Friday, March 01, 2019

#CryptoCorner: NY Bank to Offer Services to Fintech Firms in Bermuda, Circle Selects NICE ( $NICE) Actimize for Surveillance Against Market Manipulation, Facebook ( $FB) Looking to Create Crypto for WhatsApp and Coinbase Adds XRP to Mobile Apps



#CryptoCorner: NY Bank to Offer Services to Fintech Firms in Bermuda, Circle Selects NICE ( $NICE) Actimize for Surveillance Against Market Manipulation, Facebook ( $FB)  Looking to Create Crypto for WhatsApp and Coinbase Adds XRP to Mobile Apps

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NY Bank to Offer Services to Fintech Firms in Bermuda, Circle Selects NICE Actimize for Surveillance Against Market Manipulation, Facebook Looking to Create Crypto for WhatsApp and Coinbase Adds XRP to Mobile Apps
Stocks discussed: (NasdaqGS:NICE) (NasdaqGS:FB)

New York-based Signature Bank will begin offering services to fintech firms in Bermuda, according to a report from the Royal Gazette. Signature Bank launched a blockchain-based platform for trading money between clients called Signet in December 2018. Joseph DePaolo, Signature’s CEO, said:

“Since launching at the start of the year, our blockchain-based Signet system has on-boarded multiple clients who are using it to send each other millions of dollars, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Currently, we are seeing trades in the millions some days and tens of millions other days, with the number of Signet clients in the triple digits.
“Signature Bank is one of the few banks in the US that will provide deposit accounts and corporate debit cards to cryptocurrency start-ups, but we are seeing non-crypto businesses signing up as well.”
Crypto finance company Circle has contracted NICE Actimize, a subsidiary of NICE Ltd. (NasdaqGS:NICE), to introduce market surveillance to protect against market manipulation including insider trading and pump and dump schemes. Robert Bench, Head Regulatory Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Circle said:

“As a leading crypto finance company, it was important that we work with a leading financial crime solutions provider like NICE Actimize which provides industry-leading solutions for the rapidly changing financial crime, risk and compliance landscape. Circle has adopted a strong position on policy and crypto-related regulatory issues that focuses on the safety of our customers and investors. Adapting innovative technology solutions, such as the financial markets compliance solutions from NICE Actimize, to meeting the potential needs of regulators and protecting our assets brings this commitment full circle.”

The New York Times reports that Facebook (NasdaqGS:FB), through its messaging app WhatsApp, is working on a cryptocurrency over the next year that would allow users to send money via messages to their contacts. Citing four anonymous sources, the article claims that Facebook’s project is “far enough along that the social networking giant has held conversations with cryptocurrency exchanges about selling the Facebook coin to consumers”. Eric Meltzer, a co-founder of a cryptocurrency-focused venture capital firm, Primitive Ventures said:

“It’s pretty much the most fascinating thing happening in crypto right now. They each have their own advantage in this battle, and it will be insane to watch it go down.”

blog post from Coinbase yesterday confirms that the crypto exchange giant has officially added support for XRP on mobile apps and Coinbase.com. After greenlighting XRP for support on their Coinbase Pro platform earlier this week, the exchange now allows customers to buy, sell and trade the crypto on their main retail platform.


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SerenityShares Investments LLC to close its Impact Exchange Traded Fund


SerenityShares Investments LLC to close its Impact Exchange Traded Fund

Chevy Chase, MD – March 1, 2019 – SerenityShares Investments LLC (“SerenityShares”), an investment firm focused on impact investing, today announced that the Board of Trustees of ETF Series Solutions Trust, has approved the liquidation of its fund.
The Fund – SerenityShares Impact ETF (NYSE ARCA: ICAN) – will close to new investors on March 19, 2019 and liquidate on March 19, 2019.
The recommendation to close the Fund was made by SerenityShares, the investment adviser to the Fund, which notified the Trust’s Board who approved the closing.

The underlying SSI Impact Index (NYSE: ICANNDX) will continue to be calculated and is available for licensing for ETF and other products. Created to make the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) investable using public equities, this proprietary index has identified 20 societal and environmental themes that enable investors to define the impact their investments have by focusing on companies whose products and services target those challenges—from clean energy and recycling to eldercare and the environment—putting the focus on solutions.
SerenityShares continues to believe that investors increasingly want their investments to not only generate a return but to also make a difference. And while we believe our methodology offers investors a better way to align their investments with their values and a means to invest in the UN Sustainable Development Goals using public equities, the firm lacked the distribution to generate enough assets in the Fund to warrant continued operation.

The Fund will immediately begin the process of closing down and liquidating its portfolio, which will increase the Fund’s cash holdings notwithstanding the Fund’s investment objective and strategies.

