The new platform eliminates the key operational barriers faced by exporters: lengthy payment processing times, manual document handling, and opaque processes. At the same time, it opens new opportunities for investors by providing access to assets backed by real export contracts.

Platform Purpose and Functionality

The Edenex platform shortens the cash-to-cash cycle through the digitization of five key stages of an export transaction:

1. Document Preparation and Verification. An automated system for verifying contracts, invoices, certificates of origin, and export declarations minimizes errors and eliminates the need for document rework.
2. Compliance and Currency Control. The platform integrates sanctions screening and counterparty verification at the preliminary stage, reducing manual payment processing time by correspondent banks.
3. Financing Structuring. Tools for negotiating factoring and credit line terms without the involvement of credit committees for each individual transaction, operating within established limits.
4. Proof of Performance. Digital registration of delivery notes and bills of lading with instant access for financing institutions and investors.
5. Fund Disbursement and Yield Distribution. A transparent system for tracking payment status in real time, with reduced settlement times and automated distribution of investment returns.

Key Advantages

For exporters, implementing the platform enables the following operational metrics:

• Reduction of initial compliance time to 2 business days
• Decrease in document package rejection rates to below 5%
• Shortening of financing approval time to 3–5 days
• Reduction of the overall cash-to-cash cycle to 15–45 days depending on product category

For investors, the platform provides access to tokenized real-world assets (RWA) backed by monetary claims under export contracts, with a transparent yield structure and full legal support.

Edenex’s key value proposition is the SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) — a separate legal entity established for each asset. The exporter sells its right to claim payment from the buyer to the SPV. If that right remained on the exporter’s balance sheet, creditors could seize it in the event of bankruptcy, leaving investors with nothing. With Edenex, the asset stays within the SPV, and if the exporter becomes insolvent, funds are returned to investors according to a pre‑defined waterfall.

Target Audience

The product is designed for companies engaged in regular export operations seeking to improve working capital management efficiency, as well as for institutional and private investors considering investments in real-asset-backed instruments with fixed returns.

The platform targets companies that export regularly and face cash flow gaps between shipment and payment. This core segment includes industrial equipment suppliers, agricultural exporters, manufacturers of construction materials and chemical products, and IT companies or software developers with foreign clients — service exporters where milestone confirmation requires not only invoices but also acceptance certificates, a hurdle that traditional bank financing often struggles to accommodate.

Structural Liquidity Gap in Global Trade and Edenex’s Solution

The global economy in 2026 faces a paradox: record cross-border trade volumes coexist with archaic trade finance mechanisms. Estimates place the global tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market near $25 billion, with institutional investors increasingly shifting treasury obligations and money market funds on-chain. The key driver is the transition toward predictable yield instruments backed by tangible assets.

Simultaneously, traditional trade finance exhibits growing inefficiencies. The export segment remains fragmented. The cash-to-cash cycle for exporters can extend to 45–90 days, with each stage from document verification to compliance entailing repeated manual interventions and delays. Banks dominating factoring operate under rigid limits and demand excessive collateralization. They lack the flexibility to accommodate the specifics of new-economy exports and frequently decline financing due to non-compliance with formal criteria.

Issues Constraining Scalability

For exporters, this translates into a chronic working capital deficit: goods shipped, funds frozen in accounts receivable, while the supply chain demands immediate payment. Investors view classic factoring as an opaque “black box”: no direct visibility into the underlying asset, legal risks associated with the receivable remaining on the originator’s balance sheet (which in the event of bankruptcy jeopardizes the entire structure), and limited secondary market liquidity. Lenders face operational overload: each tranche requires repeated underwriting, while document chain verification stretches over weeks. Consequently, the volume of unfinanced export contracts significantly exceeds demand, while the cost of capital remains inflated.

Impact on the Industry and Stakeholders

For exporters, implementing the platform reduces initial compliance timelines to two days, lowers document rejection rates below 5%, and shortens the overall cash-to-cash cycle to market benchmarks of 15–45 days depending on product category. This is achieved through the elimination of redundant checks and data unification.

For investors, the platform provides access to a new class of RWA instruments backed by monetary claims under actual export contracts, offering fixed yield and a transparent legal structure. This aligns with market demand for a shift from hype toward assets that behave like traditional financial instruments while offering the liquidity and composability of the blockchain environment.

