Opened this September during Climate Week, Gotham Foundry aims to leverage biomaterial innovation to bring new businesses and materials to key New York City industries like fashion and construction.

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / November 17, 2025 / Originally published by TriplePundit

By Tina Casey

A worldwide shift in materials science is underway as innovators deploy new technologies to create sustainable products. With people growing more aware of the world’s waste and pollution problems, an expanding segment of consumers is looking for green attributes in the products they buy – choosing items that are biodegradable, are made from renewable or regenerative materials found in nature, and can be disposed of sustainably at the end of their life.

To source the materials they need to meet this demand, companies depend on scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors at the forefront of the growing green economy. In New York City, a planned innovation hub called Gotham Foundry aims to attract and support the best and brightest in this field from around the world.

Gotham Foundry opened this September during Climate Week and is focused on leveraging biomaterial innovation to bring new businesses and materials to key New York City industries – like fashion and construction. It will support startups creating next-gen materials like biodegradable plastic alternatives and upcycled textiles while serving as a hub for biomanufacturing education and green workforce training.

A citywide initiative, Gotham Foundry is funded by $45 million from New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). Located at Harlem Biospace on West 127th Street, it will be led by materials innovators at Columbia Engineering, the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and the City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center, and Genspace, the world’s first community biology lab, located in Sunset Park.

New York strives to be at the forefront of the global green economy

While New York City does not have the space for the large "giga-factories" typical of manufacturing hubs in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere, the city offers innovators a creative and dynamic environment unlike anywhere else in the world. Not to mention direct access to investors in one of the world’s financial capitals, along with a supportive regulatory environment for sustainability innovation at both the city and state levels.

This confluence of factors creates the opportunity to build a collaborative, interactive network in support of sustainable materials research, said Maria Gotsch, president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City. "Now we’re stitching the pieces together – let’s make this more of a strategic focus, let’s connect the dots in a more explicit way," she said.

New York has already established itself as a global center for transformative innovation through initiatives including the BATWorks climate innovation hub, the AI Nexus, and the Urban Tech Hub at Newlab – which launched in 2016 with help from the Partnership Fund. "A lot of MIT graduates are coming to New York specifically for Newlab, because if you’re working in urban technology, you have a large concentration of people," Gotsch explained. "All this makes New York an early-adopter market.""

New York fashion: Where science and creativity meet

The Gotham Foundry hub aims to supercharge New York City’s materials ecosystem to bring and commercialize New York’s legacy industries new, more sustainable innovations. The fashion industry in New York City continues to be the largest centralized area for fashion brands, designers, and manufacturers in the United States. With 1 in 3 fashion designers all residing in the New York metro area and approximately 65 million tourists shopping in the city’s iconic retailers, new material innovators and companies have an incredible opportunity to commercialize and experience growth faster than any other region. The industry also draws fashion technology innovators, R&D and production experts, marketing and advertising specialists, social media and content creators, as well as showrooms, sales and merchandising experts. The city understands the economic and cultural importance of this industry and has worked to develop a suite of programs to support it as well as other innovation sectors.

In 2013, NYCEDC and the Council of Fashion Designers of America partnered to launch the $6 million Fashion Manufacturing Initiative, part of an ongoing effort to support and invest in new technologies for the city’s garment sector. The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative has since grown into a $14 million advanced manufacturing and technology program in support of New York City garment manufacturers and the workforce.

"Every fashion capital thinks they’re the best, and they are at what they do, but I’m really excited about New York City’s openness to creative capital," said Sara Kozlowski, vice president of program strategies and education at the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Kozlowski says Gotham Foundry will help fashion innovators sharpen their focus on materials reuse and recycling. "We’re in a new phase of how things are made: design for repair, design for disassembly, design for next life," she explained. "We are in such an exciting time in the last decade. The pace of innovation is incredible. It’s particularly important to think about the interconnection of systems – we need systems to support the great materials we’re seeing."

