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RESTON, Va., July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a Fortune 500® science and technology leader, announced today an internal promotion to encourage employee vaccinations against COVID-19 across the country. Leidos will award approximately $1 million in total prize money to ten employee winners, each receiving the equivalent of their annual salaries.

“For more than 50 years, Leidos’ mission has been to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient. Today we are doubling down on that charter,” said Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO. “Through this campaign, we are investing in our people and providing a tangible incentive to save lives. If it encourages even one person to get the vaccine, it’s money well spent.”

As The Washington Post reported this week, Leidos launched the $1 million Move the Needle sweepstakes on June 28 and it continues through October 29, 2021. Ten winners will be randomly drawn from eligible entries. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S.-based, full-time employees with the exception of certain senior-level leaders. Leidos has approximately 35,000 U.S.-based employees.

No purchase necessary and participation is voluntary. The sweepstakes is subject to the official rules and limited to current employees. Additional details and official rules are available at Leidos.com/move-the-needle.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 40,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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NEW YORK, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — RoboKiller, the app that eliminates 99% of spam calls and text messages, reveals Americans received an estimated 5.9 billion spam calls in June 2021– an 11% increase from May. Spam text volume stayed relatively flat in June at 7.1 billion spam texts – a 1% increase from May. June’s growth in total spam calls is the largest monthly increase since March 2021, which had a 16% increase from April.

Spam Call Resurgence Reflects Scammers’ Final Push Before New Anti-Spoofing Framework STIR/SHAKEN

Monthly spam call increases for June are likely driven by the FCC’s enforcement of  STIR/SHAKEN on June 30th, 2021. STIR/SHAKEN (Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) standards) is a new technological framework designed to reduce the use of illegal caller ID spoofing on all voice networks in the United States by validating the caller ID of a phone call while the call is being placed. The TRACED ACT, signed into law in 2019, mandated that all voice networks adopt the STIR/SHAKEN framework or a robocall mitigation plan by June 2021 as the first step forward in a unified solution to caller ID spoofing.

As previously reported by RoboKiller, the new STIR/SHAKEN framework has been driving abnormal robocall trends in the months leading up to the FCC deadline. This is because some large carriers released their STIR/SHAKEN solutions early and scammers have been working to find new technological loopholes around them. As a result, RoboKiller predicts Americans will experience as much as a 5-10% decrease in total spam calls for the months of July and possibly August 2021, but a rebound later in the year as scammers adapt and find new approaches.

Flat Spam Text Trends from May to June Show Scammers Are Keeping Spam Texts In Their Back Pocket

The slowdown in spam text growth from May to June 2021 likely indicates that scammers are more focused on establishing technological workarounds to the STIR/SHAKEN framework for robocalling rather than completely pivoting to spam texts following the June 30th deadline.

However, this doesn’t mean Americans should count spam texts out. RoboKiller predicts a 5% increase in spam texts for the month of July as more scammers look to offset losses on robocalls and attempt new approaches to steal from Americans over the phone. This means Americans are on track to receive more than 86 billion spam texts in 2021, a 55% increase from 2020.

Scammers Continue to Craft More Relevant Phone Scams To Increase Their Earnings

As the landscape becomes more complicated for robocallers to place thousands of illegal calls a day, many scammers are adjusting their approach to focus on quality over quantity. Scammers do this by tailoring their scams to relevant societal events in the United States to be more believable to the target.

For example, student loan robocall scams have increased by more than 30% in the past 3 months. This is likely due to recent media coverage on student loan debt legislation, as well as COVID relief programs for student loan forgiveness coming to an end in the coming months. 

Bank text scams have also emerged as a new threat to consumers, now representing more than 3% of the more than 7 billion spam texts received by Americans each month. As economic anxiety continues, scammers understand this means people are checking their bank accounts more often and therefore have a higher likelihood victims will fall for a scam.

JUNE 2021 KEY PHONE SCAM TRENDS

Top Five Most Spam-Called States:

Top Phone Scams Nationwide:

*All audio examples are phone scams blocked and audio fingerprinted by RoboKiller

Top Five Most Spam-Texted States:

Top Text Scams Nationwide:

Tips On How To Stop Phone Scams:

• Don’t answer phone calls from unknown phone numbers, especially those that call or text at odd hours.
• Never provide personal, banking, or sensitive information over the phone to any caller.
• Don’t follow any prompts like “Press 1” or click any links.
• Download a spam call and text blocker like RoboKiller to equip your phone with the latest phone-scam-fighting technology. Apps like RoboKiller use global databases of millions of known scams to prevent scammers from reaching you in the first place.

