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SouthState named a top 3 bank in the nation for Small Business & Middle Market Banking; leads U.S. in Best Bank Awards for Small Business Banking

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March 27, 2025

WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SouthState Bank has been named a top three bank in the nation for Small Business and Middle Market Banking, earning 23 total awards from Crisil Coalition Greenwich. In addition, SouthState has earned the most Best Bank Awards (tied) in the U.S. for Small Business Banking.

More than 500 banks were considered for these awards from Crisil Coalition Greenwich. Only 38 regional and super-regional banks achieved the Best Bank distinction for Small Business Banking. According to Crisil Coalition Greenwich, Best Bank winners in U.S. Small Business Banking stand out for their ability to combine and deliver high-quality day-to-day service and digital banking tools.

“There is no greater compliment than being recommended by our clients and recognized for the remarkable experiences we provide,” said Richard Murray, president. “At SouthState, one of our Core Values is building meaningful and lasting relationships with our clients. In addition to having bankers who are invested in knowing our clients and their businesses, SouthState continues to make technology investments and advances, ensuring businesses of every size have access to the best payment and cash management solutions to drive those businesses forward. These awards showcase SouthState’s commitment to excellence.”

SouthState Bank topped the award recognition among small businesses, defined as companies with annual revenue between $1-10 million. The bank earned 15 awards in the Small Business category:

Coalition Greenwich Best Bank Award – Small Business Banking in the U.S.:

Best Bank – Overall Satisfaction for Small Business Banking in the U.SBest Bank – Trust for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Ease of Doing Business for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Likelihood to Recommend for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Satisfaction with RM for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Advisory Capabilities of RM for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Customer Service for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Values Long-Term Relationships for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Satisfaction in Cash Management for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Ease of Making Payments for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Product Capabilities in Cash Management for Small Business Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Satisfaction in Cash Management for Small Business Banking in the U.S. (South)Best Bank – Likelihood to Recommend for Small Business Banking in the U.S. (South)Best Bank – Overall Satisfaction for Small Business Banking in the U.S. (South)Best Bank – Satisfaction with RM for Small Business Banking in the U.S. (South)

SouthState also demonstrated its ability to meet the complex needs of larger businesses by ranking sixth in award recognition among middle market businesses, comprising companies with annual revenue between $10-500 million. The bank won the following eight awards in the Middle Market Banking category:

Coalition Greenwich Best Bank Award – Middle Market Banking in the U.S.:

Best Bank – Values Long-Term Relationships for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Customer Service for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Advisory Capabilities of RM for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Satisfaction with RM for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Ease of Making Payments for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Product Capabilities in Cash Management for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Trust for Middle Market Banking in the U.S.Best Bank – Satisfaction with RM for Middle Market Banking in the U.S. (South)

Since 2016, SouthState Bank has received a total of 82 Coalition Greenwich awards, consistently demonstrating its commitment to delivering exceptional commercial banking services and establishing itself as a trusted partner for businesses of all sizes.

Crisil Coalition Greenwich is a leading provider of strategic benchmarking, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, and specializes in providing unique, high-value and actionable information to help clients measure and drive their business performance. To determine the winners of the 2025 awards, Crisil Coalition Greenwich evaluated more than 500 banks and interviewed thousands of executives of small businesses with sales of $1–$10 million and middle-market firms with sales of $10–$500 million across the country, and measured institutions across a series of qualitative metrics.

SouthState Corporation (NYSE: SSB) is a financial services company headquartered in Winter Haven, Florida. SouthState Bank, N.A., the company’s nationally chartered bank subsidiary, provides consumer, commercial, mortgage and wealth management solutions to more than 1.5 million customers throughout Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Georgia, Colorado, Alabama, and Virginia. The bank also serves clients nationwide through its correspondent banking division. Additional information is available at SouthStateBank.com.

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Compass Datacenters Is a Financial Times 2025 Fastest Growing Company

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April 3, 2025

Compass ranks No. 106 on the list of 500 fastest-growing companies

DALLAS, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Compass Datacenters has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas by the Financial Times. From a pool of 30,000 applicants, Compass ranked No. 106 on the 2025 list due to extraordinary growth between 2020 and 2023.

