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Restaurant Sector: October 2026 Update
As restaurant operators continue to navigate a challenging environment, they face mounting pressure from declining consumer traffic, franchisee financial distress, value-focused pricing strategies, food safety concerns, and ongoing supply chain scrutiny.
Quarterly Healthcare Transactions Review: Unveiling the Latest Industry Mergers and Acquisitions
Ankura is pleased to present an overview of healthcare services transactions announced or closed during Q2 2026 in the United States. Total transactions decreased by 22.9% in the second quarter of 2026 after increasing by 12.8% in the first quarter. Compared to Q2 2025, transaction volumes for Q2 2026 decreased by 12.0%.
The Next Margin Crisis Is Cost to Serve
As wage pressures begin to ease, a new margin challenge is emerging: the hidden cost of serving customers across channels, orders, and fulfillment networks.
Custom Digital Solutions | An Accelerated, Value-Driven Alternative to Traditional Enterprise Software
Many companies rely on spreadsheets, email, shared drives, and disconnected legacy systems to perform work that is too important to remain manual. These tools often become the operational backbone for planning, reporting, approvals, scheduling, purchasing, and exception management — even when they were never designed to support enterprise workflows.
Agentic AI Will Not Fix Broken Work. It Will Do Broken Work Faster | Part 4
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents and applying them to workflows that were never redesigned for such optimization. RAND found that more than 80% of AI projects fail, roughly twice the rate of ordinary technology projects, and that the causes are overwhelmingly operational rather than technical. Gartner now predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – October 9, 2026
Malware Activity PoeLLM Botnet Turns Exposed AI/LLM Servers into Cryptomining Launchpads A financially motivated campaign dubbed Canto Incognito is targeting exposed AI and LLM infrastructure with a new malware family called PoeLLM, turning compromised servers into cryptomining nodes, scanners, and exploit launchpads. Lumen Black Lotus Labs reports more than 3,400 victim servers, mostly in the ...
The Healthcare Crisis No One is Ready For
The demand for post-acute care is rising rapidly, but the workforce needed to support it is not. In our latest episode, John Frehse and Ankura Healthcare Transformation expert Christine Ishack discuss one of healthcare's most pressing challenges: how organizations can prepare for growing demand without losing the human element that sits at the heart of care.
Football’s Financial Shake-Up
A new era of football finance has begun. In this episode, Ankura experts Ben Johnson and David Dearman join Jonny Gray to unpack one of the most significant regulatory shifts in English football, drawing on their experience advising on high-profile football accounting and financial matters.
Digital and AI Leaders Perform Better: How Connected Capabilities Convert Technology Investment Into Financial Performance
A growing body of independent academic research points to an increasingly consequential performance divide. Organizations with mature digital and AI capabilities tend to outperform less digitally mature companies across revenue growth, profitability, productivity, innovation, asset performance, and enterprise value.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – October 6, 2026
Malware Activity Fake Zoom Installer Deploys New CloudSyncD macOS Backdoor Jamf researchers have identified a new macOS backdoor called CloudSyncD that has recently moved from development into active deployment. The malware is delivered via social engineering as a fake Zoom installer where victims are lured into downloading a disk image that mounts as “Zoom” and ...
