Tortoise Announces Expected Constituent Change Due to Corporate Action Activity
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Tortoise today announced that Wirecard AG (XETR: WDI GY) will be removed from the Tortoise Global Digital Payments Infrastructure Index® (TPMT) at the close of business on June 29, 2020, due to the company’s filing for insolvency.
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The Tortoise Global Digital Payments Infrastructure IndexSM represents the existing global digital payments landscape. It is a proprietary, rules-based, modified market capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index comprised of companies that are materially engaged in digital payments, including merchant processing and settlement, real time record keeping, settlement networks, and Fintech products/ services that facilitate the ease, efficiency, and speed of electronic transactions. This includes companies whose primary business is comprised of one or a combination of the following categories: credit card networks, electronic transaction processing and associated products/services, credit card issuers, electronic transaction processing software (payments Fintech) or online financial services market places.
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