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New York City, NY., June 3, 2025 – Cheddar announced today it’s NYC Innovates show and Producer, Chris Castellino, has been awarded Bronze in the Science & Technology Television Series as well as Video Journalism Television Series categories at the 2025 Telly Awards. The 46th Annual Telly Awards honored excellence in video and television across all screens and was judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies. This year’s winners include Pixar Animation Studios, Hearst Media, ESPN, LinkedIn, NATO, MTV Entertainment Studios, NASA, the LA Clippers (NBA), Sawhorse Productions, Telemundo and more.

NYC Innovates airs every Monday at 8pm EST and can be found on most of the major streaming platforms: YouTube TV, Sling, XUMO, Tubi, Plex, Google TV, DirectTV, Xfinity, Tivo, and more. It takes a look at New York City’s melting pot of ideas, ambition, and innovation. NYC Innovates takes viewers on a deep dive into the heart of the Big Apple’s booming tech scene. The series explores the cutting-edge innovations and the passionate minds behind them, all set against the backdrop of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.

“New York City was built on the determination of visionaries who refused to accept limitations. From fresh startups to seasoned entrepeneurs, I hope viewers will be inspired by these stories and their bold ambitions” says Chris Castellino, Producer of NYC Innovates.

“This recognition is a testament to the storytelling power at Cheddar,” said Lauren Babbage, VP of Content at Cheddar. “NYC Innovates embodies what Cheddar stands for - spotlighting the people and technologies shaping our future, with a smart, fresh, and fearless tone. We’re proud to see Chris Castellino’s work celebrated on such a prestigious stage.”

Committed to pushing the boundaries of creativity forward, this year’s new categories included topics within Film & Shorts, Outdoor & Adventure, and Brand Partnerships. These categories centered on stories and collaborations that are actively evolving within the video and television industry.

With over 13,000 entries from across the globe and top video and television content producers. Winner’s were chosen by The Telly Awards Judging Council which includes Ben Wackett, Marketing Director, ENSO Sports & Entertainment Agency, Brian Toombs, Head of Roku Brand Studio, Roku Brand Studio, Lucy Shen, Creator Marketing Manager, Patreon, Irantzu Diez-Gamboa, CEO North America, MediaPro, Rosalind Pressman, VP Brand Marketing, Pluto TV, Adam Faze, Executive Producer, Gymnasium, James Young, EVP, Head of Creative Innovation, BBDO New York, Sarah Minnie, Head of Artist Development and Production, Open Television, Nicole Lederman, Executive Producer, The Martin Agency, and Gregg Stouffer, Lead Editor, Pickleball TV.

“Our industry is experimenting with new technologies like never before, shaping truly compelling stories to draw attention to some of the world’s most pressing issues,” shares Telly Awards Managing Director Amanda Needham. “The Telly Awards is uniquely positioned to meet the industry where it’s actually making work, be that on television or TikTok.”

The full list of the 46th Annual Telly Awards winners can be found at www.tellyawards.com/winners/

For more information, please contact:

Stephanie Gildea, Cheddar PR Team, [email protected]

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About Cheddar

Cheddar is the news network for the next generation of innovators, decision-makers, and trendsetters in finance, tech, and business. With smart, conversational coverage, Cheddar delivers stories about the people, ideas, and trends shaping the future. From startup breakthroughs to market-moving moments, Cheddar keeps viewers informed, inspired, and ahead of the curve.

About The Telly Awards

The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, RunwayML AIFF, ReelAbilities Film Festival, Film Fatales, FWD-Doc, Stash, Production Hub, Ghetto Film School, Future of Film, We Are Parable, Video Consortium, SeriesFest and Green The Bid.

If McDonald’s ever doubted it needed to bring back the Snack Wrap, consider this: Nine years after the fast-food powerhouse discontinued the item in the U.S., customers have continued to order it at drive-thrus.

Those customers won’t have to leave empty-handed for long. On Tuesday, McDonald’s announced that a new version of the Snack Wrap will go on sale July 10.

McDonald’s invented the Snack Wrap — a tortilla full of chicken, lettuce, shredded cheese and sauce — almost two decades ago to make it easier to eat its chicken on the go. But it was too complicated for its kitchens to prepare, so the burger giant abandoned the Snack Wrap in the U.S. in 2016.