For lenders and insurers, the platform serves as a source of verified data, reducing operational underwriting costs and allowing them to focus on risk pricing.

In a broader context, the Edenex solution illustrates the transition of the trade finance market from fragmented banking procedures to programmable infrastructure, where each transaction stage from verification to settlement becomes transparent, predictable, and automatable. This lays the foundation for the future convergence of such solutions with broader RWA ecosystems, including cross-border platforms and potential infrastructure projects within BRICS, where the tokenization of commodity flows is viewed as a tool to reduce dependence on traditional currency corridors.

Executive Commentary

Sergey Abisher, Head of New Projects at Edenex Platform:

“When I worked with exporters, every deal felt like an obstacle course: gather documents, send them to the bank, wait for a response, get rejected over some minor issue, redo everything, send again — rinse and repeat. Our platform is our attempt to eliminate that routine. We’ve automated 80% of the initial checks. Now exporters upload documents once, and investors see not just ‘some assets’ but a clear chain: contract, shipment, insurance, proof of delivery.”

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The organizers awarded 10 grants for additional training, worth up to 600,000 tenge. 94 people participated in the competition. The initiative to establish the Yessenov Launch Pad program belongs to philanthropist and entrepreneur Galimzhan Yessenov. The competition laureates receive the opportunity for additional training to develop soft or hard skills.

26-year-old Diana Kurnangali, an employee of the Republican Collection of Microorganisms LLP, intends to use her grant to complete courses in bioinformatics.

21-year-old Miras Beisai is studying for a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Winning the competition will allow him to improve his skills in machine learning and generative computer vision from DeepSchool, as well as hard machine learning from karpov.courses.

20-year-old Sagynysh Sovet, a student at Satbayev University, is immersed in studying computer science. She will use the grant to take Python development courses (both server-side and client-side). She also plans to prepare for and take the IELTS exam.

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An attorney representing Meta shareholders told Judge Kathaleen McCormick in Delaware’s Chancery Court a settlement was reached with Zuckerberg and other members of the company’s leadership, multiple outlets reported, though details of the settlement were not immediately available.

Sam Closic, the shareholders’ attorney, said an agreement was reached quickly, according to Reuters.

Facebook shareholders sued Zuckerberg, former COO Sheryl Sandberg and other billionaires tied to the company in 2018, alleging they violated a Federal Trade Commission agreement by sharing user data with third-party apps without their consent.

Shareholders requested $8 billion in damages, and the trial was expected to feature testimony from Zuckerberg, Sandberg and billionaires Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, all of whom served on Facebook’s board.

Neither Meta nor attorneys representing the company immediately responded to requests for comment.

Who Were The Defendants In Meta’s Privacy Trial?

Zuckerberg, Sandberg and Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook’s former vice president of partnerships, were among those named as defendants. Shareholders also named Andreessen, Thiel, Hastings and other Facebook board members, including former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellman, eBay CFO Peggy Alford and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault. Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff who testified Wednesday, was named alongside Erskine Bowles, President Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, for their roles on Facebook’s board.

Key Background

A lawsuit between shareholders of Facebook, which rebranded to Meta in 2021, arose in 2018 over alleged violations of an agreement the company reached with the FTC. That agreement included a consent order in which Facebook agreed to create a “comprehensive privacy program” to address privacy concerns. Their claims were highlighted by the company’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, during which Facebook user data was harvested through a third-party app and then allegedly used to influence Brexit and the 2016 election. Zuckerberg and other defendants disputed claims of wrongdoing, arguing the shareholders failed to back up their claims of company officials acting unlawfully.

Surprising Fact

Sandberg was sanctioned by Delaware’s Chancery Court in January, after she allegedly deleted personal emails that were material to the trial. Sandberg claimed she rarely used her personal email and information from those deleted emails was preserved as other users were copied in on those messages.

Forbes Valuation

Zuckerberg is the world’s third-wealthiest person with a fortune valued at $241.1 billion, according to Forbes’ latest estimates. Sandberg has a net worth valued at $2.4 billion as of Thursday, while Andreessen ($2 billion), Hastings ($6.8) and Thiel ($23.2 billion) also rank among the world’s richest.

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Up to $11 billion of the aid package will be allotted for an assistance program for farmers producing row crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans, through a Farmer Bridge Assistance program.

