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MidWest America FCU chooses to move to connected lending with Algebrik AI to win next-generation members

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Brings together PoS, LOS, Decisioning, and Analytics to better serve their communities & employees by removing friction, improving efficiencies & meeting the members where they are. 

NEW YORK, June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Algebrik AI Inc., a Delaware-incorporated company headquartered in New York City and pioneering the world’s first cloud-native, AI-powered, digital-era Loan Origination Suite (LOS), today announced that MidWest America Federal Credit Union, a member-owned financial institution serving more than 51,000 members with approximately $1 billion in assets, has selected Algebrik One, end-to-end lending platform to unify point of sale, loan origination, decisioning, and portfolio analytics into a single connected lending experience.

The announcement reflects a broader shift underway across the credit union industry. As institutions navigate rising cost of funds, tighter margins, and growing member expectations for faster, more seamless borrowing experiences, lending performance is increasingly determined not by access to capital, but by the ability to execute consistently across the entire lending lifecycle.

Rather than optimizing individual steps, MidWest America chose Algebrik’s cloud-native, AI-powered platform to connect omnichannel Point of Sale (PoS), Loan Origination System (LOS), Decisioning Engine, and Portfolio Analytics into a single operational flow, reducing handoffs, improving consistency, and enabling faster, more predictable lending outcomes.

For MidWest America, the focus was not incremental improvement. It was greater control and the ability to cater to their members seamlessly.

“We were not looking to digitize what we already had. We were looking to remove the friction in how lending gets done,” said Shad Edwards, Chief Lending Officer at Midwest America FCU. “Our teams spend too much time navigating processes instead of serving members. If we can make lending more efficient, consistent, faster, and easier to execute, that directly translates into better member outcomes.”

From workflow automation to lending execution

Most digital lending journeys today do not fail because of lack of demand. They fail because of what happens after an application begins.

Across credit unions, 60 to 70 percent of applications are abandoned mid-flow, often after borrowers have already shared key information. At the same time, loan officers continue to spend hours each day navigating systems, validating data, and moving applications across stages before a decision can be made.

As volumes increase and margins tighten, that model becomes harder to sustain.

In most environments, origination and decisioning operate as separate layers. Applications are captured in one system, evaluated in another, and reviewed across multiple touchpoints. Each handoff introduces delay, inconsistency, and dependence on manual coordination.

MidWest America’s approach is to bring these layers together.

With Algebrik, borrower journeys across point-of-sale, loan origination, decisioning, and analytics operate as a connected flow. As an application progresses, the system captures inputs, validates information, determines eligibility in real time, and routes only exceptions for review.

What changes is not just how quickly a decision is made, but how consistently the entire journey is executed-from application to funding.

Why this matters now

Credit unions are not short on demand. They are operating in a more complex lending environment than they have in years.

MidWest America’s move reflects that shift.

“Credit unions today are not struggling because they lack demand. They are constrained by how lending gets executed internally,” said Pankaj Jain, Founder & CEO of Algebrik AI. “MidWest America approached this as an operating model decision. They wanted lending to be faster, yes, but more importantly, predictable and scalable without adding complexity.”

“We were not looking to digitize what we already had. We were looking to remove the variability in how lending gets done,” said David Shadburne, CEO of Midwest America FCU. “If we can make outcomes more consistent and reduce the back-and-forth in the process, that directly improves both member experience and how our teams operate day to day.”

What this enables for MidWest America FCU

With Algebrik AI, MidWest America aims to:

Deliver faster, more consistent lending experiences across all channelsReduce dependency on manual reviews and process navigationEnable loan officers to focus on complex, high-value member interactionsImprove approval speed, funding timelines, and overall operational efficiencyStrengthen compliance through embedded decisioning logic and audit-ready workflows

As credit unions look to modernize lending without adding operational complexity, platforms that connect origination, decisioning, and execution into a single flow are becoming critical.

To learn how Algebrik AI enables this shift, visit www.algebrik.ai or connect with the Algebrik team.

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About Algebrik AI

Algebrik AI, headquartered in New York City, is the company behind Algebrik One: the world’s first cloud-native, AI-powered, digital-era Loan Origination Suite (LOS), designed for the next generation of members. In an industry that hasn’t seen significant innovation in lending technology in over 25 years, it was high time someone stepped in to help credit unions of all sizes regain their former glory.

Algebrik AI’s mission is to empower credit unions to attract, engage, grow, and retain next-gen members in today’s digital era while delivering faster credit, deeper insight, and more human lending experiences. With Algebrik One, an end-to-end lending suite that includes Digital Account Opening, Lender’s Cockpit (LOS), Omni-channel Point of Sale (PoS), Decision Engine, and Portfolio Analytics, we take on the heavy lifting; so credit unions can focus on helping the members and communities they serve. For more information, visit www.algebrik.ai

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About MidWest America Federal Credit Union

MidWest America Federal Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, serving more than 51,000 members with around $1Bn in assets.