There can be no assurance that there will be a market for the Fund’s shares between the last day of trading on the NYSE Arca (March 19, 2019) and the liquidation date (March 19, 2019).

Any person holding shares in the Fund as of the liquidation date will receive a cash distribution equal to the net asset value of their shares. Shareholders receiving a cash distribution will not incur transaction fees in connection with this distribution or the liquidation of their shares in the Fund. A portion of the distribution may represent an ordinary income dividend or a capital gain distribution.

For additional information about the liquidation, shareholders of the Fund may call SerenityShares at 202
3493917 or visit www.serenityshares.com

About SerenityShares
At SerenityShares, we believe it is possible to achieve a market return or better while investing in a manner consistent with your values. SerenityShares seeks to democratize public equity investing in impact and offer portfolios that solve problems and meet the needs of investors.

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Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. This and additional information can be found in the statutory and summary prospectus. A free, hardcopy of the statutory and summary prospectus may be obtained by calling 202
3493917. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Shares of any ETF are bought and sold at market price (not NAV), may trade at a discount or premium to NAV and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

SSI Indexes is the Index Provider for the Fund and is not affiliated with the Trust or the distributor. The Investment Adviser has entered into a license agreement with SSI Indexes to use the SSI Impact Index. The Fund is entitled to use its Index pursuant to a sub
licensing arrangement with the Investment Adviser.

The SSI Impact Index employs a passive methodology designed to measure the performance of a diversified portfolio of U.S.
listed companies that operate in areas that address a variety of society, social, and environmental challenges. These include environmental stewardship, local access to healthcare, renewable energy, clean water, community building, access to information, natural organic foods, eldercare, and green technologies. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

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Point Roberts, WA and Vancouver, BC – March 1, 2019 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence issues a special edition of The AI Eye, looking at advancements in artificial intelligence in 2019 and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is penetrating many industry verticals in various ways, and the oil & gas sector is no exception. Recent data from market research site Mordor Intelligence reveals that the AI in the oil & gas market will exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.14 percent from 2018-2023. And as the technology improves, the array of applications correspondingly increases, ranging from "streamlining the overall production process" to "controlling the wastage across the endpoints".


An instance of a comprehensive AI solution in the space is the collaboration between NVIDIA Corporation (NasdaqGS:NVDA) and Baker Hughes, a GE Company.  A blog post from NVIDIA claims that the two companies’ partnership “spans the operations of oil companies. And it does so using the full breadth of our AI solutions”.

This includes NVIDIA DGX-1 AI supercomputers in data centers for model training; NVIDIA DGX Stations for supercomputing at the desk side — or even on remote offshore platforms where bandwidth is limited; and NVIDIA Jetson AI supercomputers-on-a-module for real-time, continuous deep learning and inferencing at the edge.

More recently, Universal mCloud Corp. (TSXV:MCLD.V) (OTCQB:MCLDP), an AI Analytics, IoT connected asset care cloud solution company, signed a three-year global licensing agreement with Fulcrum Automation Technologies Ltd to deploy the former’s AssetCare platform in the oil, gas, and refining industries, targeted at $15 million USD. According to their website, mCloud’s AssetCare works “through a combination of AI-driven control and optimization, and mobile asset management capabilities delivered on smartphones, tablets, and digital eyewear”. Explaining the platform, mCloud President and CEO Russ McMeekin said:

"We created AssetCare with the objective to serve a diverse portfolio of critical assets. The application of AssetCare in the oil, gas and refining markets presents a strong opportunity for mCloud to broaden its reach, achieve higher margins and address the industry's need for deep energy analytics. mCloud will leverage its Founders' decades of experience working with many of the global Fortune 50 companies in the market and will greatly benefit from Fulcrum's strong presence in the industry."

Accenture (NYSE:ACN), which boasts over 40 years of collaboration with software company SAP SE, recently announced plans to co-develop the latter’s SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution designed to help oil and gas companies significantly cut operational costs and create new revenue opportunities. According to the announcement, the SAP S/4HANA is a: “portfolio of intelligent cloud services that set new industry standards with more transparency into operations and cash flow through cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), mobility and blockchain”.

Frank Westerhof, general manager of Enterprise Platforms at Shell (NYSE:RDS-A), who are providing input for the cloud solution said:

“Delivery of oil and gas industry requirements within SAP S/4HANA Cloud will enable us to accelerate our strategy towards a standard SaaS ERP platform. We are very happy to see SAP collaborate with Accenture to develop these industry requirements, given Accenture’s 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.”

And Shell, one of the five biggest oil & gas companies in the world, have themselves had considerable involvement with AI. A report from the Wall Street Journal last year said Shell: “will use technology from C3 IoT and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure to predict when maintenance is needed on compressors, valves, and other equipment; help steer drill bits through shale deposits; and improve the safety of employees and customers. Shell also is using artificial intelligence tools from Bonsai, a company Microsoft bought earlier this year that builds software to help computers run autonomously”.

