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EQS-News: MPC Capital Reports on Strong Financial Year 2023: Adjusted Pre-Tax Profit Up by 31%, Dividend Raised to 27 Cents per Share

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Hamburg, 7 March 2024 -- Hamburg-based asset and investment manager MPC Capital AG (Deutsche Börse, Scale, ISIN DE000A1TNWJ4) today published its 2023 annual report. Nearly all key figures, particularly the operating result, have been improved. The dividend for 2023 is also expected to increase significantly. With a positive outlook for the financial year 2024, MPC Capital aims to continue its business development at a high level with significant earnings visibility.

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  • MPC Capital Reports on Strong Financial Year 2023: Adjusted Pre-Tax Profit Up by 31%, Dividend Raised to 27 Cents per Share
    The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
  • MPC Capital Reports on Strong Financial Year 2023: Adjusted Pre-Tax Profit Up by 31%, Dividend Raised to 27 Cents per Share
    Successful business performance in 2023 leads to an increase in revenues to EUR 37.9 million.
  • With a positive outlook for the financial year 2024, MPC Capital aims to continue its business development at a high level with significant earnings visibility.
  • Against the background of the positive operational development, the dividend is set to increase by 35% from 20 to 27 cents per share.

Silence Laboratories Raises $4.1M Funding to Enable Privacy Preserving Collaborative Computing

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Engineering, MPC, Laboratory, AI, Library, BitGo, Confidentiality, Pet, Growth, Silence, Risk, MetaMask, Privacy, Trail, Trust, Environment, Cryptocurrency

Silence Laboratories is on a mission is to enable a global privacy-compliant collaboration infrastructure that would enable enterprises to collaborate, and exchange inferences while removing all single points of failure

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  • Silence Laboratories announced today that it has raised an additional $4.1 million in a funding round led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio, along with several prominent angel investors.
  • Silence Laboratories team is on a mission to enable a global privacy-compliant collaboration infrastructure.
  • Commenting on the announcement, Silence Laboratories CEO and founder, Dr. Jay Prakash, said: "In today's digital ecosystem, trust, and privacy are not merely options but imperatives for sustainable growth.
  • Shubham Sandeep, Managing Director Pi Ventures, commented: "Secure data collaboration to enable privacy preserving compute is an ever growing problem especially in highly regulated domains such as finance and healthcare.

United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Supports Accelerated Approval Pathway for Rexlemestrocel-L in End-Stage Heart Failure Patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

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Sunday, March 10, 2024
Heart, Licensure, MPC, Incidence, Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy, MSB, Inflammation, IL-6, FDA, U.S. FDA, BLA, MESO, Patient, Type, LVAD, Mortality, Pharmaceutical industry

“We are very pleased with FDA’s feedback that the presented results from our pivotal study of rexlemestrocel-L in end-stage HFrEF patients with LVADs may support an accelerated approval,” said Mesoblast CEO Dr. Silviu Itescu.

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  • “We are very pleased with FDA’s feedback that the presented results from our pivotal study of rexlemestrocel-L in end-stage HFrEF patients with LVADs may support an accelerated approval,” said Mesoblast CEO Dr. Silviu Itescu.
  • “We intend to request a pre-Biologics License Application (BLA) meeting to discuss data presentation, timing and FDA expectations for an accelerated approval filing.”
    Every year in the United States over 100,000 patients progress to end-stage HFrEF.
  • In contrast, in ischemic patients treated with rexlemestrocel-L, IL-6 levels returned to normal by 2 months and remained low through 12 months.
  • Mesoblast intends to request a pre-BLA meeting with FDA to discuss data presentation, timing and FDA expectations for an accelerated approval filing in end-stage ischemic HFrEF patients with LVAD implantation.