Founded in 1936, the credit union has grown from its origins serving General Electric employees to a full-service institution offering a wide range of consumer financial products, including auto, personal, mortgage, and home equity lending.

Today, MidWest America operates a network of full-service branches and is guided by the credit union philosophy of “people helping people,” with a continued focus on delivering accessible financial services and supporting the communities it serves.

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Intouch Insight to Unveil Annual Drive-Thru Study at QSR Evolution Conference

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Intouch Insight (INX: CA) to reveal the results of its annual Drive-Thru Study during the main stage session at the QSR Evolution Conference in AtlantaMain stage reveal to be delivered by VP Sales, Marketing & Product Strategy Sarah Beckett and Chief Revenue Officer Laura Livers on Thursday, September 10, 2026, ahead of the day’s keynoteBeckett and Livers will also moderate a panel of quick service restaurant operators on the technologies shaping the drive-thru of the future

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 3, 2026 /CNW/ — Intouch Insight Ltd. (OTCQX: INXSF) (“Intouch” or the “Company”), a provider of customer experience measurement solutions, today announced that it will present the findings of its annual Drive-Thru Study on the main stage at the QSR Evolution Conference, taking place September 8-10, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. This marks the fourth consecutive year Intouch has partnered with QSR Magazine and Arrowfly, formerly WTWH Media, to bring the study’s results to the conference stage.

The main stage session, “Intouch Insight Drive-Thru Report Reveal,” is scheduled for Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time, immediately ahead of the day’s keynote. Sarah Beckett, VP Sales,Marketing & Product Strategy, and Laura Livers, Chief Revenue Officer, will give attendees an early, exclusive look at the fastest, most accurate, and best customer service drive-thrus in America.

Beckett and Livers will also moderate a panel session, “Unveiling the Drive-Thru of the Future,” which goes deeper into the technologies and innovations separating winning brands, and what it takes to run a modern drive-thru that delivers consistency and experience at scale. Panelists include Taylor Crookston-Grace, Director, Brand Standard, BK US&C Operations; Michael MacLennan, Cofounder and Co-CEO, Tryarc; Chris Cheek, Chief Development Officer, Newk’s Eatery; Trace Miller, Founder & CEO, Konala; and Tim Sharpe, COO, Oliver’s Real Food.

Now in its fourth year, the QSR Evolution Conference brings together senior leaders from across the quick service restaurant industry for practitioner-led sessions on operations, technology, and customer experience. Intouch’s participation on the main stage reflects its continued work in customer experience measurement and operational audits for restaurant operators and other multi-location brands.

Cameron Watt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intouch Insight, said:

“The drive-thru study has become one of the most anticipated benchmarks in the industry, and the main stage at QSR Evolution is the right place to reveal it. Our research shows where brands are winning on speed, accuracy, and service, and where the gaps still are. We are looking forward to putting that data in front of the operators who can act on it, and to a fourth year of partnering with QSR Magazine and Arrowfly to make it happen.”

About Intouch Insight

Intouch Insight offers a complete portfolio of customer experience management (CEM) products and services that help global brands delight their customers, strengthen brand reputation and improve financial performance. Intouch helps clients collect and centralize data from multiple customer touch points, gives them actionable, real-time insights, and provides them with the tools to continuously improve customer experience. Founded in 1992, Intouch is trusted by over 300 of North America’s most-loved brands for their customer experience management, customer survey, mystery shopping, mobile forms, operational and compliance audits, geolocation data capture and event marketing automation solutions. For more information, visit intouchinsight.com.

Certain statements included in this news release including those related to the Company’s quarterly results, future products, opportunities and cost initiatives, strategies, and other statements that are predictive in nature that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, or that include words such as “expects”, “anticipates”, “intends”, “plans”, “believes”, “estimates”, or similar expressions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements that are made as of the date hereof, which by their nature are necessarily subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events, and are based on information currently available to the Company and on hypotheses which it considers to be reasonable; however, management cautions the reader that hypotheses relative to future events which are beyond the control of management could prove to be false, given that they are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Please refer to the risks set forth in the Company’s most recent annual MD&A and the Company’s continuous disclosure documents that can be found on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. The Company does not intend, and disclaims any obligation, except as required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Lyntris Completes CDR for KSAT Hyperion Satellite Program

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Tri-band RF system advances for KSAT’s next-generation HYPER relay network

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lyntris Inc. (NYSE: LYNX), a defense technology company delivering sense-to-act connectivity solutions for the modern connected battlespace has completed Critical Design Review (CDR) for the tri-band antenna system in development for Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT)’s two-satellite Hyperion mission, marking a key milestone as the program advances toward hardware integration, qualification, and flight.

Hyperion is the pathfinder for HYPER, KSAT’s next-generation hybrid RF and optical relay network designed to extend global connectivity into orbit. The architecture will enable spacecraft to move mission data through relay satellites when direct ground-station access is unavailable, reducing latency and increasing access to time-sensitive information.

