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Manulife Named #1 Life Insurer for AI Maturity for Second Consecutive Year by Evident

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Named top insurer in Canada, first in the AI Leadership category, and ranked third overall – 
underscoring Manulife’s strategic priority to be an AI-powered organization

TORONTO and BOSTON and HONG KONG, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Manulife has been named the number one life insurance company for AI maturity overall for the second consecutive year in the 2026 Evident AI Index for Insurance, is now the top insurer in Canada and number one in the AI Leadership category and ranks third overall. These accolades highlight Manulife’s ability to scale AI-driven innovation across its global footprint, delivering measurable business value and impact, and accelerating its strategic priority to operate as an AI-powered organization.

“We’re proud to be named the number one life insurer for AI maturity for the second year in a row – and are now a top three company overall. This is a powerful validation of Manulife’s refreshed enterprise strategy, and our commitment to being an AI-powered organization globally,” said Phil Witherington, President and CEO, Manulife. “As we continue to scale, we are focused on disciplined execution and responsible deployment. We expect to generate more than $1 billion1 of enterprise value by 2027, with $300 million achieved as of year-end 2025, reinforcing that our approach is not only improving productivity and efficiency, but also delivering real impact for our customers, colleagues and shareholders.”

According to Evident, Manulife has disclosed the deployment of more use cases than any other insurer across the Index. This deployment over the past year reflects a continuous focus on prioritizing AI solutions that deliver measurable outcomes, including the Manulife Automated Underwriting Decision Engine (MAUDE) in Canada, which processes more than half of eligible individual life insurance applications automatically, delivering decisions in as little as two minutes for qualified applicants; John Hancock’s Quick Quote, which simplifies and accelerates the insurance quoting experience; a suite of AI-enabled tools within Manulife Wealth & Asset Management designed to enhance investment insights and decision-making; and AI-driven capabilities across Asia, from digital underwriting and claims management, AI Assistants for distribution partners, and more personalized customer experiences .

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1 The expected value from our AI initiatives include realized run-rate expense reductions, top-line revenue uplift from AI-powered workflows, fraud reduction, and growth absorption.

The Evident AI Index for Insurance assesses AI maturity across 30 of the most prominent insurance companies in North America and Europe, measuring progress across four key categories: Talent, Innovation, Leadership, and Transparency. This year’s results reflect a significantly higher bar across the industry, as insurers transition from capability building to scaled deployment and optimization.

Manulife ranked first in the Leadership pillar and with strong scores in Transparency, with Evident citing the company’s consistent executive engagement, industry influence, and transparent approach.

“This recognition reflects the depth of AI integration across Manulife and the deliberate way we are scaling its impact,” said Jodie Wallis, Global Chief AI Officer, Manulife. “Our focus is on practical, responsible applications of AI that deliver measurable outcomes, underpinned by strong governance that is increasingly automated and embedded into how AI is developed and used. Being recognized among industry leaders in AI maturity reflects the sustained progress our teams are making as we evolve from adoption to consistent, enterprise-wide execution.”

“Manulife ranks first amongst life insurers in the Evident AI Index for Insurance for the second year running, reflecting its ability to build AI capability around the workflows that matter most,” said Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Evident. “Manulife shows a deliberate approach towards building AI capacity, growing the AI talent pool by 41% year-on-year, embedding a scalable architecture, and using AI to deliver improvements in access, conversation and long-term customer relationships. Being amongst a very small number of insurers to publish both realized and projected returns at the company level demonstrates Manulife’s robust internal methodologies.”

These results demonstrate the consistency and scale with which Manulife is putting AI into practice across the enterprise. Guided by its refreshed Enterprise Strategy and Responsible AI Principles, the company is embedding AI into day-to-day work to simplify processes, improve decision making and deliver better outcomes for customers, advisors and colleagues.

To learn more about Manulife’s approach to artificial intelligence, visit manulife.com/AI. The full 2026 Evident AI Insurance Index report and methodology are available at evidentinsights.com.

Caution regarding forward-looking statements

This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbour” provisions of Canadian provincial securities laws and the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to Manulife’s use of its digital capabilities and the expected benefits it expects to realize from AI. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Certain material factors or assumptions are applied in making forward-looking statements, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include but are not limited to general business and economic conditions; changes in laws and regulations with respect to the use of AI-enabled tools; our ability to execute our digital plans and to deploy future digital use cases; our ability to adapt products and services to the changing market; our ability to attract and retain key employees and our ability to protect our intellectual property and exposure to claims of infringement from others. Additional information about material risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations may be found in our most recent annual and interim reports and elsewhere in our filings with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

The forward-looking statements in this document are, unless otherwise indicated, stated as of the date hereof. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Anchored in our ambition to be the number one choice for customers, we operate as Manulife across Canada and Asia, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States, providing financial advice, insurance and health solutions for individuals, groups and businesses. Through Manulife Wealth & Asset Management, we offer global investment solutions, financial advice, and retirement plan services to individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2025, we had more than 37,000 employees, over 106,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 37 million customers with operations across 25 markets globally. We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.

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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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