Indeed there’s no shortage of innovative materials popping up across the city’s garment space. The Brooklyn startup Kintra Fibers, for example, has developed a plant-based form of nylon that is biodegradable when disposed in controlled composting systems. Also based in Brooklyn, the alternative leather startup TômTex launched in 2020 with support from the CFDA. The company’s base material is chitosan, a naturally occurring fibrous sugar found in mushrooms, shellfish and other biogenic sources that the company makes into a leather-like textile. The CFDA also supports technology-centered improvements in circularity – including a fiber sorting system enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) in collaboration with eBay’s Circular Fashion Fund.

"This also encapsulates what we see at NYCEDC," said Kidd Solomon, assistant vice president for innovation industries at New York City Economic Development Corporation. "Circularity provides opportunities for people to experience the ‘science-fiction’ of biomaterials beyond the lab and in their everyday lives."

Rethinking the future of the built environment

From the Statue of Liberty to the Chrysler Building, New York is a city defined by iconic architectural landmarks. "New York is a showcase," said Emily Majewski, co-founder of the bio-based building materials startup Phytostone.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic raised public awareness of how important well-designed indoor spaces are for our health, major cities like New York are in the midst of a healthy building revolution. Though the building industry tends to be risk-averse, innovators like Majewski are finding success in introducing new bio-based materials that are more sustainable and improve indoor air quality. Gotham Foundry aims to support them and the city’s construction industry as a living laboratory for biomaterials innovation.

"New York is in a very unique position. Especially since COVID, the understanding and appreciation for healthy indoor spaces has skyrocketed," Majewski said. "Materials are now finally being recognized. After decades of being a fringe consideration, they are everything we interface with constantly. They are so ubiquitous we don’t even notice, but you cannot detach yourself from a material surface."

According to a press announcement from NYCEDC: "Phytostone created Cast Carbon, biochar-enriched wall tiles that blend clays, minerals and agricultural waste into a compostable finish. The wall tiles are designed for modular installation and disassembly, storing carbon while elevating interior aesthetics. This fall, Cast Carbon is participating in NYCEDC’s Pilots at BAT program, which enables pilots to receive access to spaces and infrastructure at NYCEDC’s flagship waterfront asset BAT-a vital 60-acre industrial campus-and the MADE Bush Terminal Campus to test their technologies, develop their products, show viability for customers and investors, and tap into New York City’s economy, the ninth largest in the world."

Majewski says her company’s signature product, is a good fit for New York, where the construction industry is constantly updating a "forest" of existing buildings as well as putting up new buildings. Access to a skilled workforce over half a million strong and a reliable, nearby supply chain for bio-based materials drew Majewski to New York to build her startup.

"New York City has such an incredible resource of buildings that need to be renewed and updated. The older buildings are competing with the newest ones, so it made a lot of sense for us to be there," she explained.

She cites the city’s fashion industry, architects, and interior designers as key supporters of her company’s "lead with beauty" approach to developing new bio-based materials, aiming for a strong, visual-first impression that opens up conversations about cost, performance, sustainability, and ethical supply chains.

Founders like Majewski are among those recognizing that a tipping point in public sentiment has arrived, working in support of biomaterials innovators and investors. Momentum is poised to continue to build toward the more sustainable, circular and healthier bio-based economy envisioned by Gotham Foundry and its partners.

"Material health and bringing nature indoors is universal and bipartisan," Majewski concluded. "No one will want to go back to unhealthy, damaging materials."

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NEW YORK, NY, LONDON, UK, and ABU DHABI, UAE /ACCESS Newswire / November 17, 2025 / Avrio Worldwide PBC ("Avrio"), a global financial services technology company providing institutional-grade market infrastructure, services, and data across public, private, and digital markets, today announced the appointment of James O’Neill as Chief Investment Officer (CIO).

O’Neill brings more than two decades of experience in investment banking and capital markets across the healthcare, technology, and fintech sectors. As CIO, he will oversee Avrio’s global investment and capital markets strategy, with a focus on integrating traditional financial infrastructure with emerging digital asset and blockchain technologies.

