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Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale accelerates deployment of generative AI in collaboration with IBM

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STRASBOURG, France and ARMONK, N.Y., June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, a pioneer in the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 2016, invests in cutting-edge technologies. Used every day by its 25,000 advisors, AI freed up nearly 1 million hours of administrative work in 2023 to enable them to continue to best serve their members and clients.

Operating as a sovereign technology bank, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale stands out for its ability to carry out almost all of this IT processing in its own datacenters — an approach underpinned by the historic collaboration established between the teams of Euro-Information, the mutualist group’s technology subsidiary, and IBM (NYSE: IBM).

To maintain its lead in artificial intelligence, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and Euro-Information are expanding their long-term collaboration with IBM via its IBM watsonx platform — an AI and data platform designed to help businesses develop responsible AI — deployed on Credit Mutuel’s in-house computing infrastructure. This collaboration will make it possible to accelerate and industrialize the deployment of generative AI.

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale plans to rely on in-house developments and on watsonx to progressively deploy thirty-five AI use cases in Crédit Mutuel and CIC networks, with planned availability for the first set this summer. The mutualist group is also testing the InstructLab technique, jointly developed by IBM and Red Hat, to allow it to design models specific to its field of activity using its own data.

“For the past eight years, the success of our collaboration with IBM in artificial intelligence technologies has demonstrated the relevance of our strategy combining mutualist commitment and innovation. With watsonx, the Euro-Information and IBM teams gathered within the Cognitive Factory are working on the industrialization of 35 new use cases to enable our banking advisors to always offer the best possible services to our customers and members,” indicates Éric Petitgand, Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.

“Because banking is a technological business, it is essential to constantly innovate in order to master the technologies of the future. Our collaboration with IBM is all the more strategic as the InstructLab technique will enable us to adapt generative AI to our pioneering commitments to ethical and trustworthy AI that meets the specific needs of our company,” says Frantz Rublé, President of Euro-Information.

“We are delighted to expand our collaboration with Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale. watsonx will allow them to bring cutting-edge generative AI capabilities to improve the customer experience,” adds Sébastian Krause, SVP IBM Corporation.

“Our strategic collaboration with the Crédit Mutuel Group and Euro-Information is thus further strengthened around three pillars: technological innovation, acceleration of transformation, and talent development,” concludes Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, IBM Managing Director for Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.

Generative AI for enhanced customer relations with the dedicated local advisor

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale has relied since its creation on technology to best serve its customers and members. In collaboration with IBM Consulting, Euro-Information’s Cognitive Factory has already massively deployed several cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions, including for customer experience, risk management and compliance, support for account managers and document understanding.

Building on its know-how, Euro-Information will develop 35 AI use cases on an industrial scale, relying on in-house developments and on watsonx. Three initial generative AI solutions are expected to be deployed in the third quarter, enabling advisors to respond even more efficiently to the needs of their customers and members. In addition to MonIA, a broad catalog of AI-based services (document synthesis, transcription of appointments, etc.), they could benefit from templates for replying to customer emails, as well as an AI assistant providing personalized responses to help them with their assignments. A fourth pilot will support the Group’s IT development employees.

Managing the value chain for building ethical and trustworthy AI

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, via the Chambre Syndicale et Interfédérale – its parliament made up of elected members and employees – has adopted a charter for trustworthy AI. This charter sets out commitments that govern the use of AI. IBM’s watsonx.governance will help Euro-Information implement them.

In this context, the governance of the mutualist group places AI at the service of human beings: elected representatives, employees, members and customers. It ensures strict respect for digital privacy. Bringing transparent and documented use of AI, it favors the most sober technological solutions and ensures that the principle of pooling banking and insurance offers is perpetuated to guarantee the interests of members and customers.

These collective choices are made possible because Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale operates as a sovereign industrial bank. In this respect, almost all IT processing is carried out on its own datacenters located in France and Europe, using software over which it has full control.

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Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale: Aziz Ridouan – +33 (0)6 01 10 31 69 – aziz.ridouan@creditmutuel.fr
IBM: Gaëlle Dussutour – +33 (0)6 74 98 26 92 – dusga@fr.ibm.com

About IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

Visit ibm.com for more information.

