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Inside Flagright: Our Approach to Hiring and Team Growth

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Flagright’s Innovative Approach to Team Growth: Leveraging Operational Leverage and AI to Drive Success.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Since the beginning of our journey, one question has come up often: “How many people are on your team?” This curiosity is especially relevant in our industry, where we’re building the best-in-class AI-native AML compliance & risk management solution. Financial institutions need reassurance that their partners can offer long-term stability and robust resources to support their critical operations. The common stigma is that companies with fewer employees are less reliable than those with more employees.

At Flagright, we believe that a lean, talent-dense team, combined with operational leverage and AI, can deliver faster, higher-quality solutions than much larger teams.

At Flagright, we’ve found that headcount can be misleading. Instead of focusing on the number of employees, we prioritize building operational leverage and adopting an AI-native approach from the ground up. By optimizing our processes and embedding AI into our core operations, we achieve higher quality, more reliability, and faster development cycles with a leaner team. We believe in hiring A+ people and building a talent-dense team, ensuring that every team member is exceptionally skilled and deeply aligned with our values. Our company culture emphasizes resilience, dedication, and the pursuit of excellence, which we’ll talk more about down below. These values drive us to exceed customer expectations, take decisive action, and maintain a spirit of mutual support.

Our lean, flat structure minimizes communication and management overhead, allowing us to focus on delivering a highly reliable and top-quality product. This approach ensures that we have fewer issues to deal with, most of which are questions, making us more effective in addressing customer support queries. That’s why our top customer feedback globally is excellent customer support, setting us apart from competitors.

Our AI-native approach enhances the capabilities of our team, enabling us to outperform much larger competitors. By automating routine tasks, providing deeper insights, and facilitating smarter, faster decisions, we achieve more with less. Leveraging AI allows us to rapidly adapt to changing regulatory landscapes, significantly reducing the costs and delays associated with traditional compliance methods. This enables us to offer a compliance management system that outperforms conventional approaches in both efficiency and cost of ownership.

By focusing on quality over quantity, we’ve intentionally kept our team lean and talent-dense. We believe that nowadays a small, skilled team can do a lot more than what a much larger team could a decade ago. This isn’t just a theory – it’s what we see in practice every day.

The evidence of our efficiency is clear: Our strategic team growth has allowed us to build a cutting-edge technology platform and catapulted us to serve customers in 6 continents within just 2 years! This rapid development, which has taken our competitors 7 to 15 years, demonstrates our team’s efficiency and gives our customers a competitive edge as a Flagright customer. They benefit from faster innovation, more responsive service, and high quality tooling.

Why a leaner team is our and your strength

Here’s why our approach works for us and benefits you:

We spend less time on meetings and more time on meaningful work. This efficiency reduces overhead and speeds up our delivery, ensuring faster and more frequent updates for you.Our talent-dense team allows for deeper connections and better collaboration. We work together seamlessly, using each other’s strengths to deliver high-quality solutions tailored to your needs.Each team member has clear responsibilities and the freedom to own their work. This clarity boosts accountability and ensures high-quality results, providing you with reliable and effective products.Top professionals prefer environments where they can make a big impact without bureaucracy. Our agile, focused team structure attracts the best and brightest, ensuring that you receive innovative solutions from top talent.

By keeping our team lean and talent-dense, we ensure every member is fully engaged and invested in our mission. This approach makes us more efficient, innovative, and responsive to our customers’ needs, providing you with exceptional service and cutting-edge solutions.

Our values and their impact

At Flagright, our values guide everything we do. They shape our culture and help us build the best systems with a lean team. Inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt’s notion of the “man in the arena,” we embody resilience, dedication, and the pursuit of excellence.

