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Appian and Swiss Re Extend Partnership to Introduce Connected Underwriting for Life Insurance in Asia Pacific and EMEA

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SINGAPORE, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Following the launch of Connected Underwriting Life Workbench in North America last year, Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) today announced that in partnership with Swiss Re (SWX: SREN), the solution will now be available in select countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Integrated with Swiss Re’s automated life insurance underwriting solution, Magnum, the Appian Connected Underwriting Life Workbench accelerates the life insurance underwriting process and improves underwriters’ productivity and experience on one system.

“Underwriters often find themselves juggling information scattered across email inboxes, outdated systems, and lengthy documents. This is especially true for life underwriters, for whom administrative burden can significantly slow down their ability to accurately assess risk in a timely manner,” said Jacob Sloan, Industry Vice President, Global Insurance, Appian.

“That’s why Appian has partnered with Swiss Re Reinsurance Solutions to introduce Connected Underwriting Life Workbench to improve operational efficiency and the underwriter and customer experience for life insurers. This solution is especially helpful for insurance companies that want to streamline underwriting processes with risk management and policy consistency across multiple markets while allowing flexible and agile adaptation to local regulations.”

Traditional underwriting workbenches have lacked integration across various internal, partner, and third-party systems, on-premises or in the cloud. A typical life insurance underwriter would have to log in to multiple systems to access information, conduct risk analysis and assessment with complex calculations, and manage and update case information, all to underwrite just one life insurance policy.

Modern underwriters want one login and one system to orchestrate their entire workload for multiple cases and clients, allowing them to manage activities, tasks, transactions, and updates seamlessly and effortlessly. They need a powerful, reliable, and secure workbench to connect their data, unify their workflows, and seamlessly automate processes.

“Integrating Swiss Re Reinsurance Solution’s Magnum and Appian Connected Underwriting enables insurers to experience an intelligent and comprehensive underwriting automation and workload management platform,” according to Dylan Rowe, Head of Global Life and Health Automated Solutions, Swiss Re. “After a successful launch in North America last autumn, we are excited to make this life insurance solution available in selected countries of APAC and Europe this year so that even more customers who want to improve the efficiency and quality of underwriting with innovative technology can benefit from it.”

Key benefits of the Appian Connected Underwriting Life Workbench include its ability to:

Enable intelligent case and workload management: Automate workload assignment to provide underwriters with comprehensive case data from multiple systems, enabling them to make more informed decisions more efficiently.Automate underwriting processes and increase straight-through processing: Expedite policy issuance with intelligent automation, embedded underwriting and risk management rules, and integrated third-party data sources on a single system.Elevate customers and underwriters experience: Issue policies faster by automating underwriting workflows, minimising unnecessary wait time, reducing manual errors, and simplifying communications to increase client satisfaction, attract digital‑first customers and new talent, and retain employees.Minimise risk and improve profitability: Connect data from any source to provide 360-degree analysis of individual and portfolio policies with different risks profiles and tolerance levels, determine policy effectiveness with AI-assistance to improve business performance, and meet service-level agreements (SLAs) with insurance partners and clients to manage costs and increase profits.

For more information, please visit Appian’s booth and attend our sessions at these upcoming events:

InsureTech Connect (ITC) Asia, Singapore, 4–6 JuneAppian booth 211Session information: Exploring the Emerging Collaborative Landscape Between Brokers and Insurers (5 June, 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. SGT)ITC DIA Europe, Amsterdam, 12–13 JuneAppian Stand 11Session information: Leveraging Gen AI in Complex Insurance Processing: DAS and Appian (12 June, 9:30 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. CEST)

Find out why Aon, Aviva, CNA Insurance, and other leading insurance organisations trust Appian to increase workforce productivity, minimise wait time, and elevate user and customer experience to drive measurable business results. To learn more and accelerate your insurance underwriting process, visit appian.com/insurance. 

About Appian
Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian AI Process Platform includes everything you need to design, automate, and optimise even the most complex processes, from start to finish. The world’s most innovative organisations trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimise operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer experiences. For more information, visit appian.com/insurance and see how Appian could help your organisation.

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About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cyber crime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. 

 

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MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0 Introduces Cloud Sync for Google Drive and OneDrive

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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MiniTool® Software Limited has announced the release of MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0, the latest version of its Windows backup and file sync software. The update introduces a new Cloud Sync feature for Google Drive and OneDrive, along with enhancements to the registration and purchase experience, interface refinements, and compatibility fixes.

New Features and Improvements in MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0

1. Cloud Sync to Google Drive and OneDrive

MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0 introduces Cloud Sync, allowing users to synchronize files and folders from a Windows computer to Google Drive or OneDrive. Users can choose the files and folders they want to sync and select their preferred cloud storage service as the destination.

