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Millions of FOLLOWERS — First Cloud Promotion Campaign of Fresh Opportunities for Jinan Triggers New Growth Drivers
On the afternoon of March 30th, 2021, the kick-off of the cloud promotion campaign named Fresh Opportunities for Jinan with the theme of Join Jinan for a Win-Win Future, was unveiled in the Rongmeiti (Convergence Media) Studio of Jinan Daily Newspaper Group (JDNG) Building. As the reporter learnt, this event was the second cooperation between Jinan Investment Promotion Bureau (JIPB) and JDNG, following the online investment promotion activities last year.
JIPB, an important player in boosting the economic growth of Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province, actively follows the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin and grasps the strategic opportunity of advancing the city’s growth, seeking to provide continuous impetus for its progress through exploration, innovation and solid work in investment promotion. While JDNG, a pioneer in the reform and development of the mass media across the city, adheres to the vision of “Great Integration” based on the modes of “Media + Government + Service” and “Urban Growth Accompanied by Integrated Media Development”, taking a positive part in shaping a new media landscape. And it throws itself to energize the city’s development and thus, an integrated media picture of Jinan mode with Shandong’s characteristics has come into being.
This cloud promotion campaign, rolled out by the joint effort of the two, is committed to extending Jinan’s presence around the world, showing its fresh development opportunities in key fields. It aims to display the city’s new image and advantages in economic and social development and investment environment in an all-round way, thus deepening its communication with domestic and foreign businesses.
New Opportunities for the New Era
Jinan Promises Strong Support for Investors
“In the new era, Jinan provides you with new opportunities, new platforms, new policies and new services for your investment and development here,” said Yin Qingzhong, deputy mayor of the city. He made a commitment that the government would offer strong support for investors’ convenience and strive to shape Jinan into a place for passionate dream builders.
Using cloud platform on the spot, he introduced all the new opportunities in a systematic way to multinational companies, well-known enterprises, financial institutions and business associations, further drawing the attention of domestic and foreign businesses and thus strengthening their confidence to invest in Jinan. He added, “The fresh opportunities come out of the new growth blueprint, out of the major national strategy of the Yellow River basin, and also out of the government’s solid support for a better business environment.”
“Today, Jinan is blending into and serving the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin. We, following the new orientation, new aims and new requirements presented by the provincial Party committee and government, vigorously seize the strategic opportunities of “Strengthening Provincial Capital” to speed up Jinan’s progress in scientific and technological innovation, smart manufacturing, ecological progress, cultural advancement and make it a better place to live. We can see a new landscape featuring a strong East part of Jinan, prosperous West, beautiful South, emerging North and superior Middle is taking shape,” said Zhang Jun, deputy secretary general of Jinan government and director of JIPB, “Investors and companies will embrace a broad platform to play as well as a great space to deepen cooperation in various fieldswith us and others.”
Following are the speeches made by Sun Meng, director assistant of Jinan High-Tech District Administrative Committee and chief of Investment Promotion Department, Zhang Yong, deputy director of Jinan Pioneer Area Administrative Committee, and Zhang Ji, deputy director of Jinan Medical Center Administrative Committee.
“In recent years, Jinan High-Tech District is committed to high-quality development and has joined hands with Jinan Pilot Free Trade Zone, Jinan Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Zhangjin Comprehensive Bonded Zone to complement each other’s advantages, creating a service-oriented platform for economic growth,” said Zhang Meng, “During the Fourteenth Five-Year Period, the High-Tech District will give a full play of the scientific, institutional and policy advantages with institutional reform and a better climate for innovation and startups as its underpinning, and put high priority to fostering industries and enterprises with international competitiveness. All these efforts will lead to a pilot zone featuring innovation-driven and high-quality development and further opening up.”
“The building of Jinan Pioneer Zone has been written into Outline of Ecological Protection and High Quality Development for the Yellow River Basin and listed into National Economic and Social Development Plan 2021,” as Zhang Yong told us, “The Pioneer Zone devotes itself to promote the integrated application of Green Technology + Green Industry, oriented by Carbon Neutral, to build one of the largest green city demonstration zones across China. And we have been exploring to apply BIM + CIM in order to forge a digital, modern and smart city demonstration zone and we had initially defined the high-end equipment and smart manufacturing, digital economy, high-end exhibition, hydrogen energy, high-end green development as the five leading industries. Besides, we adhere to project-centered mode with leading government officials assisting key projects and all-sided service.”
