eXp Realty Expands Investment in Latin America with First Spanish-Language eXpcon

 

Latin America’s growing importance in global real estate is driving demand for stronger cross-border connections, local expertise and trusted partnerships


BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 22 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eXp Realty®, the most agent-centric™ real estate brokerage on the planet and the core subsidiary of AGNT, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGNT), today shared additional details of eXpcon Medellín, taking place April 6–8, 2027.

The event will mark the first eXpcon to be held in Latin America and the first to be presented entirely in Spanish, underscoring the growing importance of the Central America, Latin America and Caribbean (CALA) region within eXp's global network.

As more buyers from the United States and Canada look beyond their home markets for investment properties, second homes and relocation opportunities, the ability to navigate cross-border transactions and build trusted local partnerships has become increasingly valuable. eXp Realty currently operates across eight CALA markets: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico. eXpcon Medellín brings agents together with market experts from across Latin America to strengthen those connections and better serve clients with real estate goals that extend beyond their home markets.

“CALA represents some of the most driven, entrepreneurial agents in our entire network,” said Felix Bravo, Managing Director of eXp International. “The lines between local and international real estate continue to blur. Our agents are increasingly serving clients whose goals extend beyond a single city or country. Bringing eXpcon to Latin America and presenting it entirely in Spanish is an investment in helping them build the knowledge, relationships and market expertise they'll need for the future.”

For agents throughout North America and beyond, eXpcon Medellín offers a unique opportunity to experience one of the world's most dynamic real estate regions firsthand. The event is designed to help attendees better understand emerging markets, strengthen referral networks and uncover new opportunities to serve clients with real estate interests throughout Latin America.

“Latin America is playing an increasingly important role in global real estate,” said Virginia Restrepo, CALA Regional Director at eXp International. “For years, our agents have traveled the world to learn from others. Now it's our turn to welcome the world to Latin America and showcase the innovation, expertise and entrepreneurial spirit shaping the future of real estate across our markets. Presenting eXpcon entirely in Spanish ensures those conversations are authentic to the people and communities driving that momentum.”

The three-day conference will feature keynote speakers, business and leadership education, networking opportunities and region-specific programming, all presented in Spanish.

Early bird registration is now open at expconintl.exprealty.com. eXplorer Passes are also available for non-eXp agents interested in experiencing the company's collaborative model firsthand.

About AGNT, Inc. (AGNT)

Built by Agents. Built for Agents. AGNT, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGNT) is the global parent company of eXp Realty®, the most agent-centric™ real estate brokerage on the planet, NextHome, Inc., an award-winning national real estate franchise, FrameVR.io, a virtual collaboration platform, and SUCCESS® Enterprises, a leading personal development and media brand for entrepreneurs. Together, the AGNT platform provides a world-class multi-model operating system empowering independent agents, franchise owners, and team leaders across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and South Africa. As a publicly traded company, AGNT, Inc. prioritizes transparency, innovation, and long-term value for agents, franchise owners, staff, and shareholders.

Safe Harbor and Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements reflect the Company’s and its management’s current expectations but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could impact actual results materially. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding eXpcon Medellín, the Company’s continued expansion in the CALA region, and the anticipated timing, programming, and benefits of the event. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in forward-looking statements include the Company’s ability to attract and retain agents and expand its network across CALA and other international markets, risks associated with operating in foreign jurisdictions, including currency fluctuations, political and economic instability, and differing regulatory or legal requirements, general real estate market fluctuations, regulatory changes, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to the most recently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K. We do not undertake any obligation to update these statements except as required by law.

Media Relations Contact:
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Investor Relations Contact:
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investors@agnt.inc

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SOURCE: eXp Realty

As Enterprises Seek GEO Solutions That Ensure Outcome, GenOptima Presents Its Enterprise Framework

SHANGHAI, July 16 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As enterprises increasingly evaluate Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) vendors based on their ability to ensure outcome through measurable AI visibility, GenOptima has introduced its enterprise GEO framework, providing a structured approach to AI search optimization across multiple large language models and AI platforms. 