"I’m thrilled to join Avrio at a pivotal time in the evolution of digital financial markets," said James O’Neill. "Avrio’s technology and regulatory infrastructure are built to bridge traditional and digital capital markets – enabling issuers, investors, and institutions to transact seamlessly across public, private, and on-chain environments. Our goal is to create the connective tissue for a new generation of global financial market participants."

Lawrence Wintermeyer, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Avrio Worldwide, added: "James’s extensive capital markets background and leadership experience across banking, fintech, and digital assets bring tremendous value to Avrio’s mission. His expertise and network will accelerate our vision to deliver a transparent, compliant, and interconnected digital market ecosystem."

In addition to his role at Avrio, O’Neill is a Managing Partner at Aximeter Partners, a strategic advisory and investment firm, and serves as a board member with Ethos Defi, a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized finance platform in the Avrio group of companies.

Previously, O’Neill held senior investment banking roles including Co-Head of Healthcare and Head of Capital Markets at JonesTrading, where he advised public and private companies on strategic financings and growth transactions. Earlier in his career, he held leading positions at Oppenheimer & Co. and Roth Capital Partners, and Cantor Fitzgerald and Dalman Rose & Co. (acquired by Cowen).

About AVRIO Worldwide PBC

AVRIO is a registered market infrastructure provider with a full technology stack.

Avrio is the parent company of Arkonis Capital LLC, the operator of a US broker dealer (BD) for transacting equities and debt, with an Alternative Trading System (ATS) and institutional grade full technology stack for private markets and alternatives, known as AvrioT.

Avrio technology includes:

• a qualified matching services (QMS), and quotation bureau (QB), and a transfer agent (TA) for transacting in unregistered securities and private markets, and alternatives

• and order management (OMS), exchange management (EMS), portfolio management (PMS) and client management (CMS) for transacting in registered securities, ETFs, and funds in public markets

• a digital token and investment fund management platform for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs)

• a non-custodial wallet (DEX) – www.ethosdefi.com

This technology allows clients and partners to create, manage, and trade any public, private, and digital asset on a global platform, and is blockchain / protocol agnostic. This enables clients to capture and scale market opportunities while creating standardization and best practices designed to prevent fraud, protect investors, and comply with know-your-customer and anti-money laundering compliance laws. Arkonis Capital LLC is a member of FINRA and SIPC.

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CHARLOTTE, NC / ACCESS Newswire / November 16, 2025 / As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, a pivotal new op-ed and accompanying documentary invite journalists to rethink the legacy, challenges, and future of America’s libraries. With book bans, curriculum disputes, and debates over representation dominating the headlines, these projects illuminate how Black librarians have been-and remain-key defenders of knowledge and guardians of community memory.

Planning Committee of the American Heritage Discussion Group 1953-1954 courtesy of Digital NC

Published in Common Dreams, the editorial "The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance" arrives at a time when the mission and values of libraries are under public scrutiny. The op-ed goes beyond commemoration to raise the alarm: community-led documentation is now a frontline defense against the erasure of diverse histories and the silencing of marginalized voices-a theme as crucial today as at any point in America’s long history.

This timely conversation continues in the soon-to-be-released documentary, "Are You a Librarian: Black Librarians and Freedom Through Literacy." Featuring over sixty in-depth interviews and exclusive archival discoveries, the film spans from small-town branches to presidential libraries, showcasing how Black librarians have historically ensured that the promise of the public library-access, truth, and education for all-becomes a reality, even in the face of discrimination and censorship. Their stories reveal how the fight to preserve and share untold narratives is central to both past and future milestones in American librarianship.

Why Cover This For the America 250?

• The rise of book challenges and censorship makes the library’s historic role urgent news.

• Black librarians’ stories offer underreported, meaningful perspectives on the America 250’s legacy and its next century.

• Uniquely connects the association’s milestone moment with contemporary calls to action to preserve knowledge, foster inclusion, and protect intellectual freedom.

About the Projects:
"The Librarian’s Call: Documenting Is Resistance" is available via Common Dreams.
"Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians" is a new feature documentary releasing in 2026 and timed to coincide with the America 250’s 150th anniversary and related public programs.

