Seasoned banking executive brings deep financial, M&A, and investor relations experience to support United’s continued growth

GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — United Community (NYSE: UCB) today announced that Tom Speir has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Speir brings more than two decades of financial experience, including balance sheet management, M&A, strategic planning, and investor relations. In this role, he will shape the bank’s financial direction, oversee capital management and investor relations, and help guide United’s long-term growth and financial strength.

“I am excited to welcome Tom to the United team. He brings proven experience to the role, including clear financial expertise, strategic planning skills, and solid relationships in the investment community,” said Chief Executive Officer Lynn Harton. “Those strengths will help us continue to grow our company and position us for a great future. Tom is a great cultural fit as well, with the right values and approach to connect with our employees and customers.”  

“I am honored to join United at such an exciting time for the company,” said Speir. “What attracted me most was the culture, the values, and the shared commitment to improving the financial well-being of the customers and communities we serve. I look forward to working alongside this talented team as we build on United’s success and continue growing together.”

Speir will join the Greenville, S.C.-based bank on September 8, succeeding Jefferson Harralson, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

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About United Community Banks, Inc.
United Community Banks, Inc. (NYSE: UCB) is the financial holding company for United Community, a top-100 U.S. financial institution committed to building stronger communities and improving the financial health and well-being of its customers. United Community offers a full range of banking, mortgage and wealth management services. As of June 30, 2026, United Community Banks, Inc. had $29.1 billion in assets and operated 200 offices across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The company also manages a nationally recognized SBA lending franchise and an equipment finance subsidiary, extending its reach to businesses across the country. United Community is the most awarded bank in the Southeast for Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power, earning more awards than any other bank in the region, including recognition in 12 of the last 17 years. The company has also been named one of the “Best Banks to Work For” by American Banker for nine consecutive years. In commercial banking, United earned multiple 2026 Greenwich Best Bank awards for Small Business Banking. Forbes has consistently named United among the World’s Best and America’s Best Banks. Learn more at ucbi.com. 

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New AI capabilities help clinicians document faster, streamline professional fee coding, and surface relevant patient context

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle Health today announced new capabilities for Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, now available in the U.S., that expand AI across clinical documentation, coding, and chart review workflows. The new capabilities automate professional fee coding for ambulatory workflows, enable physicians to dictate directly into clinical documentation, and assist with chart review by surfacing clinically relevant context across the patient record.

Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent’s new coding, dictation, and chart review capabilities build on Oracle Health’s growing portfolio of AI agents, including recently announced capabilities that automate order creation in clinical workflows. The AI agents work together as a system and use semantic reasoning to understand clinical meaning, share context across workflows, and collaborate in near real time to support intelligent automation while keeping clinicians in control. In nearly two years since its launch, Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent note generation has already saved physicians more than 400,000 hours across health organizations in the U.S.

“Care teams can’t afford to spend hours on documentation and administrative tasks,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “With our expanding portfolio of AI capabilities embedded directly into clinical and revenue cycle workflows, we’re helping healthcare organizations operate more efficiently while enabling clinicians to stay focused on delivering high-quality care.”

AI helps streamline coding and revenue cycle workflows

Health systems face growing pressure to improve documentation quality and accelerate revenue cycle performance without creating additional work for clinicians and staff. Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent now extends AI-assisted workflows to professional fee coding by analyzing conversations during patient visits and suggesting professional fee charge codes within the orders workflow. Clinicians review and confirm recommendations before submission, supporting faster charge capture while keeping coding decisions in the hands of qualified professionals. The new capability also helps reduce manual review, limits rework caused by inaccuracies or incomplete information, and improves coding consistency across organizations.

AI-powered chart review surfaces relevant patient context

Clinicians often spend valuable time navigating patient records to locate relevant patient information before and during patient encounters. Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent now extends AI-assisted workflows to chart review by surfacing relevant clinical context from across the EHR and summarizing patient information. By bringing together a patient’s medical history, lab results, medications, and other key clinical information, the new capability helps care teams prepare more efficiently for patient visits, reduce time spent searching through records, and remain in control of decision-making and documentation.

