Mr. Kai Zhou, Chairman of Waton Financial Limited (WTF), was invited to attend President Trump's inauguration ceremony and was seated in the VIP section.

On January 16, 2025, Waton Financial updated its prospectus to the NASDAQ Stock Market in the United States, confirming the IPO pricing range and announcing the stock ticker symbol as "WTF.US", with an expected IPO on NASDAQ in the near future.

Waton Financial Limited is a holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Its subsidiary, Waton Securities International Limited, established in 1989, has become one of the largest Broker Cloud service providers in Hong Kong. As a technical partner of Amazon Web Services for cloud technology, Waton Securities has provided technical development, trading and settlement, and financing services to over 30 licensed financial institutions worldwide.

It is reported that Mr. Zhou is a fervent believer in artificial intelligence technology. In the course of the current AI revolution, he is leading Waton Group to actively promote the AI transformation of financial industry, striving to become a leading enterprise in driving industry innovation and development.