Those funds will move by Feb. 28, 2026, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a roundtable with the president and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but farmers will be informed how much they will receive earlier.

The other $1 billion will be reserved for farmers of other specialty crops, Rollins said, with Politico reporting this could include producers of crops like fruit and vegetable.

Rollins said the bridge funding was necessary because the “farm economy is facing a crisis that we inherited,” blaming the hardships faced by farmers on the Biden administration’s policies, including not signing new trade deals.

Trump also said the administration was planning to reduce environmental regulations on farming equipment, such as that produced by John Deere—insisting tractors and other machinery are getting too expensive and “it doesn’t do anything but make the machines break all the time.”

The funds will be authorized by the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, Bloomberg reported, and will not require the administration to seek congressional approval to use tariff revenue to fund the bailout.

Trump repeatedly connected the payments to tariff income, insisting “this money would not be possible without tariffs.”

Trump will announce the aid package at a round table with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and members of Congress, according to the reports.

Earlier this year, soybean farmers bore the brunt of Trump’s tariff policy when China abruptly slashed their U.S. soybean purchases to zero as the two countries struggled to resolve a trade dispute over rare earth minerals. China was previously the largest single purchaser of American soybeans, and purchased about half of the U.S.’ $24.5 billion soybean crop in 2024. The Trump administration has been weighing options to address the crisis since the trade dispute began, including a reported plan to use tariff revenue for a slightly smaller bailout. China began importing American soybeans again in October ahead of a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. After Trump struck a deal with Xi Jinping later the same month, the president claimed China would resume purchasing “massive amounts” of soybeans and other crops. Although the Trump administration said China would buy 12 million tons of soybeans before the end of the year, the country has not come close to meeting that mark as of late November, Reuters reported.

Big Number

About 60%. That’s how much farm bankruptcies rose in the first half of 2025 compared to the previous year, the Washington Post reported citing data from court records. A total of 181 farms across the country filed for bankruptcy in the first two quarters of the year, compared to 115 during the same two quarters in 2024.

Contra

In a statement to Forbes, the White House blamed the Biden administration for the recent increased hardship for farmers. “Farmers suffered for years under Joe Biden, who increased the United States’ trade deficit to over $1.2 trillion, raised input costs, pushed woke DEI agricultural policies, and more,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement. “Today’s announcement reflects the President’s commitment to helping our farmers, who will have the support they need to bridge the gap between Biden’s failures and the President’s successful policies taking effect,” Kelly said.

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The Bengaluru, India-based company will buy the stakes held by Serum Institute Life Sciences, Tata Capital and Activ Pine by swapping 70.28 Biocon shares for every 100 Biocon Biologics shares, at a price of 405.78 rupees ($4.51) per Biocon share, according to a statement released over the weekend. The deal, slated to be completed in March subject to regulatory approvals, values Biocon Biologics at $5.5 billion, it said.

Separately, India-listed Biocon also said it will also buy the shares held by Pittsburgh-based Viatris in Biocon Biologics for $815 million, paying $400 million in cash and $415 million in Biocon shares. The company also plans to raise up to 45 billion rupees ($500 million) by selling shares to institutional investors, with the proceeds going toward the cash payment to Viatris.

“The integration of Biocon Biologics into Biocon represents the next chapter in our evolution,” Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairwoman of Biocon said in the statement. “Strategically, Biocon will be one of the few companies offering both biosimilars and generics at a global scale”.

The company said that integrating Biocon Biologics will simplify its corporate structure and strengthen Biocon’s position in diabetes, oncology and immunology medications, which together make up nearly 40% of global pharmaceutical industry’s revenues.

With an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion based on Forbes’ real-time data, Mazumdar-Shaw, is among the wealthiest in India. She founded Biocon in 1978 and turned it into a biopharmaceutical giant. The company acquired U.S. drugmaker Viatris’ biosimilars business for $3.3 billion in 2022. Biocon-backed cancer therapy drug maker Bicara Therapeutics raised $362 million in its IPO on Nasdaq last year.

