EXIO Group Partners with Solidus Labs to Strengthen Trade Surveillance and AML Compliance

HONG KONG & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2026--

EXIO Group today announced a strategic partnership with Solidus Labs, the category-definer for multidimensional market integrity, to fully deploy the latter’s industry-leading HALO platform for 24/7 trade surveillance and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) transaction monitoring. This marks a substantive upgrade to EXIO Group’s compliance and security capabilities as it continues building an institutional-grade digital finance ecosystem.

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As the only digital asset full-stack solutions provider admitted into the Hong Kong SAR Government’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES) program, EX.IO (Hong Kong SFC-licensed VATP under EXIO Group, Central Entity Number: BUT670) has consistently adhered to its core strategy of “By TradFi, For TradFi”, currently offering a diverse range of tokenized products including gold, equities, and funds—continuing to lead the industry in both scale and variety.

Furthermore, The Group has rapidly developed end-to-end capabilities spanning Real World Asset (RWA) issuance to secondary market offering, establishing itself as the undisputed leader in Asia-Pacific’s compliant RWA sector. As EXIO Group actively expands into key markets including the Middle East, Solidus Labs serves as a critical technology partner across its operational jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and the Middle East. This seamless integration represents not only mutual technological support, but a further elevation of compliance standards that will effectively broaden and deepen the Group’s business capabilities. Solidus Labs’ digital asset compliance platform is now being deeply integrated with EXIO Group’s proprietary trading infrastructure to serve a growing base of digital asset clients across diverse geographies.

Through this collaboration, EXIO Group expects Solidus Labs’ services to deliver the following benefits:

With these capabilities integrated into its trading infrastructure, EXIO Group is positioned to ensure that its rapid expansion across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East maintains compliance standards that match the most rigorous global regulatory requirements.

“For EXIO, compliance has never been merely a box-ticking exercise—it is the core competitive advantage that earns us the trust of institutional clients.” said Toya ZHANG, Deputy CEO of EXIO GROUP. “HALO’s exceptional performance in high-frequency, high-volume trading environments makes it our ideal partner. Through this collaboration, we aim to continuously enhance our compliance and security capabilities for institutional clients, supporting the Group’s broader growth trajectory.”

Solidus HALO utilizes a network of AI agents to detect complex market abuse patterns—such as spoofing, wash trading, and layering—across EXIO GROUP’s spot and off-platform channels.

“EXIO GROUP’s commitment to the highest standards of market integrity is core to their vision of empowering TradFi to embrace the future,” said Diana Xu, Head of APAC at Solidus Labs. “We are proud to support them as a trusted, secure, and compliant bridge between TradFi and digital assets. Together, we are building meaningful inroads for institutional players in Hong Kong and beyond, ushering in the next phase of digital asset adoption.”

About EXIO GROUP
EXIO Group serves as a global financial bridge connecting traditional finance (Web2) and the Web3 ecosystem, dedicated to building compliant financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era. Its flagship platform, EXIO Limited (“EX.IO”), is a Hong Kong-regulated, licensed Virtual Asset Trading Platform (VATP) holding Type 1 (Dealing in Securities) and Type 7 (Providing Automated Trading Services) licenses from the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).

As the defining pioneer and market leader in Hong Kong’s Real World Asset (RWA) sector, EXIO Group provides a full-stack closed-loop service from asset tokenization to secondary liquidity, and has successfully issued multiple globally first-of-their-kind tokenized projects. EX.IO is also the only virtual asset trading platform admitted into the Hong Kong SAR Government’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES) program. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group has expanded its business footprint to emerging markets including Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

About Solidus Labs
Born in crypto and built for Wall Street, Solidus Labs is the gold standard for crypto-native market integrity and trade surveillance. Founded in 2018 by Goldman Sachs veterans, the company merges institutional rigor with advanced AI to reinvent compliance for the modern financial era. At the core is HALO, an AI-powered risk-based platform trusted by financial institutions, crypto firms, and regulators globally to drive proactive, intelligence-led oversight across any product, venue, or asset class. For more information, visit: www.soliduslabs.com

EXIO Group Partners with Solidus Labs to Strengthen Trade Surveillance and AML Compliance

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week.

Russian authorities said they found no evidence that her illness was caused by any of the pathogens she worked with. But the case has raised alarm in Russia after unconfirmed media reports suggested she might have died of pneumonic plague — a less common but severe form of plague that can spread from person to person.

The woman worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, southeastern Siberia. A state TV station in Irkutsk reported Monday that she died last week in a hospital in Shelekhov, a town just outside Irkutsk.

The hospital has been placed under quarantine, Mayor Maxim Modin said Friday, no longer admitting or discharging patients, and its laboratory halted carrying out routine tests. The hospital's outpatient clinic kept operating as usual, he said.

Anna Popova, head of Russia’s public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, flew to Irkutsk and met with Gov. Igor Kobzev and other officials on Friday.

Kobzev said everyone who came into contact with the woman is under medical supervision. He didn’t identify the infection and called it a suspected case of “a particularly dangerous infection.”

Rospotrebnadzor was implementing “a full range of anti-epidemic measures,” he added.

Rospotrebnadzor said Sunday the woman was diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” or origin, and said “extensive” testing found “no microorganisms associated with the patient’s professional activities.”

The agency also said it didn't uncover any incidents at the institute “involving pathogenic microorganisms."

Two people who were in contact with the woman tested positive for a virus that causes a common cold and two others for COVID-19, the agency said, adding that others who were tested were all negative.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he doesn’t think there is cause for alarm, but the U.S. is watching the case closely, aware that “it could spread quickly” despite the quarantine and other public health protocols.

Independent local news outlet Lyudi Baikala quoted sources it did not identify as saying the 28-year-old lab technician died from pneumonic plague and that several Irkutsk hospitals were placed under quarantine.

Asked Monday to comment on the case, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the public and media should follow official statements from Rospotrebnadzor, rather than "rumors or speculation.”

The Irkutsk Aluminum Plant in Shelekhov required staff to wear masks as a precaution, its director Artyom Fominykh said Saturday on Telegram, calling for calm and adding: "Better be safe than sorry.”

The World Health Organization describes pneumonic plague as a less common but severe form of plague — a disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium usually found in small mammals and their fleas.

“In the event of a potential laboratory exposure, it would be normal to identify individuals who might have been exposed and to monitor them according to the assessed level of risk,” said Dr. Malick Gibani, clinical associate professor in bacterial vaccinology at the Imperial College London.

The scale of any monitoring program would depend on "the circumstances of the exposure and the number of people potentially affected,” Gibani said in a written comment.

Ian Jones, professor of virology at the University of Reading, said that “plague carries a huge history and is still present in many parts of the world, including Russia,” although because of modern living conditions and antibiotics, “its potential is therefore limited.”

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AP reporter Matthew Lee in Washington contributed.

This undated photo released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP)