Author: Chain Wire

Fomboni, Comoros, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

The platform confirms its place among the global leaders in social trading

FX Junction, one of the world’s leading social networks for forex and CFD traders, now has 40,602 registered members and has processed 26,001,872 trades through the platform. Members have linked 12,556 live trading accounts to the network, held with 1,169 supported brokers, and the platform is available to users in more than 50 countries. 

The numbers place FX Junction among the top group of social trading platforms operating at a scale of tens of thousands of verified members and tens of millions of executed trades. Unlike discussion-based communities, where performance claims cannot be independently checked, the FX Junction model is built on trading accounts connected directly through MetaTrader, so that every statistic displayed on a member’s profile is derived from actual broker data.

“These are not marketing estimates; they are counts taken from connected trading accounts,” says Syam K.P., analyst at FX Junction. “Twenty-six million executed trades across more than twelve thousand linked accounts is a data set that very few social trading platforms can put on the table. What it tells us is that the market has moved past the stage where a screenshot was enough. Traders want to see a verified track record before they follow anyone, and platforms that cannot produce one are gradually losing that audience.”

Syam K.P. adds that growth in the number of linked accounts is, in the company’s view, the more relevant indicator than the headline membership figure: “Registration costs a trader nothing. Connecting a live account and making a track record public is a different level of commitment, and that is where the real size of a social trading network shows.”

The company notes that member funds always remain with the trader’s own broker. FX Junction does not hold client capital and acts solely as the layer connecting traders and replicating positions between accounts. Trading in leveraged instruments carries a high risk of loss.

About FX Junction

The investment and trading platform FX Junction is one of the world’s leading social trading networks. In the area of CFDs and forex, FX Junction had already established itself as one of the global leaders among social platforms for traders.

FX Junction was founded in 2011. The company’s launch was supported by a Swiss investor through the parent company Pine Group SA, alongside U.S. executive Ryan Novak.

For more information about the company, users can visit: https://www.fxjunction.com

Contact

Team of analysts
FX Junction
Marketing@fxjunction.com

Singapore, Singapore, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

Lake Energy has announced the securing of $80 million in financing to advance the construction of renewable energy infrastructure in the United States. This funding round was led by seasoned investors with extensive experience in the energy infrastructure and clean energy sectors.

As the global energy landscape undergoes a continuous transformation and electricity demand rises—driven by sectors such as artificial intelligence, data centers, and advanced manufacturing—renewable energy infrastructure is entering a new phase of development. Against this backdrop, the deployment of solar, wind, and energy storage technologies continues to scale up, offering a more diversified range of clean energy solutions for the global energy system.

The proceeds will primarily support Lake Energy’s planned and ongoing solar, energy storage, and related power infrastructure projects in the U.S. Activities will encompass project development, engineering and construction, procurement of energy equipment, deployment of energy storage systems, and the development of supporting infrastructure.

Lake Energy noted that the United States represents a key global energy market. With the continued growth of electricity demand and the ongoing upgrading of energy infrastructure, the company plans to further strengthen its long-term presence in the U.S. renewable energy sector.

Owe Kok Liang, Director of Lake Energy, stated: “This financing will provide significant support for our efforts to advance the development of renewable energy infrastructure in the United States. We will continue to invest resources in solar energy, energy storage, and related infrastructure, driving project development through our capabilities in technology, engineering, and long-term operations. As global electricity demand continues to rise, we believe that building more efficient, stable, and sustainable energy infrastructure will become increasingly important.”

Use of Funds and Strategic Direction

The $80 million in financing will primarily be allocated to the following areas:

1. Advancing the development and construction of solar power projects in the United States;
2. Constructing and deploying battery energy storage systems and related energy infrastructure;
3. Enhancing grid interconnection, power transmission, and supporting infrastructure;
4. Strengthening capabilities in energy project operations, data management, and digital technologies.

Lake Energy stated that it will carry out construction in phases, aligned with the progress of project development, permitting, and grid interconnection, while continuing to collaborate with local partners across the engineering, power, and energy sectors.

About Lake Energy

Lake Energy is an energy brand dedicated to the renewable energy infrastructure sector, with a primary focus on solar power, wind power, energy storage, and related energy technologies.

