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Amercanex

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Amercanex
IndustryCommodities exchange
Founded2014
Headquarters
Key people
Steve Janjic, CEO
Websiteamercanex.com

Amercanex is a Denver, Colorado-based company founded in 2014[1] that has created an electronic commodities exchange for cannabis.[2][3] The company will buy and sell cannabis futures, depending on standardization of grades and even nomenclature around strains.[4] The company unsuccessfully bid to operate Puerto Rico's seed-to-sale medical cannabis tracking system in 2016.[5] The CEO, Steve Janjic,[1] was formerly involved in the foreign exchange market.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Company profile, Bloomberg, April 26, 2017
  2. ^ Brian Lewis (March 12, 2016), Wall Street veterans bet on cannabis trading, Bloomberg – via Providence Journal
  3. ^ Portia Crowe (March 7, 2016), "There's a new exchange for weed, and Wall Street veterans are flocking to it", Business Insider
  4. ^ Steve Knopper (April 19, 2017), "Inside the Confusing, Unregulated World of Legal Weed Prices", Money, archived from the original on April 20, 2017
  5. ^ John Schroyer (September 21, 2016), "Puerto Rico inventory tracking system deal embroiled in dispute", Marijuana Business Daily
  6. ^ Avi Mizrahi (March 24, 2014), "Steve Janjic Joined Chapdelaine FX as the New Director of Sales", Finance Magnates
  7. ^ Jeff Patterson (September 26, 2014), "Amercanex's Steve Janjic Talks Cannabis", Finance Magnates
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