WISeKey Updates Shareholders on its NASDAQ ADR Trading Status

WISeKey Updates Shareholders on its NASDAQ ADR Trading Status

Geneva – December 23^rd, 2019 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity and IoT company, following a feedback it received from Nasdaq, is updating its shareholders on the status of trading of its American Depositary Shares (ADRs) which were listed on Nasdaq on December 4, 2019 under the symbol “WKEY.”

The WKEY page on the NASDAQ Website ( link:  https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wkey) is now showing current stock price. 

Also, Nasdaq also informed us that due to technical issues, brokers and data vendors were unable to update their pricing to reflect WISeKey’s recent trading price, resulting to a mismatch between data vendors/ trading desks and the prices reflected on various trading platforms. This has caused trading desks not to be able to execute all trades.  Only a few trades in the range of $10.09 to $12 per share have been executed since December 4th. 

These issues, which although out of the Company’s control, have caused considerable confusion in the market.   

While Nasdaq is working to quickly solve these technical issues, WISeKey’s ADRs continue to be eligible for trading.

About WISeKey

WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey Microprocessors Secures the pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.).  WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment before it happens.

Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.

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