Kan,li&pbsp;For what are probably obvious legal reasons, I went with a corporate name that could not be construed to be a real company operating in the GM space. On a humorous side note, during drafting of the novel the name of the company was San Monto Corporation, a too-obvious reference to Monsanto, which is, of course, the largest company in the industry (along with Syngenta, Bayer, and others). Yes indeed, there is a financial services company called Vanguard, but they have no agricultural aspirations, so far as I am aware! If they do, I’m sure I’ll be hearing from their lawyers.