JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moomoo, the award-winning, one-stop investment platform, has been named the Best Global Investment Platform by Sensor Tower in its 2025 APAC Awards. This distinguished honor, which recognizes Moomoo as the sole one-stop investment platform winner in the Commerce & Finance category, underscores the platform’s rapid ascent as the go-to destination for modern investors worldwide.

According to Sensor Tower, in 2025, Moomoo app ranked among the top 10 finance apps in the highly competitive markets of the United States and Japan, cementing its status as a household name of investment app. Additionally, Southeast Asia experienced a surge of over 70% in Monthly Active Users (MAUs), while Australia saw an astounding 136% increase, propelling Moomoo to become the country’s #1 trading app by downloads.

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In addition, Sensor Tower data shows that, by the end of Q4 2025, Moomoo ranked No. 1 by accumulated downloads and Daily Active Users (DAUs) in both Singapore and Malaysia. This global resonance proves that Moomoo’s seamless cross-market experience is successfully empowering investors of all levels with professional-grade tools.

“We are thrilled to present Moomoo with the award for Best Global Investment Platform,” said Nan Lu, VP of Marketing, SensorTower Asia Pacific. “Moomoo’s exceptional performance across key metrics—from explosive user growth across various markets to industry-leading engagement in established ones—demonstrates a powerful product-market fit. They have successfully built a platform that not only attracts users but truly engages them, setting a new standard for what a next-generation global investment app can be.”

Community, Education, and Professional-Level Tools Drive Unprecedented User Engagement

Moomoo’s popularity is not just about scale; it’s about deep, meaningful engagement. The Moomoo Community, where 28 million global investors connect, share insights, and learn from one another, has become a vibrant hub for investor collaboration, with DAU and User Generated Content (UGC) seeing impressive 13% and 26% quarter-over-quarter growth in Q3 2025, respectively. This surge is a testament to a thriving ecosystem where investors from different countries and regions in the world collectively navigate market opportunities, transforming individual investing journeys into a powerful, collaborative experiecne.

This high engagement is driven by Moomoo’s dedication to investor education and its suite of powerful, accessible analysis tools. By democratizing complex market data, Moomoo empowers users to make smarter investment decisions with professional-grade resources.

Other standout features driving user loyalty include:

• In-depth Market Data: Professional-grade Level 2 data providing up to 60 bid/ask price levels.
• Advanced Charting Tools: Highly customizable charts featuring 60+ technical indicators and 38 drawing tools.
• Personalized Experience: An interface that offers unparalleled customization, allowing users to tailor their Moomoo app/desktop as intuitively as editing a smartphone home screen.

A Comprehensive, Compliant Ecosystem Earns Industry-Wide Acclaim

Moomoo’s excellence extends beyond its user interface to a robust and compliant product offering. Operating on a “regulatory first” principle, all investment products and services on the Moomoo App are offered by its licensed affiliate brokerages in corresponding markets, strictly regulated by local authorities to ensure trading safety.

Today’s global investor requires diverse access, and Moomoo delivers. The platform enables trading in US stocks, ETFs, and options across all its markets. Beyond that, it provides seamless access to Hong Kong stocks, China Stock Connect, Singapore stocks, Australian stocks, Japanese stocks, Canadian stocks, and Malaysian stocks, along with virtual asset trading services for eligible clients.

“Moomoo was created because we realized that the investment platforms available were either too complicated with no real support, or the tools and data needed to invest smarter were inaccessible,” said Robin Xu, Group Senior Partner & Senior Vice President at Moomoo. “We believe investing should feel as personal as your phone screen, because your strategy deserves its own space. Winning this award from Sensor Tower validates our mission to deliver a platform that combines powerful, customizable tools with a supportive community that empowers every investor to feel in control.”

Moomoo’s dedication to regulatory compliance and user-centric innovation continues to earn recognition across the financial services industry. In addition to the Sensor Tower honor, Moomoo has garnered an impressive array of accolades across its global markets in Q4 2025, including:

• “Best Retail Broker” by the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) for three consecutive years
• “Best ETF Broker” and “Best Broker for Investing in Gold ETFs” by BrokerChooser in the US
• “Canada’s Best U.S. Stock Trading Platform” at the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
• “Best in Stocks (North America)” in the broker category by TradingView for two consecutive years

Investment products and services are offered through Moomoo Financial Inc., Member SIPC./FINRA. For further information about Moomoo Financial Inc., please visit Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)’s BrokerCheck.

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About Moomoo

Moomoo is a leading global investment and trading platform dedicated to empowering investors with user-friendly tools, data, and insights. Our platform is designed to provide essential information and technology, enabling users to make more-informed investment decisions. With advanced charting tools, pro-level analytical features, moomoo evolves alongside our users, fostering a dynamic community where investors can share, learn, and grow together.