Delivering tri-band performance in a single antenna system is a demanding engineering problem. Each frequency band has to be tightly controlled — filtering out unwanted signals, isolating the bands from each other, and minimizing signal loss. But optimizing for one band can easily degrade performance in another. Meeting those requirements for all three simultaneously, inside a compact, space-qualified envelope, leaves little room for error.

That difficulty compounds when the design moves from RF engineering into flight hardware, and the completed system then has to be validated in test facilities capable of characterizing performance across all three bands at once, a capability few organizations maintain in-house.

Completion of CDR as planned demonstrates the technical maturity of the design and reflects the close engineering partnership between Lyntris and KSAT as both teams move toward flight hardware.

Lyntris brings RF engineering, manufacturing, system integration, and multi-band testing together under one roof. That combination — along with proprietary design and process IP — is what allows a design as demanding as the tri-band antenna to move from requirements to flight hardware.

“Hyperion is an important step toward a more connected and resilient space architecture,” said Madison Dye, Lyntris’ Vice President of C5ISR. “We’re proud to partner with KSAT and provide the advanced RF technology needed to make that architecture work. Completing CDR on schedule demonstrates our ability to move complex antenna systems from requirements to flight-ready hardware with speed and discipline.”

About Lyntris

Lyntris is a defense technology company delivering sense-to-act connectivity solutions for the modern, connected battlespace. Combining differentiated hardware, software and mission expertise, Lyntris helps customers detect threats earlier, decide faster and act with precision in contested, multi-domain environments.

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Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the expected timeline and progress of the Hyperion antenna program; the anticipated technical performance and capabilities of the tri-band antenna system; expected production and delivery schedules; the role of the antenna in KSAT’s HYPER relay network architecture; Lyntris’ ability to move complex antenna systems from requirements to flight-ready hardware; statements regarding Lyntris’ manufacturing, integration and qualification capabilities; and the potential for expanded business opportunities.

These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions and projections of Lyntris’ management and are neither predictions nor guarantees of future events, circumstances or performance. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, without limitation: dependence on KSAT’s program decisions, priorities, funding and continued support for the Hyperion demonstration mission and HYPER relay network; technical risks inherent in developing, qualifying, integrating and operating space-qualified hardware; the risk that completion of CDR does not guarantee successful qualification, integration or flight; the competitive environment for RF and antenna technologies; supply chain disruptions, shortages or constraints affecting specialized materials and components; schedule delays, technical challenges or cost overruns in complex space and defense programs; uncertainties in U.S. government and commercial space budgets, appropriations and customer spending; changes in applicable laws, regulations or government procurement policies; and other factors described under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in Lyntris’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, copies of which are available free of charge on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov under Lyntris Inc.

The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.

Nothing in this press release, including use or display of third parties’ trademarks, service marks, trade name or products, should be construed as an approval, endorsement, guarantee or sponsorship by any third parties of Lyntris Inc., its products, business or financial performance or any aspect of this press release.

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McCann Systems Wins Two Commercial Integrator Awards for Best Healthcare and Best Casino Projects

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EDISON, N.J., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — McCann Systems is proud to announce that two recently completed AV projects have been honored with 2026 Commercial Integrator Awards. McCann earned Best Healthcare Project for the immersive Fortune 500 Company’s Client Experience Center and Best Casino Project for the new Caesars Sportsbook at Monmouth Park.

This recognition marks the ninth consecutive year that McCann has received a prestigious “Best Of” award from Commercial Integrator, highlighting the company’s continued excellence and expertise across a wide range of verticals.

The Best Healthcare Project recognizes McCann’s work on a 5,000-square-foot immersive Client Experience Center designed to elevate storytelling, collaboration, and innovation. The environment brings together interactive LED displays, personalized content, and dynamic experiential spaces to guide guests through the company’s story and solutions. McCann integrated a sophisticated AV infrastructure supporting interactive presentations, engaging experiences, and centralized control, creating a flexible, technology-driven environment that fosters meaningful connections and memorable guest experiences.

The Best Casino Project recognizes McCann’s AV integration for the new Caesars Sportsbook at Monmouth Park, a next-generation sportsbook that brings modern sports entertainment to one of New Jersey’s most historic racetracks. McCann integrated more than 1,600 square feet of LED, 23 large-format displays, more than 50 simultaneous sports and racing feeds, and seven independent audio zones throughout the venue. The result is a high-energy, flexible environment that delivers uninterrupted viewing and wagering information across sportsbook, dining, VIP, and outdoor spaces while honoring Monmouth Park’s rich racing history.

The Commercial Integrator Awards recognize outstanding audiovisual integration projects across the commercial AV industry. McCann’s continued recognition reflects its ability to deliver innovative, high-performance AV environments tailored to the unique needs of each client and space.

About McCann Systems

McCann Systems is a leading audiovisual integration company specializing in the design, engineering, installation, and support of innovative AV environments. With expertise spanning across several markets, McCann delivers technology solutions that transform commercial spaces, create meaningful experiences, and set the standard for innovation in the Pro AV industry.

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Director of Marketing

mwilson@mccannsystems.com 

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