The company is committed to advancing the development of clean energy infrastructure and enhancing the long-term operational efficiency of such infrastructure through technology application, project operations, and digital management.

Official website: lakeenergy.com

Contact

James.Wilson
info@lakeenergy.com

New York, USA, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

State of the Art by SkySail, the Rubix VM RPT model predicts how far markets will move with less error than the models institutions have relied on since 1993.

SkySail Strategies, a quantitative investment firm specializing in applied quantitative research and algorithm development, today announced that its Rubix VM forecasting system predicts market risk with 20 to 40 percent less error than the industry-standard models used since 1993. For trading firms, funds and allocators, it addresses a three-decade problem: the number that governs position size, stops and risk limits has been least reliable exactly when it matters most.

Rubix VM is built around Rubix RPT, a custom AI inference model SkySail developed for one purpose: predicting how far a market can travel in the coming hours. The models it outperforms trace to research that earned the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics and have anchored institutional risk management since 1993. Thirty years of alternatives have rarely improved on them.

“The industry has measured risk the same way since 1993 because nobody has been able to reliably beat it, we have” said Brian Devens, Managing Director of SkySail Strategies. “Rubix predicts how far a market will travel more accurately than the models the biggest institutions run, on any market with a price history.”

In SkySail’s testing, Rubix VM outperformed the 1993 standard that still governs institutional risk management, the realized-volatility models that hedge funds and quantitative desks regard as the state of the art, and the range estimates common on trading floors. The gap was widest where it matters most. On the most volatile days in the study, Rubix predicted the size of the market’s move with 98 percent accuracy. The realized-volatility models used by quantitative hedge funds were 73 percent accurate. The GARCH models that have set Wall Street’s risk limits since 1993 were 49 percent accurate: Rubix was twice as accurate, with one-twentieth the error. See more details at www.SkySailStrategies.com/press/rubix-vm

“That model held for thirty years because it earned it. Beating it was never going to be easy, and that is why it was worth doing,” Devens said. “Everything in investing rests on one number: how much can this move against me. Make that number more accurate and every risk decision built on it gets better. Managing risk is what SkySail does best, and Rubix is the sharpest edge we have ever had in doing it.”

For trading firms and desks

Proprietary trading firms, options desks and systematic funds depend on a market’s expected range to size every position and place every stop. A more accurate prediction means capital neither wasted on moves that never come nor exposed to the ones that do, and over time, stronger risk-adjusted returns.

For allocators and risk managers

For family offices, funds and institutional risk teams, Rubix VM delivers a risk number that holds its accuracy when the market changes character, where conventional models fail. It is the same advantage SkySail runs its own book on, and it has drawn allocator interest as the firm extends the system into new markets.

“It’s an exciting time for us. Rubix has been remarkably effective, and as we deploy it across more markets we’re seeing real traction from family offices and funds,” Devens said. “They understand what a more accurate risk number is worth.”

Rubix RPT reflects an approach to AI without close counterpart in financial markets. Rather than adapt a general-purpose model to market data, SkySail built its own inference technology around a single question, how far a market can move. Devens, a systems engineer specializing in probabilistic and stochastic algorithms, founded SkySail on the conviction that this is where superior risk management begins.

Institutions can learn more and contact SkySail at www.SkySailStrategies.com

About SkySail Strategies

SkySail Strategies is a quantitative investment firm specializing in applied quantitative research and algorithm development, with risk management at the center of its practice. The firm develops proprietary forecasting and trading systems, including Rubix VM and its Rubix RPT AI inference model, for global futures and financial markets.

Contact

Managing Director
Brian Devens
SkySail Strategies
press@skysailstrategies.com

Singapore, Singapore, September 14th, 2026, Chainwire

PopDEX a trader-first perpetual decentralized exchange, has surpassed $61 million in total value locked (TVL) and $2 billion in cumulative trading volume during its Closed Beta, as the perpetual decentralized exchange builds early traction ahead of broader market expansion. The platform now supports 66 trading pairs spanning major cryptocurrencies, RWA-related markets, and emerging assets.

