Category Press Releases

New York City Entrepreneurs Selected for Small Business Spotlight at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

Bank of America today announced the four New York City-based women and/or minority-owned business beneficiaries of this year’s Bank of America Small Business Spotlight program at the iconic Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park. Each business will showcase and sell their…

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Mastercard targets ‘friendly’ fraud to protect small businesses and merchants

Mastercard has announced its First-Party Trust program, with AI-powered insights, to combat the surging trend in first-party or ‘friendly’ fraud, where genuine transactions are mistakenly or intentionally challenged by cardholders. The program has been developed in collaboration with industry groups…

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Morgan Stanley Investment Management Expands ETF Platform with Five Active ETFs

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) today announced the listing of five new ETFs on NYSE Arca. These latest additions to MSIM’s ETF platform are all actively-managed and span asset classes with one Parametric-branded alternative income strategy, one Parametric-branded hedged equity…

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180 Entities Submit Request to Oppose Abolition ofNTT Law, Call for Careful Policy Discussions

On October 19, 2023, a total of 180 entities, including telecommunications operators and local governments, submitted a jointly-signed request (the “Request”) to the Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (“LDP”), as well as the Chairman…

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Government of Rwanda in Partnership with SoftBank Corp.Successfully Delivers World’s First 5G Connectivityfrom the Stratosphere

The Government of Rwanda and SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, “SoftBank”) announced that on September 24, 2023, they successfully tested SoftBank’s proprietary 5G communications payload in the stratosphere installed on a solar-powered High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) unmanned…

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Schwab Stock Plan Services Expands International Capabilities, Offers Fully Featured Accounts to 18 Additional Countries

Schwab Stock Plan Services recently expanded availability of fully featured investment accounts to equity compensation plan participants in 18 additional countries. With the expansion, Schwab now offers fully featured accounts for participants in 52 jurisdictions outside the U.S. Many stock…

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