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Featured companies include Lionscrest Advisors, DataVault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT), Pudgy Penguins (PENGU)), Peer To Peer Network (OTC:PTOP), and Acurx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACXP).

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 15, 2025 / New to The Street, one of the nation’s leading business television platforms and a top-ranked financial YouTube channel, announces the broadcast of its milestone Show #700 airing today at 6:30 PM ET on Bloomberg Television as sponsored programming.

This landmark episode underscores the brand’s rapid expansion across national television, digital, social, and outdoor media – showcasing innovative public and private companies shaping the next decade of technology, finance, healthcare, and consumer culture.

Featured Companies on Episode #700

Lionscrest Advisors

A global advisory and investment firm known for its strategic insight across capital markets, M&A, and corporate finance. Lionscrest provides institutional-grade advisory services to clients navigating complex financial landscapes worldwide.

DataVault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT)

A leader in enterprise-grade artificial intelligence, digital asset monetization, and data management. DVLT continues to advance AI-driven business intelligence solutions that help organizations unlock and monetize their data ecosystems.

Pudgy Penguins (PudgyPenguins)

A global consumer brand that has successfully expanded from blockchain culture into toys, licensing, digital IP, and mainstream media. Pudgy Penguins is among the fastest-growing Web3-native franchises with international retail distribution.

Peer To Peer Network (OTC:PTOP)

The company behind MobiCard, a digital business card and networking system that is transforming how individuals and businesses connect, share, and track professional interactions through mobile and cloud-based technology.

Acurx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACXP)

A late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of antibiotics targeting difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. ACXP’s pipeline addresses major unmet medical needs, including C. difficile and other Gram-positive pathogens.

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About New to The Street

New to The Street is the leading multi-channel financial media platform featuring weekly sponsored programming on Bloomberg Television and Fox Business, combined with one of the fastest-growing business YouTube channels in the industry. The platform integrates long-form interviews, television commercials, earned media, and iconic Times Square billboard exposure, offering companies a comprehensive and predictable national media presence.

With over 3.8M YouTube subscribers, national cable distribution reaching more than 200 million homes, and powerful social channels across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook, New to The Street delivers unmatched visibility for emerging growth companies, mid-cap leaders, and global brands.

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Expert Gives Tips to Create a ‘Wow’ Look this Winter

ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Winter and the holidays bring the ultimate beauty and style stress test with dry skin, freezing air outside, blasting heat inside, and outfits that must go from cozy to party-ready in seconds. The new trend for 2025? Winter glam that is wearable like glowing skin, smart fabric choices, and fashion that still looks chic when the temperature drops. Milly Almodovar, the on-air beauty and style expert seen on TODAY offers some ideas that work. Including tips to help the skin stay radiant, looks that hold up in cold weather, and easy upgrades that feel festive without the fuss.

KEEP SKIN LOOKING GREAT
Rihanna’s go-to body moisturizer is Fenty Skin Butta Drop Whipped Oil Body Cream. It is ultra-luxe, super nourishing, and leaves skin with a gorgeous mega-sheen. It comes in amazing mix-and-match scents like Fenty Fresh, Vanilla Dream, and Salted Caramel and it is an Allure Best of Beauty winner that went viral and sold out thanks to the incredible hydration. Try it or gift the new Lil Butta Dropz gift set that comes in limited-edition festive scents ‘Naughty Nutmeg’ and ‘Warm Cinnamon.’ Whether buying the full size or mini the cost is under $50. For more information, visit fentybeauty.com

GO-TO SHOE PICK FOR WINTER
Just in time for winter, the Chuck Taylor All Star Elements Boot is here to help everyone brave the cold. With the iconic ankle patch and All Star license plate this puffed-up version of the Chuck Taylor is the perfect cold-weather accessory. They are super cute, super cozy, and built to brave the elements. It is water-repellent, insulated, lined with fleece to keep warm, plus it has OrthoLite cushioning and a durable rubber sole that gives traction when needed. For more information, visit www.converse.com