The decision devastated fans like Alicia Force, a musician and administrative assistant at a high school in Missouri. Force tried to make Snack Wraps at home and sampled alternatives from Arby’s and other restaurants, but nothing was the same. So she started a Facebook group with 86 members urging McDonald’s to resurrect the Snack Wrap.

Other loyal noshers weighed in too. A Change.org petition asking McDonald’s to bring back the Snack Wrap has nearly 19,000 signatures. A TikTok video showing a U.S. food reviewer eating Snack Wraps in Ireland — where they’re still sold — racked up more than 1.4 million views.

It had an impact. McDonald’s began teasing a Snack Wrap reappearance earlier this year.

“We listen to our fans, and the Snack Wrap’s return is a testament to that,” McDonald’s U.S. President Joe Erlinger told The Associated Press.

But McDonald’s has other reasons for the reboot. The Snack Wrap’s lower price point could lure back inflation-weary customers, who have been eating fewer fast-food meals in recent months. The wraps’ smaller size and tortilla casing also appeal to the health-conscious.

Steve Davis, a mental health counselor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, used to buy six grilled chicken Snack Wraps at a time and keep them in his fridge as a grab-and-go snack.

“I’m not actually a fast-food fan, but Snack Wraps felt different, like I was eating an actual ‘wrap.’ I felt like I was being healthier,” Davis said.

Snack Wraps will also help McDonald’s compete with a growing number of rivals. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen introduced its own chicken wraps on Monday, while Burger King and Wendy’s have sold them since 2023. Even the convenience store chain Wawa sells a chicken wrap.

“There’s so much opportunity in the chicken category,” Erlinger said. Fast-food chicken sales are nearly twice the size of beef and are growing more quickly across the globe, Erlinger said.

Reviving the Snack Wrap was a years-long process, Erlinger said. First, McDonald’s wanted to develop a better fried chicken strip. After several years of testing, the Chicago-based company debuted its peppery McCrispy Strips in early May.

McDonald’s also had to update its Snack Wrap tools, simplify the preparation process and train workers at its 13,500 U.S. restaurants, Erlinger said.

“With this being one of our most highly anticipated menu items, we knew we had one chance to knock it out of the park. It had to be easy for crew to execute,” Erlinger said.

For the U.S. comeback, McDonald’s is offering fewer kinds of Snack Wraps to ensure faster service. It used to have both grilled and fried chicken options, but it’s only offering fried chicken in the U.S. for now. And the relaunched Snack Wraps will only come in two flavors: Ranch or Spicy. The company used to offer additional sauces like honey mustard and sweet chili.

That could disappoint some fans. Force was partial to a Snack Wrap with honey mustard sauce, for example. Davis always got grilled chicken on his Snack Wraps, and he rarely went to McDonald’s after they disappeared.

McDonald’s continues to have a wider range of options in some other markets where Snack Wraps never went away. Canada still offers grilled or fried chicken in its Snack Wraps, for example, as well as chicken, fish and breakfast versions of full-sized wraps. McDonald’s wouldn’t say if it plans to add more Snack Wrap varieties in the U.S.

“We’ll continue listening to our fans when it comes to menu innovations,” the company said.

Snack Wraps are returning at a sluggish period for fast-food restaurants. From January through April, U.S. fast-food traffic was down 1% compared to the same period a year ago, said David Portalatin, a senior vice president and industry advisor for food service at market research firm Circana.

McDonald’s same-store sales – or sales at locations open at least a year – were down 3.6% in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year. Its same-store sales grew less than 1% in 2024.

Inflation is the main culprit, Portalatin said. In the first quarter of this year, the average check at a U.S. fast-food restaurant was up 41% from the same period in 2019, he said. The higher prices have led many Americans – especially middle- to lower-income families – to eat at home instead of going out.

McDonald’s has tried to counter that with a limited McValue menu and increased deals. But less expensive options like a Snack Wrap may also help.

The company won’t say how much the Snack Wrap will cost in the U.S. because prices will vary by location. But Burger King’s prices may give a clue. At a Michigan restaurant this week, Burger King charged $2.99 for its Royal Crispy Wrap, the 310-calorie equivalent of a Snack Wrap. Burger King’s Royal Crispy Chicken sandwich, with a bun, a larger chicken breast and nearly twice the calories, cost $5.49.

Portalatin said snack-sized options from McDonald’s and others also reflect Americans’ changing dining habits. More people are choosing to eat smaller meals throughout the day instead of having having breakfast, lunch and dinner at their traditional times.

