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Waton Financial (WTF) shares jumped nearly 54% in early trading on Monday after the company announced an expanded strategic partnership with Chongqing Liangyun Zhijing Information Technology, also known as Panda AI, to explore the formation of a joint venture.
The U.S.-based company said that the expanded partnership builds on Waton’s and Panda AI’s collaboration to co-organize the Global Competition for AI Agents in Securities Trading.
Waton said it will leverage Panda AI’s artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance its proprietary DePearl core AI technology and AI agents for trading, seeking to drive adoption of automated trading strategies across institutional and retail segments globally.
Waton said that the partnership expansion with Panda AI is expected to accelerate the former’s AI-driven securities trading initiatives and the development and commercialization of upcoming AI-powered services and products.
The company said that this strategic synergy will position Waton as the enabling infrastructure layer connecting traditional finance with the AI trading economy, creating revenue opportunities through platform monetization and expanded institutional client engagement.
Waton said that as the partnership evolves toward a potential joint venture, both companies aim to accelerate global adoption of AI trading solutions while capturing significant market opportunities in the rapidly growing AI-powered fintech sector.
Waton was the sixth-most-trending ticker on Stocktwits on Monday, at the time of writing. Retail sentiment on Waton was in the ‘bullish’ territory compared to ‘extremely bullish’ compared to a day ago, with message volumes at ‘normal’ levels, according to data from Stocktwits.
Shares of the company have declined by over 22% in the last three months.
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