Quick documentation with clinician-controlled dictation

Clinicians need efficient ways to document patient visits without taking time away from patient interactions. Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent now expands AI-assisted documentation with clinician-controlled dictation, allowing clinicians to dictate directly into any text field while the AI agent transcribes speech in real time for quick review, editing, and finalization. The new capability reduces manual work and enables care teams to efficiently capture clinical information between patient visits or after rounds while details are still fresh. Clinicians remain responsible for reviewing, editing, and signing all documentation.

To learn more about Oracle’s full suite of clinical, life sciences, and business applications, join us at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, September 22-24, 2026. Register now.

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New capabilities help organizations verify eligibility for community-based
programs and validate businesses while protecting against identity fraud

CENTREVILLE, Va., Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ID Dataweb™, a recognized leader in identity threat detection and risk mitigation, today announced new community affiliation verification capabilities that enable organizations to confirm an individual’s membership in designated communities while assessing the identity risk behind the interaction.

The capabilities help retailers, travel and hospitality companies, live entertainment venues, technology providers, and other organizations verify eligibility for specialized discounts, benefits, and programs available to communities such as first responders and military personnel. Industry research estimates that businesses can lose up to 2.2% of annual revenue to promotion abuse alone. While traditional community affiliation verification establishes whether an individual meets specific eligibility criteria, ID Dataweb combines affiliation verification with identity threat detection. Organizations can evaluate eligibility alongside identity and risk signals to detect threats such as impersonation, stolen or synthetic identities, account takeover, and promotion abuse.

ID Dataweb has also expanded its platform to address advanced business verification scenarios as organizations face growing risks from business impersonation and fraudulent business relationships. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported nearly $1 billion in consumer losses to business impersonators in 2025. Traditional know-your-business (KYB) checks can confirm that a business exists in official records, but business registration alone does not establish whether the business is legitimate or whether an applicant is authorized to act on its behalf. ID Dataweb brings together entity validation, corporate affiliation, beneficial ownership, and risk screening in a single workflow that securely connects a verified individual to a validated business.

“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between making community programs easy for legitimate customers to access and protecting those programs from identity fraud,” said Matt Cochran, Chief Operating Officer at ID Dataweb. “By combining community affiliation verification with identity threat detection, businesses can determine not only whether someone qualifies, but whether they can trust the identity behind the transaction. We extend that same approach to business verification, empowering organizations to validate business entities, understand beneficial ownership, confirm individual affiliation, and evaluate the legitimacy of business relationships.”

Through the ID Dataweb platform, organizations can incorporate affiliation and business verification into existing identity workflows and apply risk-based controls appropriate to each interaction. This enables businesses to:

Verify affiliation with eligible communitiesProtect exclusive offers and benefits from identity fraud and abuseDetect identity threats during enrollment and redemptionApply additional verification when risk warrants itReduce unnecessary friction for trusted customersValidate business entities and understand beneficial ownershipConfirm an individual’s affiliation with a businessEvaluate the legitimacy of business relationships over time

The result is a more complete approach to digital trust: verify the affiliation, verify the business, verify the person, and assess the risk behind the interaction.

About ID Dataweb 
ID Dataweb™ helps enterprises stay ahead of identity fraud and account-related threats with real-time detection and mitigation while maintaining a seamless experience for their workforce, third parties, and customers. The ID Dataweb SaaS platform combines adaptive identity verification methods, behavioral analytics, device and credential intelligence, and risk scoring. Backed by AI and expert insights, these capabilities proactively stop identity-based attacks, protect revenue, and strengthen compliance. Unlike static legacy identity tools, ID Dataweb delivers dynamic, multi-layered risk orchestration that adapts to evolving threats. Its low-code, cloud-native services deploy quickly, integrate seamlessly with existing IAM systems, and align with each customer’s policies.

For more information, please visit www.iddataweb.com.

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