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Nurcapital Corporation Ltd. Announces Proposed Qualifying Transaction with Green Sky Labs Inc.

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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – September 4, 2020) –  Nurcapital Corporation Ltd. (TSXV: NCL.H) (“Nurcapital” or the “Company“), a capital pool company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a letter of intent dated September 3, 2020 (the “LOI“) with Green Sky Labs Inc. (“GSL“), a private company existing under the laws of the Province of Alberta. The LOI outlines the general terms and conditions pursuant to which Nurcapital and GSL will effect a business combination and reverse takeover transaction that will result in Nurcapital acquiring all of the issued and outstanding securities of GSL in exchange for equity in Nurcapital (the “Proposed Transaction“). The Proposed Transaction will constitute Nurcapital’s “Qualifying Transaction” under the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange“).

In light of the Proposed Transaction, the Company’s previously announced Qualifying Transaction with Globex Mining Enterprises Inc. will not be proceeding. No deposits, loans or cash advances were made by the Company to Globex Mining Enterprises Inc.

Terms of the Proposed Transaction

Pursuant to the terms of the LOI, Nurcapital and GSL will negotiate and enter into a definitive agreement incorporating the principal terms of the LOI.

Prior to the completion of the Proposed Transaction, Nurcapital will consolidate all of its issued and outstanding common shares (the “Common Shares“) on the basis of one post-consolidation Common Share for approximately 3.65 pre-consolidation Common Shares (the “Consolidation Ratio“) and change its name to “Green Sky Labs Inc.”. Pursuant to the Proposed Transaction, the current shareholders of GSL will receive approximately 100,460,538 post-consolidation Common Shares. As set out further below, participants in a concurrent brokered financing of GSL (the “Concurrent Offering“) will, on closing of the Proposed Transaction, become securityholders of the resulting issuer (the “Resulting Issuer“).

The final structure for the Proposed Transaction is subject to satisfactory tax, corporate and securities law advice on the part of both Nurcapital and GSL. Completion of the Proposed Transaction is also subject to a number of other conditions, including completion of the Concurrent Offering, receipt of applicable regulatory approvals, including the approval of the Exchange for the Proposed Transaction, completion of satisfactory due diligence and the execution of a definitive agreement and related transaction documents.

Capitalization

Nurcapital currently has 3,219,500 common shares and 220,850 incentive stock options issued and outstanding. Under the terms of the LOI, the issued and outstanding shares of Nurcapital will be consolidated in accordance with the Consolidation Ratio, which will result in approximately 881,481 Common Shares outstanding on a fully-diluted basis.

GSL currently has 100,460,538 common shares issued and outstanding. Each GSL common share will be exchanged for one post-consolidation Common Share, such that, following the completion of the Proposed Transaction, the shareholders of GSL are expected to hold, in the aggregate, 100,460,538 post-consolidation Common Shares of the Resulting Issuer.

Assuming completion of the Proposed Transaction, but before giving effect to the Concurrent Offering, the Resulting Issuer is expected to have approximately 101,342,019 Common Shares outstanding.

Proposed Private Placement

It is a condition of the LOI that GSL will complete the Concurrent Offering, which is expected to comprise a brokered private placement of securities of GSL to raise gross proceeds of a minimum of C$5 million. Further details of the Concurrent Offering will follow at a later date.

Trading Halt

Trading in the Common Shares of Nurcapital is suspended, and will remain suspended, until the completion of the Proposed Transaction.

About Nurcapital

Nurcapital was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) on January 8, 2015. The Company is listed as a capital pool company on the NEX Board of the Exchange. Nurcapital’s business objective is to identify and evaluate assets or businesses with a view to a potential acquisition by completing a “Qualifying Transaction” (akin to the Proposed Transaction).

