Elevate Your Strategy: Global Trading Competition Launch with Major Cash Prizes

EBC Financial Group initiates dual-track events across Asia and Africa, offering both risk-free simulated environments and high-stakes market showdowns to empower traders of all experience levels

LONDON, May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EBC Financial Group (EBC), the World’s Best Broker according to World Finance, has launched two multimarket trading competitions designed to support trader engagement and broaden participation across emerging trading communities in Asia and Africa. The promotion is provided by EBC Financial Group (SVG) LLC under the EBC Financial Group brand and includes two distinct events: the EBC Trading Masters Competition and the EBC Elite Demo Trading Competition.

Structured to accommodate participants across varying levels of trading experience, the dual-track initiatives reflect EBC’s continued commitment to fostering a trader-first ecosystem grounded in transparency, accessibility, and continuous learning.

Through both competitions, participants will have the opportunity to benchmark their trading strategies within structured environments where rankings are determined by return rate rather than account size, reinforcing a performance-based framework where discipline and strategy remain central to competitive outcomes.

EBC Trading Masters Competition: Recognising Performance in Live Market Conditions

Targeted at experienced participants, the EBC Trading Masters Competition introduces a live trading environment where traders compete using real funds across Mongolia, Taiwan, and Thailand from 11 May to 5 June 2026.

The competition is open to PRO and STD account holders, with minimum equity requirements beginning from USD100 in Mongolia and USD200 in Taiwan and Thailand.

The competition will be conducted through eligible PRO and STD trading accounts, providing participants with direct exposure to live market conditions within a professionally structured environment. To encourage transparency and shared learning across the trading community, all participants will be required to publish trading signals throughout the competition period.

Across Taiwan and Thailand, prize pools will reach up to USD7,000 per session, with top-performing participants eligible to receive prizes of up to USD3,000. Rankings will be determined by return rate performance, reinforcing a competition structure where trading discipline and strategy take precedence over account balance size.

Participants may register multiple eligible accounts, with awards determined by their best-performing account, while structured risk controls and monitoring mechanisms are implemented throughout the competition period to maintain fairness and accountability.

EBC Elite Demo Trading Competition: Accessible Participation in a Risk-Free Environment

Designed for new and developing traders, the EBC Elite Demo Trading Competition offers participants the opportunity to engage with live market conditions through simulated accounts without real capital exposure.

The competition will run from 11 May to 22 May 2026 across Vietnam, Indonesia, Africa, and South Korea, with participants competing using newly created demo accounts funded with a simulated fixed starting equity of USD10,000.

Competition participants will begin with equal simulated starting capital of USD10,000, creating a level playing field where rankings are determined by return rate performance rather than account size. Across the regional sessions, participants will compete for prize pools of up to USD1,700, including a top prize of USD1,000 in the South Korea session. The competition framework is further supported by structured participation guidelines designed to uphold transparency, fairness, and disciplined trading engagement throughout the campaign period.

By creating a controlled environment focused on strategy development and performance benchmarking, the initiative aims to encourage informed market participation while helping traders build confidence and trading discipline.

“At EBC, we believe trader development is built on transparency, discipline, and access to structured opportunities that encourage continuous growth,” said Lewis Tang, Brand Director at EBC Financial Group. “These competitions are designed not only to recognise trading performance, but also to foster greater engagement, knowledge sharing, and responsible participation across diverse trading communities.”

Both competitions incorporate standardised ranking methodologies and operational safeguards, including return-rate-based evaluations and volume-based tiebreaker mechanisms, ensuring outcomes are determined by measurable trading performance.

The launch of the initiatives further reflects EBC’s ongoing efforts to strengthen trader engagement across key international markets while supporting broader participation within the evolving global trading landscape.

For more information regarding eligibility requirements, competition rules, and registration details, please visit EBC Financial Group website at www.ebc.com.