AN EASIER WAY TO STAY STYLISH
Especially this time of year, Stitch Fix is the go-to destination for styles without any shopping required, which definitely takes the stress away. Just take a quick style quiz, and a stylist handpicks pieces. Your Fix shows up right at your door – try it on, keep what you love, and send back the rest. No subscription needed, plus, shipping and returns are always free. And now, with new features like Stitch Fix Vision and Stylist Connect, you can actually see yourself in outfits before you buy and even chat with a stylist for tips. It’s holiday style made easy! For more information, visit www.stitchfix.com

ANOTHER FASHION OR BEAUTY TREND
Men and women both love a little luxury for less and one trend that never goes out of style is healthy hair. PURA D’OR is my go-to for healthy looking hair. They are known for their best-selling Anti-Thinning Gold Label Shampoo and Conditioner Set, and it is under $40! PURA D’OR works for all hair types, and the formula blends premium natural extracts and select organic ingredients to tackle dryness and help comfort and refresh the scalp. Plus, it is packed with Aloe Vera, Argan Oil, and Red Korean Seaweed to help nourish and strengthen your hair, so it looks fuller, thicker, and healthier. For more information, visit purador.com

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Creative Ideas to Elevate Holiday Spread from Everyday to Extraordinary!

ATLANTA, GA / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / The holiday season is here and with it, the pressure to serve meals that impress without the stress. Chef Tregaye, host of Tregaye’s Way on OWN and winner of Food Network Star, provides some timely tips to kick off the week with easy, flavorful ideas for Thanksgiving and beyond. From holiday classics with a twist to simple, crowd-pleasing recipes for parties and family gatherings, Chef Tregaye shares smart, time-saving ways to entertain with confidence all season long.

ONE MENU ITEM THAT SOME HOSTS MAY OVERLOOK

This holiday season do not overlook Italian dishes and flavors because Italian food is always a crowd-pleaser! Whether hosting friends, family, neighbors, or coworkers, Contadina brings that authentic Italian flavor that has been loved since 1918. With their premium tomato products whole, crushed, paste, sauce, and puree; take everyday meals and turn them into flavorful, memorable moments. Check out amazing recipes like the Skillet Beef Lasagna and Eggplant Parmesan. They are easy to make, loaded with flavor, and perfect for holiday entertaining. When hosting this season, Contadina is ripe for the moment. For more information, visit www.contadina.com

A SECRET TO COMPLETE THE HOLIDAY MENU

The holidays are all about good food and great memories and no holiday meal is complete without Bush’s Baked Beans. That slow-cooked flavor tastes just like home, without all the stress. It takes even the simplest dish and makes it feel special. It is that OG family favorite passed down from Grandma’s kitchen and it goes with everything like ham, turkey, and stuffing. Two favorites are Grandma’s Favorite Beans with beef, bacon, and smoky sausage. Or for something cozy and cheesy, try the Southern Beef and Beans Casserole with gooey cheese, onions, and peppers. With Bush’s, holiday entertaining is easy, delicious, and straight-up comforting. For more information, visit www.bushbeans.com

HOW CAN FAMILIES STAY CONNECTED

The holidays can get a little hectic, especially with kids running around while trying to host. So try HP’s free Bite Sized Lessons. They turn everyday moments into playful learning for the whole family. These fun printables were made with Highlights and Harvard experts and are perfect for kids 5 to 10. I use my HP Smart Tank 5101 to print them-it’s super easy and comes with up to 2 years of ink. So, while I’m serving holiday dishes, the kids are busy learning-and maybe even quizzing grandma at the table! For more information, visit printables.hp.com

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POST FALLS, IDAHO / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Trustpoint Xposure’s early leadership in AEO equips clients with a major competitve advantage in an increasingly AI-driven landscape. AI assistants are now reshaping how audiences discover, research, and evaluate brands. Trustpoint Xposure, known for its relentless pursuit of leading the media industry in tech, announced today that it has become the first media strategy and PR agency to formally integrate Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) into its end-to-end communications practice. This milestone positions the agency as a pioneer in helping clients appear more accurately and consistently inside AI-generated answers.