Built around a Results-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, the framework connects Brand Info Audit, Content Preference Analysis, Exclusive Strategy, AI Model Training, and Full-Cycle Monitoring into a continuous optimization workflow. Supporting 20+ global AI platforms through a Universal Cross-Model Consensus Protocol, it is designed to help organizations ensure outcome through measurable AI visibility management rather than one-time optimization.

At the core of the platform is the GEO Expert Model Matrix, comprising 143 benchmarkable capabilities across 48 Industry Capabilities, 45 LLM Adaptation Capabilities, 30 Functional Capabilities, and 20 Multimodal Capabilities, together with 14 LLM Deep Adaptation Capabilities supporting both China and global AI ecosystems. Organized into Industry Vertical, LLM Adaptation, Functional, and Multimodal Experts, the framework covers industry expertise, semantic optimization, compliance, citation management, intent analysis, anti-hallucination, and five-modality optimization. According to the company, every enterprise engagement contributes to a continuous Data Flywheel, enabling ongoing enhancement of the capability framework.

The framework is further supported by GenOptima's Strategic Agent Architecture, including Gen-Centric Sentinel for AI visibility monitoring, Gen-Carto Nexus for strategy and intent analysis, Gen-Genesis Forge for multimodal content creation and model adaptation, and Gen-Cosmos CogniCore for knowledge graph construction, compliance, and digital asset management.

GenOptima also incorporates Data Protection, Cross-border Safeguards, Ethical Optimization, Compliance Guardrails, and Transparent Reporting, with execution tracking and KPI reporting designed to support accountable optimization. 

According to the published materials, the framework supports organizations across technology, SaaS, consumer products, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and international commerce. By combining expert capabilities, intelligent agents, compliance, and continuous optimization, GenOptima aims to help enterprises ensure outcome through measurable, scalable, and long-term AI visibility management. 

About GenOptima 
GenOptima provides Result-as-a-Service and AEO-as-a-Service for AI search optimization. Its work focuses on prompt monitoring, ranking-source development, source publishing, citation tracking, and recurring optimization across global and China-facing AI engines. 

Media Contact:
Company Name: GenOptima
Contact Person: Zach Yang
Email: zach.yang@gen-optima.com
Country: China
State: Shanghai
Website: https://www.gen-optima.com/
Singapore Office : 91 Bencoolen Street, #12-03 Sunshine Plaza, Singapore 189652 

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SOURCE: GenOptima

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AZALEA VISION SECURES EIC ACCELERATOR FUNDING TO ADVANCE SMART CONTACT LENS PLATFORM

Azalea Vision Co-founder and CTO Andrés Vásquez Quintero undergoing an on-eye evaluation of the ALMA smart contact lens.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Bernama) -- Azalea Vision, a Belgian healthtech company, announced it has been selected for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, the European Union’s (EU) flagship programme for breakthrough, market-creating deep tech.

As the only Belgian company selected in this round, Azalea Vision will receive up to 7.5 million euros, including a non-dilutive 2.5 million euros grant and a planned five million euros equity investment from the EIC Fund, to advance its medical-grade smart contact lens platform into clinical development. (1 Euro = RM4.64)

“This is one of the toughest funding programmes in the world to win, and it validates everything we have been building, our technology, our vision, and the size of the market in front of us.

“Our technical validation is nearly complete, and the core platform works. This award gives us the resources to prove it clinically and to do it from Europe. We intend to move fast,” said Azalea Vision co-founder and chief technology officer, Andrés Vasquez Quintero in a statement.

The EIC Accelerator, part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, supports the start-ups judged most likely to create or disrupt global markets, and fewer than five per cent of applicants make it through its expert and jury reviews.

The EIC Fund's equity investment alongside the grant signals confidence in a company's technology, vision and market while reducing risk for private co-investors. Azalea Vision ranked among the highest-scoring applicants in its cohort and has begun the funded programme.

The funding will support clinical development alongside the final engineering work needed to bring the platform to patients.

