Third consecutive year of recognition from The Digital Banker for the embedded equipment-financing platform — and QuickFi’s second major industry award this month

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — QuickFi® has been named Best SME Banking Solutions Provider by a Vendor – Overall at the 2026 Global BankTech Awards, presented by The Digital Banker. The award was announced Sept. 24 at the awards’ virtual gala, hosted from Singapore.

It is QuickFi’s third consecutive year of recognition at the Global BankTech Awards, following Best PaaS (Platform as a Service) Provider of the Year in 2024 and wins in two categories — Best PaaS Provider of the Year and Best SME Banking Solution — in 2025. The award also follows QuickFi’s 2026 Finovate Award for Best SMB/SME Banking Solution, announced Sept. 10 in New York.

QuickFi lets a business owner apply for, sign and fund an equipment loan or lease in minutes from a mobile device, at the point of sale, at any hour — without waiting on a bank employee. Banks and equipment manufacturers embed QuickFi under their own brand, and agentic AI now supports the customer lifecycle from application through servicing.

“Small businesses are the backbone of every economy, yet financing the equipment they run on has too often meant paperwork, waiting and uncertainty,” said Bill Verhelle, CEO of QuickFi. “We built QuickFi to change that — 100% digital, 24/7, from application to funding in minutes, with transparent pricing and fair terms. This award belongs to the bank partners who trust us with their customers, to the equipment manufacturers and dealers who put QuickFi in front of their buyers every day, and most of all to the small business owners who chose us.”

About the Global BankTech Awards

The Global BankTech Awards, by The Digital Banker, honor the world’s preeminent and ground-breaking technology companies and their contribution to technology-based enhancements, initiatives and innovations within the financial services industry that are streamlining operational processes, automating workflow and re-engineering business models, while materially driving productivity gains. The 2026 winners were announced Sept. 24, 2026, at the awards’ virtual gala. To learn more, visit https://thedigitalbanker.com/awards/global-bank-tech-awards/.

About QuickFi

QuickFi is dedicated to delivering fast, transparent, nearly instant financing to the small businesses that drive the US economy. The company is grateful for its expanding relationships with global equipment manufacturers that use QuickFi to simplify the buying experience for their business customers.

QuickFi enables banks and equipment manufacturers to establish a dramatically more cost-effective embedded lending delivery model, enabled by rapidly improving agentic AI throughout the customer lifecycle. Equipment lease and loan transactions that previously took days can now be completed in minutes, at any time of day or night, by customers using their mobile devices at the point of sale.

The platform is protected by issued patents in 10 countries and a trademark portfolio spanning 26 countries (https://www.quickfi.ai/patents). QuickFi’s cost to originate is $799 per booked transaction — less than one-third the $2,407 small-ticket industry average reported in the 2025 ELFA Survey of Equipment Finance Activity (https://www.quickfi.ai/costs).

QuickFi is a registered trademark of Innovation Finance USA LLC. For more information, visit https://www.quickfi.com.

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The $2.5 million guaranteed event reaches Day 2 on September 28 after a final run of Turbo and Main flights.

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Americas Cardroom has 13 Day 1 flights remaining in its $2.5 million guaranteed 25th Anniversary Tournament. The flights run through Monday morning, September 28, ahead of Day 2 on Monday and the final table on Tuesday, September 29.

The direct buy-in is $250. Twelve remaining flights are Turbos, while the Main flight begins Sunday, September 27, at 1:05 p.m. ET. Sunday also has Turbos at 10:15 a.m. and 7:05 p.m. ET.

Thursday and Friday each have Turbo flights at 12:05 p.m., 3:05 p.m. and 6:05 p.m. ET. Saturday’s three start at 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ET. The last Turbo begins Monday at 8:05 a.m. ET, before Day 2.

The cumulative-stack format lets players advance through multiple Day 1 flights and combine their surviving stacks for Day 2. Players who have already qualified may enter again to add to their total.

$33 satellites award seats in the $250 tournament, and $3.15 Super Satellites provide a path into the $33 events. Players can check the Americas Cardroom lobby for any changes to the satellite schedule.

The event follows more than two months of Day 1 flights as part of the site’s 25th anniversary celebration.

Full tournament information is available on the promotion page.

About Americas Cardroom

Americas Cardroom is one of the world’s leading online poker destinations, serving players since 2001. Known for major tournament series, innovative promotions, and a commitment to the poker community, the company is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2026 while continuing to expand its tournament offerings and deliver world-class online poker experiences to players across the globe.

