Thread by @Folken911

#IDEX part1
Before to begin this DD, IDEX formerly known at SSC, this DD part will be focus on SSC, there is claims the company (IDEX) is not legit, is a scam bla bla, check this👇
It's important to understand that:
"if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know

where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going."
I begin to SSC (before that the company was "You on Demand" and "wecast" VOD related services but this is long time ago and business shift since SSC)

"In 2010, McMahon became the CEO of You On Demand, the first pay-per-view service in China. In 2013, McMahon stepped down as CEO of You On Demand
McMahon remains Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, which has undergone several name changes 👇

since that time, including Wecast Holdings Inc., Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc., and ultimately, Ideanomics."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_McM…
The holders at the beginning of SSC

Now let's go back to SSC ! @StanTradingMan @yatesinvesting @CrnrofWallBroad
In august 2017 they create 2 JV partnership : one with Ocasia Group Holdings and another with Beijing Urban Construction Holding to use their VPaas platform
markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/se…

Ocasia is a purchasing agent for major energy companies, including Petro China and China Petroleum (keep Petro china in your head it will come back later...)
opencorpdata.com/sg/201130655G

Beijing Urban Construction has constructed many national and provincial key projects in China including the National Stadium, the National Museum, Indoor Stadium, the Olympic Basketball Stadium, the Olympic Village etc
Both companies are 100% legit
bucg.com/index.shtml

In the same month, SSC create a new JV called Red Coin Chain (60% stake)
Here is the goal
"Red Coin will operate and focus on SSC's 2nd Engine, the Digital Asset Tokenization & Exchange Platform, specifically Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and asset-backed financial derivatives."

The interesting thing here is that they join 2 brillant people to do so :
1/Mr. Jitter Xu, a world leader in ICO space and the former blockchain chief of Alibaba's, Ant Financial.

2/Mr. Deng Di, chairman of Taiyiyun (the leading blockchain-based fintech company in China)👇

1/ Focus on Jitter Xu : "As the chief architect of Alipay’s core payment platform, Xu led a team that increased the system’s capacity from 10 million to 100 million transactions a day, and eventually to one billion."👇

"Today, Ant Financial Services Group, parent company of Alipay, announced that its payments technology expert Ji Xu has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual Innovators Under 35 list as an entrepreneur."👇

For over a decade, the publication has recognized exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world.
bloomberg.com/profile/person…
businesswire.com/news/home/2018…

"Xu joined Alipay in 2007, and in three years, became the chief architect of Alipay’s core payments platform, which later grew to be the world’s largest payments platform. Xu and his team developed technology that supports the processing of high-volume payment transactions."👇

Today, Xu is the CTO for Ant Financial’s International Business Unit, and he leads a team of hundreds of engineers, working closely with Ant Financial’s local partners in Southeast Asia and India, sharing Ant Financial’s technological capabilities...
technologyreview.com/innovator/ji-x…

2/ Deng DI aka Danny Deng
taiyiyun.com/aboutEn
linkedin.com/in/danny-deng-…

Few days later, SSC announce engagement for IR and corporate financial comunication with Ogilvy or called Ogilvy & mather; the parent company of Ogilvy is WPP (british company) the largest advertising/communications/public relations in the world
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_plc

Ogilvy agency is known for its work with Dove, American Express, and IBM and others big brands
Just check the site
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
ogilvy.co.uk/our-clients

In september 2017 SSC filled a patent for their platform (proprietary PaaS systems including VPaaS and TPaaS)
The Company is filing its patents globally by taking advantage of China being a part of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), an international patent law treaty.