We always, always aim to exceed customer expectations, turning challenges into solvable problems. Our goal is to create delightful experiences that our customers find both our team and products exceptional.We offer support proactively, filling gaps without being asked. Our team embodies professionalism and a spirit of mutual support, combining our diverse skills for collective success.We take decisive action quickly. Instead of waiting for perfect conditions, we trust our instincts, use our expertise, and move forward boldly.We value respectful dissent and encourage teammates to voice their opinions. We maintain our convictions while demonstrating integrity.We embrace hard work and responsibility, taking pride in solving problems and celebrating successes. This drives us to achieve our vision.Even as high achievers, we stay humble. We respect and empower each other, knowing that arrogance can undermine team spirit.We communicate honestly, addressing issues directly while caring about our colleagues. This builds trust and understanding among ourselves.

These values ensure that even with a lean team, we can achieve outstanding results and maintain a competitive edge.

Scaling intentionally, thoughtfully, by design

While we are committed to maintaining a lean, elite team, we also know the importance of thoughtful growth. As a fast-growing business, we are always expanding to meet our business needs, but we hire strategically. We focus on bringing in people who align with our values and can help us achieve our long-term goals while keeping customer satisfaction first.

In a world where headcount often measures company strength, Flagright offers a refreshing perspective. Our strategic approach to team growth, combined with our AI-native approach and capabilities, makes us more agile and efficient, ensuring we deliver the best outcomes for our customers.

We’re proud of our lean team’s achievements and look forward to continuing to innovate, building the best AI-native AML compliance & risk management solution. Our mission remains to set the modern standard for financial crime compliance for our current and prospective customers globally.

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PORTLAND, Ore., July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The board of directors of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.55125 per share.

The company’s dividend is evaluated based on capital requirements and financial performance. PGE targets a dividend payout ratio of 60 to 70% over the long term.

The quarterly dividend is payable on or before October 15, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 25, 2026.

About Portland General Electric Company
Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) is an integrated energy company that generates, transmits and distributes electricity to nearly 960,000 customers serving an area of approximately 2 million Oregonians. Since 1889, Portland General Electric (PGE) has been powering economies, delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricity while working to transform energy systems to meet evolving customer needs. PGE continues to make progress towards emissions reduction targets, and customers have set the standard for prioritizing clean energy with the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the country. PGE is ranked a top ten utility in the 2025 Forrester U.S. Customer Experience Index. In 2025, PGE employees and retirees volunteered over 18,300 hours to more than 400 nonprofits organizations. Through the PGE Foundation, along with corporate contributions and the employee matching gift program, more than $5 million was directed to charitable organizations supporting economic growth and community resilience across our service area. For information: portlandgeneral.com/news.

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Forward-looking statements include statements, other than statements of historical or current fact, regarding the Company’s amount and timing of dividends payable as well as other statements containing words such as “committed to,” “targets,” or similar expressions.

There can be no assurance that future dividends will be declared. The declaration of future dividends is subject to approval of our board of directors and various risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: our cash flow and cash needs; the timing or amount of dividends paid; the timing or outcome of various legal and regulatory actions; changes in the Company’s business strategy; increases in capital expenditures; changes in capital and credit market conditions, including volatility of equity markets as well as changes in PGE’s credit ratings and outlook on such credit ratings restrictions on the payment of dividends under existing or future financing arrangements; changes in tax laws relating to corporate dividends; deterioration in our financial condition or results, and those risks, uncertainties, and other factors identified from time-to-time in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov and on the Company’s website, investors.portlandgeneral.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other factors.

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Care Career Announces Acquisition of MAS Medical Staffing, Completing Its First Acquisition Phase and Expanding Annual Revenue Beyond $150 Million, with a Path to Exceed a Quarter Billion by the End of 2026 Through Additional Acquisitions and Organic Growth

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WOODBRIDGE, N.J., July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Care Career, a rapidly growing healthcare workforce technology organization, today announced the acquisition of MAS Medical Staffing, one of the Northeast’s leading healthcare workforce organizations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The acquisition represents Care Career’s seventh strategic acquisition in the past 24 months, further strengthening the company’s position as one of the largest healthcare workforce organizations in the United States while accelerating its strategy to redefine the future of healthcare workforce management through artificial intelligence, enterprise technology, and workforce innovation.

