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Weekly Recap: 15 Finance Press Releases You Need to See
A roundup of the most newsworthy financial press releases from PR Newswire this week, including GoDaddy’s Most Entrepreneurial Cities of 2025 and new AI agents from Workday.
NEW YORK, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help finance journalists and consumers stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
PR Newswire Weekly Finance Press Release Roundup, May 19-23, 2025.
- WesBanco, Inc. Expands Regional Presence with Conversion of Premier Financial Corp.
Marking the largest conversion in the bank’s history, WesBanco, Inc. announced the successful customer transition of approximately 400,000 consumer and 50,000 business relationships, along with the branding and operations of approximately 70 financial centers, from Premier Financial Corp. to WesBanco. - The Most Entrepreneurial Cities of 2025 Prove Size Doesn’t Matter
New GoDaddy data reveals unexpected hotspots fueling the United States’ entrepreneurial spirit, revealing that both small and large cities are driving innovation. - Finastra to Sell Treasury and Capital Markets Division to Apax Funds
Upon completion of the transaction, Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) business will be rebranded and operated as a standalone business. With a client base of over 340 financial institutions, TCM is a trusted enabler of risk management, regulatory compliance, and capital markets operations. - Workday Unveils Next Generation of Illuminate Agents to Transform HR and Finance Operations
“The key to unlocking real business value with AI is to actively reshape the very core of how businesses operate,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, president, product and technology, Workday. “Workday is helping our 11,000+ customers in that transformation by leveraging our deep HR and finance expertise to deliver agents that provide measurable business value and empower them to thrive in the future of work.” - Record-Breaking World Liberty Financial USD1 Stablecoin Unlocks Cross-Chain Capabilities With Chainlink
Backed by short-term U.S. government treasuries, U.S. dollar deposits, and other cash equivalents, the USD1 stablecoin has skyrocketed in record time to eclipse $2 billion in market capitalization. - Deloitte: Americans Plan to Travel More This Summer, but Trips May be Less Extensive
According to Deloitte’s 2025 Summer Travel Survey, more than half (53%) of Americans surveyed plan to travel and stay in paid lodging this summer, up from 48% last year. Many are making it work by taking more frequent, but shorter, trips. Americans continue to prioritize leisure travel, despite economic headwinds that may send summer travel plans in a new direction. - Caregivers Face Lasting Financial, Emotional and Career Impacts, Edward Jones Study Finds
Two in five U.S. adults identify as family caregivers, but there is a lack of support for caregivers nationwide, according to new research from Edward Jones in partnership with Morning Consult and Age Wave. Top financial concerns caregivers face include rising costs and inflation (56%) and inadequate retirement savings (42%). - PNC Bank Agrees to Acquire Aqueduct Capital Group to Complement Harris Williams Capabilities
“This acquisition is complementary to existing capital advisory capabilities provided through PNC’s subsidiary Harris Williams and will enable us to expand our ability to serve the global capital needs of the private equity industry,” said Michael D. Thomas, head of Corporate & Institutional Banking at PNC. - Fisher Investments Launches Fiduciary.com™: A New Resource to Help Investors Better Understand the Wealth Management Industry
Fiduciary.com provides investors with straightforward education about what a fiduciary is and isn’t, competing standards of care in the industry, and what to look for when hiring a wealth manager. - GM enhances loyalty program and unveils new GM Rewards™ Mastercard® from Barclays
The revamped loyalty program is simpler, and the new card provides customers more ways to earn and redeem GM Rewards points across GM brands for new vehicles, services, parts and accessories. - Southwest Gas Holdings Announces Launch of Secondary Public Offering of Centuri Holdings, Inc. Common Stock
Southwest Gas Holdings, as the selling stockholder, is offering 9,000,000 existing shares of Centuri’s common stock. Southwest Gas Holdings expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,350,000 shares of Centuri’s common stock. - Introducing CHASM: A Solution to Close the Gender Gap – Powered by the World’s Most Successful Men & Women
Powered by an invite-only membership, CHASM is a club of the most successful men and women in the world (each contributing $25,000 annually) that transforms their capital into change by helping women founders thrive. “With CHASM, we’re tackling the gender gap in an innovative way — by not isolating men, but by inviting them in. If 99.9% of the power, money, and influence still sits with men, they need to be part of the solution,” says CHASM founder Daniella Pierson. - Papaya Global Launches the First Enterprise Platform for Managing and Paying Global Contingent Workers
Papaya’s new platform – Contingent OS – is the first enterprise-grade solution built to unify the full external workforce lifecycle. It connects the dots between vendor management systems (VMS), payroll compliance, invoice verification, and instant global payments – enabling true end-to-end orchestration for contingent workforce programs at scale. - Synchrony Partners with the Independent Animal Hospital Association (IAHA) to offer CareCredit, Spotlighting Commitment to the Nation’s Independent Veterinary Hospitals
As the Independent Animal Hospital Association’s (IAHA) preferred financing partner, Synchrony’s CareCredit health and wellness credit card will be offered at the association’s more than 500 independent animal hospitals in more than 30 states. - Vanguard Releases New Book on Forces Shaping the Future Global Economy
The new book, Coming into View, introduces a groundbreaking, quantitative method in assessing the impact of megatrends on the global economy. The book offers bold new perspectives on the effects of AI, deficits, and demographic shifts for investors, financial advisors, and business leaders.
