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Chandigarh University kick-starts admissions session 2025 for Online UG & PG Programs

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CHANDIGARH, India, May 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — India’s number 1 ranked private university, Chandigarh University has been achieving new milestones in academic excellence and redefining the paradigms of global higher education today. To make quality education accessible, flexible and affordable for all, Chandigarh University Online, which is a UGC-recognized and NAAC A+ accredited institution, has started admissions for its 2025 academic session by inviting aspiring candidates to enroll in its globally recognized cutting-edge online degree programs from across India and overseas.

Introduced in 2021, Chandigarh University Online, in a short span of 3 years, has become the most sought-after destination to pursue higher education in the country, which can be gauged from the fact that more than 15,000 students are pursuing their higher education at India’s number 1 private university in the current academic session. More than 5,000 CU Online students have successfully completed their degrees and received degrees in various academic domains from CU Online. Moreover, 2500 international students from 54 countries also pursued their higher education from Chandigarh University Online. More than 25,000 students, including alumni, have enrolled themselves to take online courses at CU Online in the last 4 years.

Designed to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving job market, Chandigarh University Online is offering 11 Graduate and Post Graduate degree programs in Management, Humanities, Computer Applications, Mass Communication and Science, including BBA, BCA, BA JMC, BBA Business Analytics, BBA ACCA, MBA, M Sc Data Science, MA English, MA JMC, MSc Mathematics, MBA Business Analytics and MA Economics. These programs are delivered through an advanced Learning Management System (LMS), providing students with a personalized and self-paced learning experience in a flexible environment. CU Online offers 23 specializations in Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Masterclass in Experiential Learning by Global Industry Giants

The meteoric rise of CU Online can be attributed to the academic ethos nurtured here, which is premised on experiential learning that is tailored specifically to cater to the demands of the industry. In fact, the curriculum for various academic domains is not only designed but 60 per cent of academic sessions including masterclasses are conducted by the industry leaders themselves. CU Online has established academic collaborations with industry giants such as Google, Microsoft, Wipro, L&T, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Bank of America, Ernst & Young, DHL and Fed X among others.

CU Online Collaborates with Harvard Business Publishing Education to provide Case-Based Teaching & Simulated Learning

To provide students with case study-based experiential learning opportunities, Chandigarh University Online has launched the ‘Case-Based Teaching & Simulation’ Program in collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing Education. As part of the collaboration, the students of CU Online not only get access to the repository of Harvard Business Publishing Education that has more than 30,000 corporate case studies and but also get exposure to learn in a simulated environment where they can take on roles in dynamic business environments, arming them to take real-world challenges of the business world head on.

Under the Harvard ManageMentor Module program, in collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing Education, CU Online has been offering 10 skill-based certification courses (6 months) to its students that help students develop the most in-demand skills for the global job market. As many as 1,000 Chandigarh University Online students have already completed these 10 certification courses, and out of total 15,505 students (CU Online), as many as 12,136 students have enrolled for these courses so far. These certifications have been empowering students with practical skills that are highly valued by employers worldwide.

Unique Blend of Digital Pedagogy & Self-Paced Learning

Chandigarh University Online has a unique blend of digital pedagogy and self-paced learning that offers rich e-content through thousands of hours of live and recorded sessions throughout the academic session.

CU Online gives direct access (online and offline modes) to over 1 million of globally recognized publications, including renowned journals, research papers, scholarly articles, industry reports, case studies and reference books from renowned publishers among others through MyLoft (My Library on Fingertips), which is a web-based and app-based digital library delivery system that enriches and enhances the learning experience of its students anytime, anywhere.