MAS Medical Staffing has built an outstanding reputation for delivering high-quality workforce solutions through strong client relationships, exceptional clinician engagement, and deep regional expertise throughout the Northeastern United States. The acquisition significantly expands Care Career’s geographic footprint while broadening its access to healthcare professionals, client relationships, workforce data, and regional market intelligence.

Care Career is building a technology-enabled workforce ecosystem powered by its AI-powered workforce platform, where every acquisition contributes not only additional market presence, but also expanded data, enhanced artificial intelligence capabilities, digital innovation, and operational scale that continuously improve the experience for clients and clinicians alike. As the platform grows, every clinician engagement, client interaction, credential, placement, and workforce trend strengthens the intelligence of Career’s technology, creating a continuously improving ecosystem designed to deliver faster, smarter, and more effective workforce solutions.

The acquisition also brings MAS Medical Staffing’s MAESTRA® engagement technology, along with its client relationships and clinician network, directly onto Career’s AI-powered workforce platform. MAESTRA’s scheduling, credentialing, and communication capabilities will be integrated into Care Career’s existing technology stack, further enhancing clinician engagement across onboarding, scheduling, and career management while providing healthcare organizations with greater workforce visibility and operational efficiency.

“Our vision is to build the AI-powered infrastructure that modernizes healthcare workforce management,” said Siva Konatham, Group President and Chief Executive Officer of Care Career. “Under my leadership, Care Career is focused on transforming a fragmented, labor-intensive industry into a data-driven, technology-enabled ecosystem that improves speed, efficiency, and workforce visibility for healthcare providers. Each acquisition strengthens our platform intelligence, expands our scale, and enhances our margin potential. By integrating advanced analytics, AI automation, and digital engagement tools, we are not just growing revenue—we are building a smarter, more scalable model positioned to lead the next era of healthcare workforce solutions.”

The combined organization will leverage expanded recruiting resources, centralized credentialing, advanced workforce analytics, AI-enabled automation, and digital engagement technologies—all powered by Care Career’s AI-powered workforce platform—to deliver broader recruiting capabilities, faster response times, enhanced workforce insights, and expanded national coverage. Clinicians will benefit from a seamless digital experience that simplifies every stage of their careers—from job discovery and credentialing to onboarding, scheduling, communication, and long-term career development.

With seven strategic acquisitions completed in less than two years, representing the first round of acquisitions now totaling more than $150 million in annual revenue, Care Career has rapidly expanded its national presence while executing a disciplined growth strategy focused on technology integration, operational excellence, and workforce innovation. The company has also signed additional Letters of Intent with other entities with expected close dates in the third quarter of 2026. Upon completion of these transactions, coupled with organic growth, Care Career expects consolidated annual revenue to exceed a quarter of a billion dollars by the end of 2026.

The addition of MAS Medical Staffing further strengthens the organization’s ability to serve healthcare systems, hospitals, long-term care providers, outpatient facilities, and other healthcare organizations across an increasingly diverse geographic footprint.

“The healthcare workforce industry is entering a new era where technology, artificial intelligence, and data-driven decision-making will define the market leaders,” Konatham added. “Every acquisition we complete expands the intelligence of our AI-powered workforce platform, enhances the value we deliver to our clients, and creates more opportunities for clinicians. We believe the combination of exceptional people, innovative technology, and strategic scale positions Care Career to lead the next generation of healthcare workforce solutions.”

About Care Career

Care Career is a technology-enabled healthcare workforce solutions company dedicated to transforming how healthcare organizations recruit, engage, credential, deploy, and retain clinical talent. Powered by its proprietary AI-powered workforce platform and supported by advanced artificial intelligence, enterprise technology, and workforce analytics, Care Career is building an intelligent healthcare workforce ecosystem that connects providers and clinicians more efficiently while improving workforce performance, operational effectiveness, and patient care. Following seven strategic acquisitions over the past 24 months the first round of acquisitions totaling more than $150 million in annual revenue and with additional signed LOIs under contract expected to complete shortly, positioning the company to surpass a quarter of a billion dollars in consolidated annual revenue by the end of 2026, Care Career has become one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing healthcare workforce organizations, serving healthcare providers and clinicians across the United States.

