Lawson Conner

Santander | March 13, 2020

Banco Santander is to acquire a majority 50.1% stake in Spanish trade finance software house Mercury TFS through a €30 million investment. Santander has used Mercury TFS’s services in Spain, Mexico, Chile and Germany for years, helping customers to manage their entire trade finance activity online or via mobile phone. The bank's businesses in the UK and Portugal will begin using it at year-end through Global Trade Services (GTS), Santander's global trade platform. The head of ...

ShareRing | July 09, 2020

ShareRing (SHR) is an enterprise-ready blockchain geared towards the travel, sharing and on-demand economies. Focused on the fragmented $7 trillion travel economy, ShaeRing’s travel app will create a more cohesive customer experience by bringing all the necessary activities and bookings into one ecosystem, including hotel check-ins, flights, visa and tourist applications, COVID passports, self-sovereign digital identity cards, mobile wallets, payment solutions and vehicle rentals....

FINTECH

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 ...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FINTECH

Businesswire | April 24, 2023

William Mills Agency, the nation’s largest independent public relations and marketing firm specializing in the financial industry, has been selected by Union Credit for public relations services. The fintech startup is building a digital loan marketplace for credit unions to deliver credit-worthy consumers firm, one-click offers of credit in their everyday retail and financial experiences. William Mills Agency will drive a public relations strategy to increase brand awaren...