About GSL

GSL was incorporated on April 17, 2014 pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (Alberta). Since its inception, GSL has been a technology incubation company that has developed disruptive technologies in the biotech and related industries. GSL’s primary business objective is to commercialize these technologies through strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions as well as public offerings. GSL’s current holdings are comprised of majority or non-majority interests in the following five businesses: (a) My Next Health, a genomics-based digital therapeutics company which seeks to significantly enhance patient outcomes and reduce costs, including a genetics-based COVID-19 risk assessment application; (b) AGENTIX Biopharma Corp., a U.S. publicly-listed company developing pharmaceuticals and health solutions for patients and consumers using proprietary compounds and delivery systems that target the endocannabinoid system for therapeutic applications; (c) Nectar Health Sciences Inc., which owns a patent pending technology to isolate cannabinoids at high levels of purity for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications; (d) Kalmex Inc., a joint venture corporation focused on the development of a cannabis extraction manufacturing facility using a proprietary membrane-based technology to produce full spectrum cannabinoid extracts; and (e) Trichome Agronomy Corp., a Manitoba-based industrial hemp cultivation company that has developed a multi-stage agronomy program capable of creating high-quality, conditioned hemp flower biomass on an industrial scale and also utilizing the whole hemp plant for derivative products.

About the Resulting Issuer

The business objective of the Resulting Issuer will be to carry out the business of GSL.

Further Information

A comprehensive press release relating to the Proposed Transaction, in accordance with the policies of the Exchange, will follow on or in connection with the execution of a definitive agreement relating to the Proposed Transaction.

All information contained in this news release with respect to Nurcapital and GSL was supplied by the parties respectively, for inclusion herein, and each party and its directors and officers have relied on the other party for any information concerning the other party.

A filing statement in respect of the Proposed Transaction will be prepared and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com in accordance with Policy 2.4 of the Exchange no less than seven business days prior to the closing of the Proposed Transaction. A press release will be issued once the filing statement has been filed.

For further information regarding the Proposed Transaction, please contact:

Nurcapital Corporation Ltd.

Sharief Zaman, Director
Telephone: 416-754-4135
Email: [email protected]
www.nurcapital.ca

Green Sky Labs Inc.

Rehan Huda, Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: 905-491-6905
Email: [email protected]
www.greenskylabs.com

Completion of the Proposed Transaction is subject to a number of conditions, including but not limited to, completion of satisfactory due diligence, completion of the Concurrent Offering, execution of a definitive agreement in respect of the Proposed Transaction, Exchange acceptance and if applicable pursuant to Exchange requirements, majority of the minority shareholder approval. Where applicable, the Proposed Transaction cannot close until the required shareholder approval is obtained. There can be no assurance that the Proposed Transaction will be completed as proposed or at all.

Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the filing statement to be prepared in connection with the Proposed Transaction, any information released or received with respect to the Proposed Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon. Trading in the securities of a capital pool company should be considered highly speculative.

The Exchange has in no way passed upon the merits of the Proposed Transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this release.

Neither the Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.

This press release does not constitute and the subject matter hereof is not, an offer for sale or a solicitation of an offer to buy, in the United States or to any “U.S. Person” (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”)) of any equity or other securities of Nurcapital or GSL. The securities of GSL or the Resulting Issuer to be issued in connection with the Concurrent Offering have not been registered under the 1933 Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States (or to a U.S. Person) absent registration under the 1933 Act or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Nurcapital, GSL and their respective businesses. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the management of each entity. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release, including completion of the Concurrent Offering and the Proposed Transaction, may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the companies, including risks affecting the companies, economic factors and the equity markets generally. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Nurcapital and GSL undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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Central banks and the FinTech sector unite to change global payments space

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The BIS, along with seven leading central banks and a cohort of private financial firms, has embarked on an ambitious venture known as Project Agorá.

Named after the Greek word for “marketplace,” this initiative stands at the forefront of exploring the potential of tokenisation to significantly enhance the operational efficiency of the monetary system worldwide.

Central to this pioneering project are the Bank of France (on behalf of the Eurosystem), the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Korea, the Bank of Mexico, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These institutions have joined forces under the banner of Project Agorá, in partnership with an extensive assembly of private financial entities convened by the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

At the heart of Project Agorá is the pursuit of integrating tokenised commercial bank deposits with tokenised wholesale central bank money within a unified, public-private programmable financial platform. By harnessing the advanced capabilities of smart contracts and programmability, the project aspires to unlock new transactional possibilities that were previously infeasible or impractical, thereby fostering novel opportunities that could benefit businesses and consumers alike.