The milestones provide an early indication of trading activity and liquidity developing on PopDEX while access remains in Closed Beta. The platform has used this period to test its market structure under live conditions, gather feedback from traders and liquidity providers, and expand the range of markets available through its onchain trading environment.

“Closed Beta was meant to tell us whether traders would actually use what we were building, and $2 billion in trading volume gives us a pretty clear answer,” said Zach Prater, Head of Traders at PopDEX. “The more important part now is what we learn from that activity. Traders are telling us where they want deeper markets, faster execution, and better tools, and we’re using that feedback to shape PopDEX before we open it more broadly.”

PopDEX is building around a CLOB-based market structure designed to support professional liquidity provision while maintaining a responsive trading experience for individual users. Through block batch processing and intra-block transaction ordering, the platform targets approximately 100–150ms execution responsiveness under normal conditions. More frequent index-price and mark-price updates have also been introduced to support liquidation monitoring, conditional orders and risk management, while the platform continues to test liquidation and ADL scenarios under extreme market conditions.

Market coverage has expanded alongside the underlying trading infrastructure. PopDEX has added crypto, RWA-related and community-driven markets throughout Closed Beta, most recently introducing perpetual contracts for PONS, CASHCAT and MARSCOIN in response to interest around Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain assets. Further market expansion is planned as PopDEX develops broader global asset exposure.

Closed Beta has also served as a live development environment. Feedback from traders and API users has informed improvements across account access, deposits and withdrawals, position management, risk visibility and API execution. PopDEX is now extending that work toward a more trader-friendly mobile experience through H5 browser support and a dedicated mobile app.

The platform is also experimenting with how trading incentives are structured. Its third Closed Beta reward distribution recognized early traders and community contributors, with the highest reward in the latest round exceeding $3,300 for a single address, based on public community receipts. PopDEX’s Meme Gang War, running from September 7 to September 21, adds another approach by determining the winning side according to the proportion of eligible participants achieving positive PnL rather than trading volume alone.

PopDEX’s Closed Beta development follows a $30 million strategic seed investment led by Foresight Ventures in May 2026, supporting liquidity, trading depth, product development and global market expansion. PopDEX is also working with ecosystem partners including Bitget Wallet to reduce friction for users accessing onchain perpetual markets.

As Closed Beta progresses, PopDEX will continue focusing on deeper liquidity, additional markets, execution infrastructure and greater access across devices. The longer-term goal is to build an onchain derivatives venue where crypto and broader global markets can be traded with the market depth, execution and risk infrastructure required by active and professional traders.

About PopDEX

PopDEX is a trader-first perpetual decentralized exchange focused on capital efficiency, professional trading experience, transparent market structure and value return for active contributors. PopDEX is building an onchain trading venue spanning crypto, RWA-related markets and broader global asset exposure.

For more information:

Website: https://popdex.xyz/

X: https://x.com/popdex_

Contact

Gabi Zhou
gabi@popdex.xyz

Sukhothai, Thailand, September 14th, 2026, FinanceWire

STARCARES announced the completion of its sports court renovation project at Ban Nam Lat School in Sukhothai, Thailand, providing students and nearby residents with an improved, multi-use space for physical education, sports, and community activities. The renovated court now serves the school during weekdays and opens to local residents after hours and on weekends.

The upgraded facility serves 62 Ban Nam Lat School students through PE and sports activities. On weekends, the court is also available to neighbouring residents, reaching approximately 600 people across 180 households. The project reflects STARCARES’ focus on supporting accessible, multi-use spaces in rural communities.

Many rural schools in Sukhothai double as the only nearby space where villagers can gather, given limited recreational infrastructure in the area. Recognising this, STARCARES designed the renovation to serve students first, then transition into shared use once lessons finish, a model now playing out on the ground.

That shared purpose came to life when a child from the surrounding community joined Ban Nam Lat School students on the court. What began as a simple game became a moment of belonging, showing how the space can bring children together beyond the school itself.

“Seeing my son so happy brought tears to my eyes. He kept talking about the games, the other children, and how much he wanted to come back. As a mother, seeing him feel so included and joyful meant more than I can explain.” — said Narinya Vejjaporn, mother of a local community child.

The Thailand project advances STARCARES’ wider effort to revive shared spaces for lasting use. Projects in Vietnam, the Philippines and Nigeria follow the same principle: infrastructure should remain functional long after construction.