Compass designs and delivers data centers for the world’s largest hyperscalers and cloud providers. It is unique in the industry for its modular designs and manufacturing-style approach to construction, which yield faster delivery times at a lower total cost. This distinctive way of working made Compass well-positioned to respond to skyrocketing data center demand in recent years.

“Our success is a direct result of our team’s drive and commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions with a mission to make lives better,” said Compass CEO Chris Crosby. “Our large-scale, long-lived campuses are meeting customer’s need for continuity of capacity. We’re grateful for our customers’ trust and the opportunity to make a positive impact in the communities we serve. The Financial Times’ recognition is proof that doing things differently works.”

The FT Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2025 is a list of the 500 companies in the Americas that have the highest growth in publicly disclosed revenues between 2020 and 2023. This ranking was created and completed by Statista, the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider, and the Financial Times. Statista examined revenue data of public and private companies to identify the country’s fastest-growing companies.

For the full list of companies in the FT ranking, visit: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies.

About Compass Datacenters
Compass Datacenters, one of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest growing companies, designs and constructs data centers for the world’s largest hyperscalers and cloud providers. Through prefabrication and applying modern manufacturing principles to construction, Compass is uniquely able to deliver customizable, scalable, sustainable, and low-cost data centers in an expedited time frame. These large-scale, long-lived campuses create economies of scale for customers and local communities. Compass is backed by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Brookfield Infrastructure. For more information, visit www.compassdatacenters.com.

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TTEC Digital Recognized as Genesys 2024 CX Evolution Partner of the Year

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April 3, 2025

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TTEC Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), a leading global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovator for AI-enabled CX, today announced that TTEC Digital was honored with the 2024 CX Evolution Partner of the Year Award from Genesys®, a global cloud leader in experience orchestration.

“This award recognizes our industry-leading CX transformation capabilities and unique position as a trusted advisor.”

“TTEC Digital is thrilled to be recognized as the CX Evolution Partner of the Year by Genesys,” said Tiffany Moses Gschwendtner, global Genesys practice lead at TTEC Digital. “Throughout our long tenure with Genesys, TTEC Digital has led a significant number of customers to the cloud. We’ve also proven that we’re more than a migration partner. This award recognizes our industry-leading end-to-end CX transformation capabilities and unique position as a trusted advisor.”

The CX Evolution Partner of the Year Award honors a Genesys partner who has demonstrated deep capabilities within the Genesys ecosystem to help customers migrate to the cloud, modernize their contact center operations, integrate digital channels and artificial intelligence, and empower digital transformation. This award marks the 15th time TTEC Digital has been recognized by Genesys in a Partner of the Year category. TTEC Digital was also named the 2023 Ascend North America Partner of the Year by Genesys.

TTEC Digital is a Genesys Platinum Partner with more than 25 years of partnership. The company has more than 300 employees dedicated to serving Genesys clients and more than 400 Genesys certifications. TTEC Digital offers a wide range of AI-enabled solutions and managed services, including CRM, contact center modernization, workforce enablement enhancements, customer experience transformation, and data and analytics solutions.

More information about TTEC Digital’s partnership with Genesys is available online at: TTECDigital.com/partners/genesys.

About TTEC
TTEC (pronounced T-TEC) Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC) is a leading global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovator for AI-enabled digital CX solutions. Serving iconic and disruptive brands, TTEC’s outcome-based solutions span the entire enterprise, touch every virtual interaction channel, and improve each step of the customer journey. Leveraging next-gen digital technology, the Company’s TTEC Digital business designs, builds, and operates omnichannel contact center technology, CRM, AI, and analytics solutions. The Company’s TTEC Engage business delivers AI-enhanced customer engagement, customer acquisition and growth, tech support, back office, and fraud prevention services. Founded in 1982, the Company’s singular obsession with CX excellence has earned it leading client, customer, and employee satisfaction scores across the globe. The Company’s employees operate on six continents and bring technology and humanity together to deliver happy customers and differentiated business results. To learn more visit us at ttec.com.

