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SIM IP Is Building a China Trade Out of Patents, Not Products
Miami, United States, July 27th, 2026, FinanceWire
Is there another China trade coming? One contrarian answer in finance says yes, and it has nothing to do with stocks, supply chains, or tariffs. It is patents.
SIM IP, the Miami-based intellectual property investment firm led by Erich Spangenberg, has spent the past fifteen months buying patent portfolios at a pace its industry rarely sees. People close to the firm describe a deliberate focus on patents sourced from Chinese technology companies, in the areas where European patent enforcement now bites hardest. The firm operates as a principal, buying with its own capital rather than earning fees on other people’s money. Together, the purchases look less like a licensing business and more like a directional trade.
The Asset Class Institutional Money Found Late
For most of its existence, IP monetization was a specialist’s corner of finance, thinly capitalized. That has changed. By estimates one firm cites, dedicated institutional capital in the space has grown from roughly $5 billion in 2010 to more than $50 billion today. Fortress Investment Group manages approximately $5 billion in its intellectual property strategy. InterDigital, a publicly traded licensing business, and its peer public licensing companies, like Rambus, today have a combined market cap of over $28 billioni.
Only a handful of these players operate as principals at scale, and SIM IP has built its position under one of the field’s most recognized names. Spangenberg, a former Jones Day lawyer and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette banker, has acted as a principal in more than $1 billion of IP licensing transactions and over $1.5 billion of IP financing deals, plus an advisory record above $2 billion. He is sought out by patent owners who share returns with him and, by the firm’s own telling, quietly feared by the technology companies that end up across the table.
Eleven Deals in Fifteen Months
The cadence is the tell. SIM IP has closed 11 patent transactions over the 15 months to May 2026, by its own count. The firm reckons a significant patent acquisition typically takes 6 months or more to close; its dated announcements show deals landing roughly every 45 days. The most recent, announced on May 19, 2026, took 126 curated video coding patents off Alibaba’s hands, covering the AV1 and AV2 standards that sit underneath streaming platforms and AI data center workloads.
China sourcing is not opportunistic. Government records show Spangenberg kept an office in Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower as early as 2004, years before most Western IP investors treated China as a source of world-class portfolios. Those relationships, with IP executives, researchers, and officials, are, by the company’s account, its supply line today. Sources familiar with the firm’s strategy say the buying is concentrated in data center infrastructure, foldable display technology, and next-generation communications.
A Digital Twin and a European Lever
Two pieces turn a stack of portfolios into a position. The first is Garden Intel, the applied AI company SIM IP acquired for $150 million in February 2026. The reaction the firm says it heard at the time was that the price was too high, and that general-purpose models would soon replicate Garden’s analytics for free. Spangenberg’s answer was blunt: “Not without 20+ years of proprietary transaction data generated personally across 1,600+ deals done privately, data that no foundation model has ever seen and no competitor can replicate,” said Spangenberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of SIM IP. The firm says it is now running Garden’s engine across that private deal history to build what it calls a digital twin of Spangenberg’s judgment, so his pattern recognition operates across the firm rather than in one man.
The second piece is Europe. The Unified Patent Court, now operational across 18 EU member states, allows a patent holder to win a single injunction blocking sales in all of them simultaneously, from Germany and France to the Netherlands and Italy. Under the old country-by-country system, a manufacturer could fight and lose piecemeal. Under the UPC, one loss can shut off most of the European market at once. The technology areas where sources say SIM IP is buying are the same areas where hyperscalers, cloud companies and consumer electronics manufacturers carry their heaviest European exposure.
Contrarian trades are judged in hindsight, and this one has plenty to prove. The structure, though, is already visible: an asset class filling with institutional money, a principal deploying his own capital with a two-decade head start in the market supplying the assets, an AI system trained on data nobody else holds, and a European court that has turned patents into market access. Whether or not the China IP Trade ends up beside the famous macro bets, SIM IP has already made it a position rather than a thesis.
