Pune – October 05, 2026 -- The global lithium compound market is projected to grow from $9.82 billion in 2025 to $39.74 billion by 2034, a 16.8% compound annual growth rate, according to new analysis from Maximize Market Research.
Taipei, Shanghai and San Francisco – October 05, 2026 -- HanchorBio, Inc. (TWSE: 7827) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the investigational new drug application for HCB303, clearing the path for the company's second trispecific immunotherapy to enter human testing.
Taipei – October 05, 2026 -- Energenesis Biomedical Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 6657) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea's Yoo Young Pharm. Co., Ltd. (YYP) to pursue development, registration, and commercialization of its diabetic foot ulcer drug candidate ENERGI-F703DFU in the Korean market.
San Antonio – October 05, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has named Cymulate the recipient of its 2026 Indian Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in the breach and attack simulation sector, citing customer retention exceeding 90% and a platform architecture that enables continuous security validation across enterprise environments.
Singapore – October 05, 2026 -- WasabiCard, a stablecoin-powered global payment infrastructure platform, will host its TOKEN2049 Singapore side event, "STABLECOIN & PAYMENTS: FUNDS FLOW," on October 6 at Raffles Singapore, with Lotus Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: LOT) confirmed as a participant.
SYDNEY – October 04, 2026 -- Payward, the financial infrastructure platform behind Kraken, has partnered with Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) to enable round-the-clock settlement for institutional digital asset clients in Asia and the Gulf region.
Tokyo – October 04, 2026 -- Bloomberg has completed the first fully automated Japanese Government Bond (JGB) Market-on-Close trade, executed through a new workflow aligned to BB3P (Hikene Trading), the reference rate for JGB closing prices.
Kaohsiung – October 04, 2026 -- E&R Engineering Corp. (TWSE: 8027) will open its new Malaysian subsidiary, E&R Semiconductor (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., on October 13 in the Melaka Free Trade Zone, adding dedicated Southeast Asian capacity for its packaging materials business.
Singapore – – October 04, 2026 -- S&P Global Ratings has launched a new risk-assessment framework for digital asset lending vaults, a market that has grown to $10 billion in deposits as of September 2026 from $1.5 billion two years earlier. The Vault Risk Assessment (VRA) delivers independent, forward-looking analysis of impairment risk for investors in blockchain-based lending vehicles that pool deposits and deploy them according to defined strategies, functioning much like traditional fixed income funds.
Hiroshima – October 3, 2026 -- Ractigen Therapeutics presented first-in-human data showing its systemically delivered small activating RNA (saRNA), RAG-18, produced 3.5- to 5.3-fold increases in sarcolemmal utrophin expression in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), marking the first clinical proof-of-mechanism for RNA activation (RNAa) in a monogenic disease. The data were disclosed in a Late-Breaking Oral Presentation at the 31st Annual Congress of the World Muscle Society (WMS 2026) in Hiroshima, Japan.