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A girl from a disadvantaged rural family in central China topped this year’s gaokao, attracting numerous live-streamers eager to finance her education, which she declined.
The home of 18-year-old secondary school graduate Han Yaping in a Henan province village was recently bustling with live-streamers.
This attention came after Han achieved an impressive score of 699 out of 750 in the gaokao, China’s national college entrance exam.
She has received offers from China’s two leading universities, Tsinghua University and Peking University.
Han’s accomplishment is particularly remarkable given her family’s impoverished circumstances.
Her mother suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory arthritis affecting the spine, preventing her from working. Her father, who earns a living through farming and odd jobs, serves as the family’s sole provider. Han also has a younger sister.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a landmark review on Monday that proposes recommendations to regulate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the financial decisions made by consumers.
The review, titled the Mills Review, anticipates that both consumers and firms will start delegating “more financial decision-making to AI systems,” including for agreements, initiating transactions, and executing decisions “within agreed parameters.” One of the key findings of the review outlined that while AI can help bridge advice gaps and “support growth,” there remain risks “associated with fraud, cyber security, and consumer harm.” Conducting the review, Sheldon Mills highlighted that “AI can also amplify risks: bias, discrimination, exclusion, opaque decision-making (particularly when multiple AI models interact), misleading or hallucinatory advice and erosion of consumer trust.”
The review stated that presently, one in five adults in the UK are “already open to AI making decisions for them,” particularly when decisions feel “complex or high stakes.” It found that roughly 26 percent of the population “trust general-purpose tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for financial advice” with little awareness that such platforms provide no “formal routes to recourse” or protections.
Overall, the Mills Review identified four areas that it anticipates will be impacted by AI in the financial sector: “the transformation of firms,” “new consumer journeys,” “a reshaped competition landscape,” and “amplified financial crime and cyber risk.” The FCA projected the shift in how consumers and firms consult AI to take place by 2030.
The Mills Review put forth seven “priority” recommendations to be considered by the FCA Board. It recommended that any transitions to autonomous AI models be monitored and that regulatory frameworks and perimeters be adapted and secured. The review called for the strengthening of “system-wide coordination and oversight,” the scaling up of the FCA’s AI Lab to enable it to support AI models and innovation for agentic finance, and an “AI-enabled agentic supervisory model” to be built and adopted. Finally, it recommended that a trusted “public-interest AI-enabled financial capability service” be developed.
The FCA announced, in the press release, that it will launch an AI “good and poor practice publication” in late 2026.
Finance
Fayette County Public Schools Board of Education approves audit contract, new finance director position
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The Fayette County Public Schools Board of Education approved a one-year audit contract capped at $131,750 plus $225 per hour during a virtual meeting Monday, along with a new finance director job description.
The contract is with Mauldin & Jenkins Certified Public Accountants, an Atlanta-based firm, and covers the 2025-26 fiscal year and the restatement of the 2024-25 fiscal year and ancillary services through FY 2029-2030. The work is set to be completed by Nov. 15.
The board approved the contract in a 5-0 vote.
Audit contract details
Interim Chief Financial Officer Kyna Koch said the cost is already accounted for in the district’s budget.
“And is actually less than we expected given our current situation — we were thrilled with the bid,” Koch said.
Koch said she believes this is Mauldin & Jenkins’ first school district audit in Kentucky, but that the firm works with school districts of more than 100,000 students throughout the Southeast.
“Quite frankly when I spoke to the folks at KDE they were thrilled because we’re running kind of short of auditors who want to do school district audits — so all around I think this was a win-win for everyone,” Koch said.
New finance director position
The board also approved a new job description for the position of Director of Finance. Acting Superintendent Dr. Bill Bradford said the title will replace two associate director positions.
“Which will not only save the school district money but it’s also going to streamline our work and align internal controls to make room for a more efficient unit,” Bradford said.
Koch said the position will be posted as soon as possible following the board’s approval.
Closed session
The board went into closed session for more than an hour to discuss pending investigations that could lead to employee discipline. When the board returned, it took no action and adjourned the meeting.
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