Optimal Blue introduced Virtual Economist, an AI and ML forecasting tool for mortgage capital markets leaders, at its 2026 Summit. The company detailed nine platform improvements spanning pricing, ...

The FINRA-approved broker-dealer expects the platform to become commercially available later in Q1 and will serve retail options wholesalers, institutional broker-dealers and large asset managers, ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimal Market Technologies, LLC ("Optimal"), a new FINRA-approved broker dealer, today announced its launch of a U.S. listed options execution platform with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Take a look at the Substructure announcement trailer for this upcoming factory and automation game from the creator of UltraCube (a Factorio mod). Substructure will be available in PC Early Access.

Play too much Factorio, and you'll start seeing conveyor belts in your dreams. There's something mesmerizing about a sprawling network of production lines, and they sear themselves into your eyeballs ...

ProWood, a leader in premium pressure-treated lumber, announced the launch of TrueFrame Joist, the performance-driven deck framing solution engineered for professional builders who demand precision, ...

A new class-action lawsuit against Optimal Blue mirrors the RealPage and real estate commission lawsuits, alleging lenders used the firm’s pricing software to coordinate mortgage rates through shared ...

Competing broker initiatives to “tokenize” financial assets—i.e., represent them on programmable platforms—promise efficiency gains but raise concerns about market fragmentation. Policymakers in ...