Personalized Learning & Campus Immersion Program

Personal Contact Program (PCP) designed by Chandigarh University Online provides students with opportunities to connect, engage and immerse themselves in the university experience through on-campus visits. The PCP or Campus Immersion Program of CU Online facilitates face-to-face interactions among students, faculty and industry leaders. The direct student engagement under PCP provides networking opportunities, hands-on learning on live projects, workshops & seminars, access to central library, high-tech R&D labs and industry-sponsored Centre of Excellences at Chandigarh University campus. CU Online provides personalized learning opportunities to its students using advanced adaptive learning technologies that provide curated content aligned to global standards, real-time feedback and tailored academic support to ensure each student receives unique and effective learning experience with features such as progress tracking, personalized assessments, one-on-one mentoring and experiential learning in simulated environments.

Mentor-Mentee Program (Office Hours)

To get their academic queries resolved, CU Online faculty members provide one-on-one or small group academic support. As part of the Mentor-Mentee program, CU Online students can book virtual slots for course-specific queries, guidance on assignments, projects or case studies. Through Office hours, faculty members also provide insights into real-world applications of academic concepts and help students strategize for exams or assessments.

EMIs for Financially Deprived Students

With the introduction of EMI facility for students, quality education has become more accessible and affordable for all. To empower students coming from financially deprived backgrounds, CU Online has introduced the provision of EMI (Equated Monthly Installment) options for students pursuing its online degree programs. This initiative aims to ease the financial burden on students and provide them with greater flexibility in managing their fees payment.

Interested candidates can contact the toll-free number of CU Online: 1800-1213-88800 or apply directly by visiting the website: Onlinecu.in. 

CU Online Degree Equivalent to Regular Degree

As per UGC, the value or merit of an academic degree awarded through Open and Distance training or Online mode by Higher Educational Institutions is equivalent to corresponding awards of the Degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level and post graduate diplomas offered through conventional or regular mode from government as well as private institutions. Moreover, pursuing a degree from CU Online also endows global networking opportunities and opens up several international employment avenues for students as the university is recognized by World Education Services (WES).

About Chandigarh University

Chandigarh University is a NAAC A+ Grade University and QS World Ranked University. This autonomous educational institution is approved by UGC and is located near Chandigarh in the state of Punjab. It is the youngest university in India and the only private university in Punjab to be honoured with A+ Grade by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council). CU offers more than 109 UG and PG programs in the fields of engineering, management, pharmacy, law, architecture, journalism, animation, hotel management, commerce, and others. It has been awarded as The University with Best Placements by WCRC.

Website address: https://www.cuchd.in/

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CYGNVS Launches AI Incident Command Center to Manage AI-Driven Operational Crises

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Amid a 200% surge in AI incidents – bias, hallucinations, data leakage, agentic runaway – CYGNVS brings its proven cyber incident platform to a new class of operational risk

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CYGNVS, the out-of-band platform for cyber resilience, today announced the launch of its AI Incident Command Center, a purpose-built solution for organizations to manage operational crises stemming from their own AI deployments. The CYGNVS out-of-band architecture is built with the isolation that security teams rely on for ransomware response, which means the AI being investigated cannot detect, influence or manipulate the response. The platform gives AI teams, business leaders and external providers a single place to prepare, practice, respond and report on AI incidents.

“a16z has been seeing the entire gamut of AI technologies and the increasing trend of AI incidents. AI incident response needs to be run out-of-band from the corporate network and out of reach of the AI itself,” said Patti Degnan, Operating Partner at a16z and former CISO, Notion. “If AI has access to the playbooks or communications of the response, it could obfuscate, evade, or manipulate. This is no different from isolating cyber incident response from ransomware or threat actors.”

The problem is already inside most organizations. Gartner® research found that sixty-one percent of senior professionals report observing AI agent automation deployed through approved enterprise software, while 59% report evidence of, or strong suspicion of, unsanctioned, employee-driven AI agents operating outside governed pathways. The OECD AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor recorded 596 AI incidents in January 2026 alone — up 200% year-over-year. AI incidents include model bias violating laws and regulations, hallucinations creating legal and customer exposure, data leakage triggering GDPR and HIPAA violations, and autonomous agents pursuing objectives in unintended or destructive ways.

