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The biggest Cross-Border E-commerce Fair Opens in China

FUZHOU, China, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On March 18th, the 5th China Cross-border e-Commerce Trade Fair grandly opened in Fuzhou, China. Over 1,800 enterprises from 28 Chinese provinces, as well as those overseas from the US, France and Poland, participated. The exhibition area reached 60,000 square meters, which is 20% more than that of the previous session.

With upgrading as its theme, the fair focused on “digitalization” and “new globalization,” showcasing its continuous innovation.

Strategic Upgrades: Launching the Conference

The fair coincided with the 2025 China Cross-border e- Commerce Conference, themed “Upgraded to be Global”. It gathered founders of manufacturing companies, CEOs of large-scale exporters, senior executives from top e-business platforms, authors on global marketing, influencers with millions of followers, scholars and institutional experts, etc..

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Deng Hai, the host representative  and the CEO of Midodo Technology, announced the release of the 2025 Blue Book of the Upgrade and Development on China Export Cross-border e-Commerce, which is also the first cross-border e-commerce blue book in the year of 2025.

Concept Upgrades: Data-Driven Exhibition

This fair introduced the innovative concept of data-driven expo, offering digital achievements to the exhibitors and visitors. For the first time, category-data displaying walls were set up in various zones, showcasing product data from multiple sources like Amazon and TikTok, to help product-selection and R&D.

In e-commerce, 70% of success depends on product selection, while balance on operations. Product selection directly impacts a company’s competitiveness. The fair also upgraded the Potential Products Prediction Zone, inviting well-known data providers to release the relative reports, guiding the sellers in product-selection.

Zone Upgrades: People-Oriented

Following the success of the previous session, this fair invited again several overseas influencers to attend for live-streaming sales, and set up a “One-to-One Negotiation Zone for those influencers,” to meet Chinese enterprises’ demand on local marketing and talent when going overseas.

The Business Clinic is expanded too, with new experts capable on niche platforms like Voghion, Etsy, Kogan, Trademe, and for the first time AI-capable businessmen.

Structural Upgrades: Stronger and Better

The fair sticked to its principle of suppliers to be the main participants, and the proportion of suppliers reached 80% again. Notably, there were more large-sized exhibitors than before, and the area of custom-built booths accounted for nearly 50%, hitting a new high.

This fair gathered well-known platforms around the world, which not only included e-commerce barons such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wayfair, but also local magnates, like Shopee and Lazada from Southeast Asia, Coupang from Korea, Rakuten from Japan, Mercado Libre from South America, and European platforms like Cdiscount, OZON, eMAG, Allegro, JoomPro etc.. Chinese platforms like Alibaba.com, Made-in-China, DHgate, SHEIN, TEMU, 1688, Taobao Overseas and Rednote attended as well.

Totally about 50 high-level forums and business-matching activities will be held during this fair. These events were widely popular on the first day, with full attendance.

 

 

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Qi Card Expands Financial Crime Compliance Training with IFI as Its Regional Presence Grows

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Institute for Financial Integrity (IFI) is pleased to announce that Qi Card, one of Iraq’s leading electronic payment companies, is expanding its use of IFI’s compliance education and training services as its business grows across the region.

Qi Card’s evolving training requirements illustrate the importance of compliance education that can scale.

Qi Card has embarked on a comprehensive, multi-year compliance transformation program spanning April 2025 through December 2027. The initiative focuses on strengthening corporate governance, AML/CFT controls, sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring, risk management, and institutional compliance capabilities, with the objective of further aligning the organization with international regulatory expectations and global financial integrity standards. Continuous professional development and specialized training, supported by IFI’s DOLFIN platform, form an integral part of this broader transformation.

“Our compliance transformation represents a long-term strategic commitment to strengthening financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and institutional governance across Qi Card and its regional operations,” said Dureid Saad, Head of Compliance at Qi Card. “Developing the knowledge and capabilities of our employees is fundamental to achieving these objectives. Our collaboration with IFI supports this commitment by providing structured, internationally oriented compliance education across the organization.”

