Announcement of the Establishment of IXCI Index Advisory Committee and ix Fintech Group's Advisors

    HONG KONG, September 12, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Today, IX Asia Indexes Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IX Group aiming to become one of the leading index compliers in Asia in the areas of both real and digital assets, is honoured to announce that its flagship project, the ixCrypto Index (IXCI,) is now joined by the former Vice Minister of Finance in Thailand, Kiatchai Sophastienphong, the Associate Dean of the University of Hong Kong, Mr. Yuk-fai Fong, the former CEO of Bank of China International Holdings, Dr. Li Shan, and former senior executives of two Hong Kong-based exchanges, Vicky Chan and Mark Ho. The Index Advisory Committee, whose operations are independent from those of the Group, is chaired by the former Head of the Hang Seng Indexes Company and senior executive of the Hong Kong Exchange, Irene OL Wong. Together, the Index Advisory Committee will help drive a day-to-day success, leading from within the achievement of trading benchmarks and market representation.

IXCI is the first crypto index launched in Hong Kong, launched in December 2018, and designed to be easy to understand while providing a good representation of the crypto market.

Also, IX Fintech Group is proud to announce the establishment of its advisory committee and the appointment of its advisors, Dr. Oriol CAUDEVILLA, a Corporate Communication Advisor, Dr. Raymond SZETO, an Education Advisor, Prof. Emil CHAN, an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisor, Ms. Kary KUNG, a Payment & E-Commerce Advisor and Mr. Dun LEE, a Derivatives Market Advisor. The advisors are expected to giveguidance on the future operations of the business. Ix Fintech's future operations include its expansion into digital assets and wealth tech by providing tokenization solutions, a digital asset exchange machine, a digital wallet and AML solutions.

In response to the rapid development of the company and expansion to more diversified areas, ixFintech will work together with different advisors to ensure the professionalism in its operations. The advisors are a representation of professionals from different industries, such as trading, corporate communication, fintech, payment, entrepreneurship, and IT, etc.

"We are delighted and very honoured to have the experts from different industries and areas to cooperate with ixFintech and IXCI as advisors and index advisory committee respectively", said Irene Wong, the founder and CEO of ixFintech. "We strongly believe that the support of our new advisors and committee will enable ixFintech and IXCI- to achieve the best-in-class fintech solutions to the financial industry."

The advisors are expected to use their professional knowledge in order to help to figure out any issues that ixFintech and IXCI may encounter in the future, to provide guidance to the future development of new businesses, and to handle other issues and decisions on an as-needed basis.

About ixFintech

ixFintech Limited is a Fintech start-up company established in June 2015. ixFintech aims to provide the best-in-class products and solutions to our clients so they can satisfy their needs in finance and investments. ixFintech takes pride on its knowledge and commitment to promote financial literacy and bring a whole new experience to individual and institutional investors. It aims to improve the client engagement process of derivative products by promoting financial literacy and a new option information platform. As a former participant of the Cyberport Hong Kong Incubation Program in 2016, ixFintech graduated by launching the ixOption App in August 2018, which was awarded with the ET Net Fintech Award 2018. It was also awarded with the "Top 10 Trading Solution Providers in APAC 2019" by CIO magazine in the USA. In October 2019, ixFintech was named as one of the "50 Innovative Companies to Watch" by The Silicon Review magazine in the US. This year 2020, ixFintech is honoured to have received, for the second time, an award from ETNet Hong Kong on the Hong Kong Fintech Award 2019 (wealth and investment section) for its "IXCI" Platform.

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