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As digital ecosystems expand at an unprecedented speed, the global IT industry faces an acute shortage of talent capable of working with large-scale, industrial software systems. Against this backdrop, the International Software Engineering Olympiad PROD has carved out a distinct niche. Launched in January 2024, the program quickly became one of the few platforms where high-school students from multiple countries solve real business challenges, explore the architecture of complex software systems, and gain a mindset shaped by the workflow of enterprise-level engineering teams. Registration for the new season closes on December 2, and the initiative is increasingly viewed as a gateway for young people to explore the full spectrum of modern technological development.

The Story Behind PROD

PROD is one of the fastest-growing education projects in recent years, bringing together high-school students around tasks drawn directly from real-world industry. The initiative is run by several Russian organizations: Central University – a new-generation STEM-oriented institution ranked among Russia’s leading universities and one of the top 10 most competitive for admission; T-Technologies, a major fintech company; and the Faculty of Computer Science at HSE University.

The idea was born as an attempt to give teenagers an early, informed pathway into a profession shaping the future technological landscape. Importantly, the organizers emphasize that no prior programming experience is required – basic knowledge of mathematics and computer science is sufficient.

PROD allows students from grades 8 to 12 to test themselves in industrial development, one of the most complex branches of IT. Its debut season in 2024 was a milestone as PROD became the world’s first international Olympiad of this kind. More than 6,000 applications were submitted. During the second season, which opened in December 2024, over 10,000 students applied, and 4,000 Russian-speaking participants from more than 20 countries – including the UK, Germany, France, Canada, China and Peru – took part. In just two cycles, the Olympiad has evolved from a standalone international contest into a genuine bridge linking schools, universities, and the technology sector.

The new season opens in December 2025, with results announced in March 2026. For the first time, the competition is fully bilingual – in English and Russian – making it accessible to students worldwide.

Structure of the Olympiad and Opportunities for Participants

The design of PROD ensures that students from any country can complete the full journey: from introductory tasks to a final project defense. Most stages are held online, lowering access barriers and establishing PROD as a truly global academic platform. Only the final round takes place offline in Moscow, with accommodation for international participants fully covered by the organizers.

The competition begins with a remote test in mathematics and basic programming – identical for all participants regardless of national curricula. The second round focuses on case challenges in frontend and backend development, mobile engineering, and MLOps, each reflecting the realities of modern tech industries around the world. This structure helps students grasp principles applicable not only in Russian or European fintech, but also across global digital ecosystems.

The final stage consists of two rounds. In the individual round, finalists develop a project within their chosen track; in the team round, they collaborate to create full-scale solutions based on cases provided by the organizers.

PROD’s growing international status is reinforced by its real impact on participants’ futures. Over two years, the program has built its own development ecosystem: 39 finalists and award-winners have secured internships at T-Technologies – a company developing a major financial and lifestyle services ecosystem – with 19 currently interning and 9 already employed full-time. More than 120 participants from the previous season enrolled at Central University, including 50 finalists and 20 winners and prize-winners.

In a world where software has become a universal language, initiatives like PROD shape a new generation of engineers – young professionals capable of building world-class digital products even before entering university. The Olympiad has already proven that high-school students are ready for this challenge, and its international expansion ensures that young people anywhere in the world can access this experience.

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The expansion will also enable the company’s existing factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to produce electric buses, e-scooters and charging infrastructure, New York-listed VinFast said in a statement. The facility, which started producing electric cars in August, is Vinfast’s first overseas plant.

“The proposed expansion of the Tamil Nadu plant will enable us to broaden our product lineup in India, allowing us to meet a wider range of customer needs,” Pham Sanh Chau, CEO of VinFast Asia, said in the statement. “VinFast believes that Tamil Nadu will continue to serve as a strategic hub in our global expansion journey and will play an important role in supporting India’s green mobility goals.”

The expansion project—which would increase annual production capacity in India to 150,000 from 50,000 currently—is the second phase of an existing $2 billion commitment to scale up its operations in India. The government of Tamil Nadu is allocating an additional 200 hectares right next to VinFast’s existing factory, which sites on a 160-hectare property.

Based in the port city of Hao Phong in northeastern Vietnam, VinFast has been scaling up shipments globally even as the company remains in the red. It delivered 110,362 EVs in the first nine months of the year, surpassing 97,399 deliveries in the whole of 2024. In India, it plans to increase its dealer network to 35 outlets by the end of the year from 24 currently.

