Limassol, Cyprus, October 8th, 2026, FinanceWire

At B2PRIME, believes that building strong business relationships starts with investing in people who understand the market inside and out. That’s why we’re pleased to welcome Christina Barbash to the team as the new Commercial Manager. Her appointment is another step in an ongoing commitment to bringing experienced professionals on board in order to strengthen the product offering and client relationships.

Christina brings 13 years of experience in the financial markets to her new role, most of them spent in top management positions where she spearheaded sales, client relationships, business strategy development, executive planning, and more. Prior to joining us, she spent almost three years at PrimeXM, where she operated in the capacity of Chief Commercial Officer, taking on a broader role in the company’s development.

Before that, Christina served as Sales Director at FINKIT Solutions and also spent several years as a Business Development Manager at Point Nine, working in the regulatory reporting and fintech space. Her earlier career also includes more than four years at FXPRIMUS, where she progressed from business development to heading a regional office.

“I am very excited to be joining the B2PRIME team and starting this new chapter in my career. One thing I particularly value in this industry is the people behind the business — clients, partners, and colleagues who make every professional journey meaningful. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn from many talented people and build a lot of valuable relationships. I look forward to applying all that experience to this new role and helping the company create new connections!” stated Christina.

B2PRIME are confident that the versatile expertise Christina brings to the table will be a valuable addition as continue to grow the business. Her extensive background covering brokerage, fintech, and trading alike gives her a well-rounded understanding of the financial markets landscape and the relationships that drive it.

In her new position, Christina will bring fresh momentum to B2PRIME’s scaling efforts, helping us extend the reach further across the global financial landscape.

As the company continues its international growth, there will surely be more experienced industry professionals joining the team in the months to come. 

About B2PRIME:

B2PRIME Group is a global financial services provider for institutional, professional and retail clients. Regulated by reputable authorities—including CySEC, SFSA, FSCA, FSC Mauritius, SCB in The Bahamas, DFSA (Dubai) —the group of companies offer access to competitive liquidity across multiple asset classes. Committed to the highest compliance standards, B2PRIME provides institutional-grade trading solutions with a focus on reliability, transparency, and operational excellence.

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Our lead asset, Hopes Advance, produces 66.6% Fe iron ore, with 0.01% Al₂O₃ and 0.005% phosphorus – among the lowest impurity levels of any seaborne concentrate globally.

Canada, 8th Oct 2026 – Global Stocks News – Sponsored content disseminated on behalf of Oceanic Iron Ore. On October 7, 2026, Oceanic Iron Ore (TSXV: FEO) issued a message to shareholders entitled “The Demand for Green Steel”.

Oceanic is focused on the development of its 100% owned Hopes Advance, Morgan Lake and Roberts Lake iron ore projects located on the coast, in the Labrador Trough in Québec, Canada.

The flagship Hopes Advance Project has a NI 43-101 Measured & Indicated resource of about 1.36 billion tonnes at a head grade of 32.1% Fe. The project is located at tidewater. The PEA highlights that Oceanic will not require a railroad to get its iron ore to market, significantly reducing capital expenses and operating costs.

The Demand for Green Steel

Chris Batalha
CEO of Oceanic Iron Ore

The planet is heating up. The ten warmest years in recorded history have all occurred in the last decade. The International Science Council (ISC) warns that higher temperatures are causing an increase in hurricanes, droughts and tropical cyclones.

The production of steel is a major contributor to global warming. An astonishing one billion metric tonnes of metallurgical coal is consumed globally every year to manufacture steel. This accounts for 15% of coal burned globally across all industries. Steel and iron ore are responsible for 7-9% of the world’s CO2 emissions.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has recommended that emissions from the iron and steel sector fall by more than 90% by 2050. To achieve this reduction target, global metallurgical infrastructure is currently being reimagined and rebuilt.

For decades, iron ore has been processed in traditional blast furnaces. These enormous chemical reactor towers transform iron ore into liquid metal (pig iron). The process requires extreme heat generated from burning metallurgical coke with hot air.

Blast furnaces are designed to run continuously 24/7 for 10 to 20 years. Shutting them down creates three major problems: the molten iron and slag inside the furnace can turn solid after time; cooling refractory linings can cause structural damage; reheating the blast furnace requires large amounts of energy, taking weeks – sometimes months – to achieve operational readiness.

Currently, about 70% of global steel is manufactured using these coal-fired blast furnaces. Gradually, production is being shifted to Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plants that use Green Hydrogen to strip oxygen from the iron ore, releasing water vapour instead of CO2.

The benchmark grade of iron ore required for blast furnace product is 62% Fe. Impurities like phosphorus make the steel brittle. Removing other impurities such as silica, alumina and sulphur forces the steel mill to use more energy, pure oxygen and fluxing agents like limestone.

The greener DRI plants require high-grade iron ore with low impurities due to the electricity requirements to produce a molten slag during steel making. Our lead asset, Hopes Advance, produces 66.6% Fe iron ore, with 0.01% Al₂O₃ and 0.005% phosphorus – among the lowest impurity levels of any seaborne concentrate globally.

New environmental regulations are actively pushing Chinese steel mills toward higher-grade ores. The Chinese want processing facilities that will maximize output while minimizing the additional pollution created from removing impurities.

High-grade, low-impurity iron ore has been added to Canada’s and Québec’s Critical Minerals List. This premium product is in high demand from global steelmakers transitioning to green, hydrogen-based Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) processing.

Because the Hopes Advance iron ore is high-grade and has negligible alumina and phosphorus content, we have an opportunity to play an important role in servicing the green steel markets. It is a significant business advantage. Not all iron mines can contribute to the green steel input market.