And Zhang Ji showed, “Jinan Medical Center upholds City-Industry Integration with Industry as its Mainstay, guided by high-end medical service, in order to create a balanced industry circle with medical care, education, research, industry, health maintenance and service. It will set up four centers, including medical center, life science and technology innovation center, rehabilitation demonstration center and smart-life center. All these will contribute to build the place into a city-industry integrated, ecological, smart, international and green place.” He added, “During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period, we will strive to build more than 20 high-end clinical research centers (specialized hospitals), over 300 research companies (organizations). A balanced industry circle and a medical system are taking shape with a covered area of 12 million sq. m, over 130 million RMByuan in investment, a total output value of over 50 million RMB yuan and 240 thousand permanent residents.”
First Cloud Promotion Campaign Attracts Millions of FOLLOWERS
Four-Leveled Convergence Media Promotes Jinan in an All-Round Way
According to incomplete statistics, as of 6:00 p.m. on March 30th, the first cloud promotion activity, covered by over 60 media including apps of People’s Daily, Xuexi, Phoenix News, The Paper and TouTiao and other well-known news websites or apps across the country, has been read for tens of millions of times with more than 5 million followers in total. All this shows that media plays an important role in presenting Jinan.
It is reported that this campaign, initiated on March 30th, will be ended in June. It is extended both online and offline, including one city level comprehensive campaign, 12 events in districts and counties and N times of special activities (in zones and on apps), which is “1 + 12 + N” for short. It uses an integrated promotion with four-leveled convergence media (CCTV + provincial + city + district/county). Supported by the Rongmeiti Studio of JDNG, the activities will be covered by new media apps including LoveJinan under JDNG, Xinshibao, shun.com and Jinan app as well as Jinan Daily and Jinan Times.
Besides, all the activities will be lively broadcasted on national platforms such as Xuexi, people.com.cn, Xinhua News Agency and CCTV, and leading platforms such as Wechat, Weibo, TikTok, Baidu, Sohu, TouTiao, and economic media such as Economic Daily, 36Kr and Phoenix. Moreover, they will be forwarded on hundreds of media, including the Party media, sub-provincial apps and overseas media. All these effort will help Jinan be well-known across China and beyond.
“Online and Offline Investment” Opens Up a New Way
Jinan Investment Expected to Achieve a “Good Start” in the First Quarter
2021 is both the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan period and the first year for Jinan to implement the national strategy of the Yellow River basin and build Shandong into a modern and prosperous province in the new era. “Attracting businesses and investment is the most direct and effective way to expand total volume, improve quality, and optimize development structure,” said Sun Licheng, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and secretary of municipal Party committee of Jinan. An official from JIPB showed, “Following the strategy of Strengthening Provincial Capital, we will offer strong support to help Jinan improve its functions as a provincial capital and raise its urban primacy ratio.”
As the reporter learnt, cloud activities like cloud promotion and cloud investment manifest the vitality of Jinan and its innovation capability and driving force.
Statistics show that in the first two months of 2021, the actual use of foreign capital in Jinan was US$310 million, with an increase of 28.5% over last year, ranking the second in Shandong in terms of total amount, registering a strong uptrend. The project scheduling indicates that the first three months will continue to maintain a double-digit growth, which is expected to achieve a “good start” in the first quarter.
What’s more, in five days’ time, i.e., from the signing of key foreign investment projects in Shandong on March 18th to the Meeting of Deepening Cooperation between Shandong and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan on March 23rd, Jinan had holden two provincial signing activities, which were carried forward both online and offline, with 14 projects signed and US$1.354 billion recorded.
These fascinating figures have been witnessing the concerted effort made by all people across Jinan and all levels of government staff of the city in pursuing the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin and in grasping the important opportunities of strengthening the provincial capital as well as in exploration, innovation and solid work to bring in more businesses and investment.