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Bybit and Zodia Custody Partner to Enhance Asset Security

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April 3, 2025

Zodia Custody’s Interchange solution will offer Bybit’s institutional clients independent custody and off-venue settlement to support secure institutional trading.

LONDON, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Zodia Custody, the institution-first digital assets platform backed by Standard Chartered, Northern Trust, SBI Holdings, National Australia Bank, and Emirates NBD, and Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, have joined forces to bring secure, segregated custody and off-venue settlement to Bybit’s institutional clients.

In engaging with digital assets, institutional investors require the assurances of regulatory compliance and robust security measures to protect their capital. Amid heightened industry scrutiny, there is a corresponding demand for credible infrastructure that addresses the potential weaknesses of on-exchange settlement, including centralised control and counterparty risk.

Zodia Custody’s Interchange solution addresses these security concerns by providing independent asset custody via regulatory-grade infrastructure. Through Interchange, institutional users can deploy capital for immediate trading on Bybit while their assets remain securely held with Zodia Custody – ensuring full segregation, no co-mingling, and significantly reduced exposure to exchange-side risks. This design neutralises counterparty risk and removes the need to pre-fund exchange accounts, enhancing both capital efficiency and operational integrity.

This partnership elevates security and compliance standards across the digital asset trading space, offering institutional clients access to Bybit’s best-in-class trading infrastructure with the safety of Zodia Custody’s off-venue settlement.

Julian Sawyer, CEO of Zodia Custody, commented: “Institutional clients need more than speed – they need to know their assets are held securely, off-exchange, and fully under their control. As leading players in the industry, Zodia Custody and Bybit have a shared responsibility to provide tailor-made solutions to increase security and protect capital for the institutions that use our services. That’s what we’re delivering through this partnership. With Interchange, we’re enabling Bybit’s clients to access trading liquidity without compromising on custody standards, counterparty risk, or capital efficiency. It’s custody and settlement built for institutions, not retrofitted for crypto.”

Shunyet Jan, Head of Institutional and Derivatives at Bybit, added: “At Bybit, our mission is to provide institutional-grade solutions that meet the evolving needs of sophisticated investors. Our partnership with Zodia Custody underscores our dedication to compliance, security, and innovation in the digital asset space. Zodia Custody’s reputation as a trusted, highly regulated custodian makes it the ideal partner to safeguard our clients’ assets while enhancing capital efficiency. Together, we are setting new standards for the institutional adoption of digital assets.”

Certified under SOC 1 Type I and II and built for institutions from the ground up, Zodia Custody serves regulated financial institutions, government bodies, crypto platforms, and hedge funds across specific global markets – delivering trust, transparency, and uncompromising security at scale.

This partnership marks a decisive shift toward secure, compliant infrastructure in crypto markets – one where institutions can finally move at speed, without sacrificing safety.

About Zodia Custody

Zodia Custody is an institution-first digital assets platform backed by Standard Chartered, in association with Northern Trust, SBI Holdings, National Australia Bank, and Emirates NBD. Through the combination of its custody, treasury, and settlement solutions with consultancy and middle office operations, Zodia Custody enables institutional investors around the globe to realise the full potential of the digital assets future – simply, safely, and without compromise. It operates under authorisations granted by the Financial Conduct Authority, Central Bank of Ireland, Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, and Hong Kong Companies Registry.

Zodia Custody implements the requirements of the 5AMLD and applies the same standards as Standard Chartered relating to AML, FCC, and KYC. It implements the requirements of the FATF Travel Rule. Zodia Custody Limited is registered in the UK with the FCA as a crypto asset business under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017. Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited is registered with the Central Bank of Ireland as a VASP under Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 (as amended). Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited was established in Ireland in August 2021. Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited is registered with the CSSF in Luxembourg as a Virtual Asset Service Provider in accordance with article 7-1 (2) of the law dated 12 November 2004 on the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, as amended. Zodia Custody (Hong Kong) Limited is registered with the Registry for Trust and Company Service Provider with License Number TC009245 under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (AMLO), Cap. 615 in respect of its custodial activities in digital assets.

For further information on Zodia Custody, please visit: https://zodia-custody.com/

About Bybit

Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 60 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.