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SEC Announces Ad Hoc Meeting of Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee in Response to COVID-19 Challenges Faced By Small Businesses

March 31, 2020/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee will host a meeting via video conference on April 2, 2020, in response to the challenges small businesses are facing in coping with COVID-19.   Committee Chair Carla Garrett and Vice […]

Investing in Women Everywhere

March 31, 2020/Mastercard Shamina Singh Meet Moshrefa Banu, a 25-year-old quality inspector in the sewing section of a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  She is married and has a young daughter who stays with Moshrefa’s parents in her home village while she works in the city. Moshrefa dreams of one day providing her family with a home of their own. Clouding her […]

Facebook invests additional $100 million to support news industry during the Coronavirus crisis

…Includes $25 million in emergency grant funding for local news March 30, 2020/Facebook By: Campbell Brown, VP Global News Partnerships The news industry is working under extraordinary conditions to keep people informed during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time when journalism is needed more than ever, ad revenues are declining […]