Block One Capital Inc. Agrees to Acquire up to 40% of New York, USA Based Mortgage Blockchain Company and Announces Board of ...
06 Décembre 2017 - 9:05AM
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Block One Capital Inc. (TSXV:BLOK) (Frankfurt:ES3) (the
“
Company” or “
Block One”), is
pleased to announce that it has signed a binding term sheet (the
"
Term Sheet") to acquire 40% of the equity of New
York based Finzat LLC (
“Finzat”), a private
company engaged in creating a blockchain system to create a
streamlined, digitized mortgage process that is more compliant and
SAFE: simpler, auditable, fault tolerant and efficient.
Pursuant to the Term Sheet, the Company is to
invest US$600,000 to acquire up to 40% of Finzat. The Company shall
make an additional milestone payment of US$80,000 upon Finzat
meeting certain conditions set forth in the Term Sheet. The
Company and Finzat intend to enter into a definitive agreement to
set out the terms and conditions of the acquisition. In the event
that no agreement is entered into, the binding Term Sheet will act
as the definitive agreement.
Finzat’s blockchain system aims to solve a
myriad of problems in the approximately ten trillion dollar United
States residential mortgage market, namely: transaction tracking,
compliance, auditing and security. Currently, the proof of
compliance is generally thought not to be adequately measured or
properly saved. Existing systems are not designed to retain data,
documents, rules or decisions, nor maintain current or historical
loan performance metrics. Traditional audit protocols attempt
to ensure quality control standards by sampling a subset of a much
larger universe of individual loan portfolios. Weaknesses inherent
in this approach can expose lenders and loan servicers to expensive
and time-consuming remedies, including fines and loan repurchase
obligations. The Finzat system aims to permanently preserve loan
information at the point of every decision and eliminates the need
to recreate proof at the backend. The need for such a system is
validated by more rigorous and standardized compliance regulations
that are being phased in, as mortgage markets continue to move
towards a mainstream paperless mortgage process.
Finzat was founded by Mr. Gnanesh Coomaraswamy.
Mr. Coomaraswamy holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from Northwestern University with a strong background in
cryptography. He is a published co-author of two papers in
the area of authentication and confidential communication across
networks; some of the foundational precepts of which were also
alluded to in the original whitepaper on blockchain. Mr.
Coomaraswamy also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
designation and is a Certified Financial Risk Manager.
Prior to founding Finzat, Mr. Coomaraswamy spent
over 20 years in the mortgage industry with an established track
record in banking and risk management positions with Morgan
Stanley, GE Capital and as the Chief Investment Officer and
Treasurer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago. He is a
pioneering member of the Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF) program
team at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, where he
successfully managed a $50 billion residential mortgage portfolio
and one of the world’s largest interest rate swaps and options
positions in the OTC interest rate derivative market. Mr.
Coomaraswamy spent 10 years in telecommunications engineering
before entering the mortgage industry.
“Finzat is one of the marquis teams and
applications in blockchain that we have come across. The
founder and his team bring an unprecedented level of acumen and
experience to the table - Mr. Coomaraswamy is a true pioneer of
blockchain. We are thrilled to be making an investment in
such a compelling business,” said Mr. David Berg, CEO of Block One
Capital Inc.
Additionally, Mr. Coomaraswamy has joined the
Company’s Board of Advisors effective immediately.
For more information on Block One Capital Inc.
please visit: www.blockonecap.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“David Berg”Chief Executive Officer and
Director
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS
RELEASE.
This news release may contain forward-looking
statements that are based on the Company’s expectations, estimates
and projections regarding its business and the economic environment
in which it operates. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult
to control or predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may
differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking
statements and readers should not place undue reliance on such
statements. Statements speak only as of the date on which they are
made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update them
publicly to reflect new information or the occurrence of future
events or circumstances, unless otherwise required to do so by
law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its
Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release and has in no way passed
upon the merits of the qualifying transaction and has neither
approved nor disapproved of the contents of this press release.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Block One
Capital Inc.Office: 604-908-3095; email: info@blockonecap.com
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