It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its 152 contracting states by filing one international patent application under the PCT.
hostreview.com/news/170921-se…

Late september 2017, SSC to announce the Launch of its Asset-Backed Securitization, Tokenization and Exchange Platform (ABST) in Q4 2017

Here's the ecosystem at Q3/Q4 2017

Early December 2017, SSC purchase 20% stake in BBD digital
BBD is Asia's leading provider of AI-based big data solutions dedicated to optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of industrial-level decision-making and risk management
marketscreener.com/news/Seven-Sta…

Dr. George Yuan is the Chief Risk Officer and Chief Engineer of BBD Digital Finance. With prior risk management experience at Deloitte China, KPMG LLP (USA) and TXU Energy Trading (Dallas, TX)
linkedin.com/in/george-yuan…

In late 2017 (December) the company buy 27% of DBOT (DBOT is the first and only blockchain based Aleternative Trading System fully licensed by the SEC).

The goal here is to combine DBOT with NextGen tech
SSC will leverage DBOT's established and regulatory approved

ATS for powering SSC's blockchain based NextGen X, which focuses on the trading of financial products including ETFs backed by digital assets, that can be tokenized and settled (including digital currency options) via Initial Exchange Offerings ('IEO").

Part2 will come later

#IDEX PART2
Now back to 2018
Chairman and CEO Bruno Wu updated the business & org plan, always focus on the NextGen DBOT and FSN (financial services) for the 7 product engines
Something is quite interesting here "green markets & products" 🤔

To manage theses product engines, here's another 2 top executives joining the company
ideanomics.gcs-web.com/news-releases/…
A/ Mr. Cao Tianfan
B/Mr. Steve Fan

A/ Mr. Cao Tianfan, a former general manager and managing director at China Securities International, a large scale global leading comprehensive securities company
csci.hk/en/about-us/
👇

B/Steve Fan
previous head of Chase's banking business and head of customer sales for corporate banking, both for China's Western Region
linkedin.com/in/steve-fan-b…
Do i need to explain who is JPMorgan Chase?😅

Mars 2018, SSC raised 40M$ from GT Dollar "to use the proceeds to support growth, strategic acquisitions, executive management hires, US headquarters costs, infrastructure costs and for general working capital purposes."
US Headquarters you read it right, it was 2 years ago

"GT Dollar Pte Ltd provides payment solution. The Company offers instant money transfer, quick pay, cashier, and other related services. GT Dollar serves customers worldwide." 👇
bloomberg.com/profile/compan…
streetinsider.com/Corporate+News…

If we go deeper than that
Do you make the link?👀
gtdollar.com/en/about-us

Late april 2018, "SSC announced today that as part of its overall growth strategy and intentions to expand and strengthen its US-based management team, the Company has hired Mr. M. Chad Arroyo as Chief Marketing Officer ("CMO"), effective immediately."
medium.com/@ChadArroyo 👇

"Mr. Arroyo will oversee the integrated product development, marketing and communication strategy to customers and partners, including orchestrating a seamless, customer experience across channels."
Not a little fish...
linkedin.com/in/chadarroyo/
seekingalpha.com/news/3348038-s…

June 2018, a new JV, SSC with The Centre for Digital Revolution(C4DR)
"The JV will establish and develop the premier global standards of issuance, sales and distribution of digital assets, with operations across the U.K. and mainland Europe."

The JV will focus on developing and executing the highest level of compliance and institution-grade best practices in: 1. Compliant digital asset issuance and private sales;
2. Initial Exchange Offering ("IEO") of digital assets;
3. Digital asset clearance networks;

4. Multi-platform exchange syndication and trading."
C4DR rebranded, now :
frontiernetwork.com/about/
About the CEO Eric Van der Kleij :
"In 2011 British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a plan to make the United Kingdom a global leader in number of technology startups,

with the creation of Tech City, designed to compete with Silicon Valley. Eric van der Kleij was appointed to take charge of the enterprise"
youtube.com/watch?v=shk_Y3…

June 2018, SSC announced today the hiring of Mr. Richard Frankel and Mr. Manuel Ron to oversee the Company's Digital Advisory Services subsidiary, Red Rock Global Capital Ltd.
Mr. Frankel will be Chairman & CEO of Red Rock and Mr. Ron will be Chief Operating Officer.
👇