With core platform functionality established and technical validation nearing completion, the EIC award accelerates the transition from proven technology to a certified medical product.

Following the EIC endorsement, Azalea Vision has begun discussions with strategic and financial investors across Europe and the United States to co-invest alongside the EIC Fund in its upcoming financing round.

-- BERNAMA

Bitget Launches TradFi 101 to Prepare Users for the Universal Exchange Era

 

VICTORIA, Seychelles, July 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched TradFi 101, a long-term educational initiative designed to help crypto users understand traditional financial markets and navigate the growing intersection between digital assets and global finance. The program introduces structured learning resources covering financial foundations, asset classes, market mechanics, macroeconomics, risk management, and the evolution of multi-asset investing.

As tokenized assets become more accessible and investors increasingly participate across crypto, equities, commodities, ETFs, and real-world assets, financial literacy is becoming an essential skill for market participants. TradFi 101 is designed for a market environment where crypto-native investors can learn the drivers behind stocks, commodities, currencies, and capital flows.

Built with an education-first approach, TradFi 101 is designed as an open industry initiative that brings together exchanges, media platforms, researchers, educators, and creator communities to make financial education more accessible. Current participating and invited ecosystem contributors include Coin Bureau, CoinGecko, and TradingView among others.

“Financial markets are becoming increasingly connected, and traders are already navigating more than a single asset class,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “Crypto investors today pay attention to interest rates, inflation, equities, commodities, and global liquidity alongside digital assets. As tokenization expands access to financial markets, understanding how these systems work together becomes increasingly important. TradFi 101 was created to make that knowledge more accessible and help users prepare for a future where traditional and digital assets exist within the same investment landscape.”

TradFi 101 consists of six learning modules released through a structured curriculum and supported by weekly educational content, community participation, and assessments. The program will answer 100 essential financial questions through simplified lessons designed for crypto audiences. Modules include Financial Foundations: Rediscover TradFi, Asset Encyclopedia: Your Global Wealth Checklist, Market Mechanics: How Trading Happens, Macroeconomics: The Invisible Hand, Risk & Human Nature: The Trader's Mindset, and Universal Exchange: The Final Form of Finance.

The final module explores the convergence of traditional and digital assets within a unified trading environment. As the world's largest Universal Exchange, Bitget already provides access to more than 2 million crypto tokens alongside over 10,000 US stocks, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, foreign exchange products, and precious metals. TradFi 101 examines how tokenization is expanding access to global markets and why a broader understanding of finance will become increasingly valuable in the years ahead.

TradFi 101 is designed as a long-term initiative that contributes to the industry's broader effort to improve financial literacy for the multi-asset era. By bringing together educational contributors from across the ecosystem, the program aims to help the next generation of traders build the knowledge needed to participate more confidently in an increasingly connected financial system.

For more information, visit: https://www.bitget.com/activity-hub/tradfi-101  

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

For more information, visit: Website | Twitter | Telegram | LinkedIn | Discord

For media inquiries, please contact: media@bitget.com

Risk Warning: Digital asset prices are subject to fluctuation and may experience significant volatility. Investors are advised to only allocate funds they can afford to lose. The value of any investment may be impacted, and there is a possibility that financial objectives may not be met, nor the principal investment recovered. Independent financial advice should always be sought, and personal financial experience and standing carefully considered. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Bitget accepts no liability for any potential losses incurred. Nothing contained herein should be construed as financial advice. For further information, please refer to our Terms of Use.

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SOURCE: Bitget Limited

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Veson Nautical Introduces the Veson Platform, a New Foundation for Maritime Trade

Combines contextual AI with deep maritime industry intelligence; unifies an enhanced IMOS experience with CoCaptain, Mail, and new Insights data products

BOSTON, June 30 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veson Nautical today announced the Veson Platform, a unified, AI-powered experience that brings together IMOS, CoCaptain, Mail, and newly released Vessel Insights and Bunker Insights under a single interface. With the Veson Platform, maritime teams can now access advanced workflows, collaboration capabilities, and trusted data – all on the same foundation as the system of record.

