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First Midwest Bank Partners With 101.9 THE MIX to Honor Women-Owned Businesses
First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.March 15, 2021 GMT
CHICAGO, March 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) For the second straight year, First Midwest Bank has joined forces with 101.9 THE MIX to celebrate and recognize women-owned businesses through its Inspiring Women in Business contest. The grand prize winner will be awarded $5,000 for her business and another $5,000 to donate to a local non-profit organization.
“While the last year has been incredibly challenging for all small business owners, many studies show that the pandemic has disproportionally impacted the health of women-owned businesses,” said Cheri Rubocki, Director of Branch Banking at First Midwest Bank. “We are proud to partner with THE MIX again to recognize and reward the contributions and resiliency of female entrepreneurs, and we hope they inspire
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VanEck Expands Its Global Product Lineup With Launch of New ETF in Peru
March 12, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 12, 2021
VanEck, a leader in global investment management, today announced the launch of the Fondo Bursátil VanEck El Dorado Perú ETF (Ticker: ETFPERUD), the firm’s first Peruvian-listed Exchange Traded Fund and in further expansion of VanEck’s strong presence in the Latin American marketplace.
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“Peru has a vibrant and fast-growing public equity market, but to this point gaining access to the largest and most liquid stocks in-market via a single point of entry has not been possible,” said Eduardo Escario, Director, International ETF Sales with VanEck. “This was despite the fact that Peru and many other countries in Latin America have pension funds and other large institutions that could benefit from a vehicle such as this. With the launch of
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Bank Boardrooms Continue to Lack Technology Experience, Accenture Report Reveals
March 12, 2021 GMT
Professional technology experience by board director
LONDON & NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 12, 2021
Despite the significant increase in the adoption of digital technologies over the past few years, there is a continued lack of technology expertise and digital fluency in the boardrooms of the world’s largest banks, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN).
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Building on a similar report from 2015, the new report, “
Boosting the Boardroom’s Technology Expertise – Focus on Banking,” is based on an analysis of the professional backgrounds of nearly 2,000 directors of more than 100 of the world’s largest banks by assets. It finds that while banks are ramping up their technology investments to keep pace with changing consumer demands ― such as the grow
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tZERO ATS Forges Agreement with Tokenization Platform DigiShares to Create Path to Liquidity for its Issuer Base
March 11, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 11, 2021
tZERO, a leader in blockchain innovation and liquidity for digital assets, announced today that its subsidiary, tZERO ATS, a FINRA member broker-dealer that operates an alternative trading system (ATS), has signed an agreement with DigiShares, a white-label platform for tokenized securities, to connect issuers of digital securities on the DigiShares’ platform to the tZERO ATS. DigiShares’ network consists of many asset managers, investment fund managers, real estate developers, renewables project developers, among others that are based in the U.S., Asia, Russia, Europe, and Africa. Interested issuers will now be able to opt in to provide secondary liquidity for their digital securities, subject to tZERO ATS’s due
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Thornburg Limited Term Income Fund Wins 2021 Refinitiv Lipper Fund Award
March 11, 2021 GMT
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SANTA FE, N.M., March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Thornburg Investment Management (“Thornburg”), a global investment firm that oversees $47 billion in assets1, today announced that Thornburg Limited Term Income Fund (“the Fund), Class I (ticker: THIIX), is a Refinitiv Lipper Fund Awards United States 2021 winner. The Fund is the best Short-Intermediate Investment-Grade Debt Fund over the ten-year period ending November 30, 2020 out of 32 funds, based on consistently strong risk-adjusted performance.