Most organizations have no response infrastructure for any of it. When an AI agent misbehaves, organizations need to activate a cross-functional machinery spanning IT, security, legal, executives, as well as external providers like law firms. Without a playbook of what to do or a response platform to do it in, organizations reach for email and internal messaging, exactly the systems that may be influenced by or accessible to the AI under investigation.

CYGNVS patented technology integrates with AI deployments to surface failure signals across applications, models and agents, activating the matched AI incident playbook and escalating response into its out-of-band environment. The AI Incident Command Center is trained on an exclusive dataset of more than 20,000 major incidents from the insurance industry, data not publicly or commercially available, giving organizations specific and actionable guidance rather than generic advice.

“The time to deploy AI incident response is alongside the AI project rollout – not afterwards and playing catchup,” said Matt Honea, CISO of Hippocratic AI. “AI incident readiness requires playbooks, tabletop exercises, coordinated response and incident reporting, mirroring exactly what cybersecurity teams have built over the last decade. CYGNVS gives organizations an end-to-end platform for managing AI incidents.”

The CYGNVS AI Incident Command Center covers the full lifecycle of Prepare-Practice-Respond-Report.

Prepare: Organizations enter any AI incident with a playbook already tailored to their industry, geography and incident type, covering bias, model drift, hallucinations, multi-agent mismatch, data leakage and agentic runaway, with step-by-step role-based guidance and fine-grained access control.Practice: Teams build muscle memory for AI incidents through tabletop exercises across functions, with After-Action Reports generated automatically to capture learnings and close gaps.Respond: When an AI incident escalates, the response does not unravel across disconnected tools. Security teams, legal, executives, outside counsel and AI vendors work from a single secure environment, with every decision logged, timestamped and defensible.Report: Pre-built AI regulatory templates cover notification requirements across 56 binding laws and 47 frameworks globally, including EU AI Act, California AI Act, NY Law 144, Colorado AI Act, FDA AI/ML guidelines, so organizations spend less time building forms and more time managing the response.

“Customers have been running over 50 major incidents per week on CYGNVS,” said Arvind Parthasarathi, Founder and CEO of CYGNVS. “When they started facing AI incidents, their teams, executives, and external providers were already on the platform. The AI Incident Command Center is a natural extension of that trust, with purpose-built playbooks, scenarios, and regulatory reporting for a class of incident that didn’t exist a few years ago.”

CYGNVS AI Incident Command Center is generally available. Register for a live AI readiness session on July 16, 2026 with Matt Honea, Hippocratic AI CISO, and Arvind Parthasarathi, CYGNVS Founder and CEO at www.CYGNVS.com/ai-incident.

About CYGNVS Inc.

Over 3,000 customer organizations rely on CYGNVS as their Out-of-Band Command Center for cyber and AI incidents, reducing the cost and impact of incidents and outages. Even when systems are unavailable or compromised, AI/security teams, business teams, and external providers collaborate inside CYGNVS to prepare and import response plans, practice in tabletop exercises, successfully execute the response, and report to regulators and customers. CYGNVS AI is trained on an exclusive, growing set of over 20,000 major incidents not accessible publicly or commercially.

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Alyssa Pallotti Tech PR (APT-PR)
alyssa@apt-pr.com
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FinVolution Group Publishes Eighth Annual ESG Report

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SHANGHAI, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FinVolution Group (“FinVolution,” or the “Company”) (NYSE: FINV), a leading fintech platform operating across China and overseas markets, today announced the release of its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, the Company’s eighth consecutive annual ESG report.

The report provides a comprehensive review of FinVolution’s ESG initiatives and achievements in 2025, highlighting continued progress in responsible governance, inclusive finance, employee development, and social impact.

Aligned with its core philosophy of “Technology, Kindness and Green Principles,” FinVolution has further embedded ESG considerations throughout its global operations and continued to earn recognition in international capital markets. The Company was honored in the Extel 2026 Asia (Ex-Japan/ANZ) Executive Team Awards and the FinanceAsia 2025 Awards.