Risk Disclaimer
Trading foreign exchange (FX) and contracts for differences (CFDs) on margin carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Losses can exceed deposits. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Please consider your investment objectives and risk tolerance carefully before trading.

About EBC Financial Group

Founded in London, EBC Financial Group (EBC) is a global brand known for its expertise in financial brokerage and asset management. Through its regulated entities operating across major financial jurisdictions—including the UK, Australia, the Cayman Islands, Mauritius, and others—EBC enables retail, professional, and institutional investors to access global markets and trading opportunities, including currencies, commodities, CFDs and more.

Trusted by investors in over 100 countries and honoured with global awards including multiple year recognition from World Finance, EBC is widely regarded as one of the world’s best brokers with titles including Best Trading Platform and Most Trusted Broker. With its strong regulatory standing and commitment to transparency, EBC has also been consistently ranked among the top brokers—trusted for its ability to deliver secure, innovative, and client-first trading solutions across competitive international markets.

EBC’s subsidiaries are licensed and regulated within their respective jurisdictions. EBC Financial Group (UK) Limited is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); EBC Financial Group (Cayman) Limited is regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA); EBC Financial Group (Australia) Pty Ltd, and EBC Asset Management Pty Ltd are regulated by Australia’s Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC); EBC Financial (MU) Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Commission Mauritius (FSC).

At the core of EBC are a team of industry veterans with over 40 years of experience in major financial institutions. Having navigated key economic cycles from the Plaza Accord and 2015 Swiss franc crisis to the market upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic. We foster a culture where integrity, respect, and client asset security are paramount, ensuring that every investor relationship is handled with the utmost seriousness it deserves.

EBC is a proud official foreign exchange partner of FC Barcelona and continues to drive impactful partnerships to empower communities – namely through the UN Foundation’s United to Beat Malaria initiative, Oxford University’s Department of Economics, and a diverse range of partners to champion initiatives in global health, economics, education, and sustainability.

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CGTN: Putting people first: A guiding principle in China’s governance

CGTN published an article showcasing how the people-centered governance approach has significantly improved living standards in China, and how it is expected to bring further tangible improvements to people’s lives in the future

BEIJING, May 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ahead of this year’s Spring Festival, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a community canteen at an apartment complex for seniors to learn about local efforts to improve public convenience services and elderly care. He also had a warm conversation with delivery workers taking a break at the canteen, asking about their work and daily lives.

Xi stressed that Party committees and governments at all levels must care for them and provide better services to support their lives, work and education.

The year 2026 marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Xi once pointed out that people represent the nation, and the nation is made up of people. He also said the survival of a party depends on the support of its people, adding that with people’s confidence and support, the CPC is invincible in the face of any obstacles.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of poverty, China has completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the country has established the world’s largest systems for education, social security, healthcare and urban housing support.

Access to education at all levels has reached or surpassed the average for middle- and high-income countries. Basic medical insurance coverage has remained above 95%, life expectancy has risen above 79 years, and the middle-income group now exceeds 400 million people.

The emphasis on putting people first is more evident as China is in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). More than one-third of the plan for national economic and social development is related to people’s livelihoods, covering employment, income, education, healthcare, elderly care and childcare – issues that are of the greatest and most immediate concern to the public.

Regarding food delivery couriers, ride-hailing drivers and e-commerce workers, known as the “new forms of employment” and representing a fast-growing part of China’s labor market that has emerged with the rise of the internet and digital economy, the plan stressed efforts to boost the sound development of flexible and new forms of employment and support people in flexible and new forms of employment to participate in insurance schemes for employees and further improve the policies for transferring social security accounts.

Zhang Linshan, a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research under China’s National Development and Reform Commission, said the 15th Five-Year Plan sends a strong signal that China remains committed to a people-centered approach, with high-quality development focused on improving the quality of people’s lives and ensuring that development outcomes benefit all people more broadly and more fairly.