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Press Release
TIOmarkets Launches Mobile Trading App for Forex & CFD Trading
Limassol, Cyprus, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire
TIOmarkets has introduced its new all-in-one mobile trading app, bringing account opening, funding, trading and account management together in a single mobile experience.
As mobile trading continues to shape the financial markets, traders increasingly expect to manage everything directly from their smartphones. The TIOmarkets Trading app delivers an intuitive mobile trading platform where new and existing clients can download, verify their profile, create and fund trading accounts – all from one location.
With over 250,000 accounts opened across 170 countries, TIOmarkets has established a strong global presence. The new app strengthens this international offering by giving clients faster access to trading tools, account services and 24/7 customer support directly from their mobile devices.
Key Features of The TIOmarkets Trading App
This user-friendly trading app provides access to 900+ tradable instruments across major global asset classes. Clients can trade more than 70 currency pairs, hundreds of stock CFDs, major global indices and popular metals including gold, silver, platinum and palladium. All these with integrated TradingView charts and no separate subscription required.
- Fast Execution: Chart-based order execution with trades executed instantly to capitalize on tight spreads
- Advanced Charting & Indicators: TradingView charting with multiple timeframes, drawing tools, and technical indicators
- Risk Management Tools: Stop-losses and take-profit orders to help limit potential losses
- Real-Time Market Data: Track global markets anywhere, anytime
- Customizable Alerts: Instant push notifications for position opened, position closed, margin alerts and stop out alerts
How The Trading App Simplifies Mobile Trading
The development of the mobile trading app is the product of dedication and client feedback. The result is an all-in-one mobile trading ecosystem that unifies the entire client journey.
The trading & investment app enables traders to:
- Register and verify their account from within the app
- Open live and demo trading accounts
- Deposit, withdraw and transfer funds
- Analyse markets with integrated TradingView charts and technical indicators
- Place and manage trades in real time
- Monitor open positions and trading history
- Access 24/7 live chat support without leaving the app
“The TIOmarkets mobile app allows clients to complete registration, deposit funds and execute trades all within one platform,” said Stefanos Mitsi, Group CEO at TIOmarkets. He noted that the company plans to continuously enhance the app, adding new tools and features to help traders make more informed decisions.
All-in-One Trading Platform: Everything Traders Need in One App
TIOmarkets’ main goal was to address one of the most common pain points in online trading: the fragmented trader experience. This forex trading app bridges all relevant aspects, from account opening and funding to actual trading and client support.
“We rebuilt the mobile experience from the ground up,” said Andis Papageorgiou, Head of Software Engineering at TIOmarkets. “The app removes the barrier between account management and trading functionality. Clients can now move seamlessly from registration to execution within a single app.”
Advanced TradingView Charts & Technical Analysis Tools
This mobile trading platform features professional-grade tools previously available only on desktop. The new trading app for smartphones brings together advanced TradingView charting tools and technical indicators for in-depth technical analysis. Traders gain access to:
- 12 chart types
- 7 timeframes
- 100+ technical indicators
- 110+ drawing tools
Users can place market orders, set pending orders, use one-click trading, access real-time pricing and achieve portfolio management through the mobile interface.
Complete Account Management for Live & Demo Accounts
The app places complete account control at the centre of the user experience. Any trader interested in CFD trading who wants to trade forex, indices, commodities, stocks, or cryptocurrencies can register directly. That gives access to a dedicated client area for opening live or demo accounts, identity verification, deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers.
Competitive Trading Conditions
Via the app, TIOmarkets offers raw spreads starting from 0.0 pips, commission-free options and fast order execution. Traders can choose from multiple account types like Standard, Raw, VIP Black, Nano and Investment accounts, all designed to support different trading styles and experience levels.
Multi-Layered Security for Safe Mobile Trading
Security was a key consideration throughout development. Trading from your phone requires the highest levels of protection.
“Security is built into the core of our mobile trading app, not added as an extra layer,” said Savvas Mallas, Head of IT at TIOmarkets. “We’ve implemented biometric authentication, encrypted data transmission and secure session management to protect client accounts and personal information.”