Mr. Tiezheng Li, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FinVolution, commented, “In 2025, amid a shifting global economy, we made steady progress on our sustainable development journey. With finance as a bridge, technology as a driver, and community engagement as a foundation, we advanced meaningfully across our ESG priorities. These efforts reflect our firm belief that business value and social value can reinforce one another. Looking ahead, we will continue to uphold our mission with pragmatic action, create lasting value for all stakeholders, and contribute to a more sustainable future.”

Key highlights of FinVolution’s 2025 ESG report include the Company’s efforts in:

Governance, risk management, and business ethics; Fintech innovation, data security, and privacy protection;Inclusive finance and consumer protection;Overseas market expansion;Employee care and diversity;Social responsibility, community engagement, and industry collaboration;Climate action and green transformation.

These disclosures detail the Company’s strategy for responsible and sustainable growth and innovation. The ESG report has been prepared in compliance with the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards) and with reference to MSCI ESG Rating Methodology. For more information regarding GRI Standards and MSCI ESG Rating Methodology, please visit:

https://www.globalreporting.org
https://www.msci.com

To download FinVolution’s ESG reports, please visit:

https://ir.finvgroup.com/ESG-Sustainability 

About FinVolution Group

FinVolution Group is a fintech platform operating across China and overseas markets, connecting borrowers of the young generation with financial institutions. Established in 2007, the Company operates in China’s online consumer finance industry and has developed technologies and experience in the core areas of credit risk assessment, fraud detection, big data and artificial intelligence. The Company’s platforms feature a highly automated loan transaction process. As of March 31, 2026, the Company had 246.5 million cumulative registered users across China and overseas markets.

For more information, please visit http://ir.finvgroup.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “target,” “confident” and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management’s current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any such statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, uncertainties as to the Company’s ability to attract and retain borrowers and investors on its marketplace, its ability to increase the volume of loans facilitated through the Company’s marketplace, its ability to introduce new loan products and platform enhancements, its ability to compete effectively, laws, regulations and governmental policies relating to the online consumer finance industry in China, general economic conditions in China, and the Company’s ability to meet the standards necessary to maintain the listing of its ADSs on the NYSE, including its ability to cure any non-compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing criteria. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and FinVolution does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable law.

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

In China:
FinVolution Group
Head of Capital Markets
Yam Cheng
Tel: +86 (21) 8030-3200 Ext. 8601
E-mail: ir@xinye.com 

Piacente Financial Communications
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86 (10) 6508-0677
E-mail: finv@tpg-ir.com 

In the United States:
Piacente Financial Communications
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: finv@tpg-ir.com 

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Yiren Digital to Report First Quarter 2026 Financial Results on June 25, 2026

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BEIJING, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Yiren Digital Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) (“Yiren Digital” or the “Company”), a leading fintech company specializing in digital consumer lending, insurance and financial technology innovation across China and global markets, today announced that it plans to release its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026 before U.S. market opens on Thursday, June 25, 2026.

Yiren Digital’s management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on June 25, 2026 (or 8:00 p.m. Beijing/Hong Kong Time on June 25, 2026).

Participants who wish to join the call should register online in advance of the conference at: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10209861/10439ec2351.

Once registration is completed, participants will receive the dial-in details for the conference call.

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available at https://ir.yiren.com.

About Yiren Digital

Yiren Digital Ltd. is a leading fintech company specializing in digital consumer lending, insurance, and financial technology innovation across China and global markets. The Company leverages advanced artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance customer experience, optimize capital efficiency, and expand financial inclusion. Following the regulatory filing of its in-house developed Large Language Model Zhiyu, and the significant enhancement of its MagiCube Agent platform, Yiren Digital is establishing a new growth engine to accelerate its evolution into an AI-native, multi-industry operating platform extending beyond traditional financial services. For more information, please visit https://ir.yiren.com.

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