Zhang said this also reflects China’s shift in development from pursuing whether there is growth to pursuing whether growth is of higher quality.

The goal is to ensure that economic growth and improvements in people’s livelihoods advance in tandem, creating a virtuous cycle and enabling people to feel more secure and more confident about the future, Zhang added.

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Google Cloud Security Uses Instruqt Platform to Train 150+ Practitioners on Agentic AI at Google Next 2026

Instruqt’s hands-on platform delivers a dedicated Vertex AI environment per participant, demonstrating a new operational model for closing the AI-adoption gap at conference scale

AMSTERDAM, May 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Instruqt, the hands-on product experience platform used by MongoDB, Elastic, Google, and SUSE, today announced that Google Cloud Security used Instruqt to train more than 150 practitioners on Agentic AI capabilities at Google Next 2026. The session, branded the Agentic SOC Experience, is one of the largest hands-on Agentic AI training sessions delivered at a major industry conference this year.

Using Instruqt, participants created a dedicated Google Cloud Vertex AI environment, building their own agents from scratch and exploring Google’s agentic capabilities in isolated sandbox environments rather than watching slide-based demos.

“On the AI front, Instruqt is fantastic because it allows us to spin up a dedicated Vertex environment per participant,” said Keith Manville, a Pre-Sales Engineer on Google Cloud Security’s customer-facing team, who led the session. “Participants walked away with understanding what an agent is, what those primitive features are that we build into an agent, and how to use them. Everyone learns differently. Because the technology is complex, if you’ve never seen it before, you really don’t know where to click or what to do. Instruqt helps us seamlessly move the user through that journey of learning how to operate the product.”

Closing the AI adoption gap

The workshop reflects a broader operational shift across the software industry. AI is shipping features faster than customers can adopt them, and the gap between product released and product adopted is where pipeline, retention, and revenue are being lost. According to SlashData’s 2026 State of Developer Adoption Report, 92% of practitioners face at least one significant adoption challenge, with technology complexity (26%), team misalignment (27%), and outdated content (25%) cited as the top causes.

“The companies that win the AI era won’t just ship the best products. They will be the ones who help their customers actually use them,” said Tyler Crumpler, VP of Marketing at Instruqt. “What Google Cloud Security did at Google Next is a model for what every AI-led company should be doing. Put customers into a real environment, with real tools, and let them build something they can take back to work. That’s how adoption compounds, that’s how skills compound, and that’s how pipeline compounds.”

About Instruqt

Instruqt is the hands-on product experience platform that helps the world’s leading software companies turn complex products into confident customers. Marketing, sales, and education teams at MongoDB, Elastic, Google, SUSE, and others use Instruqt to deliver scalable, browser-based experiences that drive product adoption, generate qualified pipeline, and accelerate skills development. Founded in Amsterdam, Instruqt is the platform of record for developer-led growth in the AI era. Learn more at instruqt.com.

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Stoneshield Capital to acquire 15% stake in Exolum from OMERS

LUXEMBOURG, May 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stoneshield Capital today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a 15% stake in Exolum from OMERS, building on its existing investment in the company since January 2026. The remaining 10% of OMERS ~25% stake is separately being acquired by a leading global investment firm with over $100 billion in assets under management. OMERS, together with its investment partners, has been invested in Exolum since 2016. Terms of the transactions are not being disclosed.

Exolum is a Spanish-headquartered global energy logistics company specialising in the transportation, storage and distribution of refined products, bulk liquids and aviation fuels, while playing an increasingly important role in supporting the energy transition. Exolum owns a 4,000km transmission pipeline network in Spain and operates a further 2,000km pipeline network in the UK. The company also owns 68 storage terminals with more than 11 million cubic metres of capacity and serves over 48 airports globally – including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Lima and Charles de Gaulle – making it one of the world’s leading aviation fuel infrastructure platforms. Exolum has more than 2,300 employees globally and over €1,3bn of annual revenues.

