor guided for fiscal 2027 implies at most 28% growth, and that gap is where the card-displacement argument gets tested.
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The quarter grew revenue 11% with a guide near 12%, so Thursday's move repriced a fear rather than a forecast, and the $2.6bn Anthropic gain sitting behind it is a private valuation mark.
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The Canfield firm's first institutional investor gets an RIA and a technology practice alongside the CPA business, plus an attest arm it is not permitted to own.
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Block's Square unit now lets sellers pay vendors by ACH or check through Bill Pay, paying triple rewards to route those flows, while Stripe negotiates for PayPal.
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Casey's, Couche-Tard and Murphy USA are all up at least 24% this year on a defensive label. The earnings driver is a closed Strait of Hormuz, which is the opposite of defensive.
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