Founded in the U.S., moomoo operates globally, serving over 28 million investors in countries such as the US, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, and New Zealand. As a subsidiary of a Nasdaq-listed Futu Holdings (FUTU), we take pride in our role as a global strategic partner of the Nasdaq, earning numerous international accolades from renowned industry leaders such as Benzinga and TradingView. Moomoo has also received multiple awards in the US, Singapore, and Australia for its innovative, inclusive approach to investing.

For more information, please visit moomoo’s official website at www.moomoo.com or feel free to email us: pr@moomoo.com.

Great Place To Work speaks with award-winning winemaker Cate Looney about how, even in an industry that has been male dominated for literally hundreds of years, smart organisations make room for women.

SYDNEY, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Legend has it that when John Brown told his mother, Patricia, they wanted to name a range of wines after her, his mother stood still, and with a tear said, ‘Well, boys, it better be bloody good.’

Pat, slight in stature but formidable in everything else, died in 2004 at 89, but not before she’d established something her all-male third generation probably didn’t even clock at the time: a culture where women were structural.

Two decades on, Brown Brothers (founded in 1889, a member of Australia’s First Families of Wine) has once again been named on the globally recognised 2026 Best Workplaces for Women Australia list.

The Women Winemakers Behind Brown Brothers’ Wines

Cate Looney started at Brown Brothers as a winemaker around 20 years ago, and now she leads a team at the iconic Milawa winery and her Patricia Brut Pinot Noir Chardonnay took out 2025 Sparkling Wine of the Year in the Halliday Wine Companion Awards.

“I’ve had amazing opportunities,” Cate says. “I started as a winemaker here, then moved to the senior winemaker role, and now I’m looking after teams that are male dominated. But I’ve never wanted gender to be a part of my progression and I don’t believe it has been.”

Looney describes a genuine absence of friction for her rise at Brown Brothers, which in the Australian wine industry is remarkable. Wine Australia shows that men and women graduate from oenology degrees in almost equal numbers, but only 16.7 per cent of winemaking roles are held by women, and ATO data indicates the gender pay gap for winemakers has doubled in under a decade to about $14,000 a year.

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Looney credits the family structure as a genuine differentiator. “I think if you look at it from a history point of view, the company is 130-something years old, and even from the start there has been strong female leadership,” she says.

“The fourth generation working actively in the business are nearly entirely women,” says Looney. “And we’ve got the top wines named Patricia after the matriarch, because she was so heavily involved in shaping the culture when the business was growing.”

Katherine Brown, Patricia’s granddaughter and the first female winemaker in the family, works alongside her sisters Caroline, who leads corporate communications, and Emma, Head of Innovation. Their cousins Eliza and Cynthia sit on the Brown Family Wine Group board, helping shepherd the business into its next era.

“When I first started here 20 years ago, the cellar team was all males,” she says. “Now it’s almost completely balanced, not through quotas, but by giving women a chance to come into the cellar, work hard, and thrive.”  Pat Brown would probably say that’s pretty bloody good.

BEIJING, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A report by CRI Online:

The vivid charm of Huizhou’s century-old intangible cultural heritage comes alive on screen! One Man One Land, an online film focusing on China’s Huizhou intangible cultural heritage, is officially released. With the most simple lens language, it unlocks the cultural veins of Huizhou villages and tells the warmth and perseverance of eastern rural life.

Set against the backdrop of the “Forty Peers’ Shrine Festival”, a century-old intangible cultural heritage inherited in Jixi County, Anhui Province, the film tells a heartwarming story of Li Yan, a live-in son-in-law. Tasked with a crucial mission at the key moment of the shrine festival ritual, he grows from initial timidity and hesitation to bravely taking on the important role of the ritual organizer, ultimately achieving self-growth and responsibility. The creative team filmed on location in Huizhou’s villages, faithfully restoring traditional rituals such as board dragon making, New Year pig sacrifice and community gift distribution. It perfectly blends the mortal fireworks of Huizhou villages with the solemnity of the century-old folk customs, presenting the unique lingering charm of Huizhou’s rural areas at a glance.

Without deliberate dramatic conflicts, the film narrates gently with delicate images, embodying the traditional eastern humanistic spirits of benevolence, righteousness, courage, propriety, wisdom and faith in every rural detail. The authentic performances of the villagers make the warmth of clan inheritance and the sincerity of neighborhood companionship even more touching. They also bring the century-old folk customs out of books, turning them into a vivid living heritage passed down from generation to generation, and fully demonstrating the profound heritage of Huizhou culture.

As an outstanding cultural film rooted in eastern rural China, it reflects the bigger picture through small details, recording the protection and inheritance of traditional folk customs in Chinese villages. More than a window to explore Huizhou culture, it breaks the boundaries of regions and cultures with a heartwarming human story, letting the world see the perseverance of eastern rural China and feel the endless vitality and unique charm of China’s intangible cultural heritage.