Felipe Morenés Botín and Juan Pepa, co-founders of Stoneshield Capital, said: “Exolum is a unique HALO infrastructure platform with irreplaceable strategic assets, resilient long-term cash flows and significant growth optionality linked to the evolution of global energy systems. As an existing shareholder, we have followed the company’s progress closely, including its international expansion, operational excellence and increasing role in supporting the energy transition. Increasing our investment and taking active Board representation reflects our conviction in Exolum’s distinctive combination of real assets quality, geographic reach and strategic relevance, and our commitment to supporting management as the company continues to strengthen its position as one of Europe’s leading energy logistics platforms.”

Luca Lupo, Senior Managing Director & Head of Europe, OMERS Infrastructure, said: “Over the past decade, Exolum has evolved into a stronger, more diversified and increasingly international business with a growing role in supporting the energy transition. We have been actively involved throughout our ownership and are proud to have supported the company’s growth, diversification and progress in areas linked to lower-carbon fuels and future energy infrastructure alongside management and our investment partners. This transaction reflects both the quality of the business and our disciplined approach to active portfolio management and capital rotation.”

The transaction is expected to complete in Q3 2026, subject to certain customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Notes to editor

  • Stoneshield acquired a 4.93% stake in January 2026. Once this transaction closes, Stoneshield’s total stake in Exolum will be approximately 20%.
  • Following completion, Stoneshield Capital will assume three of OMERS’ current Board seats. The second investor will take the remaining two.
  • In December 2025, OMERS completed a €770 million refinancing of its stake in Exolum: https://www.omersinfrastructure.com/news/omers-completes-refinancing-for-its-stake-in-exolum.

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About Stoneshield Capital

Founded in 2018 by Felipe Morenés Botín and Juan Pepa, Stoneshield Capital is a European real assets investment firm with a global approach, focused on building and scaling leading operational platforms across sectors supported by long-term structural trends. With more than €8 billion in assets under management and a rapidly growing investment platform, Stoneshield combines investment expertise, active asset management and capital markets capabilities to deliver consistent risk-adjusted returns across cycles.

The firm’s portfolio includes Neinor Homes, one of Spain’s leading listed residential developers; MiCampus, the largest student housing platform in Southern Europe; Solaria, one of Europe’s leading renewable energy and digital infrastructure platforms; and Meliá, one of Europe’s leading hospitality platforms.

About OMERS Infrastructure

OMERS Infrastructure manages infrastructure investments globally on behalf of OMERS, the defined benefit pension plan for municipal employees in the Province of Ontario, Canada, and third-party investors through its Strategic Partnership Program. OMERS Infrastructure manages approximately C$40.9 billion, including capital invested on behalf of OMERS and third parties, in approximately 30 investments located in North America, Western Europe, India and Australia, and across sectors including energy, digital and transportation. OMERS Infrastructure has employees in Toronto, New York, London, Amsterdam and Sydney.

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Bitget Turns “Crypto Is Dead” Into a Comeback with Bitcoin Pizza Day Campaign ‘Flip the Slice’

Bitget Turns “Crypto Is Dead” Into a Comeback

Bitget celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day with Flip the Slice brand campaign

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today launched its global Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026 brand campaign, Flip the Slice, centered around a new music video, The Infinite Flip. The campaign flips skeptics’ “crypto is dead” claim into a catchy, tongue-in-cheek anthem.

The campaign’s core theme features a transition from a single moment of irony – “Flip the Slice” – to an endless cultural loop, “The Infinite Flip”. “Flip the Slice” captures crypto’s instinct to take a specific event – a market crash, a viral “crypto is dead” headline, or a meme trend, and flip it into momentum. The Infinite Flip takes that idea and stretches it across cycles: crypto has been declared “dead” hundreds of times, yet each so‑called death functions less as an endpoint and more as a reset, a stress test, and ultimately fuel for the next comeback. The flip is represented by how the community reframes every so-called “death” as the starting line for the next chapter.

