Per the original announcement made on December 20, 2017, the deal involved a cashless share swap involving SSC's shares with those of the current owners of DBOT and will see SSC take a seat on DBOT's Board of Directors as part of the agreement.
"We fully recognize the strategic value of Alternative Trading Systems in the wake of regulation on digital assets and general alternative asset classes," said Bruno Wu, Chairman and CEO, of Seven Stars Cloud (to be renamed Ideanomics). "This is underscored by the SEC's Alternative Trading System (ATS) List, which continues to grow with new market entrants. We are extremely pleased that we have received this approval from FINRA, which allows us to take a meaningful ownership stake in the DBOT ATS.