IFI’s work with Qi Card has evolved across three key areas:

Enterprise-wide foundational learning: Qi Card employees gained access to IFI’s DOLFIN platform and video library through the Financial Integrity and Cross-Border Payments Training Program, providing foundational financial crime compliance education.Customized compliance training: IFI developed three annual compliance courses tailored to Qi Card’s needs: Introduction to KYC/CDD, Introduction to Transaction Monitoring, and Introduction to Sanctions Screening.Regional expansion: IFI conducted a training needs assessment to help identify learning priorities, then enrolled Qi Card’s subsidiaries in the UAE and Jordan.

“Qi Card’s evolving training requirements illustrate the importance of compliance education that can scale with a growing financial services business,” said Natalie Pulsifer, Senior Director of Client Services at IFI. “IFI’s work with Qi Card has progressed from foundational learning to customized courses and expanded regional access, helping deliver relevant training as the organization’s needs and geographic reach continue to develop.”

As financial institutions expand into new markets, scalable and targeted compliance education can help organizations equip employees with the knowledge needed to navigate shifting financial crime risks and regulatory expectations.

About IFI

The Institute for Financial Integrity is dedicated to empowering today’s institutions to protect their operations and the global financial system from illicit use. It provides both in-person training and online education, testing, and certifications through DOLFIN®—the Dedicated Online Financial Integrity Network—its proprietary learning platform.

Follow IFI on LinkedIn.

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Institute for Financial Integrity Media Relations
media@finintegrity.org 

About Qi Card

Qi Card was established in 2007 through a partnership between the private sector, represented by Iraqi electronic payment systems, and the public sector, represented by Al-Rafidain Bank, the country’s largest bank. Qi Card offers flexible financial services, full banking capabilities through mobile devices, and value-added solutions for individual and corporate customers.

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TaxDome Releases Client MCP: Taxpayers Can Now Work With Their Accountant Through Their Own AI Assistant

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NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TaxDome, the practice management platform for accounting firms, today released a client MCP, an industry first: a firm’s clients can now reach their accountant from inside their own AI assistant. Clients connect their TaxDome account to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible assistant and ask in plain language: what’s outstanding, is my return ready?

“We’re focused on providing the best possible client experience wherever clients are: the mobile app, the web, and now the assistant in their pocket,” said Ilya Radzinsky, co-founder of TaxDome. “Today this is for early adopters. But AI assistants and agents will become a bigger part of the consumer experience, and accountants using TaxDome will be there to provide it.”

What’s launching

Client MCP: ask your assistant about documents, requests, and invoices in the same chat clients use for everything else. One connection covers all of a client’s entities, and when something needs a signature or a payment, the assistant hands over the exact link: one tap, and it opens in the app.Scoped to the client, by design: a connection sees only what the client already sees: their own accounts and sign-in, nothing of the firm’s data beyond them.No cost to firms or clients: the AI client experience is included with the TaxDome platform, independent of the firm’s AI add-on.

“This client MCP is a game changer. The slowest part of every tax season is waiting on documents, and now we help clients set this up and what we need just shows up. Tax season becomes a breeze,” said Ryan Bakke, CPA, founder of Tax Strategy 365.

“My whole company runs out of Claude. This was the easiest back-and-forth I’ve ever had with my accountant. I like their portal, but never going into it is even better,” said Neil Mukhi, founder of Six10 Ventures.

The client MCP is live today for all firms, in the Claude directory and the ChatGPT plugin store. Learn more at https://taxdome.com/product-client-experience

About TaxDome

TaxDome is the leading practice management platform for tax, bookkeeping and full-service accounting firms, trusted by 15,000+ practices in 25+ countries. Its client app rates 4.9 stars across 40,000+ reviews and was named a 2026 Webby Award Honoree, a client experience that rivals the world’s top consumer brands.