Madison Pacific Properties Inc.’s residential development partnership, the Silverdale Hills Limited Partnership, receives final adoption from the City of Mission on the rezoning application submitted for the Loftus Village Project

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Friday, March 8, 2024
MPC, TSX, City, Loftus Street, Partnership

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Madison Pacific Properties Inc. (the Company) (TSX: MPC and MPC.C), a Vancouver-based real estate company announces that its Mission residential development partnership, the Silverdale Hills Limited Partnership (“Silverdale Hills LP”) has received final adoption from the City of Mission on the rezoning application the Silverdale Hills LP submitted for 11 properties on Gunn Avenue and Loftus Street.

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  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Madison Pacific Properties Inc. (the Company) (TSX: MPC and MPC.C), a Vancouver-based real estate company announces that its Mission residential development partnership, the Silverdale Hills Limited Partnership (“Silverdale Hills LP”) has received final adoption from the City of Mission on the rezoning application the Silverdale Hills LP submitted for 11 properties on Gunn Avenue and Loftus Street.
  • The Company has a 50% interest in the Silverdale Hills LP which currently owns approximately 1,400 acres of primarily residential designated development lands in Mission, British Columbia.
  • On March 4, 2024, the Silverdale Hills LP received approval from the City of Mission to rezone 11 properties totalling approximately 139 acres within the Silverdale Central Neighborhood Plan (“CNP”) area to the new Comprehensive Development 59 Zone, which could accommodate residential units of varying formats, parks, trails and neighbourhood commercial uses (the “Loftus Village Project”).
  • For a review of the risks and uncertainties to which the Company is subject, see its most recently filed annual and interim MD&A.

Ethena Enhances Capital Efficiency and Asset Security Through Cobo SuperLoop

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
MPC, Partnership

SINGAPORE, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ethena, the developer of USDe, a synthetic dollar on Ethereum, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Cobo to leverage Cobo SuperLoop’s off-exchange custody and settlement network. Ethena will hold staked Ethereum assets in secure MPC wallets provided by Cobo and utilize Cobo SuperLoop to mirror funds 1:1 on exchanges. This adds further robustness to the Ethena off-exchange architecture, which eliminates counterparty risk associated with opening positions on centralized exchanges.

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  • SINGAPORE, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ethena, the developer of USDe, a synthetic dollar on Ethereum, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Cobo to leverage Cobo SuperLoop’s off-exchange custody and settlement network.
  • Ethena will hold staked Ethereum assets in secure MPC wallets provided by Cobo and utilize Cobo SuperLoop to mirror funds 1:1 on exchanges.
  • This adds further robustness to the Ethena off-exchange architecture, which eliminates counterparty risk associated with opening positions on centralized exchanges.

Pelage Presents Late-Breaking Data at AAD 2024 Meeting Demonstrating PP405 Activates Human Hair Follicle Stem Cells Ex Vivo and in Phase 1 Clinical Study

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Saturday, March 9, 2024
MPC, Woman, LDH, CMO, LOS, Hair loss, Blood, Pattern hair loss, Biopsy, Fur, Skin, Data, Annual general meeting, B cell, AAD, Patient, Clinical trial, Inhibitor, American Academy, Pharmaceutical industry

LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pelage Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company pioneering a new generation of treatments for hair loss, today presented positive translational and Phase 1 clinical data demonstrating the company's novel small molecule therapy PP405 reactivates dormant hair follicle stem cells to trigger hair growth. Data were presented in a late-breaking oral session of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego, titled Inhibition of pyruvate oxidation activates human hair follicle stem cells ex vivo.

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  • Data were presented in a late-breaking oral session of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego, titled Inhibition of pyruvate oxidation activates human hair follicle stem cells ex vivo.
  • "The translational data derived from our ex vivo studies on human facelift skin have been further validated in a Phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial demonstrating PP405 effectively reactivates dormant hair follicle stem cells," said Daniel Gil, Ph.D., CEO of Pelage Pharmaceuticals.
  • The LDH activity corresponded with a significant increase in Ki67 signal in the hair bulge, indicating a proliferative response of the hair follicle stem cells.
  • PP405 may also have applications for other forms of alopecia, including telogen effluvium (stress-induced hair loss) and chemotherapy-induced hair loss.