I/ Richard Frankel : He served for more than 25 years in public service, the majority of his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Additionally, is a contributor for ABC News in the area of Law Enforcement, Terrorism, and Intelligence.
fbi.gov/contact-us/fie…

II/ Manuel Ron : Mr. Ron has served as Managing Director of Griffin Investment Management LLC
griffinfingroup.com/aboutus/accola…

Late july 2018, the company raised 26M$ from Changan Investment Group
"The companies, SSC, and Changan Investment Group, are committed to the success of this long-term strategy, and co-invest where necessary to lead the global digital revolution."
bloomberg.com/profile/compan…
👇

Changan Investment group has many investments, but we will focus on two:
Yadea : translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&r…
globalyadea.com 👀

Yinlong : translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&r…
Do you remember 11 days ago (june 17) what IDEX drop in a PR?🤔
epicos.com/article/446138…
zhyle.com/en/industry-13…

I have a part 3 and 4 to write, but it will takes some times so maybe by tomorrow, i'm exhausted after all the research but you know what i'm saying when i told yo this is huge !!! @yatesinvesting @StanTradingMan @TheOnlyRampart1 @KamBigStocks @CrnrofWallBroad @RealtorStarShar

Correction : One years ago*

https://twitter.com/Folken911/status/1277332225135128576?s=19

#IDEX PART3
August 2018,
"SSC today announced 3-year, exclusive $24B deal with NTS"
NTS : The National Transportation Capacity Co is the largest full-service bus operator in China.
Sales averaging around $2.9 billion p/y😲
shorturl.at/czBM0
shorturl.at/JUVZ2

The same month the firm change the name from SSC to Ideanomics.
September 2018,
A new JV with a group well known in several countries :
"Ideanomics Announces JV with Asia Times, Takes 10% Ownership Stake"
They create a JV named Asia Times Financial Limited👇

But they also take a stake in the Asian Times too
"Asia Times averages 100k readers per day.
In 2006, The New York Times described Asia Times Online as "one of the most prominent of the [English-language] regional publications" covering Asia"
nytimes.com/2006/05/28/bus…

"AT Financial will focus on the digital economy [...] providing next-generation financial information services through a combination of AI-enabled financial data and analytics [...] via end-to-end encrypted IM services with blockchain-based financial services."
Blockhain👀

Late september,
Let's focus into the COO = Alfred Poor (actual CEO of IDEX)
Great found here
"Some of his notable achievements include key executive roles with a real-time AI-based information search and discovery engine acquired by AOL"

He works also at Chief Operating Officer at Global Data Sentinel, a cybersecurity company that specializes [...] in AI and thread response
globaldatasentinel.com/security-ecosy…
au.wallmine.com/people/107842/…

Late September 2018,
IDEX hired Kate Lam as Managing Director of Digital Products "Kate will continue to expand our asset digitization offerings to deliver new revenue channels, provide a complete portfolio of intelligent financial products using AI and blockchain powered"

Prior to joining the fintech world, Kate held senior sales management positions at various investment banks such as Lehman Brothers to Deutsche Bank, Bear Stearns and Standard Chartered Bank.
linkedin.com/in/kate-lam-02…

October 2018,
IDEX create Ideanomics Resources LTD a U.K. company based in London. The 75% Ideanomics owned joint venture has been created to unlock value in the commodities and energy sectors by leveraging and utilizing the Ideanomics Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions.

December 2018
Ideanomics Signs Mandate with NTS for City of Tianjin Bus Conversion Financing
National Transportation Capacity recently signed their first regional agreement with the city of Tianjin in an asset-backed re-financing deal valued over approximately $8.25Billion USD

The following chart depicts the corporate structure as of December 31, 2018

Ok i'm done with the part3 guys !
The last dance is coming tomorrow more to come
@yatesinvesting @KamBigStocks @StanTradingMan @CrnrofWallBroad @JE_Holdings
#IDEX

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