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Manulife’s statement positions it before the application stage, where it helps advisors prepare for client conversations, understand potential underwriting requirements, and gather information earlier in the insurance process. MAUDE, the company’s AI-enabled underwriting engine, handles the stage after an application is submitted. Karen Cutler, chief underwriter at Manulife Canada, said in the announcement that…
Lease accounting under ASC 842 has become one of the clearest tests of how ready a firm is for the next era of audit. Processing Content The technical rules are no longer new, but the work remains complex, judgment-heavy and highly visible. It’s also the kind of work where well-designed automation and increasingly capable AI…
A forklift hums across a massive distribution center floor, powered by a battery pack that doesn’t quit when the shift ends. This is the world Electrovaya (ELVA -1.53%) occupies. The company designs and manufactures proprietary lithium-ion energy storage systems for mission-critical industrial applications like material handling, robotics, and defense. Shares trade at $5.02 as of…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When you are working for someone who is a bully, we may use power dynamics as an excuse — but normalizing this behavior is part of the problem. Call out bad behavior when you see or experience it. Keep a record of the facts: when…
Key Takeaways Credit unions are nonprofit financial institutions that require membership, while banks are for-profit and do not require membership. Banks provide more access to branches and ATMs but suffer when it comes to customer service. Credit unions offer better deals on rates and fees but lack accessibility compared to banks. Credit unions and banks…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Colleges have automated the easy work (CRM, communication) while the hardest, most labor-intensive work (transcript evaluation, fraud checks) stays manual. Enrollment growth targets are outpacing the processing capacity needed to handle more applications. Admissions leaders want AI to extend staff capacity, not replace human judgment…
NATO member Latvia is building a wall of automated anti-drone defenses along its border with Russia, with human soldiers responsible only for deciding when and whether to fire. It aims to detect and neutralize “any drone which flies in,” defense minister Raivis Melnis told Business Insider. And the goal, he explained, is to “build an autonomous system”…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today the international human rights community will gather in The Hague to celebrate the work of Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is the recipient of the Thulani Maseko Justice Prize 2026. The award, established by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and the Thulani Maseko Foundation, recognises lawyers…
Steven Jon Kaplan sees a completely irrational stock market right now, and investors ignoring a perfectly safe way to play that.
You open a trading app before you open a budgeting app. That order is common for Gen Z right now, and it carries real risk. New national data show Gen Z financial literacy fell to its lowest point in a decade. At the same time, more young adults are investing in crypto and prediction markets…