About Euro-Information

Euro-Information is the technology subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel. Euro-Information manages the IT systems of 16 federations of the Crédit Mutuel group as well as those of CIC and of all the financial, insurance, property, consumer credit, private banking, financing, telephony and technological subsidiaries.

With a headcount of almost 4 000, Euro-Information offers cutting-edge technology to employees and banking customers alike, backed up by a high level of security and personal data protection. Euro-Information has in-house expertise in all technologies and carries out the developments necessary for the entities of the Crédit Mutuel group.

For more information e-i.com

About Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale

One of France’s leading bankinsurers, with 77,000 employees serving more than 31 million customers, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale’s more than 4,300 branches offer a diversified range of services to private individuals, local professionals and companies of all sizes.

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, first French banking group to have adopted the status of mission-driven company, is made up of the following Crédit Mutuel federations: Centre Est Europe (Strasbourg), Sud-Est (Lyon), Île-de-France (Paris), Savoie-Mont Blanc (Annecy), Midi-Atlantique (Toulouse), Loire-Atlantique et Centre-Ouest (Nantes), Centre (Orléans), Normandie (Caen), Dauphiné-Vivarais (Valence), Méditerranéen (Marseille), Anjou (Angers), Massif Central (Clermont-Ferrand), Antilles-Guyane (Fort-de-France) and Nord Europe (Lille).

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale also includes Caisse Fédérale de Crédit Mutuel, Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) and all its subsidiaries, in particular CIC, Euro-Information, Assurances du Crédit Mutuel (ACM), Targobank in Germany, Cofidis, Beobank in Belgium, Banque Européenne du Crédit Mutuel (BECM), Banque Transatlantique, Banque de Luxembourg, and Homiris.

Find more information at http://www.creditmutuelalliancefederale.fr/en/

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Keeper Security Launches Integration With Wiz to Remediate Critical Cloud Vulnerabilities

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With new integration, Keeper’s identity security platform remediates vulnerabilities discovered by Wiz, enabling closed-loop protection across cloud environments.

CHICAGO, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, today announces a new integration with Wiz, a leading cloud and AI security platform that is now part of Google Cloud. Joining the Wiz Integration Network establishes Keeper as a remediation engine for identity security vulnerabilities discovered by Wiz, closing the loop between cloud security detection and active risk resolution. When Wiz identifies an identity-related vulnerability, spanning human users, machine identities, AI agents and database accounts, it automatically surfaces the finding in Keeper’s Cloud Security dashboard, where security teams can review and remediate each issue directly within KeeperPAM®.

As cloud environments grow more complex, organizations face an expanding attack surface driven by the rapid proliferation of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), autonomous AI agents and over-privileged service accounts. Wiz surfaces these risks with unmatched cloud visibility and Keeper provides joint customers with an automated, trusted path from discovery to remediation.

“Finding a vulnerability is the first half of the battle,” said Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. “By integrating with Wiz, Keeper helps customers rotate compromised credentials, enforce privileged access management and reduce over-permissioned identities, turning Wiz’s detection power into faster, more decisive risk reduction. This is the future of cloud security – detection and remediation working as one, giving security teams a clear path from vulnerability discovery to resolution across the identities and workloads that matter most.”

“We’re happy to welcome Keeper to the Wiz Integration Network,” said Oron Noah, VP of Product, Extensibility & Partnerships at Wiz. “Together, we’re helping customers connect cloud risk findings with privileged access controls, making it easier to move from discovery to remediation. By bringing cloud visibility and access management into a unified workflow, teams can better secure both human and machine identities at scale.”