How to Download the Trading App
The TIOmarkets mobile trading & investing app is easily available for download. To download the TIOmarkets trading app:
- User can visit TIOmarkets’ page & download the app
- Register and create a trading account
- Complete identity verification
- Fund the account (from $20) & start trading
New users can register directly within the app, while existing clients can log in using their current credentials.
About TIOmarkets
TIOmarkets is a global multi-asset broker providing access to forex, indices, stocks, commodities, cryptocurrencies and futures through innovative trading technology and competitive pricing.
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Press Release
Synsira Launches Kind Local Pro with 100% On-Device AI
North Saanich, Canada/British Columbia, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire
Operating entirely offline, Kind Local Pro gives individuals local data sovereignty without sacrificing AI performance
Synsira Software is addressing the biggest concern with AI: privacy. Today, the company introduced Kind Local Pro, an AI platform that operates independently of corporate cloud-based LLM models and is available to download onto desktops and laptops. Designed for people and organizations wanting the benefits of AI without sending their data, analysis and queries to external sources, the platform allows users to take control of their information.
Kind Local Pro builds on Synsira’s flagship Kind platform, giving professionals, researchers, communicators, legal teams, educators and organizations a more private way to search and understand their own files using AI. Built to operate locally on a user’s desktop or laptop, Kind Local Pro lets users create collections and ask questions across their materials, with answers generated only from their data and not the open web.
“People want AI to be useful, but they also want to know where their data is going,” said Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, founder of Synsira Software and creator of Kind. “That is not a small concern. For many people and businesses, it is the whole issue. Kind Local Pro was built for users who want AI on their own terms: private, local and grounded in their own information.”
With Kind Local Pro, users add documents, presentations, research papers, notes, videos, images, email inboxes, audio and other supported files into collections. Once the content is indexed, summarized, tagged and analyzed by Kind AI, they can ask natural-language questions or do fuzzy searching and receive answers with precise citations into the information in those files. If the user’s data does not contain enough information to answer a question, Kind Local Pro is designed to say so rather than invent a response.
The platform is purpose-built for data-sensitive environments:
- Legal and Compliance: Lawyers can analyze internal memoranda and client files with all analysis private and staying local to their machine
- Intellectual Property: Agency professionals, influencers, creators and executives can organize proprietary brand assets, manuscripts and corporate strategies with zero risk of their data being used to train public models.
- Academic Research: Scientists and researchers can search years of papers, drafts and video lecture materials while keeping unpublished work on their own machine.
The product reflects Synsira’s broader view that AI adoption depends on trust, transparency and practical value. Many people remain cautious about AI because of concerns about errors or bias in internet answers, privacy, data training, security and the environmental demands of large-scale cloud computing. Kind Local Pro addresses those concerns by moving the AI experience closer to the user and keeping private data under local control.
“Not every AI task needs to be sent to a massive data center,” said Schaeffer. “Sometimes the smartest place for AI to work is right where the information already lives: on your own computer. Bigger is not always better. Private, practical and accurate is better.”
Kind Local Pro allows for 10,000 files to be uploaded, up to 500 at a time. It is now available for an initial subscription cost of $79 at Kind.Synsira.com. Local Kind Free allows up to 50 files to be uploaded. Both versions are 1.9GB installed plus 6GBs of AI models installed.
A media kit with logos, headshots and screenshots of Kind Local Pro is available here.
About Kind by Synsira
Synsira builds ethical, user-friendly Al products from rigorously evaluated and curated Al models for folks who demand privacy and environmental responsibility in Al. Synsira’s flagship product, Kind, available now at synsira.com, is a desktop Al application that securely and privately helps users unlock the knowledge contained in their own curated data. By putting guardrails on the Al commercial and open-source models and implementing strict data controls, Kind Al delivers accurate, reliable results with surgical precision across all personal files, photos, video and audio.
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OLSEM Details Platform Security Controls and User-Defined Risk Management Framework
OLSEM Asset Management, Inc. has outlined its custody and user-defined risk framework, including third-party brokerage arrangements, SIPC-related disclosures, configurable exposure limits, and real-time account monitoring for self-directed equities market participants.