For more than 20 years, Veson has served as the operational backbone of commercial maritime trade. IMOS, trusted by shipowners, operators, charterers, and commodity traders worldwide, encapsulates deep institutional knowledge that understands the nuance of maritime contracts and workflows. That foundation of embedded, context-aware AI is what distinguishes the Veson Platform.

"Technology should give people back their judgment, not replace it," said John Veson, co-founder and CEO of Veson Nautical. "When a system understands the context of your business, it can anticipate what you need and surface it in the moment — and because we're building it as an open, adaptable foundation, it fits the way the industry actually works."

IMOS: The standard platform, enhanced

Decades of client partnership and co-innovation shaped IMOS into the industry’s most comprehensive operating system for maritime contracts and freight management. Starting today, clients can log into the new Veson Platform to find the same robust IMOS functionality that they are familiar with, enhanced with newly released features for voyage management and operations, deeply embedded AI, powerful data insights, and more. Read more about IMOS and the Veson Platform.

CoCaptain: AI built into the workflow

Initially launched to support advanced Claims workflows, CoCaptain has been expanded as an interactive AI layer across the Veson Platform. Available to all IMOS clients at no additional cost, the core CoCaptain functionality provides instant, conversational access to voyage data, historical port calls, and counterparty insights directly within the workflow. Users can ask questions, run analysis, and update records through natural-language chat, grounded in Veson’s proprietary maritime knowledge base. Read more about CoCaptain.

Mail: Communication with operational context

With a vision for more seamless collaboration across teams and counterparties, Veson’s Connect solution is now expanded to include AI-powered email. As part of Connect, Mail automatically classifies, tags, and organizes maritime communications — bringing critical commercial information into the Veson Platform. Recognized as an essential part of doing business, AI-powered Mail is included for IMOS clients, at no cost up to 1M emails and no limit on the number of users. Read more about Veson Connect and Mail.

Vessel and Bunker Insights: Trusted data where teams already work

Veson Insights combines data from sources such as VesselsValue, Q88, and Shipfix and leverages data science to deliver validated, continuously refreshed intelligence directly in the Veson Platform. Vessel Insights provides 300+ data fields across 65,000+ vessels. Bunker Insights delivers daily price predictions powered by machine learning across 1,300+ ports worldwide, trained on hundreds of thousands of bunker transactions. Read more about Veson Insights.

Availability and what’s next

The Veson Platform is now available at no additional cost for current IMOS clients upon request. Additional Veson Mail tiers, enhanced Vessel Insights, and Bunker Insights are available for purchase.

The Veson Platform announced today is just the beginning. Over the coming months, Veson Nautical will further enhance CoCaptain’s capabilities, deliver advanced analytics, and introduce new data products. Each subsequent, planned release between now and the end of the year will build on the same foundation. For more information, visit veson.com/platform or contact your Veson Nautical account team.

About Veson Nautical

Veson Nautical empowers the global maritime industry to navigate complexity on all sides of the trade. The Veson Platform combines contextual AI, trusted data, and seamless collaboration on a single foundation, giving commercial maritime teams the insight and context needed for confident, competitive decision-making. Shaped by decades of innovation and deep client partnership, Veson has become the industry standard for commercial maritime software — providing the operational foundation that spans chartering, operations, finance, and analytics.

Today, Veson serves more than 38,000 users across 2,400 organizations in over 100 countries. Veson enables clients to manage risk, act on trusted data, and turn complexity into advantage. Learn more at www.veson.com. 

Media contact:
Lindsey Flynn, Director of Brand & Content
press@veson.com 

SOURCE: Veson Nautical

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Bitget Launches Third Year of Anti-Scam Month with New Report on Multi-Asset Fraud

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 30 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched the third year of its Anti-Scam Month initiative with the release of its Anti-Scam Report 2026 titled “The Evolution of Fraud in the Multi-Asset Era”, developed in partnership with blockchain security firm SlowMist. As digital finance expands across cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, stocks, CFDs, wallets, and AI-powered investment tools, the report examines how fraud is adapting to changing investor behavior and increasingly interconnected financial ecosystems.