Like many other industry verticals, AI is advancing in the oil & gas sector with considerable speed and vigor, and even from within the industry, as with Shell.

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Demand for #Lithium and EV’s and how it effects #GlobalMarkets - (TSXV: $SLL.V) (OTCQX: $STLHF) (OTC: $BYDDF) (ASX: $GXY.AX), Tianqi Lithium Corp (SZ:002466)


Demand for #Lithium and EV’s and how it effects #GlobalMarkets - (TSXV: $SLL.V) (OTCQX: $STLHF) (OTC: $BYDDF) (ASX: $GXY.AX), Tianqi Lithium Corp (SZ:002466)

Point Roberts, WA and Delta, BC – March 1, 2019 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investorideas.com, a leading investor news resource covering AI and lithium stocks concludes our two-part series looking at the increased demand for lithium for EV’s and the effect it has on the global market.

The Houston Chronicle recently reported on the possible foreign energy dependence lithium could create for the US as, “Australia and Chile are the largest producers and lithium mines have already increased production, creating a surplus that sent prices of the metal crashing down last year. But the long-term outlook is strong for demand and prices, analysts maintain.”

“The demand for lithium isn’t really in question, it’s just a matter of when that demand really kicks in,” an analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence told Reuters last year. “You just have to look at the number of battery factories that are being built around lithium-ion technology.”

The US is not sitting idly by though as Senator Murkowski discussed in a recent Energy and Minerals Hearing. In her opening remarks she stated, “Over the past several years our committee has sought to call attention to the reliance on foreign nations for our minerals. The administration has taken several important steps but we must compliment their actions with our own legislative actions…”

When speaking to Simon Moores and asking questions for how the US can move to the forefront for battery materials and minerals “We can’t afford to be a bystander when we are looking at the future…so much of this goes back to investment.”


Standard Lithium Ltd. (TSXV: SLL.V) (OTCQX:STLHF) has no plans to remain a bystander. The specialty chemical company is focused on unlocking the value of existing large-scale US-based lithium-brine resources and believes new lithium production can be brought on stream rapidly by minimizing project risks at the selection stage (resource, political, geographic, regulatory and permitting), and by leveraging advances in lithium extraction technologies and processes.


Securing their technology, Standard Lithium just announced they filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering the Company’s novel process for the recovery of Lithium from brine. The patent applications covers technology the Company and its Scientific Advisory Team have developed.

The company  is now  funded for future growth  with news  announced it entered into a funding equity agreement for gross proceeds of $10,500,000 CAD.

Foreign competition is fierce though as BYD Company LTD. (OTC:BYDDF) recently announced plans for a new battery gigafactory to support its ambitious electric vehicle plans in China which will be able to produce 20 GWh of battery cells for its electric vehicles.       
                   
The company is investing 10 billion yuan (~$1.49 billion USD) in the facility located in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality.

At an output 20 GWh, it would make BYD’s new factory one of the largest battery factories in the world.

BYD also reported preliminary net profit for 2018 that was 31.4 percent lower than a year earlier, pinning the blame on intensifying competition in the world's biggest auto market, for example Tesla’s own Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, which is currently believed to be the largest battery cell factory in the world, has an estimated output of about 35 GWh per year.

Tianqi Lithium Corp. (SZ:002466), one of the world’s top 3 lithium producers, after more than half a year, recently closed its deal to purchase a 23.77% stake in rival Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA after clearing several regulatory hurdles.
This $4.1 billion deal is seen by some as a risky move as Tianqi, which has around 12 billion yuan ($1.77 billion) in assets, relied on leverage to make the investment.
“The tie-up with SQM is a hard-won deal, and we are looking at the fast development of the lithium industry over the next five to 10 years,” said Wu Wei, the company’s President, in an interview with Caixin (link in Chinese).
The hype for lithium is helping many company stocks rally such as Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX:GXY) who reported their quarterly results for the three month period ending December 31st, 2018. The company reported closing cash and liquid assets of 41.4 million USD and zero debt.
The company also included a market analysis commenting that “Market indicators observed throughout Q4 2018 were illustrative of the robustness of the maturing lithium market. Domestic lithium chemical prices within China plateaued, following several periods of retreat, which many have interpreted as signaling the bottom of the pricing cycle within this region. Key indicators point to a more buoyant market environment throughout 2019 with Chinese domestic prices for lithium stabilizing during the last quarter and the combination of strong demand growth and supply challenges to support a favorable market moving forward.”
US companies like Standard Lithium may have their work cut out for them in 2019 as Australian and Chinese producers also race to meet the demand the EV sector is placing on lithium. There is a new global energy race for lithium, and it’s a race which everyone is hoping to win.

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