United States, 28th Jul 2026 – Financial technology firm OLSEM Asset Management, Inc. today detailed its multi-layered capital protection framework and user-defined risk governance architecture, reinforcing platform security standards for global investors trading U.S. equities. Operating from Irvine, California, the company has structured its trading environment around independent third-party asset custody, clear operational role boundaries, and automated risk parameters. The initiative responds to increasing demand among modern market participants for transparent financial technology infrastructure that combines real-time exposure oversight, established clearing standards, and user control over account settings.
Navigating Structural Risk in Modern Digital Trading Environments
As digital participation in global capital markets expands, market participants face a complex combination of operational, technological, and market-driven risks. High volatility, unexpected liquidity events, and rapid price movements require trading platforms to maintain infrastructure standards that support system integrity while providing users with risk-control tools.
In contemporary electronic trading, platform security extends beyond standard digital cybersecurity measures such as data encryption and network firewalls. From an operational perspective, asset governance also requires real-time exposure monitoring, defined order-execution protocols, and clear organizational boundaries separating technology provision from asset custody.
The custody and risk-control framework described by OLSEM Asset Management, Inc. addresses these priorities by combining technical infrastructure with independent institutional custody arrangements. According to the company, this structure is intended to provide users with greater visibility into how capital is held, how strategy instructions are activated, and which institutions are responsible for custody, clearing, and settlement.
Independent Asset Custody Architecture and Clearing Broker Infrastructure
A foundational pillar of the OLSEM framework is the operational separation of assets held in user brokerage accounts from the company’s operating funds. Under this architecture, OLSEM provides technology, investment strategy tools, portfolio-support functionality, and account-monitoring interfaces. It does not act as the direct broker-dealer or custodian for brokerage accounts connected to the platform.
Where a user maintains an account with an independent financial institution or licensed broker-dealer, that institution is responsible for holding, clearing, and settling the assets in accordance with its own account agreements and applicable regulatory obligations.
OLSEM does not directly hold or commingle assets maintained in those third-party brokerage accounts and does not independently process withdrawals from accounts held by external custodians. The specific broker-dealer or custodian applicable to an individual account is identified through the relevant account-opening, brokerage, and custody documentation.
The availability of a particular custodian, broker-dealer, clearing arrangement, or account feature may vary according to the user’s jurisdiction, account type, selected service, and applicable agreements. Where client accounts are maintained at broker-dealers regulated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, and holding membership in the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, or SIPC, the accounts may be subject to the protections and limitations applicable to those institutions.
By relying on independent third-party institutions for transaction clearing, cash settlement, securities custody, and trade confirmation, the operating structure separates OLSEM‘s platform functions from the custody responsibilities of the institution holding the account.
SIPC Investor Protection and Supplemental Excess Coverage Mechanisms
Within the framework of U.S. equities trading, protection provided through the broker-dealer holding a customer account can play a role in addressing the risk of broker-dealer insolvency.
Eligible customer accounts maintained at SIPC-member broker-dealers may receive SIPC protection in accordance with applicable statutory limits and SIPC rules. Standard SIPC protection is generally limited to up to $500,000 per customer, including a limit of up to $250,000 for cash held for the purchase of securities.
The amount and application of protection depend on factors including account ownership, account capacity, the status of the broker-dealer, and the nature of the customer claim.
SIPC protection is associated with the applicable SIPC-member broker-dealer and is not provided directly by OLSEM. It is intended to address certain situations in which cash or securities are missing following the financial failure of a SIPC-member broker-dealer.
SIPC protection does not cover losses resulting from market movements, declining security values, investment decisions, strategy performance, or unsuitable investments. Some broker-dealers may separately maintain supplemental insurance arrangements commonly referred to as Excess SIPC coverage.
These arrangements may provide protection above standard SIPC limits, subject to insurer terms, exclusions, per-customer limits, aggregate policy limits, and other conditions. Any supplemental coverage is independently procured and maintained by the applicable broker-dealer or custodian. It is not issued, underwritten, or guaranteed by OLSEM.
Because coverage arrangements vary between institutions and may change, users should review the current protection disclosures provided by the broker-dealer that actually holds their account.