HONG KONG, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Rolex China Sea Race organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) has come to a close, with William Liu’s Ker 42 Custom Seawolf crowned IRC Overall Champion, Philip Turner’s R/P 66 Team Alive–Rampage taking Line Honours and Tiger Mok marking history as the first solo competitor. For this edition, the start was brought forward by a month to take advantage of the north–east monsoon.

Seawolf takes IRC Overall in the 2026 Rolex China Sea Race

In one of the fastest and most demanding editions of the Rolex China Sea Race, Seawolf secured a historic triumph, finishing on Friday at 21:30:20 and winning IRC Overall on a corrected time of 71h 43m 35s. This marks the first time a Chinese Mainland yacht has won the IRC Overall title in the race’s history.

Competing for the fifth time, Seawolf has steadily improved, including an IRC Overall second place in 2024. Skipper Yan Yu Ye reflected on the breakthrough, saying: “We’ve always believed we could win. After five attempts, each with lessons learned, this victory means a lot. The conditions were tough with strong winds and some damage, but we were lucky to have a steady breeze most of the way. Only near the finish did we fall into a wind hole, but the team pulled through.”

Navigator Campbell Murray Field highlighted the team’s preparation and diverse crew: “We had a multinational team that worked well together. We studied the course, set a clear strategy, and mostly stuck to it. The final approach required a few adjustments, which was frustrating after a fast crossing, but nothing caught us off guard.”

IRC Overall second place went to Franco Cutrupia’s Solaris 60 Fenice in their debut in the Rolex China Sea Race. “This was our first China Sea Race and it was very interesting.  There were many boats and a truly international crew, which made us excited. Above all, we had fun: the wind was good, everyone was safe, and there were no major damage.”

IRC Overall third place was grabbed by Stefan Filip’s Neo 400+, Neo One, improving on their strong 2024 performance. Navigator Cameron Ferguson described their crossing as: “It was an awesome trip down — a fast blast reaching across the China Sea, so it was really fast and furious. Getting out of the harbour was a bit slow — you fight to get out of there. Once we settled in it built up to about 20 to 30 knots, gusting at times. A pretty straightforward crossing, to be honest.”

Double–handed honours went to Sun Fast 3600 Zesst (Henning Mueller / Adrian Stromski), finishing as the only boat in their division and taking an impressive IRC fourth overall.

Henning was delighted to record the fastest elapsed time as a double–handed entry. He said, “We went into the race with confidence — Adrian and I have sailed double–handed in Hong Kong for many years. Although we planned to rely on the autopilot, we ended up hand–steering almost the entire time. The autopilot struggled in the waves and wasn’t set up for such conditions, so one of us had to be on the helm and mainsheet constantly. It was exhausting, but we managed it together.”

The race also celebrated it’s first–ever solo finisher, Tiger Mok aboard 2 Easy, who finished the 565nm crossing on his own in 3 days 6 hrs 30 mins.

“To be the first person to race the Rolex China Sea Race solo is really unique. This race is tough enough double–handed; doing it single–handed this edition wasn’t easy but it exceeded my expectations. Things aligned and I made it. It’s very hard but achievable. I’m glad I made that decision six months ago.

The mental challenge was the biggest. Physically it was manageable because I tried to be safe and take small steps — doing things one at a time before the weather hit. But mentally it was really stressful: the weather and unexpected gear malfunctions always seem to happen during a race, no matter how much you test. You fix something and then you wonder what will fail next. That keeps your head racing.

When I saw the finish line approaching, it felt unreal. Logically I knew I could do it, but emotionally it was a mix — I’m still processing it.”

The 2026 Rolex China Sea Race delivered three days of dynamic offshore competition as twenty yachts set off from Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on 4 March, embarking on the iconic 565 nautical mile passage to Subic Bay, Philippines. Throughout the race, yachts reported sustained winds of 25–28 knots with gusts reaching 30 knots, accompanied by big sea conditions that contributed to one of the fastest editions in recent memory.

Australian yacht entry Team Alive-Rampage with skippers Philip Turner and Noel Chan crossed the finish line in Subic Bay at 13:15:46 on 6 March, claiming Line Honours with an impressive elapsed time of 49 hours, 55 minutes, 46 seconds—just shy of surpassing their long–standing 2016 record.

In IRC Division 0, William Liu’s Seawolf, Stefan Filip’s Neo One and Hie Hua’s Happy Go secured the podium positions after a highly competitive crossing. IRC Division 1 was topped by Henning Mueller’s Zesst, followed by Johnson Yuen’s Zoe’s Guard and Fraser and Glenn Smith’s Wild Card. In the IRC Premier Division, Franco Cutrupia’s Fenice claimed first place, ahead of Peter Churchhouse’s Moonblue 2 and Tom Attenborough’s Parnassus.

