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Trade-press report on Baldwin's preliminary Q3 figures.

Definitive agreement at approximately $7.7 billion enterprise value: about $4.6 billion equity purchase price and $3.1 billion net debt. Expected close Q1 2027.

Reports the Sequence–DFO agreement.

Announces the Baldwin agreement and welcomes DFO and Affinity Partners as Sequence partners. An author comment points to engineering and deployment hiring.

Explains refounding scaled service businesses with engineers, operators, patient ownership, and Atlas. Reports BankSouth loan-stage and turnaround improvements.

Announces a $35 million Series B led by The General Partnership and Allen Shim joining as president/CFO. Describes a permanent holdco with embedded technologists.

Announced May 20, 2026, from Jacksonville. FIS announced that BankSouth, a $1.6 billion-asset community bank based at Lake Oconee, Georgia, selected the FIS core banking platform to power its retail and business banking lines. The bank framed the conversion as part of a broader data and technology strategy. The selection followed BankSouth's March 2026 announcement of a strategic partnership with Sequence Holdings, the permanent holding company deploying engineers and AI tooling into the bank's operations, and coverage connected the two moves as parts of the same modernization effort.

Announced March 2026, from Greensboro, Georgia. BankSouth, a $1.6 billion-asset community bank, announced a strategic partnership with Sequence Holdings, a permanent holding company that improves the operations of established businesses through technology. Under the partnership, a team of Sequence engineers — with backgrounds at Palantir, Scale AI, and Apple — works alongside BankSouth's staff to build and deploy AI-powered tools, framed around a human-first approach to community banking and BankSouth's roughly 80-year history. Sequence chief executive Michael Lee, a financial services and technology investor, joined BankSouth's board of directors. Sequence took a minority position in the bank. The partnership followed Sequence's emergence from stealth with a $75 million seed round led by Conviction and 8VC and a Series A led by Lux Capital, joined by Definition, Avenir, Chris Ré, and other institutional investors. Sequence is based in New York and deploys engineers alongside a proprietary technology platform. Latham & Watkins represented Sequence on both the partnership and the financings.

Accessible opening reports expansion across major investors and distinguishes vertical roll-ups from multi-industry holding companies.

Proposes distinctions among conventional PE, venture-backed roll-ups, and AI-native holdcos; supplies a broad discovery map.

A Luma event listing, not an article. Poker Night hosted by Sequence Holdings at 300 Vesey Street, suite 1230, New York, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 7:15pm, with guests asked to meet in the lobby. The listing describes an open, casual evening of cards, wine and cocktails, and catered food, states that non-players are welcome and will be taught the basics, and carries no buy-in, stakes, agenda, or speaker information. Registration was required. The page is now marked as a past event. The same listing was also posted on Partiful.

Links better document processing, legacy-system automation, and conversational agents to owning and executing service workflows. Discusses Sequence and Arcos.