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Cyber Security Customer Selects Silicom Edge Devices for Multiple Use Cases

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– Total business with the customer expected to exceed $10M in 2027 –

KFAR SAVA, Israel, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of networking and data infrastructure solutions, today announced a significant expansion of its relationship with a long-standing cyber security customer. Underscoring cyber security’s role as Silicom’s largest market – now accounting for approximately one-third of the company’s total revenues – this expansion marks Silicom’s fifth cyber security win out of nine total wins so far in 2026. Building on a proven track record together, the customer has selected Silicom’s edge devices for multiple additional use cases, and as a result, Silicom expects its total business with this customer to exceed $10 million in 2027.

“This is a concrete demonstration of how long-term, trusted relationships translate into growing revenues from existing customers,” commented Liron Eizenman, Silicom’s CEO. “We began working with this cyber security leader four years ago and have since found additional use cases for our products, including, most recently, the introduction of 5G connectivity. We are proud of the trust this customer places in Silicom as we look forward to scaling these new use cases together.”

Mr. Eizenman continued, “Our experience is that when a customer sees what our products can do in one deployment, it comes back with more use cases. This gives us a solid, predictable base of recurring revenues from which we continue to grow, both by increasing revenues from existing customers, as in this case, and by winning new ones. We take pride in serving as a go-to connectivity and performance partner for industry leaders. In fact, we are already exploring further products and use cases with this customer, and we believe we can increase our business with it even further in the years to come.”

About Silicom

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed to optimize performance and efficiency in Cloud, Data Center and Edge environments, Silicom’s solutions increase throughput and minimize latency, serving as the infrastructure backbone for today’s most critical technologies. Our innovations empower high-demand workloads across Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference, SD-WAN, SASE, cyber security, fabric switching, NFV, and more.

Our comprehensive portfolio, including high-speed server adapters, advanced hardware offloading and acceleration engines, AI NICs, FPGA-based smart cards, Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) hardware accelerators, white label switches and Edge CPEs, is used by Tier-1 customers throughout the world, including cloud players, service providers and OEMs, to enable their networks to scale efficiently. With engineering excellence, a strong financial position and a legacy of over 400 active Design Wins, Silicom serves as the “go-to” connectivity and performance partner for technology leaders around the globe, and drives the next generation of infrastructure.

For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il

Statements in this press release which are not historical data are forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, or other factors not under the company’s control, which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from the results, performance, or other expectations implied by these forward-looking statements.

These factors include, but are not limited to, Silicom’s dependence for substantial revenue growth on a limited number of customers, industry trends affecting networking and data center infrastructure, including the migration to cloud architectures, disaggregation of networking systems and the separation of hardware and software solutions; the pace of adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence inference infrastructure; the timing and extent of market adoption of Silicom’s new products and of new Design Wins achieved by Silicom; fluctuations in customer purchasing cycles and the timing of customer deployments; protection of intellectual property, changes in exchange rates; and the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and with Iran, as well as the war in the Ukraine, and existing and potential disruptions to global shipping routes such as the Straits of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

Further information about the company’s businesses, including information about factors that could materially affect Silicom’s results of operations and financial condition, are discussed in our Annual Report on Form 20-F and other documents filed by Silicom and that may be subsequently filed by the company from time to time with the SEC. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such because the context of the statement will include words such as “expect,” “should,” “believe,” “anticipate” or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements. In light of significant risks and uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation by Silicom that it will achieve such forward-looking statements. The company disclaims any duty to update such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Company Contact:

Eran Gilad, CFO

Silicom Ltd.        

Tel: +972-9-764-4555      

E-mail: erang@silicom.co.il

Investor Relations Contact:

Ehud Helft

EK Global Investor Relations

Tel: +1 212 378 8040

E-mail: silicom@ekgir.com 

 

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