Hance (7856), a key stock on Taiwan’s emerging market, is scheduled to begin its initial over-the-counter public subscription on Sept. 10, with an underwriting price set at TWD 2,250 per share. The price marks a record high for Taiwan’s primary listing and OTC underwriting market. Based on an emerging-market trading price of about TWD 4,700 cited in the source, the implied spread for one standard lot exceeds TWD 2.4 million, drawing strong market attention. The valuation gap has also pushed investors to revisit pricing across semiconductor testing interface and inspection equipment names. The report said stocks such as Yingwei (6515) and MPI (6223) posted notable market reactions as capital rotated into higher-priced semiconductor inspection plays. Yingwei hit limit-up during a broader market pullback, while MPI drew added attention after the source linked the company to a TSMC-certified testing equipment supply chain adopted by Samsung Electronics for its silicon photonics push. ABMedia also tied the move to demand from more advanced semiconductor manufacturing, including angstrom-level processes, heterogeneous integration, EUV, and silicon photonics, all of which raise the technical bar for inspection equipment and probe cards.

Bitfinex reported that the Bitcoin Miner Position Index (MPI) currently stands at -1.2, significantly below its annual average. The reading indicates miners are hoarding supply, as selling activity remains muted despite a brief spike to 2.8 during August's breakout.

Samsung Electronics is using probe stations from U.S.-based FormFactor and Taiwan-based MPI to test silicon photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, wafers, according to a report by Korean semiconductor outlet The Elec cited by BlockBeats on Sept. 7. The company aims to complete its own internal PIC evaluation within the year. The report said both FormFactor and MPI have already passed equipment verification tied to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s co-packaged optics, or CPO, and silicon photonics testing workflows. Samsung is using the same basic testing setup to examine optoelectronic properties of PIC wafers across wavelength and frequency domains, checking whether optical devices perform signal transmission and electro-optic conversion as intended. Samsung had previously relied on outside institutions including Belgium-based imec for PIC wafer verification. It is now building its own testing environment and conducting repeat evaluations. The company is also preparing customer evaluations and has said related projects will enter mass production starting in the second half of this year. The report added that Samsung plans to launch silicon photonics foundry services in 2027, offering optical device process technology, device libraries and PDKs, while also developing optical engines that combine EIC and PIC for future CPO use in products beyond network switches, including GPUs and CPUs.

Blockchain financial institution XREX Group has won the Regulatory Excellence Award at the first AFA Awards, standing out from 88 corporate nominations across the Asia-Pacific region and becoming one of five overall winners. It was also the only Taiwanese team nominated by the Taiwan FinTech Association to take home an award. The recognition covered several parts of XREX’s business at once: its compliance operations and risk management efforts, its regulated presence in both Taiwan and Singapore, its virtual asset exchange operations, its stablecoin-based cross-border B2B payments business, and its regtech work aimed at strengthening anti-scam and anti-money laundering capabilities. According to the event structure described by the organizer, the awards were run by the Asia FinTech Alliance, whose member associations represent 16 Asian economies. Each economy could nominate up to seven companies. The first edition received 88 nominations, narrowed the field through top-30 and top-10 stages, and selected final winners after live presentations and Q&A before seven international judges on Sept. 1. During the final presentation, XREX Group CEO Wayne Huang said fraud and money laundering risks are not costs a single institution should bear alone, but a shared burden across the financial industry.

Finmo Tech, a Singapore-based fintech company, took the top honor at the AFA Awards 2026 grand final held in Taipei on Sept. 1, winning the Grand Award for Cross-Border Fintech Unicorn Potential. The company’s main product is TreasuryOS, which it describes as a treasury operating system built to consolidate financial operations that multinational businesses often manage across separate banks, accounting tools and ERP systems. According to Finmo’s website and public information cited in the source report, the platform covers cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, cash flow visibility, cash forecasting, FX hedging and working capital optimization, with a payment network spanning more than 180 countries. Finmo has also recently launched a conversational AI assistant called MO AI for CFOs and finance teams, designed to support real-time cash management, forecasting, compliance and reporting. Founded in 2021, Finmo obtained a Major Payment Institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2023 and now holds related licenses in Singapore, Australia, the United States and New Zealand. The company has raised about $27 million to date, including an oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A completed in February 2025 and co-led by Quona Capital and PayPal Ventures, with Citi Ventures also participating.

A new survey from the Global Risk Institute puts the odds of a quantum computer breaking today’s encryption at 28% to 49% within 10 years, rising to 51% to 70% within 15 years. Speaking at the 11th WHATs NEXT Quantum Technology Summit, XREX co-founder and group CEO Wayne Huang said that risk is more acute for the broader financial system than for cryptocurrencies. His argument was straightforward: banks and other regulated institutions can migrate on a regulator-led timetable, while Bitcoin has no central authority that can order a network-wide upgrade. Huang said the core problem is not simply whether quantum machines can break current cryptography today, but how long a full migration would take once institutions decide to move. In banking, that means reviewing account authentication, transaction signing, data transmission, and integrations with outside vendors, then testing and switching systems in phases. The article also points to “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks, in which encrypted data is collected now and cracked once quantum capabilities mature. The report also notes that Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission issued a reference guide for post-quantum cryptography migration in June 2026, while the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has already released post-quantum cryptography standards. Huang said Bitcoin faces a different hurdle: any quantum-resistance upgrade would depend on community consensus among miners, nodes, developers, exchanges, and users.

Global financial markets are heading into a pivotal week as a cluster of earnings from major U.S. technology companies lands alongside the Federal Open Market Committee’s latest rate decision. Investors are watching Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Apple for one central issue: whether heavy artificial intelligence spending is producing real returns, or simply inflating capital expenditure at a time when rates remain restrictive. According to CME FedWatch data cited in the report, expectations for the upcoming Fed meeting are split, with 34% of market pricing pointing to a 25-basis-point hike and 56% expecting no change. At the same time, geopolitical tension in the Middle East has pushed oil prices higher, helping drive the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield near 5.163%, close to a 20-year high. The report also highlights Taiwan’s electronics supply chain, where investor conferences for companies including UMC, Delta Electronics and MediaTek will run in parallel with U.S. earnings releases. Market participants are now focused on earnings quality, valuation discipline and leverage control as volatility builds across both U.S. and Asian equities.

Bitcoin surged past $81,000 with daily volume up 22%. Realized profits reached $207.56 million, a cycle high. The 200-day moving average ($83-85K) is the next key resistance, while miner selling pressure remains subdued.