Answer Engine Optimization refers to structuring content so large language models-ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and others-can parse, interpret, and cite brand information with greater precision. AEO differs from SEO by focusing on machine readability, factual density, and semantic clarity rather than keyword rankings or backlinks. In fact, SEO companies are now scrambling to understand the new integration. The challenge is, there are only a small few who know how it works, and even less who can teach it.

Defining AEO for the PR and Media World

AI-powered discovery now dominates early-stage research. Whether users ask:

• "What is the best platform for…?"

• "Compare the leading companies in…"

• "Who are the top providers of…?"

AI systems assemble answers from multiple sources. Without AEO, brands may be inconsistently represented, misclassified, or omitted entirely.

Through its AEO-aligned framework, Trustpoint Xposure ensures brand content is properly indexed, contextualized, and surfaced across answer engines.

"Traditional firms simply don’t yet understand the tidal shift that’s happening right now begind the scenes. AEO is the missing link between PR and AI-driven discovery," said David Wilder, Founder & CEO of Trustpoint Xposure. "Our clients not only want their stories represented accurately by journalists, they want to be recognized at the go-to authority by AI systems. Our job is to make both happen."

Why PR Needs AEO

Traditional media placement does not guarantee AI discovery.

Today’s LLMs prioritize:

• Clarity of definitions

• Consistent terminology

• Structured narrative patterns

• Factual statements supported by recognizable entities

AEO addresses all of these, strengthening visibility across both human and machine audiences.

How Trustpoint Xposure Integrates AEO Into Its Work

Trustpoint’s AEO-based services include:

• AI-structured press releases

• Machine-readable executive bios

• Entity-aligned messaging architectures

• Knowledge graph optimization

• AI-ready editorial frameworks

• Semantic and factual consistency mapping

This dual-layer editorial process ensures high journalistic quality while enabling maximum AI retrievability.

AEO: The New Standard in Communications

Wilder added, "We’re helping our clients get ahead of the curve. In the next 12-18 months, AEO will become the baseline expectation for brands, just like SEO became expected for websites. "

Brands and communications teams looking to modernize their PR strategy for the AI era can contact Trustpoint Xposure at www.trustpointxposure.com.

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Trustpoint Xposure is the first agency to formally integrate Answer Engine Optimization into its PR and media strategy practice. Through AI-structured writing, strategic narrative design, and content engineering, Trustpoint ensures brands achieve consistent, authoritative visibility across answer engines, AI assistants, and digital media ecosystems.

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SHANGHAI, CHINA / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / The Chinese capital market will become more and more open to the outside world, as the China Securities Regulatory Commission will steadily expand high-level institutional opening-up to create a favorable investment environment for international investors, according to the watchdog’s vice chairman.

The CSRC will continue to promote the opening up of the Chinese capital market in terms of marketization, rule of law, and internationalization, Li Ming said at the 2025 Shanghai Stock Exchange Global Investors Conference on November 12.

The CSRC will improve the qualified foreign investor system, steadily and prudently expand the interconnection mechanisms between onshore and offshore stock markets, accelerate the construction of world-class stock exchanges, enrich cross-border investment products, and promote the inclusion of more futures and options varieties in the scope of the opening-up, Li noted.

Moreover, the CSRC will enhance the convenience for foreign institutions to participate in the Chinese capital market, strengthen the construction of regulatory and risk prevention capacity in the open environment, deepen cross-border regulatory and law enforcement work, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of all investors, he added.

"China’s economy is at a critical stage in a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation," Qiu Yong, chairman of the SSE, said at the conference. "We sincerely invite global investors to pay active attention to and continuously invest in Chinese assets."

Foreign capital is actively investing in China’s advanced manufacturing, biomedicine, and other advantageous industries and paying more and more attention to investment opportunities in the country, according to Qian Jing, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley Securities China.

China has become one of the most important markets in Temasek’s international investment portfolio, said Wu Yibing, chairman of Temasek China. As a long-term investor, Temasek has always kept an eye on the structural transformation process and policy orientation of the Chinese economy, he added.

"We will continue to build a resilient and forward-looking investment portfolio in China by investing long-term, patient, and value capital, and focus on opportunities that are in line with investment trends," Wu pointed out.

"Mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations have brought new investment opportunities to international investors," said Wang Bo, vice general manager of the SSE, adding that technology companies listed on the SSE’s Star Market will become a golden track for sharing the dividends of China’s technological innovation with international investors.

Foreign investors can proactively invest in traditional Chinese mainland-listed firms focused on transformation to seize the opportunities brought by their future revaluation, Wang noted.

Overseas investors can also invest in industry leaders at the early stage of industrial integration, obtaining long-term stable investment returns through the continuous enhancement of their core competitiveness, he added.

Chinese stocks are cheap and attractive enough, said Wong Kok Hoi, founder, chairman, and chief strategy officer of APS Asset Management, adding that he remains bullish on the Chinese capital market.

China’s economic development and technological progress will be driven by manufacturing, innovation, and talent, he predicted.

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Launched in August 2016, Yicai Global is the English-language news service of Yicai Media Group, the financial news arm of Shanghai Media Group, which is one of China’s largest state-owned media conglomerates. Focused primarily on China’s business world, Yicai Global is dedicated to provide reliable and insightful information and analysis of the economy, finance, tech, startups, and entrepreneurs.

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Whistleblower urges reporters and policymakers to examine public RICO filings citing HR 1049’s findings and a Treasury-SEC memo questioning the 2013 PREPA bond issuance.

MURRIETA, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Federal whistleblower Richard R. Lawless has submitted new filings highlighting federal documents that do not appear to have been referenced during the 2016 PROMESA hearings, despite containing substantial risk information relevant to Puerto Rico’s financial collapse. These materials, incorporated into a public set of civil RICO allegations now available on the PROMESA Title III docket, raise significant questions for policymakers, investors, and financial analysts.

Central to the filings are two key documents:

1. HR 1049 (2015 House Natural Resources Committee Report)
The report – an official congressional document – described Puerto Rico’s electric utility finances citing refinancing cycles, distressed revenue structures, and internal financial warnings that predated PROMESA.

2. A 22-Page Treasury-SEC Email from 2013
Authored within the Treasury Department and shared with the SEC, the communication raised internal concerns that the 2013 PREPA bond issuance may not have fully reflected known risk factors. These included uncollectible receivables, revenue instability, and questions regarding the clarity of the offering materials. The 2013 bond issue later defaulted within approximately two years.

A Key Question Raised in the Filings

"If federal agencies possessed these documents prior to the PROMESA hearings, why were they not presented-and would the PROMESA vote have proceeded as it did if they had been?"

Lawless emphasized that the filings do not assert conclusions but call for independent examination by oversight bodies.
"Given the scale of the documents now in the public domain, I strongly encourage reporters, policymakers, and analysts to review the docketed RICO materials themselves," Lawless said. "Every referenced document is publicly accessible."

Potential Impact Identified by Analysts

Analysts reviewing the filings note that:

HR 1049’s language does not appear in public PROMESA hearing transcripts;

The Treasury-SEC memo does not appear in the legislative record;

Both documents contain information that rating agencies, insurers, and institutional investors may have considered material;

Access to these documents could have influenced congressional debate and legislative outcomes.

Invitation for Review

The full RICO filings – including exhibits, timelines, and referenced federal documents – are available on the public docket. Lawless stated that transparency and independent verification are essential given the legislative importance of PROMESA and the scale of the financial losses involved.

No federal agency referenced in the filings has issued public comment on the historical handling of these documents.

Contact Information

Richard Lawless
CEO
richardrlawless@gmail.com
951-440-5230

Related Documents:

• ExHibit A – PROMESA COURT – Docketed RICO Violations 10-21-25.pdf
• Docketed Amicus Curriae Motion and Brief (PROMESA TITLE III FILING) 10-6-25.pdf

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