“The consumer doesn’t think about things in the neat buckets that we as marketers like to think about them,” Portalatin said. ”We like to say, ‘This occasion is lunch and these are lunch foods.’ The consumer simply says, ‘I’m hungry. What time is it? Where am I?’”

That was certainly true for Force, who said she has fond memories of picking up a Snack Wrap after school as a teenager. She’s looking forward to making that part of her routine once more.

“Hopefully, they come back and they taste the same, and they don’t break my heart again, quite frankly,” she said.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted higher and pulled closer to their record as the wait continues for more updates on President Donald Trump’s tariffs and how much they’re affecting the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Tuesday, coming off a modest gain that added to its stellar May. It is less than 3% away from its all-time high set earlier this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.8%. Treasury yields held relatively steady following an encouraging report on the U.S. job market, while stock indexes rose modestly across much of Europe and Asia.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting higher on Tuesday and pulling closer to their record as the wait continues for more updates on President Donald Trump’s tariffs and how much they’re affecting the economy.

The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in late trading, coming off a modest gain that added to its stellar May. It’s back within 2.8% of its all-time high set earlier this year after falling roughly 20% below two months ago.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 236 points, or 0.6%, with an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.9% higher.

Dollar General jumped 15.4% for one of the market’s bigger gains after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the start of the year than analysts expected. The discount retailer also raised its forecasts for profit and revenue over the full year, though it cautioned that “uncertainty exists for the remainder of the year” because of tariffs and how they might affect its customers.

Many other companies have cut or withdrawn their financial forecasts for the upcoming year because of the uncertainty caused by Trump’s on-again-off-again rollout of tariffs. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Tuesday that it’s forecasting 1.6% growth for the U.S. economy this year, down from 2.8% last year.

But while Trump’s tariffs have certainly made U.S. households feel more pessimistic about where the economy and inflation are heading, reports have suggested only a moderate hit so far. Manufacturers have begun to feel the effects, but the overall job market has remained solid overall with layoffs remaining relatively low, and inflation has not taken off.

A report on Tuesday morning showed U.S. employers were advertising more job openings at the end of April than economists expected, another signal that the labor market remains solid. It sets the stage for a more important report coming on Friday, which will show how much hiring and firing U.S. employers did in May.

On the trade front, hopes are still high on Wall Street that Trump will reach trade deals with other countries that will ultimately lower tariffs, particularly with the world’s second-largest economy. The U.S. side said President Donald Trump was expecting to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that they had no information on that.

All the hope has brought the U.S. stock market almost all the way back to its record heights nearly as quickly as it plunged in April.

“This calm won’t last indefinitely, but it will take unexpected policy news or growth and inflation data to inflect the narrative and push the markets outside these ranges,” according to Jason Draho, head of asset allocation, Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.

In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady. The yield on the 10-year Treasury edged down to 4.45% from 4.46% late Monday, though it had been lower earlier in the morning before the stronger-than-expected report on U.S. jobs openings.

It’s a cooldown following a sharp rise for yields over the last two months. Yields had been climbing in part on worries about how the U.S. government may be set to add trillions of dollars to its debt through tax cuts.

Besides making it more expensive for U.S. households and businesses to borrow money, higher Treasury yields can also discourage investors from paying high prices for stocks and other investments.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rose modestly across much of Europe and Asia.

Hong Kong was an outlier, where the Hang Seng jumped 1.5%. That came despite a report showing Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in May.

South Korean markets were closed for a snap presidential election that resulted in a victory for opposition leader Lee Jae-myung. The election was triggered by the ouster of Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who now faces an explosive trial on rebellion charges over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December.

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AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.

Dave’s Hot Chicken said Monday it has been acquired by the private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion.

Dave’s Hot Chicken got its start in 2017 as a popup in a Los Angeles parking lot. It has grown exponentially since then and expects to end this year with 400 restaurants worldwide. The brand specializes in Nashville-style hot chicken.

Investors in Dave’s Hot Chicken have included the rapper Drake, who gives away hot chicken sliders every year on Oct. 24, his birthday.

Atlanta-based Roark specializes in franchised businesses. It bought the Subway sandwich chain in 2023 and backs two holding companies that own multiple restaurant chains: Inspire Brands, the parent of Arby’s, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, Sonic and Buffalo Wild Wings; and GoTo Foods, which owns Auntie Anne’s, Carvel, Cinnabon and Jamba.

