NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Ideanomics (formerly: Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc.) (NASDAQ: SSC) (“Ideanomics” or the “Company”), a leading global fintech and asset digitization services company is pleased to announce its commodities and energy division has signed its first project for a traditional financing and security token offering (STO) by entering into a financial advisory service agreement with Zhonjinhuifu Resources (“Zhonjinhuifu”) CO., LTD, a Hong Kong company, whereby Ideanomics will advise and lead Zhonjinhuifu on its planned USD$200 million capital raise over the next two years.

The Ideanomics commodities and energy division is focused on a super artificial intelligence-based risk management Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and operations for project based traditional, and STO, financing such as the magnesium project listed above.

“As owner and operator of the world’s leading magnesium mine, with non- ferrous metal deposits over 7.8 billion metric tones, Zhonjinhuifu Resources has chosen Ideanomics to provide strategic financial advisory services. Ideanomics is positioned to be both traditional and a next generation security token offerings (STO) sales and distribution platform in the asset digitization economy. With a comprehensive ecosystem of digital products and services, we are committed to deploying traditional assets and capital into a new world paradigm,” said Brett McGonegal, co-CEO of Ideanomics. 

“We are very excited to have Ideanomics as our strategic global financial advisors. Ideanomics has established a global compliant network of financial technology, user community, digital asset production, and provides more than just an end-to-end Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) fintech solutions,” said Sun Jiang Kong, Chairman of Zhonjinhuifu Resources. “Having Ideanomics usher our company into this new digital issuance paradigm gives us a clear path to digital asset issuance and digital financing solutions.”

Under the terms of the agreement the Ideanomics commodities and energy division will serve as the global financial advisors for Zhonjinhuifu Resources. The Ideanomics’ services will include, but are not limited to, advising on financing related actives through the issuance of utility token and securities tokens outside of China; advising on fixed income products, other digital assets, financing instruments agreed by both parties; and recommending suitable digital and traditional financing tools.

About Zhonjinhuifu Resources
Zhongjinhuifu Resources CO., LTD, a Hong Kong registered company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Thumb Company, CO., LTD., and currently operates the world’s largest magnesia mine with a total of 7.8 bn metric tons of deposit of magnesium and other non-ferrous metal. The thumb holding group was founded in 1995, the headquarters is located in Beijing, is a collection of text brigade, real estate, mining, energy, financial investment, modern agriculture, culture media in the integration of large international group. ‘s thumb energy mining group, thumb industrial group, thumb culture media and so on dozens of overseas holdings, joint-stock enterprises, formed a complete set of international industry chain, with the characteristic of thumb business involves many national and overseas cities, the speed of the group to an annual turnover of more than ten billion yuan have been developing steadily.

About Ideanomics
Ideanomics provides Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions with strong multi-layer fintech technologies leveraging blockchain and artificial intelligence. Our technology and infrastructure uses blockchain and smart contract for security token issuance and trading, artificial intelligence to provide a system for asset rating and recommendation services, and in-house and partner service providers for digital asset securitization. Ideanomics will monetize and leverage distribution through its communities and direct sales channels, through its AI assisted lending and automated sales systems, and asset securitization with a concerted focus on regulatory compliance. Our goal is to drive capital formation and sales across our digital asset ecosystems through decentralized product origination and centralized issuance and trading.

With headquarters in New York, NY and its planned “Fintech Village” center for Technology and Innovation in West Hartford, CT, and offices in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai, China.

Ideanomics continues to drive growth and deal flow in its core product areas:

1)    Fixed Income-based Digital Assets [Chinese National Electric Bus Financing Agreement, First Auto Loan Financing Agreement, IHT- Real Estate JV] [HooXi – MedTech], GreenTech Assets [HooXi], Commodity and Energy Digital Assets through [BBD Digital Capital Group] [Clean Tech HooXi]
2)    TradeTech Digital Assets [Asia-Pacific Model Electronic Port Network (APMEN) JV]
3)    Consumer Tech Digital Asset [Grapevine acquisition] [MedTech – HooXi]

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IR Contacts
Federico Tovar, CFO at Ideanomics
Tony Sklar, VP of Communications at Ideanomics
Email: ir@sevenstarscloud.com

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