Port Louis, Mauritius, October 13th, 2026, FinanceWire

Available From October 13, 2026, The New Symbols Span Ten Sectors And Are Tradable During Extended Weekday Hours. 

STARTRADER has launched 48 new US Stock CFDs on its MT5 servers, tradable from Monday 03:00 to Friday 23:55 (GMT+3 platform time). The regular US session opens in the late afternoon in the Gulf and the evening across much of Asia. The new symbols give clients in those regions more flexibility to trade NYSE and Nasdaq companies during their own working day, and to respond to news released outside US hours, subject to market conditions and liquidity.

The launch also lands as US third-quarter earnings season, with several newly added banks and asset managers among the first to report.

The additions range from Alphabet (GOOGL.24H), Marvell Technology (MRVL.24H) and Super Micro Computer (SMCI.24H) to Wells Fargo (WFC.24H), BlackRock (BLK.24H), Nike (NKE.24H) and Rivian (RIVN.24H).

The symbols are available on STARTRADER’s existing MT5 live servers and sit within the same regulated framework as the rest of its product range. The addition forms part of STARTRADER’s wider effort to extend market access for clients based outside US time zones.

“Many of our clients are based in time zones far from New York, and the US session rarely aligns with their working day. Opening these stocks up 24 hours on weekdays means clients can trade some of the most widely followed US names on their own schedule, rather than around the opening bell.” Peter Karsten, CEO, STARTRADER.

The launch follows the October 6 addition of 20 Stock and ETF CFDs tradable 24/7, and continues STARTRADER’s expansion of extended-hours access to global equities.

About STARTRADER

STARTRADER is a global multi-asset broker empowering retail and institutional partners to access global markets through a range of platforms, including MetaTrader, STARTRADER APP, and STAR Copy. Regulated in five jurisdictions (CMA, ASIC, FSCA, FSA, and FSC), STARTRADER combines strong governance with a client-first approach, serving both retail clients and partners with a commitment to transparency, reliability, and long-term growth.

Risk Warning: CFDs are complex instruments and carry a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Trading outside regular US market hours may involve wider spreads and lower liquidity.

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Dubai, UAE, October 7th, 2026, FinanceWire

ePlanet Brokers has published its H1 2026 Transparency Report, providing operational data on withdrawals, deposits, KYC, trading execution and customer support. The publication comes alongside another development for the company in 2026: ePlanet Brokers received the Best Broker 2026 award at Forex Expo Dubai 2026. Together, these developments provide additional information for traders researching the broker and asking questions such as: Is ePlanet Brokers legit? Is ePlanet Brokers safe to use?

Choosing a broker is rarely about one feature, award or performance figure. A useful review needs to look at legal structure, operational data, withdrawals, execution, support and the problems a broker is willing to disclose. That is the context behind the ePlanet Brokers H1 2026 Transparency Report. Instead of relying only on claims such as “fast” or “reliable,” the company published internal performance figures covering several stages of the client journey.

Transparency Report Findings

Some of the clearest numbers relate to payments and trading operations. During H1 2026, ePlanet Brokers reported a 99% deposit success rate and a withdrawal success rate of more than 95%. Average internal withdrawal processing time was approximately eight minutes.

Bank processing, payment providers, verification or compliance checks can affect how long a withdrawal ultimately takes.

The report also says more than 40% of withdrawals were automated. At the same time, it does not present withdrawals as problem-free. It identifies interbank processing, bank-specific restrictions and additional reviews among reasons a request may take longer.

Trading data provides another useful measure. ePlanet Brokers reported a 99.9% order execution success rate and average execution speed of approximately 110 milliseconds, compared with around 150 milliseconds in H2 2025. These are aggregate figures rather than a promise that every order will have the same result or execution time.

The report is useful because it does not only highlight positive results. It also explains where delays can happen and where further improvement is planned. That matters in a broker review: transparency is more useful when readers can see both reported performance and the operational limits behind the headline numbers.

KYC and Customer Support

KYC is another area where the report includes both performance and friction. The published approval rate is 88%, while automated identity verification averaged less than 30 seconds. The report also discusses issues that can slow verification, including incomplete or unclear documentation and cases requiring additional checks.

Support performance is measured as well. Average first response time was 181 seconds, while average resolution time was 67 minutes. This approach is relevant when assessing whether ePlanet Brokers is safe or legit. No operational metric can prove that a broker is risk-free, and trading itself carries substantial risk. But measurable data can make it easier to examine how a company operates and where its processes still need work.