The report finds that changes in user behavior are reshaping how fraud campaigns are designed and deployed across digital finance. According to Bitget Research, the share of active users participating across two or more asset classes grew from under 1% in mid-2025 to more than 10% by May 2026. As users move across a wider range of products and platforms, fraud campaigns are increasingly blending multiple narratives, social engineering tactics, AI-generated content, and multiple communication channels within a single operation.

Drawing on Bitget Research and investigations conducted by SlowMist, the report found that many successful scams no longer rely on a single point of compromise. Fraud operators guide victims through a sequence of interactions spanning social media platforms, messaging applications, investment communities, phishing infrastructure, and wallet activity before assets are ultimately stolen. Between July 2025 and June 2026, Bitget's security infrastructure intercepted more than 150 million malicious requests, identified over 13,000 high-risk malicious IP addresses, handled 18,135 user protection cases, and supported the recovery of $32.3 million linked to security incidents and fraudulent activity.

“Security challenges evolve alongside markets. As more users participate across crypto, stocks, tokenized assets and AI-powered products, fraud campaigns are becoming sophisticated in how they build trust and influence decision-making. Understanding those risks is an important step toward protecting users and strengthening confidence across the broader ecosystem,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget.

The report identifies several trends shaping the current fraud environment, including AI-generated investment personas, deepfake-enabled scams, voice-cloning attacks, synthetic investment communities, wallet-draining operations, malicious smart contracts, and increasingly sophisticated phishing campaigns. Among the cases examined are a deepfake investment scam impersonating Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, an AI-generated investment advertising campaign that reportedly defrauded thousands of Swedish investors, the Truman Show synthetic community scam involving approximately 90 fabricated investor identities, and the Rublevka Team wallet-draining operation documented in early 2026.

Beyond examining how scams operate, the report explores victim psychology, common scam entry points, post-theft asset movement, and recovery challenges. It also outlines practical measures users can take to strengthen account security, recognize AI-enabled deception, evaluate investment opportunities more effectively, and respond to security incidents.

Since launching Anti-Scam Month in 2024, Bitget has worked with security researchers, ecosystem partners, and industry organizations to improve awareness around emerging threats and promote stronger user protection practices. Throughout June, Bitget's Anti-Scam Month campaign will feature educational content, security awareness initiatives, and collaborations with industry partners aimed at helping users identify emerging threats and strengthen their ability to protect digital assets.

For more information, please read the report here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

For more information, visit: Website | Twitter | Telegram | LinkedIn | Discord

For media inquiries, please contact: media@bitget.com

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SOURCE: Bitget Limited

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Abaxx Exchange Trading Volume Jumps 582 Pct In Second Year

KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 (Bernama) -- Abaxx Technologies Inc (Abaxx) announced that Abaxx Exchange has surpassed one million futures contracts traded year-to-date as it marked the second anniversary of the Singapore-based commodity exchange.

In a statement, the company said trading volume reached nearly 1.1 million contracts as of June 25, 2026, representing an increase of about 582 per cent from the 160,854 contracts traded in the full year 2025.

According to Abaxx, average daily trading volume rose to 17,665 contracts in June 2026 from 638 contracts per day in 2025, while daily open interest increased to 1,411 from 235 over the same period.

The company said the exchange has launched 18 futures contracts across seven markets since trading began in June 2024, covering liquefied natural gas (LNG), battery materials, precious metals, weather-linked products and environmental markets.

Abaxx said the exchange also recorded several milestones, including its first carbon, nickel sulphate, lithium carbonate and Germany Onshore Wind futures block trades, as well as its first deliveries under carbon and gold futures contracts.

The company added that Abaxx Exchange has continued expanding its ecosystem, with seven clearing firms, 22 brokers and 11 independent software vendors currently connected to the platform.

Abaxx said the exchange also secured regulatory recognition in key markets, including registration as a Foreign Board of Trade by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission in November 2025 and registration as an Organised Market Place with the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators in April 2026.

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