Fireblocks Builds Powerhouse C-Suite to Begin Onboarding Thousands of New Retail and Institutional Customers

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
MPC, Growth, NFT, CMO, FIS, Decentralized finance, Cryptocurrency

NEW YORK, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for building blockchain applications and managing digital asset operations, announced today the strategic appointment of Michal Ferguson as the company's new Chief Marketing Officer. Ferguson's appointment further solidifies Fireblocks' dedication to advancing the widespread adoption of non-custodial and counterparty-free-risk markets for both individual users and institutions. This appointment comes on the heels of key additions to the team, including Michael Levine from Payoneer as Chief Financial Officer and Madan Gadde, formerly of FIS, as Chief Customer Officer.

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  • Ferguson's appointment further solidifies Fireblocks' dedication to advancing the widespread adoption of non-custodial and counterparty-free-risk markets for both individual users and institutions.
  • "It is such a pivotal time to join the Fireblocks team, particularly as we stand at the cusp of another great market expansion," said Michal Ferguson, Fireblocks CMO.
  • As CMO, Ferguson will spearhead Fireblocks' charge to make counterparty-risk-free infrastructure ubiquitous across retail and institutional products and services.
  • To learn more about building with Fireblocks' suite of digital asset solutions, visit fireblocks.com .

COCA and GoMining Promo Unveiled: Win Apple Vision Pro & BTC Mining NFTs

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Non-fungible token, MPC, Mining, NFT, Finger, BTC, Cryptocurrency

The first 1,000 loyal and most active COCA users have already received their complimentary NFT airdrops and started mining BTC.

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  • The first 1,000 loyal and most active COCA users have already received their complimentary NFT airdrops and started mining BTC.
  • Participants in the COCA X GoMining Promo stand the chance to win an Apple Vision Pro and be among the 400 lucky recipients of a BTC Mining NFT airdrop.
  • This presents an incredible opportunity for both seasoned crypto enthusiasts and newcomers alike to enhance their crypto journey with COCA and GoMining.
  • An Apple Vision Pro will be awarded randomly to 1 user who makes any card transaction within the promo period.

COCA and GoMining Promo Unveiled: Win Apple Vision Pro & BTC Mining NFTs

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Non-fungible token, MPC, Mining, NFT, Finger, BTC, Cryptocurrency

The first 1,000 loyal and most active COCA users have already received their complimentary NFT airdrops and started mining BTC.

Key Points: 
  • The first 1,000 loyal and most active COCA users have already received their complimentary NFT airdrops and started mining BTC.
  • Participants in the COCA X GoMining Promo stand the chance to win an Apple Vision Pro and be among the 400 lucky recipients of a BTC Mining NFT airdrop.
  • This presents an incredible opportunity for both seasoned crypto enthusiasts and newcomers alike to enhance their crypto journey with COCA and GoMining.
  • An Apple Vision Pro will be awarded randomly to 1 user who makes any card transaction within the promo period.

InfinityWEC ball screw actuation system upgraded to 25-year lifetime and improved control of buoy motion and PTO velocity

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
MPC, NSK, Electricity, Fatigue, Motion, Wind, Partnership, Hydraulic machinery

This increases the value of produced electricity and reduces the energy storage needed to balance the grid.

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  • This increases the value of produced electricity and reduces the energy storage needed to balance the grid.
  • InfinityWEC is a novel wave energy converter with a breakthrough power take-off and control system, providing an outstanding annual energy production by maximizing the energy output from every individual wave.
  • During 2023 and early 2024, Ocean Harvesting has focused on developing the ball screw actuation system in the generation 6 power take-off of the InfinityWEC wave energy converter.
  • Mikael Sidenmark continues: "Focus in 2024 is to perform structural analysis, implement model predictive control (MPC), and to complete the full-scale system design.