How is ePlanet Brokers structured?

ePlanet Brokers operates through entities in more than one jurisdiction.

ePlanet Brokers LTD is incorporated and registered in the Comoros Union under the International Companies Act 2006, with IBC Registration No. HY00923038. Nebula Ventures Ltd is incorporated in Vanuatu under Company Registration No. 700819 and is licensed and regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission to provide financial dealer services.

The Vanuatu entity was added alongside the existing Comoros structure rather than replacing it. For traders reviewing whether ePlanet Brokers is a legitimate broker, these details should be considered together with the company’s terms, risk disclosures and operational record.

Best Broker 2026 Award

ePlanet Brokers also received the Best Broker 2026 award at Forex Expo Dubai 2026. An industry award is useful context, but it should not replace due diligence. The company makes the same point in its own coverage of the award: traders should still examine legal information, trading conditions, platforms and operational performance.

One is industry recognition; the other provides numbers that can be checked and compared over time.

ePlanet Brokers Review 2026

The strongest part of this ePlanet Brokers review is not a claim that every process is perfect. It is the availability of measurable information, including areas where delays or additional checks can occur.

For anyone asking whether ePlanet Brokers is safe or legit, there is no single metric that should decide the answer. Regulation, withdrawal performance, execution, support, legal documents and risk all matter. The H1 2026 Transparency Report adds another layer by making operational results visible, while the Best Broker 2026 award adds external industry recognition.

Together, they give traders more information to examine before making their own decision.

About ePlanet Brokers

ePlanet Brokers is a global online broker providing access to financial markets through MetaTrader 5 and cTrader. The company operates through entities established in multiple jurisdictions, including the Comoros Union and Vanuatu, and provides trading services across a range of financial instruments. ePlanet Brokers focuses on trading technology, operational transparency and multilingual client support, while continuing to develop its trading infrastructure and client services.

For more information about ePlanet Brokers and its services, users can visit: https://eplanetbrokers.com/

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New York, NY, United States, 13th Oct 2026 – Fundfi Merchant Funding, LLC (“Fundfi” or the “Company”), a leading provider of revenue-based financing solutions, announced the successful closing of a senior secured credit facility with a prominent institutional asset manager. The new capital will serve to further grow the Company’s lending platform in the United States and Canada.

Since inception in 2020, the Company has provided innovative financing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses seeking alternatives to traditional lending channels, with a focus on flexible terms, responsive service and business-focused solutions.

“The demand for fast, reliable funding has never been higher, and this expanded facility positions us to meet that demand head-on,” said Efraim Kandinov, CEO and co-founder of Fundfi. “It’s a strong vote of confidence in the business we’ve built and the markets we serve.”

“This facility strengthens our balance sheet with a highly scalable structure that grows alongside our lending platform,” added Natasha Dillon, CFO and co-founder of Fundfi. “In a time of economic uncertainty, we are preparing and positioning ourselves to be ready with more capital, deployed faster, to the businesses that need it most.”

Brean Capital, LLC served as the Company’s exclusive financial advisor and sole placement agent in connection with the transaction.

About Fundfi

Fundfi is a fintech parent company providing fast, flexible capital to small businesses through revenue-based financing and loan products. Its family of companies includes Fundfi Merchant Funding, Fundfi Financial Solutions, and Fundfi Canada, serving business owners and broker partners across North America. Fundfi: A Fintech Family of Solutions. For additional information about the Company, visit: www.fundfi.com

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The contemporary literary fiction title by author R. Matt Davis follows three men rebuilding their lives after the careers that defined them come to an end.

PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES, 13th Oct 2026: Matt Davis Books publishes Identity Renewal: The Hourglass Turns, a contemporary literary fiction title by author R. Matt Davis. The novel is available in hardcover, paperback and digital editions through booksellers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The story takes place at a residential wellness center in the hills of Tennessee. Three men arrive within hours of one another, each at the end of the career that gave his life its shape. One is a former member of the armed forces, one a retired professional athlete and one a corporate executive. The sixty-day program at the center is built around a single question that each of them faces: who is a person once the role that defined him goes away?

Identity Renewal: The Hourglass Turns is organized in three sections titled Descent, Confrontation and Renewal. The narrative moves between the separate history each man carries and the shared present the three of them build together, then follows the year that unfolds after they leave the center. The book runs to twenty-seven chapters with a prologue and an epilogue, and extends to three hundred and forty-eight pages in the hardcover edition.

An hourglass serves as the central image of the novel. It appears as an object on a shelf at the center, as a daily practice, as a gift and finally as a shared marker between the three men. The author uses it to carry the governing idea of the book, which holds that time moves through a life regardless of readiness, and that the available choice concerns what a person does with the time that remains.