At the heart of the integration is a real-time workflow that transforms Wiz’s Issues into Keeper-driven remediation actions. When a Wiz customer enables the Keeper integration, Wiz scans the cloud environment for identity security vulnerabilities within Keeper’s remediation scope. Security teams can then select a finding and execute the appropriate remediation action through KeeperPAM:

Rotate compromised credentials and vault updated secretsBring unmanaged accounts under PAM governanceReduce excessive privileges for users, service accounts and IAM rolesMap Wiz Issues to existing PAM records or onboard new resourcesSubmit resolutions back to Wiz to close the loop on each finding

This tight integration bridges the gap between cloud security detection and identity security remediation, giving security teams a single, closed-loop workflow. Rather than manually triaging Wiz Issues and separately executing remediation steps in Keeper, KeeperPAM works alongside Wiz by automatically receiving identity-related Issues and streamlining the remediation steps. For teams, this results in accelerated Mean Time To Remediation (MTTR) and a dramatically reduced window of exposure before a vulnerability can be exploited.

The integration is especially powerful in AI-native environments, where autonomous agents and service accounts can rapidly accumulate excessive permissions across cloud infrastructure. Wiz’s AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP) detects over-privileged AI agents, insecure service configurations and other AI-native risks. Keeper serves as a designated remediation engine, enforcing least privilege policies and enabling just-in-time access controls for AI agents in response. Together, they secure the full AI lifecycle from code to runtime, without requiring manual intervention from security teams.

Key benefits include:

Streamlined Identity Remediation: When Wiz discovers an identity security vulnerability, Keeper takes action – rotating compromised credentials, enforcing PAM controls and reducing excess privileges – streamlining the steps between detection and resolution.Closed-Loop Security Workflow: Connect Wiz’s industry-leading cloud and AI vulnerability detection directly to Keeper’s privileged access management platform for a complete detect-to-remediate pipeline that operates at cloud scale.Accelerated Mean Time to Remediation: By accelerating response to identity vulnerabilities at the moment of discovery, organizations dramatically shrink the window of exposure and reduce the risk of breach escalation.Comprehensive Identity Coverage: Remediation scope covers the full range of identity types, including human users, machine identities, AI agents and database accounts, ensuring no privileged entity goes unmanaged across cloud environments.

KeeperPAM, Keeper’s cloud-native privileged access management platform, unifies password, secrets and connections management with zero-trust network access, endpoint privilege management and remote browser isolation in a single solution. Built on a zero-trust and zero-knowledge architecture, KeeperPAM provides real-time visibility, automated credential security and AI-powered session monitoring to help organizations prevent breaches and maintain compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

By connecting detection directly to remediation, Keeper and Wiz give security teams the confidence that cloud risks are not just visible, but actively resolved. KeeperPAM’s zero-trust architecture ensures every remediation action maintains a verifiable chain of custody – from Wiz’s initial finding through to Keeper’s corrective action – supporting both continuous compliance and audit readiness.

Keeper’s integration with Wiz is available now. Review the full release notes in the Keeper documentation.

About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security solution, trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. KeeperPAM® is Keeper’s privileged access management platform that unifies password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged session management and endpoint privilege management in a single cloud-native platform, protected with quantum-resistant encryption. KeeperAI delivers real-time, AI-native threat detection across every privileged session. As AI agents proliferate and identity becomes the defining attack surface, Keeper governs access for humans, machines, non-human identities and AI agents, serving as the unified control plane for access, compliance and visibility across the enterprise. For more information, visit KeeperSecurity.com.

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Benzinga Launches Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API for Faster Institutional Ownership Intelligence

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DETROIT, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Benzinga, a leading provider of market intelligence and financial data APIs, today announced the launch of its Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API. The new dataset is designed to help brokerages, fintech platforms, quantitative researchers, and investor applications uncover signals hidden within hedge fund and institutional portfolios.

The dataset provides institutional holdings, capital flow trends, portfolio analytics, and ownership intelligence across more than 11,000 U.S. equities and ETFs. It delivers portfolio intelligence covering more than 8,000 hedge funds and institutional managers representing over $50 trillion in assets under management.

Unlike many institutional ownership datasets that refresh on quarterly reporting cycles, Benzinga’s Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API instantly incorporates newly filed 13F disclosures as they become available. Firms can use this data to identify emerging trends, monitor shifts in institutional conviction, and uncover actionable insights from large-scale portfolio activity sooner.