The new feature supports one-way synchronization from a local Windows PC to cloud storage, providing an additional way to save copies of important files outside of your computer. Together with MiniTool ShadowMaker’s existing local file sync function, Cloud Sync expands the available destinations for file sync.

2. Streamlined License & Plan Management

The latest update introduces an enhanced register interface that remains easily accessible even after activation. Registered users can now effortlessly review their current plan, explore upgrade options, or update their license key anytime for a smoother user experience.

These refinements are intended to improve usability when users manage their software registration and licensing.

3. Interface Refinements and Compatibility Fixes

MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0 includes interface improvements and fixes for certain display issues. One notable fix addresses a blurry display issue that could occur on some systems equipped with AMD GPUs.

These changes focus on resolving specific issues and improving the user experience on affected systems.

4. Additional Improvements

Beyond Cloud Sync and the changes outlined above, MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0 includes additional interface and functionality refinements. Together, these updates further improve the software’s usability while expanding its file synchronization options.

With support for Google Drive and OneDrive, MiniTool ShadowMaker 5.0 provides Windows users with another approach to manage file copies across local and cloud storage. Users who want to synchronize files to cloud storage can download the Free Edition and explore the new capabilities.

About MiniTool ShadowMaker

MiniTool ShadowMaker is a Windows backup and file sync solution designed to help users protect their operating systems and important data. It supports backing up Windows systems, disks, partitions, files, and folders to local drives, external hard drives, shared folders, and other supported locations. Users can select specific items to back up according to their needs.

For users who need to migrate data to another drive, MiniTool ShadowMaker offers a disk cloning feature. The software also supports restoring backed-up data and creating bootable media for system recovery.

By combining backup, file synchronization, disk cloning, and restore capabilities, MiniTool ShadowMaker offers Windows users a set of tools for data protection and system recovery.

About MiniTool® Software Limited

MiniTool Software Limited is a professional software company that develops computer applications. It provides software for partition management, data recovery, data backup and sync, video editing, multimedia conversion, and screen recording for home and business users. The company is committed to developing innovative, reliable, and easy-to-use software that simplifies everyday digital tasks.

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Rocket Companies to Announce Third Quarter 2026 Results on October 29, 2026

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DETROIT, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Rocket Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RKT) (“Rocket Companies” or “the Company”), the Detroit-based homeownership platform, today announced that the Company will issue its third quarter 2026 earnings on October 29, 2026. Leadership will host a conference call to discuss results at 4:30 p.m. ET on that date. A press release detailing the Company’s results will be issued prior to the call.

A live webcast of the event will be available on the “Events & Presentations” section of the Company’s Investor Relations website at ir.rocketcompanies.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Investor Relations website following the event.

About Rocket Companies

Founded in 1985, Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT) is a Detroit-based homeownership platform including mortgage, real estate and personal finance businesses: Rocket Mortgage, Redfin, Rocket Close, Rocket Money and Rocket Loans.

With insights from more than 160 million calls with clients each year, more than 30 petabytes of data and a mission to Help Everyone Home, Rocket Companies is well positioned to be the destination for AI-fueled homeownership.

For more information, please visit the Company’s Corporate website or Investor Relations website.

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Lunai Bioworks Announces Receipt of Nasdaq Determination and Intention to Voluntarily Delist and Deregister

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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lunai Bioworks Inc. (Nasdaq: LNAI) (the “Company”) announced that on October 21, 2026, it received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Company no longer complies with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), which requires minimum stockholders’ equity of $2,500,000. The Company reported a stockholders’ deficit of $(9,024,946) in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, and does not meet the alternative market value of listed securities or net income standards. Because the Company is subject to a mandatory Hearings Panel Monitor under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), Nasdaq staff determined to delist the Company’s securities. Trading in the Company’s common stock on Nasdaq is expected to be suspended at the opening of business on October 30, 2026.

The Company will not request a hearing. Rather than contest the staff determination, the Company’s Board of Directors approved on October 22, 2026 the voluntary withdrawal of the Company’s common stock from listing on Nasdaq under Rule 12d2-2(c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Board took this action because of the staff determination and the Company’s financial condition, and concluded that the cost of continued listing and SEC reporting is not justified.

The Company notified Nasdaq of its intention on October 22, 2026. The Company intends to file a Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on or about November 2, 2026, and expects the delisting to become effective on or about November 12, 2026. The Company then intends to file a Form 15 to suspend its SEC reporting obligations, to the extent it is eligible to do so. The Company’s SEC reporting obligations will continue unless and until they are terminated or suspended in accordance with the SEC’s rules.

The Company does not intend to arrange for quotation of its common stock on any over-the-counter market and cannot assure that any trading market for its common stock will exist after trading on Nasdaq is suspended.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the expected suspension of trading, the expected timing of the Form 25 and Form 15 filings, and the expected timing of delisting and deregistration. Actual results may differ materially due to risks and uncertainties, including Nasdaq and SEC procedures and the Company’s financial condition. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements, except as required by law.

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