In the double–handed and PHS divisions, victories went to Henning Mueller’s Zesst and Bradly Wilkins’ Blowers Daughter, respectively.

Race Chairman Hugues de Saint Germain said: “I think the event was a great success and very well organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Although three boats retired, all remaining boats finished within two to three days — much faster than in previous years. We’re very pleased that moving the race forward by a month delivered the improved conditions we hoped for.”

Several teams praised the conditions, calling this the fastest China Sea Race they had ever experienced. Veteran sailor and Moonblue 2 owner Peter Churchouse remarked, “I’ve been doing this race since 1982 — for so many years. I think this is the fastest race we’ve ever done.”

The physical and mental demands of the race were felt across the fleet, as described by Zoe’s Guard skipper Johnson Yuen: “This race was tough for us—it really made me question why I put myself through this kind of suffering. But I’m looking forward to joining more offshore races in the future.”

Olympic gold medallist Lijia Xu (Lily), racing aboard Happy Go in her first Rolex China Sea Race, shared her aspiration: “I also have a small dream for the future — to form an all–women’s team and come back to compete in the Rolex China Sea Race.”

Photos credit: ROLEX / Andrea Francolini

ABOUT ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB (RHKYC)

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is one of the oldest and largest sports clubs in Hong Kong, with a rich, colourful history that spans over 170 years of community and competitive sailing and rowing. RHKYC provides training programmes for practitioners of all abilities and ages – both members and non-members – to nurture their development, produce elite athletes capable of competing at the highest levels, and contribute to the growth and popularity of these great pastimes. The Club also organises a full calendar of high-profile local and international race events, helping place Hong Kong firmly on the global sporting map.

ROLEX AND YACHTING

Rolex celebrates human achievement, recognizing the journey marked by milestones and emotions that culminates in defining moments – determined by a path followed, not just a trophy. Since the late 1950s, Rolex has championed perseverance and resilience in yachting across all its forms – from prestigious yacht clubs to pioneering feats of exploration, legendary offshore races, and its most successful sailors. Today, the Swiss watchmaker supports the innovative future of sailing through its Title Partnership of the Rolex SailGP Championship, the world’s leading sailing league where the best athletes compete on identical supercharged foiling F50 catamarans on some of the world’s most famous stretches of water. Furthermore, the brand is Title Sponsor of 15 major international events, from the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race to grand prix competition at the Rolex TP52 World Championship and spectacular gatherings at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and the Rolex Swan Cup. Rolex also partners institutions that share its enduring commitment to sailing, including the New York Yacht Club, Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Royal Yacht Squadron, Royal Ocean Racing Club, Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and Royal Malta Yacht Club. Integral to this relationship are the towering figures in the sport and Rolex honours their unrelenting determination in the pursuit of excellence. From groundbreaking round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester to modern-day sailors, Rolex celebrates the individuals who embody adaptability, teamwork and precision. The Rolex family of Testimonees includes legends Paul Cayard and Robert Scheidt, the most successful Olympic sailor of all time, Sir Ben Ainslie, and the heroes at the heart of the Rolex SailGP Championship, Hannah Mills, Tom Slingsby and Martine Grael.

ABOUT ROLEX

AN UNRIVALLED REPUTATION FOR QUALITY AND EXPERTISE

Rolex is an integrated and independent Swiss watch manufacture. Headquartered in Geneva, the brand is recognized the world over for its expertise and the quality of its products – symbols of excellence, elegance and prestige. The movements of its Oyster Perpetual and Perpetual watches are certified by COSC, then tested in-house for their precision, performance and reliability. The Superlative Chronometer certification, symbolized by the green seal, confirms that each watch has successfully undergone tests conducted by Rolex in its own laboratories according to its own criteria. These are periodically validated by an independent external organization. The word ‘Perpetual’ is inscribed on every Rolex Oyster watch. But more than just a word on a dial, it is a philosophy that embodies the company’s vision and values. Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of the company, instilled a notion of perpetual excellence that would drive the company forward. This led Rolex to pioneer the development of the wristwatch and numerous major watchmaking innovations, such as the Oyster, the first waterproof wristwatch, launched in 1926, and the Perpetual rotor self-winding mechanism, invented in 1931. In the course of its history, Rolex has registered over 600 patents. At its four sites in Switzerland, the brand designs, develops and produces the majority of its watch components. A fifth site, also in Switzerland, is under construction and is expected to open in 2029. Rolex carries out its own manufacturing operations, from casting the gold alloys to machining, crafting, assembling and finishing the movement, case, dial and bracelet. Furthermore, the brand is actively involved in supporting the arts and culture, sport, and exploration, as well as those who are devising solutions to preserve the planet.