Reported by Xu Kai
Edited by Shi Mengfei
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Press Release
ChangeNOW Brings Martin Masser Into Its Crypto Super App
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire
The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase.
Former TON executive Martin Masser joins ChangeNOW to build strategic partnerships, ecosystem relationships, and media momentum behind its next phase.
Masser comes with experience across traditional banking, Web2 and Web3, including senior growth and business development roles within the TON space. At ChangeNOW, he will lead strategic relationships with blockchain networks, wallets, fintech companies, payment providers and other infrastructure partners.
His appointment comes as ChangeNOW grows beyond standalone crypto services, transitioning to one connected product where users can buy, store, swap, trade, send, receive and grow digital assets. The industry has already built most of the individual components. What it hasn’t solved is the experience of using them together; clients are still expected to switch between platforms, understand different networks and connect the pieces on their own. ChangeNOW’s super app strategy is designed to move that complexity beneath the product.
“Martin brings a rare mix of commercial relationships, product and media understanding,” said Pauline Shangett, Chief Strategy Officer at ChangeNOW. “He knows what the technology can do, what the business needs and how to make the market pay attention. That is exactly the perspective we need as we build the ChangeNOW super app.”
Masser’s role will focus not on accumulating partnership announcements, but on identifying relationships that can make ChangeNOW’s infrastructure more complete and remove unnecessary steps from the сlient experience.
“The best partnerships create access, adoption and attention. My focus is to build relationships that make the product stronger, simpler and more useful, and then help the market understand why they matter. If you are building wallets, networks, payments, stablecoins, fintech infrastructure, consumer crypto or Web3 products, I want to hear from you,” said Masser.
For consumers, ChangeNOW is combining the core activities of managing crypto within one environment. For businesses, it is developing an integrated set of tools for crypto payments, exchange, stablecoin settlement, digital asset management and Web3 integrations.
As ChangeNOW expands into a crypto super app, its next phase is connecting the right networks, wallets and partners. Masser’s role will be central to building those relationships and turning them into product value, adoption and market momentum.
About ChangeNOW
ChangeNOW.io is a crypto super app built for every crypto move, giving newcomers, professionals, and businesses the tools they need to access Web3 finance in a simple and secure way.
Since 2017, ChangeNOW has grown from a fast, secure, and limitless instant exchange into a trusted platform where storage, swaps, trading, staking, and asset management are covered in one simple experience for millions of clients worldwide.
About Martin Masser
Martin Masser is Director of Strategic Partnerships at ChangeNOW, where he is building partnerships around the company’s expansion into a crypto super app. His career covers traditional banking and capital markets in London and Web3, including his previous role as Head of Growth at TON Foundation. Martin works at the intersection of growth, infrastructure, and partnerships, connecting products and industry players to make crypto services work as one seamless user experience.
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allwhere Expands UK Operations with Upgraded Depot
New York City, New York, August 5th, 2026, FinanceWire
allwhere, the leading IT asset lifecycle management platform, today announced the expansion of its UK operations with the opening of a larger, upgraded depot. The investment increases warehouse capacity, streamlines fulfillment operations, and strengthens allwhere’s ability to support organizations managing employee devices across the United Kingdom.
The upgraded facility represents a significant investment in allwhere’s existing UK infrastructure, enabling the company to deliver faster turnaround times, greater operational efficiency, and additional inventory capacity as demand for global device lifecycle management continues to grow.
“As more organizations build distributed teams, the operational side of IT has become increasingly important,” said Tony Solomon, VP of Global Operations at allwhere. “This investment strengthens the foundation of our UK operations, allowing us to fulfill orders more efficiently, scale alongside our customers, and continue delivering the high level of service they expect from allwhere.”
Built to Support Growing IT Operations
The expanded UK depot enhances every stage of the device lifecycle by improving warehouse operations and increasing fulfillment capacity.
Customers can expect benefits including:
- Faster fulfillment, expedited shipping, and improved turnaround times for deployments and retrievals
- Increased warehouse capacity to support growing inventory needs
- More efficient storage, inventory management, and redeployment workflows
- Standardized operational processes that improve consistency and scalability
- End-to-end lifecycle support managed through a single platform
Whether onboarding a new employee, retrieving equipment from an offboarded team member, storing spare inventory, or preparing devices for redeployment, the upgraded facility enables allwhere to execute these workflows more efficiently while maintaining complete visibility through its platform.
