SMX and FinGo Enter Into Collaboration Mandate
to Develop a Joint 'Physical to Digital' Platform
Service
To Enhance Mining Industry's Ability to Report
on Sustainable and Ethical Supply
Chains
New York, 7th
November 2024 – SMX (Security Matters)
PLC (NASDAQ: SMX; SMXWW), a pioneer in digitizing physical
objects for a circular economy, announces its collaboration mandate
with Sthaler Ltd, which markets FinGo ID, a cutting-edge Human
Identity SaaS. Together, they intend to develop a centralized
reporting platform to ensure transparency within the artisanal and
small-scale mining (ASM) sector, and through the entire supply
chain to ensure all ASM gold exported comes from an ethical and
responsible source. According to the World Bank, one widely used
estimate is that more than 100 million people globally depend
either directly or indirectly on ASM for their livelihoods.
SMX believes the global marketplace for ASM gold is becoming
increasingly complex, and the global gold market faces rising
regulatory pressure to comply with stringent environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) regulations. It further believes that
governments are under pressure to ensure that all gold exports are
ethical, compliant with government regulations, and able to report
evidential data accurately in real time. This collaboration mandate
is the first step in a planned broader relationship between SMX and
Sthaler expected to address:
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Ethical sourcing of precious
metals
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Child labour
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Use of chemicals
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Location identification of artisanal miners
and mining operations
SMX's proprietary technology enables the seamless marking and
tracking of physical materials throughout the supply chain,
providing traceability and authentication from the source—be it a
mine, aggregator or refinery—through to the final product. FinGo
complements this with its Human Identity-as-a-Service (HIDaaS)
platform, which uses a highly secure, biometric-based digital ID
system to verify and authenticate the individuals and entities
involved in the supply chain. This collaboration may offer the
ability to authenticate each partner in the supply chain and create
value by ensuring commodities are tracked transparently,
compliantly, and securely. Additionally, it is expected to be
designed to integrates FinGo's digital identity and payment
solutions to streamline counterparty payments securely.
SMX believes that FinGo offers a robust and efficient identity
verification system, connecting individual identifiers such as
national ID, insurance, claims, and location details using its
VeinID technology. This approach is expected to provide high-level
security by identifying individuals through their unique, invisible
subcutaneous vein patterns, ensuring privacy and protecting
personal data. SMX further believes that VeinID is particularly
well-suited for industries like mining, as the small data packets
used for matching allow for authentication in remote areas. FinGo's
platform is designed to verify individuals at the source—whether
they are miners, or other key supply chain actors—and SMX believes
integrates seamlessly with SMX's system to enable secure payment
transactions between verified parties.
Nick Dryden, Executive Chair of FinGo, added: "I believe that the
need for an inclusive, accurate and reliable, identity system
is greater than ever, and I believe FinGo VeinID is proven to be
the most reliable biometric because its less affected by climate
and demographic factors. FinGo's technology is designed to
combine secure digital identity service with associated data which
can document each stage of the ASM supply chain with human ID to
create a smooth, secure, and fully auditable end-to-end
service."
At SMX, we believe that the ultimate goal of this collaboration
mandate is to provide authentication solutions from individual
actors to multinational organizations at both the biometric and
molecular levels. This allows all data and physical materials to be
linked in one centralized digital structure, ensuring full
traceability and regulatory compliance.
The collaboration mandate is expected to offers several key
benefits:
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Enhanced Transparency: SMX's molecular
markers combined with FinGo's biometric identity solutions is
expected to offer secure tracking of commodities from origin to
final product, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.
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Improved Governance: The platform is
expected to help businesses look to onboard new sources of precious
metals from artisanal and small scale mining operations that meet
their governance and reporting requirements continuously throughout
the daily operations.
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Real-Time Digital Auditing: It is
expected to offer a shift from manual, paper-based auditing to
real-time, digital reporting, reducing the cost and time associated
with compliance and improving operational efficiency across the
mining sector and mine license programs run and managed by existing
Ministries.
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Secure and Compliant Payment Systems:
FinGo's secure payment gateway is designed to ensure transactions
between verified stakeholders are protected and compliant with
international standards, ensuring fair compensation for
suppliers.
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End-to-End Traceability: The combined
technologies are expected to provide full traceability of materials
from farm, mine, or production facility to the end consumer,
maintaining data integrity and ensuring all stakeholders are
verified and registered on the system.
This collaboration mandate, which runs on a three-month review
cycle, is expected to mark a transition from manual and paper-based
auditing to real-time digital reporting, reducing compliance and
audit costs, lowering reputational risks, and enhancing overall
productivity across supply chain operations. In addition, it is
expected to offer a practical, scalable, and commercially viable
solution to modern supply chain challenges. Additionally, it
is expected that the platform will also facilitate enhanced
visibility and reporting, assisting businesses to access new
precious metals sources where previously compliance and
traceability did not allow.
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About SMX
As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to
carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional
regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along
the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and
digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a
low-carbon economy.
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