The music video brings this to life by pairing every crash with recovery, shifting from pixelated Bitcoin art to modern DeFi dashboards, and ending each “death” scene with a new trend rising. It features market milestones like Bitcoin’s all‑time highs above $120,000, alongside cycles of bear markets, bull runs, and dancing cartoon characters that pop in and out with every market swing.

Bitget’s Bitcoin Pizza Day Campaign: ‘Flip the Slice’

Bitget Turns “Crypto Is Dead” Into a Comeback with Bitcoin Pizza Day Campaign ‘Flip the Slice’

Crypto keeps flipping forward

 

Offline Bitcoin Pizza Day Events

Bitget Turns “Crypto Is Dead” Into a Comeback with Bitcoin Pizza Day Campaign ‘Flip the Slice’

Bitget celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day with offline community meetups

Ignacio Aguirre Franco, Chief Marketing Officer at Bitget, states: “The Infinite Flip is intentionally tongue-in-cheek. Bitcoin has been declared ‘dead’ hundreds of times, but in our campaign, critics’ claims become story beats instead of conclusions. We’re acknowledging skeptics’ narratives with humor and fun, flipping them, and using them as fuel. Every death headline is just the prelude to crypto’s next comeback. Across all campaign activities, this ties back to one core idea: crypto keeps flipping forward.”

This campaign extends beyond the music video into a series of offline events worldwide, featuring slice-flipping themed interactions and limited-edition Pizza-Day-inspired merchandise. As part of the campaign, Bitget’s “Boxed for Opportunity” initiative delivers selected Web3 resumes to industry partners via pizza boxes, turning a nod to crypto culture into a tangible career pathway for young talent. It also builds on Blockchain4Youth, Bitget’s global education initiative for the next generation of Web3 builders.

To watch The Infinite Flipclick 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, 100+ 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.

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Slovenian Tourist Board: Slovenia to Host the 2026 UEC Road European Championships This October

The largest cycling event in Slovenian history will bring 800 riders from 50+ countries to the roads of Slovenia — including Slovenian cycling stars Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, May 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With fewer than 140 days to go, Slovenia is gearing up to stage the 2026 UEC Road European Championships — the most significant cycling event ever held in the country. From 2 to 7 October 2026, 800 female and male cyclists from more than 50 countries will compete in 14 races.

Over five days, the Championships will host junior and elite road races and time trials. The European titles will be decided on routes from Ljubljana through Šenčur, Medvode, Kranj, Preddvor, Škofja Loka, Vodice, Komenda, Mengeš, Domžale, Kamnik and Cerklje na Gorenjskem.

The 2026 UEC Road European Championships will carry special meaning for Slovenian fans, who will be able to watch the best Slovenian riders compete on home roads in the national team jersey, including Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič, and Urška Žigart.

Through the five competition days, organisers expect around 300,000 spectators along the routes and more than 16.5 million viewers following the Championships on television and digital channels.

“A Golden Age of Cycling”

Enrico Della Casa, President of the Union Européenne de Cyclisme, underscored why Slovenia was the right choice: “The European Championships will take place in a country that is experiencing a true golden age of cycling. The exceptional results achieved in recent years and the development of new generations confirm the strength and vision of a system capable of developing both top-level athletes and young talents. We are convinced that the Championships will deliver races of the highest technical standard and outstanding sporting moments.”

Tourism and Promotion

The Slovenian Tourist Board is backing the event with targeted communications. A dedicated landing page — offering comprehensive travel and tourist information for fans and visitors — is now live at a special landing page.

About the Slovenian Tourist Board

The Slovenian Tourist Board is the national tourism organisation responsible for promoting Slovenia as a destination in international markets. For more information, visit https://www.slovenia.info/en/press-centre/press-releases/38071-slovenia-to-become-the-european-stage-for-road-cycling-in-october

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