GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Financial technology investment platform BnkToTheFuture (www.bnktothefuture.com) has raised an initial $30 million for its tokenized equity market and due diligence platform within the first 24 hours of of its token pre-sale open solely to institutional investors and members of its platform. BnkToTheFuture offers the largest online [...]
HO CHI MINH, Vietnam, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam will host Vietnam Blockchain Week – its first global conference dedicated to blockchain technology and development. Blockchain’s Explosive Growth in Southeast Asia Malaysian banks piloting blockchain payment systems, Singaporean incubators investing heavily in 4.0 technology startups, India putting land rights on blockchain and Indonesian regulators [...]
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today announced the launch of passiveIQ™, a new analytics tool designed to provide investor relations (IR) professionals with comprehensive and actionable insights into passive index investment data from mutual funds and ETFs. passiveIQ is available as a supplementary service [...]
NEW YORK and PANAMA CITY, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Bolsa de Valores de Panamá (BVP) have signed an agreement for Nasdaq to deliver matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Panama’s national stock exchange. BVP will replace its current technology with a new platform that will allow them [...]
LONDON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The insurance industry is in a state of flux. For one, it’s adapting to a new era of risk, in which a cyber attack could be as economically damaging as a hurricane. On top of this, the modern tools of big data, mobile phones and advanced analytics are ushering [...]
TROY, Mich., Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Viper Networks, Inc. (OTC Pink:VPER), (Company), an international leader in the LED lighting products & integrated systems markets, with a focus on Smart Cities, reported today that the Company is expanding into a strategic industry sector by creating a new division for their emerging Blockchain and Crypto Mining [...]
Gibraltar, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Olympus Labs is becoming an emerging leader in the cryptocurrency-based financial product space, and the team has been having a successful token sale supported by both institutions and the community. The team has designated OKEx to be the first official partner exchange to list Mount Olympus Tokens (MOT). OKEx [...]
SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. (“Lexin” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:LX), a leading online consumer finance technology platform for educated young adults in China, today announced that the underwriters of the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”) have exercised their over-allotment option in full to purchase an additional 1,800,000 American depositary [...]
LONDON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — 2017 certainly provided plenty of challenges for corporations and business leaders, but their ability to withstand them and move forward was the year’s defining feature. And displays of resilience in the face of industry or global pressures are littered throughout the latest issue of World Finance. Elizabeth Matsangou explores [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that it welcomed a total of 262 new listings so far in 2017 – including 133 initial public offerings (IPOs) and 33 transfers. The record-breaking year of exchange transfers is a validation of our long-term commitment to listed companies across all sectors at any [...]