As investors seek deeper insights beyond traditional market data, understanding how professional money managers allocate capital has become an increasingly valuable source of intelligence.

“While institutional holdings are reported quarterly, the market doesn’t wait for quarterly data refreshes,” said Clint Rhea, Manager of Institutional and Channel Partnerships at Benzinga. “Our Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API captures new 13F disclosures as they are filed, allowing clients to identify position initiations, exits, and conviction changes from some of the world’s largest investors as quickly as possible. Whether you’re monitoring a crowded short, tracking institutional accumulation, validating an investment thesis, or understanding how professional money managers are allocating capital, speed and breadth of coverage matter. This dataset delivers on all of them.”

Key capabilities of the Institutional Portfolio Intelligence API include:

Institutional holdings and portfolio dataOwnership trends and capital flow analysisConsensus fund positioning insightsPortfolio concentration and allocation analyticsOutlier trade and conviction signal identificationHistorical coverage dating back to 2013Coverage across 11,000+ U.S. equities and ETFs (and 20,000+ delisted tickers)Fund sentiment by ticker, theme, industry or sectorFund performance and copy-traded returnsFund P/L and other fund manager metricsReal-time raw filings and insights

The dataset is designed for integration into brokerage platforms, portfolio research tools, screening applications, quantitative models, and investor-facing experiences. Available via API, WebSockets, and flat file delivery, the solution enables firms to incorporate institutional intelligence directly into their products and workflows.

The launch further expands Benzinga’s growing suite of institutional-grade market data solutions, helping clients build more informed investing experiences powered by actionable intelligence, alternative datasets, and more timely visibility into institutional portfolio activity.

About Benzinga

Benzinga is a leading financial media and data technology company that empowers investors with high-quality, real-time market intelligence. Through its news platform, APIs, and data products, Benzinga provides traders, financial institutions, and fintech platforms with the insights they need to make smarter investment decisions. From breaking news and analyst ratings to corporate events and alternative datasets, Benzinga’s tools help market participants stay ahead of the information that drives price movement.

To learn more, visit www.benzinga.com/apis/.

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Made Card and Multiply Mortgage Partner to Extend Homeowner Benefits Beyond Closing Day

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Made Card, the first credit card purpose-designed for the homeowner, today announced a partnership with Multiply Mortgage, the leading provider of homeownership benefits, helping employees across 1,200+ employers finance homes with lower rates and concierge-level support through their workplace.

Made is designed for what comes after closing day. Multiply connects employees to expert loan advisors and competitive rates through a workplace benefit. Made picks up where the mortgage leaves off, turning unavoidable home costs into a measurable financial return. Through the partnership, homebuyers who finance with Multiply will receive access to a suite of exclusive benefits built for new homeowners including a sign-on bonus redeemable toward closing costs and elevated cashback on mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance, and repairs.

“This partnership is a personal one for me,” said Alex Song, Co-Founder of Made Card. “Two years ago, Multiply helped me buy my own home, and I believed in what they were building so much that I became one of their earliest investors. Today we get to build together as operators. Multiply reaches homebuyers at the exact moment they are making the largest financial decision of their lives, and they do it with a level of care I experienced firsthand. Connecting that moment to Made is exactly what this card was built for.”

“Multiply exists to make homeownership more accessible and less stressful, and Made Card extends that mission past closing day,” said Michael White, Co-Founder and CEO of Multiply Mortgage. “Our clients are navigating the biggest purchase of their lives. Pairing that with a card built around what owning actually costs is exactly the benefit our customers deserve.”

About Made Card
Made is building the first credit card purpose-designed for the homeowner’s expenses: the predictable bills, the unexpected ones, and the administrative and emotional weight that no existing financial product was built to address. Turning that unavoidable cost into a measurable financial return, Made addresses a spend category every other card ignores and is building the next-gen home ecosystem.

About Multiply Mortgage
Multiply Mortgage helps employees navigate the largest purchase of their lives: buying a home. Multiply’s financial wellness benefit offers mortgage interest rate discounts and personalized guidance throughout the home financing process, all with zero cost or administrative overhead for the company.

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