Dave’s Hot Chicken said its leadership team — including CEO Bill Phelps and the four childhood friends who founded the company — will remain and continue to lead menu innovation, food quality, operations and marketing.

“Our entire organization is excited about the fit between Dave’s Hot Chicken and Roark, and we’re looking forward to continuing to blow our guests’ minds and unlocking growth and value for our franchise partners,” Phelps said in a statement.

MADRID (AP) — Spain ‘s government wanted to send a message last month with its crackdown on Airbnb: that the Spanish economy and its housing market are not a “free for all” that value profits over the rule of law, a minister told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The government ordered Airbnb to remove almost 66,000 holiday rentals from the platform which it said had violated local rules by failing to list license numbers, listing the wrong license number or not specifying the apartment’s owner. Airbnb is appealing the move.

Spain is one of the world’s most visited countries. Last year, the Southern European nation of 49 million received a record 94 million international visitors.

But a housing affordability problem that is particularly acute in cities such as Madrid and Barcelona has led to growing antagonism against short-term holiday rentals. Airbnb is perhaps the best-known and most visible actor.

The Spanish government says the two are related: the rise of Airbnb and other short-term rental companies, and rising rents and housing costs.

“Obviously there is a correlation between these two facts,” Consumer Rights Minister Pablo Bustinduy told the AP. “It’s not a linear relation, it’s not the only factor affecting it, there are many others, but it is obviously one of the elements that is contributing.”

A recent Bank of Spain report said the country has a shortfall of 450,000 homes. In the tourist hot spots of the Canary and Balearic Islands, half the housing stock is tourist accommodations or properties owned by nonresidents, the report said.

“Tourism is for sure a vital part of the Spanish economy. It’s a strategic and very important sector. But as in every other economic activity, it must be conducted in a sustainable way,” Bustinduy said. “It cannot jeopardize the constitutional rights of the Spanish people. Their right to housing, but also their right to well-being.”

The country has seen several large protests that have drawn tens of thousands of people to demand more government action on housing. Homemade signs including one that read “Get Airbnb out of our neighborhoods” at a recent march in Madrid point to the growing anger.

“A balance must be found between the constitutional rights of the Spanish people and economic activities in general,” Bustinduy said.

Regional governments in Spain are also tackling the issue. Last year, Barcelona announced a plan to close down all of the 10,000 apartments licensed in the city as short-term rentals by 2028 to safeguard the housing supply for full-time residents.

Airbnb said that while its appeal goes through the courts, no holiday rentals would be immediately taken down from the site.

In response to Spain’s order, Airbnb has said the platform connects property owners with renters but it doesn’t have oversight obligations, even though it requires hosts to show that they are compliant with local laws.

Bustinduy said Spain’s recent action reflects a desire in Spain, but also elsewhere, to hold tech companies like Airbnb to account.

“There is a battle going on about accountability and about responsibility,” Bustinduy said. “The digital nature of these extraordinarily powerful multinational corporations must not be an excuse to fail to comply with democratically established regulations.”

Bustinduy, who belongs to the governing coalition’s left-wing Sumar party, dismissed the idea that the Spanish government’s action toward Airbnb could discourage some tourists from visiting.

“It will encourage longer stays, it will encourage responsible tourism and it will preserve everything that we have in this wonderful country which is the reason why so many people want to come here,” he said.

The minister also took a shot at low-cost airlines. Spain has pushed against allowing such airlines to charge passengers for hand baggage. Last year, it fined five budget airlines, including RyanAir and easyJet, a total of $179 million for charging for hand luggage.

“The principle behind these actions is always the same: preserving consumer rights,” Bustinduy said. “Powerful corporations, no matter how large, have to adapt their business models to existing regulations.”

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Joseph Wilson contributed to this report from Barcelona, Spain.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by the Fourth of July, and he’s pushing the slow-rolling Senate to make it happen sooner rather than later.

Trump met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the White House early this week and has been dialing senators for one-on-one chats, using both the carrot and stick to nudge, badger and encourage them to act. But it’s still a long road ahead for the 1,000-page-plus package.

“His question to me was, How do you think the bill’s going to go in the Senate?” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said about his call with Trump. “Do you think there’s going to be problems?”