With a real-time net worth of $14 billion, Pham has interests in real estate, retail, healthcare, education, and technology through his flagship Vingroup. He built his fortune from an instant noodles business he started in Ukraine in 1993. He sold that business to Nestle in 2010 and built one of Vietnam’s most diversified conglomerates.

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Zhang Jianzhong, founder of Moore Threads Technology, has joined the billionaire ranks as shares of his Chinese AI chipmaker soared over 420% on its Shanghai market debut amid optimism it could one day become the Nvidia of China. The 59-year-old chairman and CEO of the Beijing-based firm has amassed a fortune of $4.3 billion based on his stake in the company, according to Forbes estimates. Moore Threads raised 8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in late November by selling 70 million shares at 114.28 yuan apiece, according to its prospectus. Fellow cofounders Wang Dong and Zhang Yubo also joined the world’s three-comma club, amassing a fortune of $1.4 billion and $1.7 billion based on their respective company stakes.

The company did not respond to a request for comment. The initial public offering is one of the most anticipated in China this year – with the retail portion of the share sale being oversubscribed by 2,750 times despite a clawback mechanism that eventually allotted more shares to individual investors. Moore Threads now sports a market capitalization of 276 billion yuan and plans to use the proceeds for hiring as well as research and development.

Before its blockbuster IPO, Moore Threads raised funding from a star-studded list of investors including HSG (HongShan Capital Group, formerly known as Sequoia China) as well as the investment arms of Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Tencent. In 2023, it was added to the U.S. government’s entity list, a trade blacklist that prevents it from accessing advanced American chipmaking technologies.

The company is benefiting from China’s push for technology self-reliance amid U.S. restrictions on selling advanced semiconductors to its top geopolitical rival, Kenny Ng, a Hong Kong-based securities strategist at Everbright Securities International, says via WeChat messages. Growing optimism over locally made chips has also vaulted the shares of companies including Cambricon Technologies. Chen Tianshi, Cambricon’s 40-year-old chairman and CEO, is now China’s 11th richest person with a net worth of $23.4 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List.

As for Moore Threads, its products range from graphics processing units to supporting software to train AI models. The domestic market for such GPUs will grow to 1.3 trillion yuan in 2029 from 142.5 billion yuan in 2024, according to a November research note from Shanghai-based brokerage Sinolink Securities.

Moore Threads is likely to become an “important force” in replacing overseas suppliers such as Nvidia, the brokerage wrote in the note. During the first nine months of this year, sales at the company soared 182% year-on-year to 784.6 million yuan. Its loss narrowed to 723.5 million yuan, down 18.7% from the same period a year ago.

Founder Zhang has worked in the semiconductor business for almost 20 years. He led Nvidia’s China unit for 14 years until 2020, the same year he founded Moore Threads, according to the prospectus. The mogul previously worked as a senior executive at Dell and HP in China, its prospectus shows. His wife, Liu Shanshan, was a company director during its early years before stepping down in 2023.

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One of the recent cases was a deal with the fund, in which the company provided microfinance to secure a stake in a company whose shares were traded in a closed market segment. The transaction was accompanied by a thorough asset assessment, liquidity assessment, legal audit and a pre-developed exit strategy.

Within three months, the asset was sold in accordance with the planned model. The financial result of the project was distributed among the partners, which emphasizes the transparency of the processes and compliance with the internal regulations of the company.

“We are not looking for easy solutions — only calculated steps based on numbers, risk modeling and an institutional approach. Sustainability, trust and long—term impact for our partners are our focus,” the company noted.

Today, the company is developing a full-fledged ecosystem that combines experience in traditional and digital financial instruments, including microfinance mechanisms, asset management, projects in the field of blockchain economics and compliance standards.

Details about investment projects, transaction structures, and documentation are available on the company’s official website in the Documents section.

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Technologies are implemented through the Si14 Pharma direction.Si14 Pharma specializes in homeopathic steroids, innovative medical equipment, Life Packs, and dietary supplements based on metallob atomic colloids..

The company is engaged in the implementation of colloidal technologies in the field of medicine in the BRICS countries. The drugs are based on nanoparticles of magnesium, zinc, copper and silver, which can effectively counteract infections.

The investment attractiveness of Si14 AG shares is growing after the holding introduced patented colloidal nanotechnologies in the pharmaceuticalindustry, according to Infoway Marketing, the official representative of Si14 AGInfoway Marketing.

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