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Capital Closes $9 Million Series Seed 2 to Advance The Capital Machine

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Capital, a leading innovator in the emerging category of “capital as a service” (CAAS), announced that it has closed on an additional $9Million in seed funding led by Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures with participation from Steve Jurvetson’s Future Ventures, Greycroft, Wavemaker Partners, Partech, and renowned angel investors including Rentech and First......
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iShares Marks the 20th Anniversary of Three Flagship U.S. Core Equity Funds

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Three iShares Core U.S. equity exchange traded funds (ETFs) now sport track records longer than two decades. Launched in 2000, the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF, the iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF , and the iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF reflect performance that spans multiple market cycles and includes the dot-com......
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Dimensional to Launch Exchange Traded Funds

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Dimensional Fund Advisors filed a preliminary registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the launch of three actively managed exchange traded funds (ETFs), planned for later this year. The ETFs will offer broadly diversified, all cap core equity exposure to US, non-US developed, and emerging markets, while incorporating......
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Morgan Stanley, TruFund Financial Services and Ford Foundation Announce Launch of $26 Million Impact Developers Fund

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Morgan Stanley, TruFund Financial Services and the Ford Foundation announced the launch of the Impact Developers Fund. The $26 million fund will provide much needed capital to emerging impact businesses that lack access to adequate affordable capital, including minority and women owned real estate development companies, expanding their capacity to......
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Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund Extends Relationship with MPI for Stylus Pro Fund Analysis System

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Markov Processes International (MPI), a leading investment analysis, research and technology provider for investment professionals, announced that Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest public pension fund with AUM of $1.5 trillion, has extended its relationship with MPI to utilize MPI’s Stylus Pro suite for a multi-year contract. Stylus Pro......
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K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network Recognized in Chambers and Partners Litigation Support Guide

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K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network (FIN) is proud to announce that the firm’s UK and USA teams have been ranked in the 2020 Chambers and Partners Litigation Support Guide. The firm, an industry-leading investigative, compliance and cyber defense services firm, earned recognition for its client work in Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies), Global-wide; Business Intelligence & Investigations,......
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KKR Acquires Stake in First Gen through Voluntary Tender Offer

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Global investment firm KKR announced that, following the completion of the voluntary tender offer period by Valorous Asia Holdings (the “Offeror”), an entity owned by KKR investment funds, the Offeror has accepted all of the 427,041,291 common shares of First Gen Corporation (“First Gen” or the “Company”) that were tendered......
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CFRA Releases New Data Product Focused on Canadian-Listed Exchange Traded Funds

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CFRA, one of the world’s largest providers of independent investment research, announced the release of a new data product focused on Canadian-listed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that provides CFRA clients with the same level of detail the firm has long made available covering the U.S. ETF landscape. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries......
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Softbank’s Masayoshi Son Steps Down from Alibaba Group’s Board

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On Thursday, at the end of Softbank’s general shareholder’s meeting, Masayoshi Son, chief executive of Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. announced that he would be stepping down from the board of Alibaba Group, a well-known Chinese e-commerce giant. Masayoshi Son announced this new change while also emphasizing that this......
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New Research From PayPal Reveals How Americans Are Spending Credit Card Rewards In A COVID-19 World

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PayPal released new research looking at purchasing behaviors of credit card rewards holders during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing people around the country are turning to rewards balances to help them stretch their budgets (29%) and purchase the things they need most, such as groceries. However, with 39% of credit card......
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