Lisbon, Portugal, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire Ekiden, the first order book-based derivatives exchange, brings institutional-grade execution, private trading workflows, and on-chain settlement to the Canton ecosystem.  The launch adds a professional execution layer to Canton’s growing financial ecosystem, enabling market participants to trade and settle derivatives on-chain using infrastructure designed around the requirements of institutional markets.  Ekiden is built for professional trading firms, market makers, funds, banks, and institutional trading desks that require execution workflows closer to traditional capital markets than to retail-focused decentralized finance venues.  The platform combines a central limit order book, or CLOB, with request-for-quote execution, PropAMM in...

Lisbon, Portugal, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire Ekiden, the first order book-based derivatives exchange, brings institutional-grade execution, private trading workflows, and on-chain settlement to the Canton ecosystem.  The launch adds a professional execution layer to Canton’s growing financial ecosystem, enabling market participants to trade and settle derivatives on-chain using infrastructure designed around the requirements of institutional markets.  Ekiden is built for professional trading firms, market makers, funds, banks, and institutional trading desks that require execution workflows closer to traditional capital markets than to retail-focused decentralized finance venues.  The platform combines a central limit order book, or CLOB, with request-for-quote execution, PropAMM in...

United States, 9th Sep 2026 – ICE recently launched its AI-powered quantitative trading platform globally on September 6th, marking a significant step forward in the platform’s development of digital tools for gold trading. Leveraging a mature market trading system, the new AI-powered quantitative trading platform aims to provide global gold market participants with intelligent trading assistance tools, optimizing the efficiency of gold trading execution and adapting to the diverse trading reference needs of various market environments. According to publicly available information from the platform, at the time of the platform’s launch, its assets under management exceeded US$185 million. This new platform integrates technological capabilities with gold spot and futures trading businesses,...

William Castro’s Korean War memoir, From Paradise to Hell, recounts the experiences of young Hawaiian soldiers who left island life for the front lines in Korea, preserving a personal history of friendship, courage, sacrifice and survival. United States, 9th Sep 2026 – At eighteen years old, William Castro left the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of young men who had grown up surrounded by the ocean, family, and the traditions of island life. Within months, they would find themselves fighting on the frozen mountains of Korea. That journey is at the heart of Castro’s new memoir, From Paradise to Hell: Tales of a Group of Boys Who Became Men and One A Giant Under Fire, a firsthand account of friendship, military service, sacrifice, and survival during the Korean War. When the Korean War e...

Singapore, Singapore, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire Tradition today announced a strategic partnership with Affin Moneybrokers Sdn. Bhd., one of Malaysia’s leading interbank money brokers, under which Tradition will provide market data infrastructure, pricing technology and distribution capabilities to support Affin’s continued growth in the Malaysian financial markets. The partnership brings together Tradition’s global expertise in market data, pricing technologies and information distribution with AFFIN Moneybrokers’ established position in Malaysia’s wholesale financial markets. Through the collaboration, Tradition will provide pricing tools, data management capabilities and publication services designed to enhance the creation, management and distribution of market data across forei...

A failed hydraulic hose can bring valuable machinery to a standstill, prompting Completely Hydraulic to highlight the growing importance of mobile repair support across London and the South East. Essex, United Kingdom, 9th Sep 2026 – For a construction company, warehouse operator or industrial business, the failure of a relatively small hydraulic hose can have consequences far greater than the cost of the component itself. An excavator can stop digging. A loading machine can become unusable. Access equipment can be immobilised. Work can slow or stop while a business waits for the machinery to be repaired. It is a problem Completely Hydraulic has been dealing with for more than two decades, and one that has helped shape the company’s mobile approach to hydraulic breakdowns across London an...

Blue Meridian Capital (BMC) is advancing the Prime Growth Strategy (PGS) framework in Nigeria, with the initiative entering its live-market execution phase on 8 September. Led by Babajide David Awolowo, the framework focuses on high-frequency quantitative trading, direct market access and disciplined intraday execution as part of a broader approach to structured capital-market participation. Nigeria, 8th Sep 2026 – As global investors continue to assess opportunities across emerging African markets, attention is increasingly turning towards the role of quantitative infrastructure in improving execution discipline and market participation. In Nigeria, the latest development of the Prime Growth Strategy (PGS) is bringing this discussion into sharper focus. Led by Babajide David Awolowo, the...

Kazakhstan, 8th Sep 2026 – Sergey Baburov and the team behind the Coffee Navigator analytics platform plan to attend TriestEspresso Expo 2026, which will take place in Trieste, Italy, on October 21–23. The team will focus on the development of private-label coffee production and its impact on local market structures. Sergey Baburov and the Coffee Navigator team TriestEspresso Expo is an international B2B trade show dedicated to espresso and the coffee industry. Exhibitors include green coffee suppliers, roasting companies, equipment manufacturers, packaging providers, and service companies. In 2026, the organizers will introduce private label as a dedicated area for the first time under the name Custom Coffee Industry. The section is designed to bring manufacturers together with buyers fr...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, September 8th, 2026, FinanceWire A material that turns your own movement into medicine has just landed a corporate home. PetVivo Holdings (OTCQX: PETV), a veterinary biotech and biomedical device company focused on treating osteoarthritis in dogs and horses, has acquired PiezoBioMembrane (PBM) — a startup built around a biodegradable implant that generates electricity from the everyday force of a joint in motion, and uses that charge to help regrow cartilage from the inside out. The material is the invention of Thanh Nguyen, a professor of mechanical engineering in UConn’s College of Engineering, who founded PBM in 2021 to advance new implementation methods for his work with piezoelectric materials — substances that convert mechanical force into electrical energy. These m...

United States, 8th Sep 2026 – Founded in 2021, EVE Global Foundation is a leading tech-focused foundation deeply rooted in Web3 algorithmic finance. Since its inception, the foundation has been at the forefront of the industry, focusing on blockchain technology research and development and ecosystem implementation. Leveraging its professional technical team, mature incubation system, and forward-looking industry vision, it has successfully incubated multiple high-quality blockchain platforms, accumulating rich practical experience and a strong industry reputation in Web3 ecosystem development. Among these, the EVE ecosystem is a benchmark project meticulously crafted by the foundation. The project deeply integrates mainstream industry application scenarios, building a comprehensive, integ...