User-Defined Risk Controls and Automated Exposure Parameters
Complementing institutional custody safeguards is OLSEM’s suite of User-Defined Risk Controls integrated directly into the trading interface. Recognizing that risk tolerance varies significantly across individual and institutional profiles, the platform provides automated tools that allow users to establish pre-execution risk parameters.
Key elements of the risk control infrastructure include:
- Stop-Loss and Target Thresholds: Users can pre-configure mandatory exit parameters for individual positions or copied strategy allocations, ensuring automated trade closure when market prices reach specified levels.
- Maximum Drawdown Limits: Account holders can establish maximum acceptable portfolio drawdown percentages. If portfolio equity declines to the user-defined threshold, the platform automatically halts strategy synchronization and prevents further order execution.
- Capital Allocation Capping: When utilizing automated strategy copying, investors set maximum exposure limits per strategy model, preventing over-concentration of capital in any single market approach or sector.
- Real-Time Exposure Dashboards: The unified interface displays continuous metrics regarding open exposure, leverage utilization, asset concentration, and real-time margin requirements.
These automated parameters function as system-level safeguards designed to enforce discipline and prevent catastrophic capital depletion during periods of extreme market turbulence.
Non-Discretionary Asset Governance and Strict Operational Boundaries
Central to OLSEM’s security philosophy is a clear operational boundary governing platform authority and user assets. For the platform functions described in this release, OLSEM states that strategy activation and trade synchronization operate on a user-directed, non-discretionary basis.
Under this structure, the platform does not independently initiate a strategy without user authorization or exercise unilateral withdrawal authority over assets held in a third-party brokerage account. Key governance principles include:
- User Retention of Capital Control: Account holders maintain direct ownership and final authority over their capital balances, account funding, and withdrawal activities.
- Independent Strategy Activation: Copy trading functions and automated strategy execution operate solely upon explicit user initiation, configuration, and parameter authorization.
- Absence of Individualized Financial Advice: Strategy marketplace options, signal inputs, and analytical tools are provided as standardized informational and technological resources, rather than personalized financial recommendations.
- Strategy Disconnection Protocols: Users retain the technical ability to disconnect automated copy execution, close active orders, or alter risk settings at any time without administrative restrictions.
This separation between platform tools, third-party custody, and user authorization is intended to help account holders understand the respective responsibilities of OLSEM and the financial institution holding their assets.
Corporate Governance, Regulatory Visibility, and Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring
Operational transparency forms another essential pillar of platform reliability. OLSEM Asset Management, Inc. maintains administrative and corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, providing a verified physical operational base for its technology development, risk oversight, and system monitoring teams.
To maintain public transparency regarding its corporate filing status, the company maintains documentation filed with regulatory information systems. Relevant corporate entity records are queryable via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) database under CRD number 339947 (SEC File Number 802-135113, Exemption Reporting Adviser report status).
Exempt reporting adviser status is a regulatory reporting classification. It should not be interpreted as SEC approval, certification, endorsement, or confirmation of the performance of OLSEM‘s products or strategies.
The company maintains platform terms of use, privacy standards, business-continuity procedures, and risk disclosures intended to explain relevant operating practices, platform usage rules, and user responsibilities. Through continued development of system monitoring, third-party custody connectivity, and user-configurable controls, OLSEM aims to provide a transparent and structured technology environment for users accessing U.S. equity markets.
About OLSEM Asset Management, Inc.
OLSEM Asset Management, Inc. is a U.S.-based financial technology company headquartered in Irvine, California. The company describes its platform around structured execution, user-defined risk controls, and transparent operating standards. Public registration information is available through the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure database under CRD #339947. More information is available at https://olsem.com/
Risk Disclosure
This release is provided for general informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice, an offer to sell securities, or a recommendation to select or use a particular strategy.
Trading securities involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.
Automated strategies, stop-loss settings, drawdown controls, account-monitoring tools, custody arrangements, Excess SIPC insurance, and SIPC protection do not protect against market losses or guarantee investment performance.
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