The collaborative effort seeks to address and surmount a variety of structural inefficiencies that currently plague cross-border payments. These challenges include disparate legal, regulatory, and technical standards; varying operating hours and time zones; and the heightened complexity associated with conducting financial integrity checks (such as anti-money laundering and customer verification procedures), which are often redundantly executed across multiple stages of a single transaction due to the involvement of several intermediaries.

As a beacon of experimental and exploratory projects, the BIS Innovation Hub is committed to delivering public goods to the global central banking community through initiatives like Project Agorá. In line with this mission, the BIS will soon issue a call for expressions of interest from private financial institutions eager to contribute to this ground-breaking project. The IIF will facilitate the involvement of private sector participants, extending an invitation to regulated financial institutions representing each of the seven aforementioned currencies to partake in this transformative endeavour.

Source: fintech.globa

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TD Bank inks multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud

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TD Bank has inked a multi-year deal with Google Cloud as it looks to streamline the development and deployment of new products and services.

The deal will see the Canadian banking group integrate the vendor’s cloud services into a wider portion of its technology solutions portfolio, a move which TD expects will enable it “to respond quickly to changing customer expectations by rolling out new features, updates, or entirely new financial products at an accelerated pace”.

This marks an expansion of the already established relationship between TD Bank and Google Cloud after the group previously adopted the vendor’s Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for TD Securities Automated Trading (TDSAT), the Chicago-based subsidiary of its investment banking unit, TD Securities.

TDSAT uses GKE for process automation and quantitative modelling across fixed income markets, resulting in the development of a “data-driven research platform” capable of processing large research workloads in trading.

Dan Bosman, SVP and CIO of TD Securities, claims the infrastructure has so far supported TDSAT with “compute-intensive quantitative analysis” while expanding the subsidiary’s “trading volumes and portfolio size”.

TD’s new partnership with Google Cloud will see the group attempt to replicate the same level of success across its entire portfolio.

Source: fintechfutures.com

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MAS launches transformative platform to combat money laundering

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The MAS has unveiled Cosmic, an acronym for Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Information and Cases, a new money laundering platform.

According to Business Times, launched on April 1, Cosmic stands out as the first centralised digital platform dedicated to combating money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing on a worldwide scale. This move follows the enactment of the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Act 2023, which, along with its subsidiary legislation, commenced on the same day to provide a solid legal foundation and safeguards for information sharing among financial institutions (FIs).

Cosmic enables participating FIs to exchange customer information when certain “red flags” indicate potential suspicious activities. The platform’s introduction is a testament to MAS’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the financial sector, mandating participants to establish stringent policies and operational safeguards to maintain the confidentiality of the shared information. This strategic approach allows for the efficient exchange of intelligence on potential criminal activities while protecting legitimate customers.

Significantly, Cosmic was co-developed by MAS and six leading commercial banks in Singapore—OCBC, UOB, DBS, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered—which will serve as participant FIs during its initial phase. The initiative emphasizes voluntary information sharing focused on addressing key financial crime risks within the commercial banking sector, such as the misuse of legal persons, trade finance, and proliferation financing.

Loo Siew Yee, assistant managing director for policy, payments, and financial crime at MAS, highlighted that Cosmic enhances the existing collaboration between the industry and law enforcement authorities, fortifying Singapore’s reputation as a well-regulated and trusted financial hub. Similarly, Pua Xiao Wei of Citi Singapore and Loretta Yuen of OCBC have expressed their institutions’ support for Cosmic, noting its potential to ramp up anti-money laundering efforts and its significance as a development in the banking sector’s ability to combat financial crimes efficiently. DBS’ Lam Chee Kin also praised Cosmic as a “game changer,” emphasizing the careful balance between combating financial crime and ensuring legitimate customers’ access to financial services.

Source: fintech.global

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