On January 2, 2020, a financing platform for SMEs in China's Guangdong province was formally launched. The platform is supported by OneConnect (NYSE: OCFT), a leading Chinese fintech company that has just been listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The launch of the platform with blockchain as its key underlying technology marks the deep integration of digital government and fintech, signaling that difficulties in obtaining financing, including the associated high cost and slow pace of completing the process, faced by small and medium-sized businesses can be solved by following the "Guangdong model".
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Intel Corporation, and First Genesis today announced their collaborative approach in developing blockchain technologies to improve healthcare has earned the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council's (ACT-IAC) 2019 Audience Choice Award. The effort sees Leidos, Intel Corporation, and First Genesis working together to enable healthcare data exchange and inter-operability among different electronic healthcare record (EHR) or electronic record management (ERM) systems that serves the interests of patients and clinical research.
CMCC Global, one of Asia's first blockchain focused venture capital funds, announced today that Zhao Chen has joined the company as a partner. Zhao was formerly the General Manager of NEO Global Development, the team behind the largest China-based blockchain platform, NEO. Prior to this, Zhao was an early employee at OnChain, one of the most reputable blockchain solutions companies in China. At CMCC Global, Zhao will be responsible for setting up a Shanghai presence and will focus on covering China's rapidly growing blockchain ecosystem.
Coinstreet Partners ("Coinstreet") today announced that it has named Samuel Reid as Group Chief Technology Officer ("CTO") and Pietro Doran as Senior Advisor of the group. Coinstreet is a leading decentralized investment banking group and digital asset consultancy firm, offering a one-stop solution and end-to-end service for asset tokenization, tokenized securities, digital assets, securities token offerings (STO) and stablecoins.
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Apollo Fintech is announcing a new addition to its advisor team, Mr. Jorge Sebastiao, a chief technology officer (CTO) of Huawei Technologies. Based in Dubai, Mr. Sebastiao brings more than 30 years of ICT experience (information and communications technology) including managed services, cloud computing, cybersecurity, blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, internet of things and ICT innovation.
Pawtocol, the premier Blockchain company dedicated to the pet industry, has launched the Pawtocol Blockchain Dog Tag, their latest technology to improve the life of your pet. The launch consists of a limited release to all users through our reservation system, as well as a partnership with the ProBit Exchange during Pawtocol's IEO beginning on December 27th.
Realio, an end-to-end digital asset issuance platform, today announced it is partnering with YAD Capital, an investment manager in a niche product of the US credit market known as Merchant Cash Advances. Realio will issue a $5 million tokenized fund which will participate in 'YAD Funding Opportunity V LP ' via the Reg D 506 (c) and Reg S exemptions, enabling global participation in a niche investment product normally reserved for a select subset of institutional investors.
Infosys today announced the launch of three comprehensive blockchain-powered distributed applications for government services, insurance, and supply chain management domains. These comprehensive applications designed as ready-to-subscribe business networks ensure quick deployment, interoperability across disparate systems of value chain stakeholders and a wide variety of use cases involving other digital technologies like IoT, Analytics as well.
Disruptive SaaS business FiO, a blockchain-onboarding platform for conventional businesses, was in full attendance at Singapore's recent FinTech Week, where its senior team met with new potential partners and investors. The company successfully met its agenda objectives that included fundraising, brand-building, networking with attendees and patent registration.