The Swiss Federal Banking Commission fined Swiss private bank Vontobel CHF 21 million after the Swiss stock exchange alerted the commission to irregularities in Think Tools' IPO, which was underwritten by Vontobel.
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Funders of MDIF's Loan/Investment Pool include: Bank Vontobel, Calvert Social Investment Foundation, DOEN Foundation, Dreilinden gGmbH, Foundation for Democracy and Media, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Oxfam Novib, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Alexej Fulmek.
Starmind was founded by Pascal Kaufmann and Marc Vontobel at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Zurich University, led by Prof Rolf Pfeifer.