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Mercantile Bank International Taps Capitol Hill, Goldman Sachs Veteran as New President News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercantile Bank International (MBI), an innovative payments and digital asset custody bank based in Puerto Rico, today announced the hiring of Eric Edwards to lead its growing U.S. and global banking operations. Edwards, who has over 25 years of banking and financial services regulatory experience in the private sector and on Capitol Hill, joins MBI as president and will split time between Washi...

>> reporter: like eric edwards, a pipe fitter, and rachel, a restaurant manager, who saved up to buy their first home in central new jersey last year. they decided to skip producting altogether, going -- renting altogether. going straight to buying their own home. >> the money spent on renting could have been better used paying a mortgage or saving up for a house. >> it was parents that were actively kicking us out. >> reporter: they may not have a white picket fence in front of their first home, but their idea of the american dream is no different than the generations before them. >> you come...

childers in for jenna lee. republicans are in orlando, florida, the state that two of the top contenders, of course, call home. the sunshine summit featuring a battle between jeb bush and marco rubio, florida insiders calling the showdown one of the most important in the state's history. bush now forced to fight for home turf advantage from rubio who has been on the rise. carl cameron is live in orlando with more, jon, right? there you are. >> reporter: hi, heather. hi, heather, yes, carl's here. heather: yes, there you are. >> reporter: and it's -- hi, heather, carl's here, and so w...

Eric edwards can remember, they had allergies. the official diagnosis came at age 3. >> we grew up allergic to all egg products, all seafood, including shellfish and fish, all peanuts, all tree nuts, and most antibiotics. >> plus, seasonal allergies as well. >> we didn't have pets growing up. we were allergic to both dogs and cats. >> and to top it all off, chronic asthma. for them, school was a huge challenge. >> we were those guys who had to be placed at the special table at lunch to try to ensure that there was no potential for contamination. >> if you have an allergy, there is a stigma. yo...

Didn't carry them. both have had three really close calls. so, when they left high school, they decided to invent a smaller, more portable device. >> this was about us trying to take our experience and then develop another option for these millions who are at risk. >> they tailored their college classes around the new invention they were designing. evan took engineering courses, eric took the premed route. after college, they started their company, intelliject. in a year, they approved the epinephrine auto injector that's about the size of a credit card, and it's the first to talk you through ...