To reinforce this, STARCARES now funds maintenance for its courts every one to two years, safeguarding their condition and continued usefulness to the communities they serve.

Under ‘Where Tomorrow STARS Begin,’ the focus extends beyond building new spaces to keeping those already created in service for years to come.

About STARTRADER

STARTRADER is a global multi-asset broker empowering retail and institutional partners to access global markets through a range of platforms, including MetaTrader, STARTRADER APP, and STAR Copy.

STARTRADER operates through entities licensed and regulated by authorities including CMA, ASIC, FSCA, FSA, and FSC, combining strong governance with a client-first approach, serving both retail clients and partners with a commitment to transparency, reliability, and long-term growth.

Contact

Janna.magabilen
Janna.magabilen@startrader.com

Tokyo, Japan, September 14th, 2026, FinanceWire

J-VISiONS, a cross-media publication launched by Edit Inc. for investors and corporate management, features in its 2026 Autumn issue. Kaname Capital, a Japan equities-focused activist investor; and Seven Bank, Japan’s first retailer-founded financial institution

Edit Inc. published the 2026 Autumn issue of J-VISIONS, a cross-media publication for investors and corporate management, on September 4, 2026. This fourth issue features a dialogue with Kaname Capital, L.P., a Japan-equities-focused activist investor, and an interview with Seven Bank, Ltd, a financial institution born from Japan’s first retail-originated bank, along with other examples of corporate IR and engagement. All articles are also available on the web edition, J-VISIONS Online

J-VISIONS was launched as a new financial media platform to promote mutual understanding between companies and institutional investors. As a supplement to J-MONEY, a financial magazine for investment professionals, J-VISIONS is sent directly to approximately 10,000 recipients, including pension funds, financial institutions, and finance/IR officers at business corporations.

The 2026 Autumn issue includes a dialogue between Nao Makino, Partner & Head of Research at Kaname Capital, and Professor Mikiharu Noma of Hitotsubashi University Business School, as well as an interview with Ken Shimizu, Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of the Planning Division at Seven Bank, Ltd. It also features Yoichi Shibata, Representative Director and CEO of Premium Group Co., Ltd., and Takanori Saito, Executive Officer and General Manager of the President’s Office (IR) at FUJI KYUKO CO., LTD., each discussing their companies’ IR strategies.

The issue also includes the popular “Seven Questions for Noted Fund Managers” feature, which has run since the inaugural issue. This time’s theme is “What kind of company would you want to invest in?” Featured fund managers include Koji Nakatsuka of Allianz Global Investors Japan, Zhiyuan Tao of AllianceBernstein, Masaki Takebayashi of Daiwa Asset Management, and Naoto Kojima of Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management.

Also offering services that deliver corporate IR information and management messages to investors worldwide

Edit Inc., publisher of J-VISIONS, also offers services that deliver corporate IR information and management messages to investors around the world. J-MONEY, Edit’s specialist magazine for finance professionals, has been recognized by Media Fuse, an Israeli media company, as a leading Japanese financial media outlet and participates in FinanceWire, Media Fuse’s global business news network.

Through J-VISIONS and its web edition, J-VISIONS Online, Edit Inc. syndicates content across global financial web media, working in conjunction with a scheme that distributes news releases to overseas investors — delivering corporate IR information and management messages to investors worldwide.

About Edit Inc.

Edit Inc. is a team of editorial and production professionals specializing in the financial sector, founded in 1990. The company publishes the periodicals J-MONEY, J-VISIONS, Fund Marketing, and Insurance Marketing, each of which also has a web edition. Edit serves a wide range of readers, from financial professionals to individual investors, providing reliable information to meet their diverse needs.

 Address: Harmony Tower 17F, 1-32-2 Honcho, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0012

 https://www.edit.co.jp/en/

Representative Director:

Naoki Mori

Business activities:  Planning and production of publications and printed materials; planning and production of newspaper and magazine advertising; advertising agency services; event planning and management; and more.

Contacts

Shota Okuno
Edit Inc.
jv-sales@j-visions.jp
Nahoko Sasaki
Edit Inc.
jv-sales@j-visions.jp