Any brand interested in protecting themselves against scams perpetrated under their name can contact our enterprise services team for more information.

RoboKiller’s Data Insights
These national robocall and spam text insights are provided by RoboKiller, the only app that helps eliminate 99% of spam calls in the United States. RoboKiller’s Robocall Insights is powered by its global database of millions of known phone scams and audio fingerprints. This data is estimated by monitoring observed robocall and spam text trends for Americans who have trusted RoboKiller to stop their spam calls and has been featured by major media publications since its release in 2018. 

For a comprehensive analysis of robocall trends in specific cities, states, and area codes, details on particular phone scams, or any other related custom inquiries, please contact RoboKiller’s robocall insights team here or at [email protected].

With more than 12 million downloads to date, RoboKiller has been named a leader in technical and mobile achievement by the Webby Awards, Media Excellence, Best in Biz, and more. RoboKiller was also named the most effective solution to robocalls by the FTC as the winner of the most recent Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back competition. RoboKiller is available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play. To learn more about RoboKiller, visit www.robokiller.com. 

About RoboKiller:
RoboKiller is the leading independent spam call blocker in the United States. RoboKiller’s predictive spam call blocking technology uses A.I. and machine-learning to intercept an incoming spam call in less than 0.01 second. RoboKiller then deploys its army of spam-call-fighting Answer Bots to waste scammers’ time and resources, preventing them from placing thousands of spam calls each minute. Since its launch in 2017, RoboKiller has helped more than 10 million Americans prevent approximately $140M losses to phone scams and live their lives spam-call-free™. RoboKiller, a Teltech brand, is a division of Mosaic Group, an IAC Company (NASDAQ: IAC).

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HOUSTON, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Oasis Midstream Partners LP (NASDAQ: OMP) (“OMP”, the “Company” or the “Partnership”) today announced that Bighorn Devco LLC (“Bighorn”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of OMP, is commencing a binding open season for the Johnson’s Corner Gathering System Project (“Project”), a crude oil gathering pipeline system to be constructed in McKenzie County, North Dakota.  The Project is a 7-mile, 8-inch diameter pipeline connecting the South Nesson field development with the existing Johnson’s Corner Pipeline.    

The open season will commence on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time and will close on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time.  Bona fide prospective shippers that seek information on the committed service to be offered on the Project, wish to have access to the open season documents (which consist of an Information Memorandum, Pro Forma Gathering Agreement, and a draft Oil Pipeline Tariff terms and conditions), or want to discuss the Project with Bighorn’s representatives, are first required to execute a confidentiality agreement with Bighorn.  Transportation service on the existing Johnson’s Corner Pipeline system would continue to be provided under existing tariff rates applicable to committed or uncommitted shippers. The confidentiality agreement and open season documents can be obtained by contacting Bighorn using the information below:

Greg Hills, Senior VP, Marketing and Midstream
1001 Fannin Street, Suite 1500
Houston, TX  77002
Telephone: (281) 404-9431
[email protected] 

About Oasis Petroleum Inc.
Oasis Midstream Partners LP is a premier master limited partnership formed by its sponsor, Oasis Petroleum Inc., to own, develop, operate, and acquire a diversified portfolio of midstream assets in North America that are integral to the crude oil and natural gas operations of Oasis Petroleum Inc. and are strategically positioned to capture volumes from other producers.  For more information, please visit the Partnership’s website at www.oasismidstream.com. 

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Partnership expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this press release specifically include the expectations of plans, strategies, objectives and anticipated financial and operating results of the Partnership, including the Partnership’s capital expenditure levels and other guidance included in this press release. These statements are based on certain assumptions made by the Partnership based on management’s experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, anticipated future developments and other factors believed to be appropriate. Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Partnership, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those implied or expressed by the forward-looking statements. These include, but are not limited to, developments in the global economy, particularly the public health crisis related to the novel coronavirus 2019 (“COVID-19”) pandemic and the adverse impact thereof on demand for crude oil and natural gas and our customers’ demand for our services. Because considerable uncertainty exists with respect to the future pace and extent of a global economic recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot predict whether or when economic activities will return to normalized levels.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made and the Partnership undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

Contact:
Oasis Midstream Partners LLC
Bob Bakanauskas, (281) 404-9600
Director, Investor Relations

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NEW YORK, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ampersand, the audience-first TV advertising sales and technology company, announced today a data and technology integration with LiveRamp® (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform. The integration allows Ampersand to offer advertisers the same caliber of audience customization for multiscreen linear and streaming TV plans that they are accustomed to for all of their non-TV media investments.

