Gate News bot message, Raj Dhamodharan, MasterCard's encryption and Blockchain head, announced via LinkedIn that the company is adding two vice president-level positions in the U.S. to expand its encryption business team. One of the positions is for a vice president and digital asset ecosystem growth head, responsible for overseeing strategic partnerships in the digital asset space and expanding.

The Chairman of the Korea Exchange, Jung En-fu, stated that currently Crypto Assets are surpassing the volume of traditional stock markets, and therefore suggested the introduction of Crypto Asset ETFs for social discussion. However, Korea does not currently have the conditions. This statement was made by the keynote speaker at the '2024 Seoul Future Forum'.

Jinshi data February 19 news, Jinke Group has prepared the redemption funds for '22 Jinke MTN001' and is expected to be paid within this week. The total principal and interest of this bond will amount to 1.76086 billion yuan. Reviewing Jinke Group's debt situation, the outstanding public debt due in the next two years amounts to approximately 2.761 billion yuan, with the balance of bonds due in 2025 at about 2.259 billion yuan.

Payment giant Mastercard is partnering with JPMorgan's digital asset business Kinexys to strengthen B2B cross-border payments, provide higher transparency and faster settlement, reduce timezone frictions, and enable customers to transact B2B through a single API. This collaboration is a subset of the trend of tokenization of real assets based on blockchain in forex, and is expected to be widely adopted by TradFi.

Jinshi data, November 11th news, China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Co., Ltd. disclosed the interest payment arrangement of the first phase of medium-term notes (Series II) for the year 2021. The bond is abbreviated as "21 China Merchants Shekou MTN001B", with a bond code of 102103012.IB, an issuance amount of 1.5 billion yuan, a start date of interest on November 18, 2021, and a term of 5 years. According to the announcement, the balance of the bond is 1.5 billion yuan, the latest rating is AAA, the interest rate is 3.55%, and the interest payment date is set on November 18, 2024. The amount of interest to be paid for this period is 53.25 million yuan.

On October 28, Jinshi Data reported that on October 28, Poly Development Holding Group Co., Ltd. announced the issuance of the 6th tranche of medium-term notes for 2024. The bond is named '24 Poly Development MTN006' with a bond code of 102484638. The interest start date is set on October 25, 2024, and the planned issuance amount is 500 million yuan. The interest rate for the issuance is 2.65% with a term of 3 years. The maturity date is October 25, 2027. The actual issuance amount is consistent with the planned issuance amount, and the issuance price is 100 yuan (per hundred-yuan face value).

On June 17, Jin Shi Data reported that two bondholders have received the principal and interest payment of Jinke Group's "21 Jinke MTN005" bond. Bloomberg's aggregated data shows that the RMB bond matured on June 15 with an issuance scale of 1.5 billion yuan. The bond price has rebounded from a low of 17.4 yuan last year to 99.5 yuan.

Huawen Group announced once again that the principal and interest of the medium-term notes failed to be repaid on time. The overdue debt amount has accumulated to approximately 377 million yuan, accounting for 39.47% of the vesting in the audited net assets of the parent company in 2023.

The 2 billion yuan medium-term notes issued by Dalian Wanda have been exercised for the put option. The bond is abbreviated as '22 Dalian Wanda MTN002', with a term of 2+1 years, an interest start date of November 7, 2022, and a coupon rate of 6.8% for the current interest period. The put option application for investors will start on October 25, 2024, and end on October 31, 2024. The put price is 100 yuan per 100 yuan face value, and the exercise date is set on November 7, 2024. The put amount for this exercise is 2 billion yuan, and the unredeemed amount is 0 yuan.