SAN FRANCISCO and SINGAPORE, May 30,
2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global
leader in CRM, today announced that QUOINE—one of the fastest
growing innovators in the world of cryptocurrency, built on the
Salesforce Platform—has made an additional investment with
Salesforce to grow and scale its business globally.
QUOINE was founded in 2014 with a goal to be the world's largest
blockchain-based fintech company, making universal access to
financial services a reality. Founders Mike
Kayamori and Mario
Gomez-Lozada built QUOINE on the Salesforce Platform, which
enabled them to focus on innovation, growing and building the
cryptocurrency trading platform, and launching its own coin,
QASH.
In 2017, QUOINE moved to Heroku Enterprise and Heroku Shield,
part of the Salesforce Platform, to cope with the growing demands
of the business and a stringent regulatory environment. With
support from Salesforce, QUOINE became one of the first
cryptocurrency platforms to be awarded a trading license from
Financial Services Authority (FSA). In November 2017, QUOINE's successful initial coin
offering (ICO) raised 350 million QASH ($105
million) from nearly 5,000 participants in 98 countries
around the world.
Salesforce Heroku allows developers to build amazing customer
experiences on mobile and web apps in their choice of open source
languages—including Ruby, Node.js, Python and Java. Companies are
able to scale their businesses seamlessly with Heroku Enterprise
and build high-compliance apps with Heroku Shield.
"Our vision is universal access to financial services for
everyone, and Salesforce and Heroku are key to making this a
reality," said Mike Kayamori, CEO
and co-founder, QUOINE. "We are laser-focused on innovation and
building next-generation financial services powered by blockchain
technology, and we can do that because Salesforce takes care of the
infrastructure."
"QUOINE is disrupting the financial services industry with
innovation that's built on the Salesforce Platform and defining the
future of the cryptocurrency space," said Mark Innes, EVP and General Manager, Salesforce
Asia Pacific. "Fintech companies are driving some of the most
innovative change we are seeing in financial services—they have to
be agile, innovative and comply with the regulatory frameworks.
QUOINE is leading the charge and we are proud to be on this growth
journey with them."
About QUOINE
QUOINE is a leading global fintech
company that provides trading, exchange, and next generation
financial services powered by blockchain technology. With offices
in Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, QUOINE combines a strong network of
local partners with extensive team experience in banking and
financial products to deliver best in class financial services for
its customers. More information is available at www.quoine.com.
In 2014, QUOINE launched Quoine Exchange, now known as QUOINEX,
which became one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world by
transaction volume. QUOINE offers powerful trading features, a
sophisticated user dashboard, and secure regulatory compliance to
individual and corporate customers. QUOINEX provides trading
services for bitcoin and fiat currency pairs in Japanese yen, US
dollar, Euro, HK dollar, Indonesian rupiah, Singapore dollar, Philippine peso, Indian
rupee, Australian dollar, and Chinese Renminbi. QUOINEX has
exceeded USD12 billion in
transactions in the past two years. In September 2017, QUOINE Corporation became the
first global cryptocurrency exchange to be officially licensed by
the Japan FSA. More information can be found at
www.quoinex.com.
In June 2017, QUOINE launched a
fully digital cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform called
QRYPTOS, exclusively for cryptocurrency trading in desktop version
at www.qryptos.com.
In October 2017, QUOINE became the
first licensed global cryptocurrency exchange in Japan to launch a global Initial Coin Offering
(ICO), also known as the QASH Token Sale. QUOINE Corporation was
officially licensed by the Japan FSA on 29th
September 2017.
In November 2017, QUOINE
successfully raised 350M QASH (the
equivalent of 350K ETH or
~USD105M) in a significantly
oversubscribed ICO at the website, to fund the growth of the QUOINE
LIQUID platform.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader,
empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new
way. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit:
http://www.salesforce.com.
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