Themes in the novel include identity, resilience, friendship, fatherhood and personal renewal. The title is intended for adult readers of character-driven fiction. The narrative is written in the first person and rotates between the three men, with named headings marking each change of narrator.

“The questions behind this novel reach a wide readership,” said R. Matt Davis, founder of Matt Davis Books. “A career ends, a role falls away, and a person stands there with the same question regardless of the uniform he wore. That situation arrives for almost everyone eventually, which is the reason the book takes three different men and puts them in the same room.”

The hardcover and digital editions carry ISBN 978-9-69-509385-6. The paperback edition carries ISBN 9798240926136. The title is listed with Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million and Kobo in the United States, and with Waterstones and Foyles in the United Kingdom. The digital edition is available to readers internationally.

The novel is published by Matt Davis Books. Title details, author information and reader resources are maintained on the official company website at https://mattdavisbooks.com/.

About the Author

R. Matt Davis is an author and leadership coach based in Petoskey, Michigan. He spent more than thirty-five years in global business leadership across multiple industries and serves as president of Driftwood Leadership, where he works on authentic leadership, resilience and professional development. Identity Renewal: The Hourglass Turns is his first novel.

About Matt Davis Books

Matt Davis Books is an independent publisher based in Petoskey, Michigan, United States. The company publishes the written work of author R. Matt Davis and maintains title information, author details and reader resources on its official website.

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My Diabetes Tutor and Culinary Health Consultants have partnered to integrate medically tailored meals, accredited diabetes education, and precision nutrition tracking through Cronometer. The collaboration aims to improve diabetes management and patient outcomes while helping meal delivery companies increase customer engagement, retention, and lifetime value.

New York, United States, 13th Oct 2026 – My Diabetes Tutor (MDT), a leading telehealth provider of accredited diabetes education, has partnered with Culinary Health Consultants to deliver integrated clinical support for medically tailored meal programs. By combining tailored nutrition, precision digital tracking via Cronometer, and one-on-one telehealth consultations, this initiative creates an end-to-end care ecosystem that helps patients with diabetes achieve measurable health improvements.

Culinary Health Consultants brings together meal providers, clinical education, and nutrition technology to help food companies build comprehensive diabetes support programs that go beyond the meal itself. The partnership with My Diabetes Tutor adds an accredited diabetes education component designed to help translate medically tailored nutrition into sustainable behavior change and improved long-term engagement.

For meal delivery companies, moving into the chronic condition space requires more than healthy recipes. While medically tailored meals provide a vital baseline, long-term behavior change requires consistent human connection, education, and accountability. Traditional meal subscriptions frequently experience high churn after an introductory period. By embedding certified clinical education directly into the meal offering, food providers transform a routine delivery service into an essential healthcare partnership, driving higher subscriber retention, increased lifetime value, and clear brand differentiation.

“We are incredibly excited about this collaboration and the opportunity to impact more lives,” said Dr. Prem Sahasranam, Founder and CEO of My Diabetes Tutor. “Delivering healthy meals is a powerful start, but true transformation happens when you pair that food with certified 1:1 diabetes education and real-time tracking data. By bringing our clinical expertise alongside Culinary Health Consultants and Cronometer, we empower individuals to understand their health in real time and achieve sustainable blood sugar management.”

“Medically tailored meals can be an incredibly powerful tool, but the opportunity is much larger when we surround those meals with education, support, and actionable health data,” said Richard Gray, Founder of Culinary Health Consultants. “Our goal is to help meal companies move beyond simply delivering food and create a comprehensive diabetes support ecosystem that improves outcomes while building deeper, longer-lasting relationships with their customers.”

The integrated model utilizes a structured, three-step care pathway delivered through convenient 30-minute telehealth visits with Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (CDCES) and Registered Dietitians:

• Discover: Clinicians evaluate current glucose and A1C metrics, medication regimens, lifestyle barriers, and early meal experiences while setting up digital tracking and an achievable first action plan.
• Learn: Participants review early wins, analyze glucose patterns in relation to meals, and receive targeted education covering medication timing, portioning, and lifestyle adjustments.
• Bridge: Clinicians celebrate measurable progress, address persistent daily obstacles, and connect participants with ongoing clinical pathways such as Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) and Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT).

“Food is only one piece of the puzzle,” said Liz Tarabour, MS, RDN, LDN, CDCES, Vice President of Clinical Operations at My Diabetes Tutor. “Patients with diabetes often know what they should eat, but maintaining those choices during real-world disruptions requires ongoing expert guidance. Our role is to help participants interpret glucose trends, navigate their medications, and translate their meal delivery plan into lasting daily routines that lower health risks.”