Through the integration with LiveRamp Advanced TV Solutions, Ampersand’s Audience Builder gives clients the option to onboard their strategic audiences to build and activate custom audiences across screens via Ampersand’s AND Platform. Clients can build proprietary audience segments in the AND Platform using brand’s 1^st party data, 3^rd party audiences from Polk and Experian, and/or Ampersand’s Viewership segments. The AND Platform, using aggregated data from 40 million set top box households, and with a commitment to protecting personal information, then identifies the networks, addressable households or geography where these custom audiences can be reached at scale.

For TV advertisers, the evolution of buying beyond GRPs, and the promise of more advanced, digital-like impression-based buying, has long been discussed. However, the challenge has been scale. While more impression-based buying has been made available on individual streaming platforms, Ampersand is the first to bring a truly scaled audience-based solution to the TV marketplace, with their combined linear and streaming TV footprint of 85M homes, 150 streaming apps (including over 60% of all addressable households), combined with the largest set of aggregated data from 40 million set top box households, and a commitment to protecting personal information.

LiveRamp’s data connectivity solutions in the advanced TV landscape enable the safe and easy use of first-party and third-party data to build effective and unified TV audience strategies. As a trusted neutral partner, LiveRamp is leading the transformation of the TV ecosystem by powering holistic cross-screen activation and measurement to create an open and interoperable marketplace. This collaboration with LiveRamp marks a pivotal moment in the growth curve of audience-first, multiscreen TV advertising.

“Ampersand’s mission is to transform the TV industry by reinventing the data and technology infrastructure to facilitate brands’ ability to truly optimize their TV investments,” said Kalyan Lanka, Ampersand VP-Product. “Audience Builder in the AND Platform is a first of its kind feature that will enable Ampersand’s advertisers to build truly custom audiences using first and third-party data across the largest source of linear and streaming TV in the U.S. And as a leader in data connectivity, we are thrilled to be expanding our relationship with LiveRamp in order to do this.”

“We’ve been very intentional in growing our partnership with Ampersand, now unlocking the audience-first TV planning, buying and measurement for addressable that was previously done in siloes and without direct buyer access,” added Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer of LiveRamp TV. “By powering addressable cross-screen activation and measurement across all screens and streams, we’re creating a more open and interoperable marketplace to the benefit of the entire TV ecosystem.”

The AND Platform, launched at the beginning of 2020, accounts for the single largest source of multiscreen TV inventory in the industry. The AND Platform provides marketers with reach across 85 million households, 120+ cable networks and more than 60% of all U.S. addressable households.

It is the first, advanced buy-side TV platform to centralize campaign planning, buying and measurement within a single interface, supporting both local and national TV investment strategies. Fueled by aggregated data from 40 million set top box households, and a commitment to protecting personal information, the platform drives true audience-based, multi-screen campaign performance across the largest source of TV viewing in the U.S.

About Ampersand
Ampersand is a data-driven TV advertising sales and technology company with the mission of enabling advertisers to reach their audiences in a multiscreen TV environment. With a commitment to constant innovation and growth, Ampersand reaches nearly 100% of all subscriber households and over 60% of all addressable households, leveraging unique insights to connect brands with audiences that drive outcomes. Ampersand is owned by three of the largest cable operators in the U.S.: Charter Communications, Inc., Comcast Corporation, and Cox Communications. For more information, please visit Ampersand at www.ampersand.tv.

About LiveRamp
LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data. Powered by core identity capabilities and an unparalleled network, LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes. LiveRamp’s fully interoperable and neutral infrastructure delivers end-to-end addressability for the world’s top brands, agencies, and publishers. For more information, visit www.LiveRamp.com.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Data & Analytics division of Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) released its latest Mortgage Monitor Report, based upon the company’s industry-leading mortgage, real estate and public records datasets. This month’s report looks at the continued, unprecedented levels of home price growth, and the impact that growth is having on mortgage lending and borrower behavior. According to Black Knight Data & Analytics President Ben Graboske, home price appreciation continues to break records, with ramifications that stretch across the real estate and mortgage markets.

“The Black Knight HPI shows home prices in May up nearly 18% from the same time last year,” said Graboske. “Frankly, home values are appreciating at rates we’ve simply never seen before, as low interest rates, ultra-scarce inventory and increasingly competitive homebuyers combine to create a truly unprecedented market.

