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Mavengity Expands into B2B Research
Owner Marko Pargo Ivanov is now writing the B2B Research desk directly, turning Forrester and Gartner category reports into plain-English breakdowns for buyers.
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Regulation
The CFTC Splits Prediction Markets From the Sportsbook
Two rulemakings on the same day draw a line by venue: event contracts traded on a federal exchange stay swaps, while state-licensed sportsbook and casino wagers are excluded from the definition.
Enforcement
A Shuttered Ambulance Company Still Owes for Its Old Data
Massachusetts reached a $1 million settlement with Transformative Healthcare over alleged ambulance upcoding and a 2023 breach that exposed the data of 750,116 residents, years after the company stopped operating.
Courts
A Judge Reads the Google Play Fee Bills and Sends Them Back
Judge James Donato rejected an $85 million fee request in the Google Play settlement, finding the billing records too thin to show what work was done or why the lawyers deserved 13.5 percent of the consumer fund.
Antitrust
Arkansas Asks How Far a State Can Reach Into Pharmacy Middlemen
A 2025 Arkansas law barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies is on appeal at the Eighth Circuit, and the ruling will shape how far states can regulate the drug supply chain.
Enforcement
The Student Aid Fraud Number Is a Map of Suspicion
FinCEN says about $270 million in suspicious activity may be tied to federal student aid fraud, a figure built from bank reports that are investigative leads rather than proven losses.
Banking
JPMorgan Puts Its Deposit Token on Ethereum's Public Rail
JPMorgan's JPM Coin is now live on Ethereum mainnet as well as Base, a step that puts a bank deposit on a public chain while keeping the token inside a closed network of approved clients.
gene therapy
Hearing Loss Gene Therapy's Hardest Hurdle Is Now the Price Tag
Sensorion's SENS-601 is cleared for trials in France against the most common genetic cause of deafness. The biology is arriving on schedule; the payment models are not.
Insurance
Washington Drops the Frequency Test From Its Insurance Claim Rules
Two orders fining USAA and Allstate a combined $230,000 arrived weeks before new Washington rules take effect that delete the requirement that claim-handling violations be a general business practice before regulators can call them unfair.
Medicare
The First Check From Medicare's Never-Used $2 Billion Fund Is $90
The administration is sending one-time payments of $90 to more than 20 million Medicare enrollees out of a fund Congress created to improve the fee-for-service program, and the statute describes a different kind of spending than the checks going out this month.
B2B Research
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Intent Data
Intent Data Providers For B2B
Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Solutions
One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.
MDR
Managed Detection And Response Services
Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.
MDR Europe
Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe
Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.
Manufacturing Tech
Manufacturing Technology Services
Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.
Market Intelligence
Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms
Forrester's Q3 2026 Wave scores ten providers against twenty nine criteria, cutting the field's criteria count for the first time, while a vendor that owns its content finishes last equal.
Open Banking
Open Banking Intermediaries
Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.
Change Management
Organizational Change Management Services
Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.
PLM
Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers
Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.
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Announcement
James T. Joins Mavengity as a Medical Writer
With James now writing full time for our Healthcare & Medical desk, Mavengity has formally expanded into dedicated medical authorship.
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