There are still about 1,000 blast furnaces in operation. Many of these operations need high-grade material to blend with their lower-grade feed. Oceanic downstream iron ore buyers could be steel companies, iron ore producers, or trading houses.

In the next message, I will explain what we learned from the Hopes Advance Re-Scoped PEA.

By Chris Batalha
CEO of Oceanic Iron Ore

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Bangkok, Thailand, October 8th, 2026, FinanceWire

The multifaceted collaboration combines network validation, tokenization and stablecoins, national distribution, education, and institutional infrastructure.

Gulf Labs, the blockchain and digital-asset investment venture of GULF Holding, is expanding into institutional onchain finance through a new collaboration with Injective. Gulf Labs operates within a broader business ecosystem of Gulf Group, one of Thailand’s largest conglomerates with an approximately $27 billion market capitalization and major businesses across energy, telecommunications, digital assets, cloud, and data centers.

Gulf Labs is now live as an institutional validator on Injective, giving the collaboration an operational foundation from day one. The broader collaboration contemplates potential tokenization and stablecoin initiatives with Thai institutions, national education channels, and infrastructure access through Gulf Edge.

The collaboration brings together the principal components required to develop an institutional onchain market: blockchain infrastructure, access to financial institutions, regulated digital-asset services, consumer distribution, market education, and local computing capacity. Gulf Labs will operate an institutional-grade Injective validator, help secure the network, and participate in protocol governance. Its role as a validator gives GULF Holding direct exposure to the operation and development of the network underpinning the company’s wider institutional work.

Building from that technical foundation, Gulf Labs will provide access to new relationships for Injective with Thai banks, corporates, issuers, and digital-asset companies evaluating tokenized assets, stablecoin settlement, and other onchain financial products.

“Thailand already has the financial institutions, digital-asset market, consumer connectivity, and infrastructure needed to become a major center for onchain finance,” said Sireethorn Vorasuthika, Director of Gulf Labs. “What has been missing is a way to bring those capabilities together. Our validator gives Gulf Labs a direct role in the Injective network, while the wider collaboration allows us to work on institutional products, market access, education, and infrastructure as part of the same strategy.”

Dr. Korn Poosiriwong, Head of AI Business, Gulf Edge and Director of Gulf Labs, added: “This collaboration reflects Gulf Labs’ vision to build a strong foundation for Web3 infrastructure. We remain focused on transforming next-generation technologies into practical, large-scale applications.”

The collaboration will also extend beyond institutional product development. Binance TH is operated by Gulf Binance, a joint venture between Gulf Edge and an affiliate of Binance. The company provides digital-asset exchange and brokerage services under licenses issued by Thailand’s Ministry of Finance and supervision by the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission. Collaboration with Binance TH will explore market education, user engagement, and potential opportunities connecting institutional onchain products with Thailand’s regulated digital-asset market.

Gulf Labs will also connect Injective with Gulf Edge to evaluate data-center capacity, cloud services, AI compute, and other infrastructure requirements. These discussions are intended to give developers and institutions considering deployments in Thailand a direct route to local infrastructure and technical support.

GULF Labs’ position within the broader Gulf group ecosystem gives the collaboration reach across several of the industries shaping Thailand’s digital economy. Gulf Group’s businesses include power generation and renewable energy, telecommunications, digital assets, cloud services, and data centers. Through Gulf Labs, those capabilities can be connected with a blockchain network built specifically for financial applications.

Injective provides infrastructure for issuing and managing tokenized assets, stablecoins, payments, trading markets, and other financial products. Its native permissions framework allows institutions to define ownership requirements, transfer restrictions, administrative roles, and issuance and redemption controls at the protocol level.

The validator establishes technical participation and alignment at the network level. Institutional introductions will allow Injective and Thai market participants to identify tokenization and stablecoin applications tied to real financial activity. The Binance TH channel will support education and distribution, while Gulf Edge will give companies evaluating Thai deployments a route to local data-center, cloud, and AI infrastructure.

“Gulf Labs’ position within the broader Gulf Group ecosystem provides relevant connections across financial services, regulated digital-assets, national consumer distribution, and physical digital infrastructure into one group,” said Injective COO, Mirza Uddin. “Gulf Labs is already operating an Injective validator, so this collaboration begins with live network participation. From that base, we can work with Thai institutions on tokenization and stablecoins, bring education to users across the country, and support companies that want to build and operate in Thailand.”

This structure allows the companies to work across the full lifecycle of an onchain financial product: from the blockchain on which it is issued, to the institutions that create and use it, the regulated platforms and channels through which it reaches the market, and the infrastructure supporting its operation.

The collaboration also expands Injective’s institutional activity in Asia. Injective recently inked a deal with POSCO International, South Korea’s largest trading company, and LG CNS on a proof of concept involving trade receivables generated through real commercial operations. The pilot was the first of its kind that showcased the issuance, transfer, administration, and settlement of trade receivables on Injective alongside compliance controls and automated document review.

About Gulf Labs

Gulf Labs invests in, builds, and supports blockchain and digital infrastructure. Part of the Gulf Holding ecosystem, it combines venture investment, research and development, validator operations, and partnerships across the digital asset ecosystem.

Learn more at gulf-labs.com.

About Injective

Injective is the first blockchain purpose-built for finance, enabling users, institutions, and AI agents to trade, tokenize, and transact at scale. Proudly made in America, Injective provides foundational blockchain infrastructure for global markets, with embedded financial primitives spanning stablecoins, real-world assets, payments, and programmable perpetuals through a unified onchain engine.

Injective is used by Fortune 500 companies, banks, fintechs, and governments to power an open economy where any asset can be accessed anytime, from anywhere. Builders can deploy across WASM and EVM, connect to native financial modules, and launch markets with deep liquidity from day one. INJ is the native token powering the Injective ecosystem and the new internet economy.

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