It’s a potentially tumultuous three-week sprint for senators preparing to put their own imprint on the massive Republican package that cleared the House late last month by a single vote. The senators have been meeting for weeks behind closed doors, including as they returned to Washington late Monday, to revise the package ahead of what is expected to be a similarly narrow vote in the Senate.

“Passing THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL is a Historic Opportunity to turn our Country around,” Trump posted on social media. He urged them Monday “to work as fast as they can to get this Bill to MY DESK before the Fourth of JULY.”

But Trump’s high-octane ally, billionaire Elon Musk, lambasted the package — and those voting for it.

“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk posted on his site X, as some lawmakers have expressed reservations about the details. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

Thune, like House Speaker Mike Johnson, has few votes to spare from the Senate’s slim, 53-seat GOP majority. Democrats are waging an all-out political assault on GOP proposals to cut Medicaid, food stamps and green energy investments to help pay for more than $4.5 trillion in tax cuts — with many lawmakers being hammered at boisterous town halls back home.

“It’d be nice if we could have everybody on board to do it, but, you know, individual members are going to stake out their positions,” Thune said Tuesday.

“But in the end, we have to succeed. Failure’s not an option.”

Speaker Johnson called Musk’s harsh criticism of the bill “very disappointing.”

 “With all due respect,” said Johnson, who said he spoke with Musk for more than 20 minutes, “my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill.”

At its core, the package seeks to extend the tax cuts approved in 2017, during Trump’s first term at the White House, and add new ones the presidents campaigned on, including no taxes on tips and others. It also includes a massive build-up of $350 billion for border security, deportations and national security.

To defray the lost tax revenue to the government and avoid piling onto the nation’s $36 trillion debt load, Republicans want reduce federal spending by imposing work requirements for some Americans who rely on government safety net services. Estimates are 8.6 million people would no longer have health care and nearly 4 million would lose Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits, known as SNAP.

The package also would raise the nation’s debt limit by $4 trillion to allow more borrowing to pay the bills.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump’s bill “is ugly to its very core.”

Schumer said Tuesday senators should listen to Musk. “Behind the smoke and mirrors lies a cruel and draconian truth: tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy paid for by gutting health care for millions of Americans,” said the New York senator.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is expected to soon provide an overall analysis of the package’s impacts on the government balance sheets. But Republicans are ready to blast those findings from the congressional scorekeeper as flawed.

Trump Tuesday switched to tougher tactics, deriding the holdout Republican senators to get on board.

The president laid into Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning deficit hawk who has made a career of arguing against government spending. Paul wants the package’s $4 trillion increase to the debt ceiling out of the bill.

“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!).” Trump posted.

Paul seemed unfazed. “I like the president, supported the president,” the senator said. “But I can’t in good conscience give up every principle that I stand for and every principle that I was elected upon.”

The July 4th deadline is not only aspirational for the president, it’s all but mandatory for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who has warned Congress that the nation will run out of money to pay its bills if the debt ceiling, now at $36 trillion, is not lifted by mid-July or early August to allow more borrowing. Bessent has also been meeting behind closed doors with senators and GOP leadership.

The road ahead is also a test for Thune of South Dakota who, like Johnson, is a newer leader in Congress and among the many Republicans adjusting their own priorities with Trump’s return to the White House.

While Johnson has warned against massive changes to the package, Thune faces demands from his senators for adjustments.

To make most of the tax cuts permanent — particularly the business tax breaks that are the Senate priorities — senators may shave some of Trump’s proposed new tax breaks on automobile loans or overtime pay, which are policies less prized by some senators.

There are also discussions about altering the $40,000 cap that the House proposed for state and local deductions, known as SALT, which are important to lawmakers in high-tax New York, California and other states, but less so among GOP senators.

“We’re having all those discussions,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., another key voice in the debate.

Hawley is a among a group of senators, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who have raised concerns about the Medicaid changes that could boot people from health insurance.

A potential copay of up to $35 for Medicaid services that was part of the House package, as well as a termination of a provider tax that many states rely on to help fund rural hospitals, have also raised concerns.

“The best way to not be accused of cutting Medicaid is to not cut Medicaid,” Hawley said.

Collins said she is reviewing the details.

There’s also a House provision that would allow the auction of spectrum bandwidth that some senators oppose.

