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Global Payments | September 09, 2021

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, today announced an agreement to purchase MineralTree, a leading provider of accounts payable automation and business-to-business (B2B) payments solutions, from an investor group led by Great Hill Partners, .406 Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures. MineralTree’s software-as-a-service (SAAS) offerings automate key procurement processes, including invoice capture, coding and approval, and enable vir...

Reuters | March 30, 2020

Global oil benchmark Brent crude plunged to its cheapest in 18 years on Monday, while U.S. crude briefly tumbled below $20 per barrel, on heightened fears that the global coronavirus shutdown could last months and demand for fuel could decline further. The market extended losses after data provider Genscape reported that U.S. stockpiles at Cushing in Oklahoma rose more than 4 million barrels last week, which was the biggest-one week increase in more than 10 years. With Saudi Arabia and Russia se...

Pipe | February 25, 2020

Pipe, a new financing platform for SaaS companies, announced today it has raised $6 million in Seed funding led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Fika Ventures, MaC Ventures, Naval Ravikant, WorkLife Ventures, Liquid2 and The Weekend Fund. Led by serial entrepreneurs Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia, Pipe offers non-dilutive financing to SaaS companies: through an instant cash advance against the full annual value of software subscriptions, Pipe turns MRR (monthly recurring...

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BlackRock | August 23, 2022

BlackRock today launched a first-of-its-kind suite of fixed income ETFs that provide access to buy-write investment strategies on baskets of fixed income securities: the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF, iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF and the iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF. Each ETF packages two potential income sources into one ticker – premiums generated by selling monthly call options on the underlying ETFs and ...