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Finance & Banking · Week of Nov 2, 2026

Q3 results and capital returns lead the week in finance releases

Third-quarter results with buybacks and payouts led the week, alongside new products and infrastructure from asset managers, brokers and fintechs.

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Third-quarter reporting accounted for much of the week. Hagerty raised its full-year 2026 Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA outlook after a quarter in which Adjusted EBITDA rose 64%, even as Total Revenue fell 9%. Autohome reported lower net revenues and net income. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp. reported net investment income of $0.38 per share. Capital returns ran through two of the reports: Autohome approved a US$1.58 per ADS dividend and continued its US$400 million buyback, and NCDL declared a $0.38 distribution and repurchased shares in October.

Outside earnings, several companies announced new capacity or platforms. AllianceBernstein listed an actively managed covered-call ETF on the NASDAQ. Aon raised the co-insurance share of its Aon Client Treaty to 35% for 2027. Broadridge reported $7.6 trillion in October volume on its Distributed Ledger Repo and pointed to wider tokenization through its DLX platform. Alkami said Fidelity Bank is live on MANTL Loan Origination. Opera, outside the core finance sector, reported 100 million monthly PC users.

  1. Hagerty

    Hagerty Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results; Increases 2026 Growth Outlook

    Hagerty reported third-quarter 2026 Net Income of $36 million, compared with $46 million a year earlier, and Adjusted EBITDA of $97 million, up 64%, while Total Revenue fell 9% to $354 million, which the company attributes to the Markel Fronting Arrangement transition. The company raised full-year 2026 guidance to Net Income of $48 million–$60 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $305 million–$315 million, from $18 million–$30 million and $270 million–$280 million.

  2. Autohome Inc.

    Autohome Inc. Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results

    Autohome reported unaudited third-quarter net revenues of RMB1,315.0 million (US$196.1 million), down from RMB1,778.1 million, and net income attributable to Autohome of RMB195.0 million, compared to RMB436.6 million. The Board approved a cash dividend of US$1.58 per ADS, totaling approximately RMB1 billion, and the company says it had repurchased 7,062,030 ADSs for about US$155.4 million under its US$400 million buyback as of October 30, 2026.

  3. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp.

    Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp. Announces

    Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp. reported third-quarter net investment income of $0.38 per share and NAV per share of $17.13, compared to $17.19 as of June 30, 2026. It declared a fourth quarter distribution of $0.38 per share, made up of a $0.36 regular and $0.02 supplemental distribution, and says it repurchased 278,294 shares for approximately $3.0 million from October 1 through October 30, 2026.

  4. AllianceBernstein

    AllianceBernstein Launches Actively Managed AB Equity Premium Income ETF

    AllianceBernstein launched the AB Equity Premium Income ETF (INK) on the NASDAQ, an actively managed fund that combines S&P 500 Index exposure with a written covered call option overlay to generate income. The release says the Fund seeks to provide monthly distributions but that they are not guaranteed, and that writing call options can limit gains in a sharply rising market.

  5. Alkami Technology, Inc.

    Fidelity Bank Expands Relationship with Alkami by Launching MANTL Loan Origination

    Alkami says Pennsylvania-based Fidelity Bank, an existing Alkami Digital Banking customer, is live with MANTL Loan Origination less than three months after kickoff and is now originating personal loans and vehicle loans through the platform. The bank replaced siloed legacy systems so that loan applications are handled through a single system across branch and digital channels, according to the release.

  6. Opera Limited

    Opera reaches 100 million PC users for the first time, growing 16% year over year

    Opera says its PC browsers reached 100 million monthly active users in October 2026, the first time it has crossed that mark, a 16% increase year over year. The company says the desktop user base is central to its push into Western markets such as Europe and North America.

  7. Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

    Broadridge's Distributed Ledger Repo Processes $7.6 Trillion in October

    Broadridge says its Distributed Ledger Repo processed $7.6 trillion in repo transactions in October 2026, an average of $345 billion per day. The company says its recently launched DLX platform extends tokenization beyond securities financing to issuance, trading, settlement, servicing and distribution.

  8. Aon plc

    Aon Client Treaty Expands to 35% Co-insurance for 2027

    Aon says the Aon Client Treaty will co-insure 35% of eligible business from 1 January 2027, up from 28.5% for 2026, with the 1.5% ACT Client Dividend applying to the larger share where permitted. The QBE-led facility, backed by Lloyd's syndicates, gives clients committed capacity for a larger portion of each eligible placement, and Aon says it has placed more than $5 billion in gross written premium since its launch in 2016.

This roundup is written with AI assistance from the press releases listed above, using only what they state. The releases are the companies' own announcements, not Stream Bulletin reporting.