With more than 100 million Americans managing diabetes or prediabetes, healthcare payers, self-insured employers, and consumers are demanding food-as-medicine solutions that demonstrate clear clinical returns. My Diabetes Tutor’s accredited curriculum supports proven clinical outcomes, helping participants achieve an average A1C reduction of 1.6 points while building self-management confidence.

Meal delivery providers and healthcare organizations interested in integrating clinical diabetes education into their nutrition programs can learn more by contacting My Diabetes Tutor at info@mydiabetestutor.com or visiting mydiabetestutor.com

About My Diabetes Tutor

My Diabetes Tutor is a telehealth company that is laser-focused on delivering nationally accredited Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) led by Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists—meeting people where they are: cognitively, culturally, and emotionally, whether they are newly diagnosed or have been managing their diabetes for years. We believe that personalized, supportive education changes lives. All education sessions are ADCES-accredited and fully reimbursable by most health plans, and the program has consistently demonstrated tangible results, including lower A1Cs. Through innovative technology and a patient-centered approach, My Diabetes Tutor is transforming the landscape of diabetes care. Education is Therapy for Life!℠

About Culinary Health Consultants
Culinary Health Consultants helps meal companies capitalize on opportunities in the growing food-as-medicine and chronic disease markets by integrating medically tailored nutrition with clinical education, health technology, and strategic consulting. CHC works with food providers and healthcare partners to develop comprehensive nutrition programs designed to improve health outcomes, strengthen customer engagement and retention, and create new opportunities for sustainable growth.

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New software from Lob Labs LLC gives organizations a dedicated place to manage recurring work, responsibilities, ownership, procedures, and operational activity

Minnesota, United States, 13th Oct 2026 – Lob Labs LLC today announced the launch of DeptOps, a department operations management software platform designed to give organizations a central place to manage the ongoing responsibilities and recurring work that keep departments running.

Organizations have adopted dedicated software for project management, customer relationships, accounting, support, and other business functions. Yet much of the operational work inside individual departments continues to rely on spreadsheets, calendars, email reminders, shared documents, task lists, and knowledge held by individual employees.

DeptOps was created to address that gap by providing department management software focused on ongoing operations rather than forcing recurring operational work into a project-based model. The platform brings responsibilities and ownership, recurring operational work, one-time assigned work, procedures, documentation, forms, approvals, and operational visibility into a structured system.

The platform addresses a basic operational question: if recurring work is responsible for keeping so much of an organization running, why does it so often have nowhere dedicated to live? DeptOps gives that work a defined place alongside the responsibilities, people, and processes connected to it.

Project work has a natural beginning and end. A software implementation, office move, website redesign, or product launch moves toward a defined point of completion. Department operations work often does not.

Financial reviews recur each month. Access reviews continue each quarter. Compliance checks, reporting, vendor reviews, reconciliations, maintenance, employee onboarding activities, and administrative processes continue for as long as the organization needs them. Completing one occurrence does not complete the underlying responsibility.

DeptOps is designed around this distinction. Instead of treating every operational responsibility as another project, organizations can document what departments own and connect those responsibilities to the recurring work required to maintain them.

Responsibility management forms a central part of the DeptOps platform. Organizations can document ongoing areas of accountability such as payroll processing, network administration, vendor management, security reviews, compliance activities, employee onboarding, and monthly reporting.

Each responsibility can have a primary owner and a backup owner. This structure gives managers a clearer view of who is accountable for important functions and where additional coverage may be required.

Responsibilities can also connect with related work and operational resources. This helps preserve the context surrounding a function when employees change positions, teams reorganize, or responsibilities transfer to another person.

DeptOps supports both recurring operational work and one-time assignments. Teams can schedule work to repeat on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, or custom schedules. Examples include access reviews, financial reconciliations, compliance checks, reporting cycles, vendor reviews, maintenance activities, and administrative processes.

Work can include priorities, due dates, checklists, forms, documentation, and connections to the people, departments, and responsibilities involved. Individual employees receive focused views of their assigned responsibilities and work. Managers can review activity across their teams, including work that is upcoming, completed, overdue, or blocked.

This provides a dedicated operational structure without requiring departments to create separate projects for processes that never have a permanent completion date.

Operational work can also produce information that organizations need to retain. An inspection may require a checklist. A compliance review may need evidence. A recurring process may require employees to answer a standard set of questions before completing it.

DeptOps allows structured forms to connect directly with operational work. Organizations can use forms for reviews, inspections, checklists, evidence collection, and other processes that require structured information. Work can require completion of a form before the activity is marked complete. Supported plans can also route submissions through approval workflows.

