Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSC) operates as a fintech, global digital asset production and distribution company. Shares of the fintech and digital asset company are soaring 67% through afternoon trading on Monday, August 20, 2018. Over the past three months, Seven Stars Cloud Group has seen average daily volume of 277,463 shares. However, volume of 16.3 million shares or dollar volume of $52 million, has already exchanged hands on the day.
Shares of Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. are surging on Monday, after the company announced that it has won an exclusive, three-year, $24 billion contract with National Transportation Capacity Co. Ltd., China’s largest electric bus operator. Under the terms of the deal, Seven Stars Cloud Group will “issue fixed income lease financing-based products.” This will help the electric bus operator to see a large-scale expansion and to be compliant with the Chinese government’s regulations, which call for all buses to be replaced with electric versions by 2021. Specifically, Seven Stars Cloud Group will provide two separate financing campaigns: one China-based financing and another across international markets. Overall, the China financing are focused on raising 60 billion RMB (~$8.75 billion) over the three-year period. The international financing will look to raise $15 billion over the three-year period. Here is the full press release detailing of the major contract:
Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. Press Release:
– Deal includes lease financing-based fixed income products, through SSC’s blockchain ecosystem, to support large-scale upgrading of electric buses within China
– Seven Stars Cloud to offer blockchain-based asset digitization services, based on strong underlying assets
– 3-year total contract award for $24 Billion to be raised
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. (SSC) (“SSC” or the “Company”), a leading global technology firm focusing on digital asset production and distribution, has today announced a ground-breaking, three-year, exclusive $24B deal with National Transportation Capacity Co Ltd (NTS) to issue fixed income lease financing-based products, through a global strategic alliance network which operates in a regulatory compliant manner, for large-scale electric bus upgrades, as part of the Chinese government’s regulations for all buses to be replaced with electric buses by 2021 (within the next three years). The market size for the mandatory replacements and upgrades to achieve fully-electric bus operations in China is estimated at 1 trillion RMB (approx. $145B). NTS is the largest full-service operator for electric buses, with sales, lease financing, a charging station network, and real-time data services including media, payments, maps, and facial recognition.
Under the terms of the deal, SSC, through its global strategic alliance network, will provide two distinct financing campaigns, one in China and the second across global markets. For the China-based financing, SSC will conduct financing activities through the sale of fixed income products to raise 60 Billion RMB (approx. $8.75B) over three years (an average of 20B RMB / $2.9B per year). For the global markets financing activities, SSC will exclusively provide both fixed income and asset digitization products to raise $15B over three years (an average of $5B per year).
Bruno Wu, Chairman and CEO of Seven Stars Cloud remarked: “This is a truly ground-breaking deal globally for blockchain-based fintech companies to gain such a large-scale, asset-backed, contract. It represents a new era and a paradigm shift in the way in which we view asset-based financial products; and it will serve as a window to the world on how asset value and liquidity can be unlocked by traditional industries as we take fixed income products into the digital era. By combining regulated financial infrastructure, and the market confidence in asset-based products, with AI-enhanced risk management and the dynamics of blockchain-enabled fractionalization, securitization, tokenization, and global trading of token-based offerings, we are delivering the next-generation of financial products which will be compelling for both asset-rich industries and investors alike. It’s an exciting time for SSC, and we’re extremely pleased and honored to partner with NTS on this offering.”
Jihong Huang, President of National Transportation Capacity Co Ltd stated: “We’re delighted to enter into this deal, which is historic in terms of fixed-income asset digitization. SSC has taken traditional lease financing business offerings and rejuvenated them with today’s new technology, in which flexibility, fractionalization, and global accessibility are key. A combination of SSC’s Blockchain and AI technologies, combined with our shared mission for unlocking both liquidity and enterprise value through asset digitization, will result in a significant transformation of the entire lease financing-based fixed income market. Each of the leading ten bus manufacturers in China strongly back NTS in this initiative, and the success of this transaction with SSC will place asset-backed digital offerings firmly on the map.”
About Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. (http://www.sevenstarscloud.com/)
SSC is determined to become one of the most prominent global digital asset companies. Relying on its core base of fintech and digital asset production and services-based ecosystem enablement, SSC is committed to delivering the best digital assets via the best underlying technology. This approach will drive capital formation and sales across our digital asset ecosystems.
SSC customizes its technology platform for various business use cases, operates the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and partners with businesses that deliver core digital asset product creation. We are focused on delivering a global multi-layer technology infrastructure ecosystem that issues, trades, and settles digital asset transactions. We will leverage direct sales channels and automated sales systems via digital asset exchange platforms which is inclusive of decentralized exchanges to realize digital asset distribution, social media, traditional regulated broker dealer network as well as institutions as direct clients.
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