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Free Oct. 1 program at The Newberry pairs Pasler with Northwestern University historian Daniel Greene for a conversation about the trials, drawing on primary sources from her father’s U.S. Army service at Nuremberg

CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Laurie Pasler, founder of Descendants Media Group and Project Director of Courtroom 600, will co-present “Nuremberg at 80: A Chicago Family’s Connection to the Trial” at The Newberry on Thursday, Oct. 1, with historian Daniel Greene. The program marks 80 years since the International Military Tribunal read its verdicts on Oct. 1, 1946. It is free and open to the public, with advance registration required at newberry.org/calendar/nuremberg.

In conversation with Greene, Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University, Pasler will share the photographs, diaries and documents her father preserved while working in prison administration at Nuremberg. Courtroom 600 now uses these primary sources and the trial record to help students understand the lessons and the atrocities the tribunal uncovered. Artifacts from Pasler’s collection will be on display before the program.

Nuremberg at 80: A Chicago Family’s Connection to the Trial

Thursday, Oct. 1, 6–7 p.m. | Ruggles Hall, The Newberry, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago

Register for the free Oct. 1 program: newberry.org/calendar/nuremberg

“My father worked at Nuremberg and never told us,” said Pasler. “Eleven years ago, after losing him, I inherited his U.S. Army documents, photographs, and memorabilia. That discovery led me to found Descendants Media Group and create Courtroom 600—to teach World War II through the lens of accountability. On this historic anniversary, I reflect on the trials’ legacy and echoes from the past that continue to ring true today.”

From a family archive to classrooms nationwide

Pasler transformed her father’s collection into a virtual museum of more than 300 curated Nuremberg primary sources, most never before seen online. Told through images and captions, the story of the trial has reached audiences in more than 55 countries. With educator partners, she then created Courtroom 600, a curriculum for grades 7–12 social studies organized around the four counts of the Nuremberg indictment. Rather than teaching WWII and the Holocaust as separate histories, Courtroom 600 uses the trial record to show students how Nazi racial ideology, rooted in antisemitism, drove the war in Europe and led to genocide. Its focus on perpetrators, evidence and accountability reflects Nuremberg’s lasting legacy: the principle that individuals, including the highest officials of a state, can be held responsible for crimes against humanity. Students examine the evidence and reach conclusions for themselves.

“The Nuremberg record is irrefutable. When students hold the same evidence the prosecutors presented, the atrocities stop being abstract, and they understand what happens when hateful ideology is put into action,” said Don Fulmer, Social Studies Department Chair at Lake Park High School. Fulmer is implementing Courtroom 600 across all grade levels this school year.

At a recent workshop for The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, 65 educators from 31 states rated the curriculum 4.7 out of 5 for likelihood of classroom implementation, consistent with earlier programs in New York, Nebraska and Illinois. Among surveyed students, 97% recognized that Jews were central to Hitler’s war plans.

Expanding the mission

With a recently awarded $25,000 grant from a Chicago Jewish family foundation, Courtroom 600 will launch a National Educator Fellowship in January 2027. Six secondary social studies teachers from across the country will pilot the curriculum in classrooms and each train three colleagues, reaching 24 educators in the first year.

Descendants Media Group is also developing Response Ready, a pilot lesson designed for Jewish students in grades 7–8 to help them build resilience to antisemitism by tracing accusations from the Middle Ages to the memes and coded language online today. The lesson pilots this fall in five Chicago-area Jewish day schools and congregations, supported by the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago and the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

What’s next

Oct. 11: WGN-TV’s Backstory with Larry Potash profiles Courtroom 600 in a feature filmed at Lake Park High School. Watch this season’s trailer here. (check local listings for dates and times).December: Courtroom 600 presents a workshop at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference in Chicago.

“Nuremberg at 80: A Chicago Family’s Connection to the Trial” is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required: newberry.org/calendar/nuremberg.

About Courtroom 600 and Descendants Media Group

Descendants Media Group NFP is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) founded to teach and inspire future generations through experiential storytelling. Its flagship project, Courtroom 600, uses Nuremberg trials primary sources to teach WWII through the lens of accountability and justice. The Module 1 student podcast received a 2025 Communicator Award of Excellence. Learn more at www.courtroom600.org.

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