The platform also focuses on helping managers identify areas that require attention. Its Needs Attention functionality can surface overdue or blocked work, missing responsibility ownership, gaps in backup coverage, and other operational exceptions.

This approach allows routine work that is proceeding as expected to remain in the background while helping managers quickly see what is overdue, blocked, missing ownership, or otherwise requires attention. Dashboards, reporting, individual work views, and team views provide additional visibility into department activity without requiring managers to assemble information from separate spreadsheets, calendars, documents, and task lists.

On supported plans, the Operations Map provides a visual representation of connections between departments, people, responsibilities, and work. Organizations can use this view to examine ownership, backup coverage, and operational relationships during staffing changes, reorganizations, continuity planning, and other operational reviews.

DeptOps is designed for department leaders, managers, and operational teams that need greater structure around ongoing responsibilities. IT departments can use the platform to organize access checks, infrastructure responsibilities, system reviews, maintenance, and operational handoffs. Finance teams can manage recurring reporting, reconciliations, close activities, and other financial responsibilities. HR and administrative departments can organize onboarding, employee processes, procedures, reviews, and recurring administrative work.

Organizations can begin with a single department and expand their use as operational requirements grow. DeptOps offers a free plan for up to five users and one department, along with paid plans that support larger teams, multiple departments, department hierarchies, and organization-wide use.

By creating a dedicated home for responsibility management and recurring operational work, DeptOps addresses a part of organizational activity that has often remained spread across general-purpose business tools.

For more information, visit DeptOps.

About Lob Labs LLC

Lob Labs LLC develops practical software designed to help organizations manage everyday business operations more clearly and efficiently. DeptOps is the company’s department operations management platform.

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Newport Beach electrical contractor Pelican Coast Electric installs Level 2 home EV chargers across Orange County and handles the city permit and final inspection on every job. The county had 260,833 zero-emission vehicles registered at the end of 2025, according to the California Energy Commission.

Newport Beach, California, United States, 13th Oct 2026 – Newport Beach, California, United States, October 12, 2026. Pelican Coast Electric, a licensed electrical contractor in Newport Beach, installs Level 2 home EV chargers across Orange County, from the first site visit through the city permit and the final inspection. The work is tied to a fast-growing number of local drivers. The California Energy Commission counted 260,833 zero-emission vehicles registered in Orange County at the end of 2025, up 16.6% from a year earlier and more than three times the 2020 count.

“Most people drive the car home and plug it into a regular garage outlet,” said Austin Torres, owner of Pelican Coast Electric. “That works for a week or two. Then they figure out a standard outlet adds a few miles of range an hour, and they want to wake up to a full battery. That means a 240-volt circuit, and in Orange County that’s a permitted job.”

Pelican Coast Electric’s home market runs ahead of the county. In the six ZIP codes that cover Newport Beach, Corona del Mar and Newport Coast, about one in six cars and light trucks registered at the end of 2025 was zero-emission, compared with 10.6% countywide.

How Pelican Coast Electric installs a home charger

Every EV charger installation starts with a free site assessment and a written estimate. A Pelican Coast Electric electrician checks where the car parks, measures how far the wire has to run, and runs a load analysis on the electrical panel. The company then recommends either a hardwired Level 2 charger or a 240-volt outlet.

If the panel doesn’t have the capacity, Pelican Coast Electric upgrades it as part of the same job. The company’s guide to panel upgrades for EV chargers explains how homeowners can tell ahead of time.

Pelican Coast Electric pulls the permit with the city, does the install, and schedules the inspection. The permit and inspection are included in the job. Most residential installs take four to eight hours, and a job that needs a panel upgrade can run to a second day.

“We pull the permit on every charger we put in,” Torres said. “The inspector signs off on the work, and there’s a record of it at the city.”

Homeowners who want to know what their city requires can read the company’s guide on whether you need a permit to install an EV charger.

“You want to plug in at night in your own garage and forget about it,” Torres said. “Our job is to make that circuit safe, permitted and ready the day we leave.”

Pelican Coast Electric holds California contractor license #1133193 (C-10). Homeowners can request a free estimate at pelicancoastelectric.com or by calling (949) 779-8189.

About Pelican Coast Electric

Pelican Coast Electric is a licensed and insured electrical contractor (CA License #1133193) based in Newport Beach, California. The company serves residential and commercial clients throughout Orange County, with generator service in San Bernardino County. Services include electrical panel upgrades, whole-home standby generator installation, EV charger installation, smart home wiring, electrical repairs, and 24/7 emergency electrical service.

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