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Every organization has a story. Many are typical accounts of significant financial transactions, notable business acquisitions, facility openings, ribbon-cuttings and the like, generously sprinkled with the obligatory nods to navy-jacketed men and women. But good organizations, actually great organizations, tell stories that capture the audience’s imagination from the very start—stories that make you dream, that stand a paradigm on its head or that expose you to ways of thinking you hadn’t considered before. For many of these organizations, their account spans the decades and even the centuries; for others, their tale has just begun. The genesis for First West’s story occurred several years ago around a kitchen table in Abbotsford when two golfing buddies, who were also CEOs of well-established credit unions, decided there had to be better ways for credit unions to grow and expand in their competitive industry than through traditional mergers. Such traditional mergers were usually an immediate plus for the financial statements but carried a tremendous cost to local brand awareness, local decision-making and local market focus. Not long after, with only an idea and belief that things could be different and better, Valley First and Envision Financial began a journey together to draft the blueprint of a partnership that had the potential to achieve what was to that point only imagined. So the partnership began, with trying, learning, rethinking, recalibrating and on occasion, failing—but always believing. And the outcome was none other than we now call First West. Chapter by chapter, scene by scene, the First West story continues to unfold, with a third partner now on the journey. Enderby & District Financial and its members recongnized the times and led with courage, weaving their hopes into the First West vision of what can be. More than just a credit union and a partnership, First West is a concept and an idea—like the start of an adventure. It’s an experience certain to awaken the mind, heart and spirit to another way of doing financial services in Canada. And so First West’s story, our story, has in many ways just begun.
MANX (MacroChain Computing and Networking System) is a distributed service platform that supports post-quantum cryptography and high-performance multi-chain cooperation, while facilitating the value-aggregated closed-loop token economy. The goal of the MANX project is to establish a blockchain ecosystem for small-medium enterprises and individuals based on third-generation public chain architecture, allowing applications to be developed with ease. MANX provides a super server that offers decentralized services for various Internet services. MANX features an extensible multi-chain architecture that is the basis of a core high-performance main chain. Decentralized applications require customized closed-loop operating environments to perform effectively on subchains. MANX provides the Internet backend to meet the diverse needs of various decentralized applications. The post-quantum security mechanism adopted by MANX can guarantee the security of the public chain infrastructure in the era of decentralization and quantum computing.
Mercurity Fintech Holding is a digital financial services group driven by blockchain technology, aiming to build a global unified asset trading marketplace via asset digitization, so that global assets can have unlimited flows round-the-clock. The group`s business scope covers digital asset trading, asset digitization, cross-border remittance, etc., and it is committed to providing customers with compliant, professional and efficient digital financial services. MFH has been always deeply engaging in the field of digital finance and promoted its deployment in financial strategy. In early March, MFH successfully acquired NBPay, a cross-border remittance platform, and constantly expanded the strategic area of digital finance. This time, the new management team of MFH will further promote the implementation in the digital financial ecosystem.
Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. is one of the leading providers in Financial Services. It is based in San Francisco, CA. To find more information about Polaris Venture Partners, Inc., please visit www.polarisventures.com
Iowa Mutual Insurance is one of the leading providers in Financial Services. It is based in San Ramon, CA. To find more information about Iowa Mutual Insurance, please visit www.iowamutual.com