__ Associated Press journalists Kevin Freking, Mary Clare Jalonick, Matt Brown, Joey Cappelletti, Michelle L. Price, Josh Boak and Nathan Ellgren contributed to this report.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 3, 2025 - Cheddar is proud to announce the launch of Taking Stock, a groundbreaking social-first series created in partnership with NYSE TV, FINTECH.TV, and Money20/20. The series, unveiled today on the main stage at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, will premiere this August with daily episodes filmed live from the iconic New York Stock Exchange.

Hosted by award-winning journalist and Cheddar contributor J.D. Durkin, Taking Stock blends traditional financial reporting with the fast-paced, engaging style today’s audiences expect from social media. With on-location coverage from the world’s biggest fintech events, breaking news, expert interviews, and interactive segments, the series offers a fresh, accessible take on the rapidly evolving world of financial technology.

“We are incredibly excited to be joining forces with the NYSE, FintechTV, and Money20/20 on ‘Taking Stock’” said Lauren Babbage, VP of Content, Cheddar Media. This powerful collaboration allows us to amplify our mission of making financial news digestible and engaging, ensuring the next generation of investors has direct access to the insights they need to navigate today’s dynamic markets.”

The series will feature recurring contributions from Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Money20/20, along with special guests from across the fintech ecosystem. Together, the production partners bring a combined audience of more than 12 million viewers, offering unmatched distribution and influence across platforms.

“We’re proud to join forces with some of the most respected voices in fintech and finance media,” added Babbage. “Taking Stock reflects our belief that business news should be smart, inclusive, and ready for wherever people are watching - whether that’s on the floor of the NYSE or scrolling TikTok.”

Key Features of “Taking Stock”:

● Live broadcasts from the NYSE trading floor

● On-location coverage from major fintech events worldwide

● Interactive social media integration

● Expert interviews and analysis

● Breaking news coverage

● Cross-platform content distribution

For more information, please contact:

Stephanie Gildea

Cheddar PR Team

[email protected]

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About Cheddar

Cheddar is the news network for the next generation of innovators, decision-makers, and trendsetters in finance, tech, and business. With smart, conversational coverage, Cheddar delivers stories about the people, ideas, and trends shaping the future. From startup breakthroughs to market-moving moments, Cheddar keeps viewers informed, inspired, and ahead of the curve.

About Money 20/20 Launched by industry insiders in 2012, Money20/20 has rapidly become the heartbeat of the global fintech ecosystem. Over the last decade, the most innovative, fast-moving ideas and companies have driven their growth on our platform. Mastercard, Wise, J.P. Morgan, SHIELD, Convera, Stripe, Google, VISA, Adyen, and more make transformational deals and raise their global profile with us. Money20/20 attracts leaders from the world’s greatest banks, payments companies, VC firms, regulators and media platforms: convening to cut industry-shaping deals, build world-changing partnerships and unlock future-defining opportunities in Bangkok (22-24 April 2025)in Amsterdam (3-5 June 2025), in Riyadh ( 15-17 September 2025), and in Las Vegas (26-29 October 2025). Money20/20 is where the world’s fintech leaders convene to grow their businesses. Money20/20 is part of Informa Festivals. Follow Money20/20 on X and LinkedIn for series developments and updates. We’re Where Money Does Business. Follow Money20/20 on X for series developments and updates. You can also find us on LinkedIn at Money20/20.

About The New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), is a dynamic platform for content that delivers live and on-demand video programming—such as the flagship “NYSE TV Live” morning show, exclusive executive interviews, and coverage of Opening and Closing Bell ceremonies and fosters collaboration across industries by connecting capital, culture, and creativity. Available globally through the NYSE TV App and multiple social and broadcast platforms, NYSE Content offers unique behind-the-scenes access to Wall Street’s key moments while empowering the NYSE Community, media companies, content creators, and technology partners to share diverse perspectives. In the “Partnership Era,” NYSE Content is building a vibrant, creative community that drives innovation and growth for all participants.

About FINTECH.TV

FINTECH.TV is the global media platform for the next generation of financial leaders, innovators, and investors. With a flagship studio at the New York Stock Exchange and additional coverage from ADGM in Abu Dhabi and London, FINTECH.TV delivers live and on-demand content in finance, crypto, AI, and sustainability. Through its partnership with ReachTV, the network streams across 500K hotel rooms and 2,500 airport screens. Recent acquisitions include Bull Street, Coin Street, and Breakout Audio, expanding its footprint across newsletters, social audio, and next-gen financial storytelling.