About MAS Medical Staffing

MAS Medical Staffing is a premier healthcare workforce organization recognized for exceptional service, strong client partnerships, and a commitment to connecting healthcare professionals with rewarding career opportunities. With an established presence throughout the Northeastern United States, MAS Medical Staffing has earned a reputation for quality, responsiveness, and delivering workforce solutions that help healthcare providers meet their evolving workforce needs while supporting clinicians throughout every stage of their careers.

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PointsKash Demonstrates How Businesses Can Build on Bitcoin Without Burdening the Blockchain

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As industry debate surrounding Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-110) intensifies, PointsKash unveils an architecture designed to work regardless of the proposal’s outcome.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As the global Bitcoin community debates Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) and the future of data stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, PointsKash, Inc. today announced that its next-generation kiosk infrastructure was intentionally designed to operate efficiently under any outcome of the proposal.

Rather than storing operational data directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, PointsKash utilizes a layered architecture that combines Bitcoin‘s unmatched security with modern decentralized communications technology. Every transaction, machine event, system update, and operational record generated across the PointsKash network is cryptographically verified, securely maintained off-chain, and anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain through a single immutable cryptographic proof.

This approach allows thousands of operational events to be permanently verified while utilizing only a minimal amount of blockchain data.

As discussion surrounding BIP-110 has intensified across the digital asset industry, PointsKash believes the debate does not require choosing between innovation and responsible blockchain stewardship.

“The industry has been debating whether businesses can build meaningful applications on Bitcoin without unnecessarily consuming blockchain space,” said Michael Herron, Chief Executive Officer of PointsKash. “We believe we’ve demonstrated that the answer is yes. Bitcoin provides the world’s most trusted immutable timestamp and security layer, while higher-volume operational data belongs on technologies specifically designed to manage it. By combining both, we’ve built an architecture that is scalable, transparent, and future-ready regardless of how the BIP-110 discussion ultimately evolves.”

The company’s infrastructure assigns every kiosk its own unique cryptographic identity, allowing each machine to securely authenticate every transaction and operational event. Those records are then independently verifiable through cryptographic proofs while remaining resistant to alteration or manipulation—even by PointsKash itself.

According to the company, this architecture delivers several significant advantages:

Mathematically verifiable transaction records for regulators, banking partners, auditors, and enterprise customers.Improved network reliability, allowing kiosks to continue operating during temporary connectivity interruptions without losing transaction history.Enhanced cybersecurity, with every machine maintaining its own authenticated identity and secure communications.A scalable blockchain architecture that minimizes on-chain data while preserving complete auditability.

Bitcoin was created to provide trust, security, and permanence—not to become a storage system for every piece of application data,” Herron added. “Our philosophy has always been simple: use Bitcoin for what it does better than anyone else—creating immutable proof that records have never been altered—and leverage modern decentralized technologies for everything else. We believe that’s the future of enterprise blockchain infrastructure.”

PointsKash believes this architecture positions the company among a new generation of fintech innovators utilizing Bitcoin as a secure trust layer while developing scalable financial applications for enterprise deployment.

The technology also establishes the foundation for future blockchain-based financial products currently under development, including enhanced digital audit capabilities, verifiable financial records, enterprise licensing opportunities, and next-generation digital asset infrastructure.

As the Bitcoin ecosystem continues to mature, PointsKash believes its technology demonstrates that responsible innovation and blockchain scalability can successfully coexist—providing enterprise organizations with the confidence to build on Bitcoin without contributing unnecessary data to the network.

About PointsKash, Inc.

PointsKash, Inc. is a financial technology company developing an integrated ecosystem of AI-enabled self-service financial centers, digital banking, digital payment solutions, cryptocurrency services, loyalty rewards, enterprise merchant technologies, and mobile financial applications. Through proprietary software, Artificial Intelligence, and strategic partnerships, PointsKash is building innovative financial solutions designed to empower consumers, merchants, and enterprise organizations throughout North America.

For more information, visit www.pointskash.com.

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