Software and Operations, Unified
Unlike traditional asset management solutions that rely on disconnected software, logistics providers, and warehouses, allwhere combines workflow automation with global operational infrastructure.
Organizations can manage procurement, deployment, inventory, retrievals, storage, repairs, redeployment, and IT asset disposition through a single platform, while allwhere handles the operational execution behind the scenes.
The expanded UK depot further strengthens this model by providing the operational capacity needed to support larger fleets, faster fulfillment, and increasingly complex IT programs.
Continuing to Invest in Global Infrastructure
The UK depot expansion is part of allwhere’s continued investment in its global logistics network. allwhere currently operates full-service depots in the UK, Canada, EU, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Later this year, the company plans to further scale its infrastructure into the APAC region, with upcoming depot services in Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and more.
As organizations continue to scale distributed workforces, allwhere remains focused on expanding the operational infrastructure that powers modern IT teams—combining intelligent software with local logistics expertise to simplify device lifecycle management around the world.
About allwhere
allwhere is a laptop retrieval and IT procurement company that automates the IT asset lifecycle for companies ranging from startups to enterprises. From procurement and deployment to storage, maintenance, and retrieval, allwhere provides the infrastructure businesses need to support a global, distributed workforce.
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Borderless.xyz Teams Up with Mastercard to Advance Trusted Cross-Border Stablecoin Payment Flows
New York, New York, August 5th, 2026, FinanceWire
Borderless.xyz will explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential can help bring greater trust and confidence to cross-border stablecoin payments.
Borderless.xyz and Mastercard are collaborating on a new pilot to explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential’s standards-based framework can support trusted interactions across cross-border stablecoin payment flows.
Stablecoins are increasingly being used to move value across borders, creating new opportunities for faster and more efficient payments. As adoption grows, participants need trusted ways to understand who they are interacting with and whether counterparties have met appropriate standards and requirements.
Through the pilot, Borderless.xyz and Mastercard will explore how Mastercard Crypto Credential can address that challenge by providing assurance signals that participants can incorporate into their own approval, compliance and risk processes.
Mastercard Crypto Credential helps support trusted and verifiable interactions across digital asset ecosystems. Through common standards and trusted assurance signals, it is designed to help bring more confidence, transparency and certainty to transactions across blockchain networks.
The collaboration pairs Mastercard’s work in building trust and standards for digital asset ecosystems with Borderless.xyz’s network of stablecoin payment providers. Together, the companies are exploring how trusted governance signals can help reduce friction and bring greater confidence to cross-border stablecoin payments as adoption grows.
“One of the biggest friction points for stablecoin payment operators isn’t the payments. It’s that compliance doesn’t scale the same way the network does. Every new provider means starting the verification process over. Correspondent banking solved this decades ago: originating compliance trusted downstream, no re-execution at every counterparty. Mastercard is applying that model to digital asset payments. Borderless.xyz is the network it runs through.” – Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO and Co-Founder, Borderless.xyz
“Innovation is most powerful when it builds over time. Our relationship with Borderless.xyz began through Start Path and has continued to grow as the digital asset ecosystem has matured,” said Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard. “Today, we’re excited to take the next step together, exploring how Mastercard Crypto Credential can help bring greater trust and confidence to stablecoin payment flows across a growing network of participants.”
The pilot brings together several of Borderless.xyz‘s network participants consisting of Infinia, Walapay, and Koywe, many of whom are also alumni of Mastercard Start Path, the company’s startup engagement program. These partners will leverage Mastercard Crypto Credential as some of the first stablecoin payment operators to run on the single-audit compliance model at network scale.
About Borderless.xyz
Borderless.xyz is a global stablecoin orchestration and liquidity network. Its single API connects wallet infrastructure to 15+ licensed stablecoin providers across 100+ countries. It lets businesses enter new markets without new integrations, get failover so payments don’t drop, and make providers compete for your volume on price. Borderless.xyz is SOC 2 Type II certified and headquartered in New York. To learn more, users can visit the website: borderless.xyz.
About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential
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