“Indeed, the rate of growth has been accelerating by more than 2% in each of the past two months, and May’s 2.1% rise marked the sharpest monthly jump on record. Single-family home prices are up more than 18% from last May – also a record. And the growth has been widespread – home price appreciation accelerated in each of the nation’s 100 largest metros in May, with even the slowest appreciating metro area now seeing at least 10% annual growth. Data from our Collateral Analytics Group suggests even further acceleration may be on tap, as the median sales price of single-family homes in the first three weeks of June was already up 25% year-over-year.

“The impacts are widespread as well. Obviously, as home values increase, so do levels of available, tappable equity, which hit an all-time high of $8.1 trillion in Q1. In turn, rising equity levels provide homeowners with more refinance options – switching from an FHA to a GSE loan, for example, to both lower a borrower’s interest rate and potentially eliminate mortgage insurance payments at the same time. Digging into our eMBS data, we do find that the GNMA share of agency securitizations has fallen noticeably since the onset of the pandemic.

“Back then, GNMA securities – comprised primarily of FHA and VA loans – made up about a third of agency securitizations; today they’re less than 25%,” Graboske continued. “Looking at securitizations by purpose, we see the GNMA share of purchase lending has also been falling, dropping below 40% in April and May for the first time in recent history. In contrast, the share of GSE purchase lending has increased as stricter FHA property inspection requirements may be making for less attractive offers in today’s hyper-competitive real estate market, when sellers are often choosing between multiple offers and looking for any reason to thin the herd.”

The report also found that, with tappable equity at record highs and interest rates remaining relatively low, cash-outs are starting to make up a larger share of refinance lending, especially with rate/term refis on the decline. Nearly half of all tappable equity – the amount available to a homeowner with a mortgage to borrow against before hitting a maximum 80% combined loan-to-value (CLTV) ratio – is held by borrowers with current interest rates  of 3.75% or higher, providing many homeowners with the opportunity to simultaneously reduce their interest rates while also tapping into record levels of available equity. Indeed, Black Knight’s Optimal blue rate lock data shows 42% of refinance loans locked through the first three weeks of June were cash-outs, the highest such share in more than two years. On the other side of the spectrum, nearly a quarter of tappable equity is held by borrowers with sub-3% interest rates. This could create increased demand for second lien home equity lending (including HELOCs) in coming years should 30-year rates continue to rise, making cash-out refinances a less attractive route to accessing equity for such homeowners. Much more detail can be found in Black Knight’s May 2021Mortgage Monitor Report.

About the Mortgage Monitor
The Data & Analytics division of Black Knight manages the nation’s leading repository of loan-level residential mortgage data and performance information covering the majority of the overall market, including tens of millions of loans across the spectrum of credit products and more than 160 million historical records. The combined insight of the Black Knight HPI and Collateral Analytics’ home price and real estate data provides one of the most complete, accurate and timely measures of home prices available, covering 95% of U.S. residential properties down to the ZIP-code level. In addition, the company maintains one of the most robust public property records databases available, covering 99.9% of the U.S. population and households from more than 3,100 counties.

Black Knight’s research experts carefully analyze this data to produce a summary supplemented by dozens of charts and graphs that reflect trend and point-in-time observations for the monthly Mortgage Monitor Report. To review the full report, visit: https://www.blackknightinc.com/data-reports/

About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.

Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serving their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com/.

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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bank7 Corp. (NASDAQ: BSVN), the parent company of Oklahoma City-based Bank7, announces that its financial results for the second quarter of 2021 will be released before the market opens on Thursday, July 29, 2021 and at 3:30 p.m. central standard time that same day, the company will hold a conference call to discuss the financial results with investors. To participate in the call, dial 1-888-348-6421, or access it live over the Internet at https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2179/41916.

For those not able to participate in the live call, an archive of the webcast will be available at https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2179/41916 shortly after the call for 1 year.

About Bank7 Corp.

Bank7 Corp. is a bank holding company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank7, we operate nine locations in Oklahoma, the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas metropolitan area and Kansas. We are focused on serving business owners and entrepreneurs by delivering fast, consistent and well-designed loan and deposit products to meet their financing needs. We intend to grow organically by selectively opening additional branches in our target markets and we will also pursue strategic acquisitions.

For more information about Bank7 and its products, visit www.bank7.com.

Contact:
Tom Travis
Bank7
1039 N.W. 63^rd St.
Oklahoma City, OK. 73116
Ph: 405-810-8600 / [email protected]

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