Giadha Aguirre De Carcer

As Benzinga gears up for the biggest gathering of fintech executives and visionaries on Nov. 19 in New York City, the Benzinga Events team is highlighting the official listmakers who are being recognized at the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards. Benzinga is proud to announce Giadha...

Announced during an event at the 2019 World Cannabis Congress in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, cannabis analytics firm New Frontier Data has entered an exclusive collaboration with global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver expanded insight and data to multinational companies...

Last week, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) introduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act into the Senate, counting on the support of 20 cosponsors. This bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced in the House last month, and was approved with bipartisan...

Between new regulations, deals, and technological developments, 2018 was biggest year yet in the history of the cannabis industry. And if the predictions are right, 2019 will be even bigger. At Benzinga’s Cannabis Capital Conference in Miami, New Frontier Data CEO Giadha Aguirre De Carcer...

There were numerous political announcements shaping the industry last week, with a Michigan state board ruling that more than 60 medical cannabis dispensaries that had to close at the end of last year due to new regulations will be allowed to re-open until March 31, providing them time to become...

After a slow first week of the year, 2019 is quickly picking up steam. This week, we learned that Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) filed a bill in Congress that seeks to remove cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act. The bill is dubbed H.R. 420. In other political news, Marijuana Moment...

Not long ago, the cannabis industry could take pride in the higher-than-usual percentage of C-suite positions occupied by women, with roughly 1-in-3 of these posts held by a woman. This number plummeted in just a couple of years, however, dropping from 36 percent in 2015 to 27 percent in 2017...

The New Year brought a shortened trading week. The deal flow didn’t stop, with recently-public TILT Holdings Inc (OTC: SVVTF) announcing the acquisition of vaporization company Jupiter Research for $210 million. Joel Milton, SVP of software and services at TILT told Benzinga, “We...

The last week of 2018 was a bit slower than most, but this didn't stop the news cycle completely, as Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize marijuana for medicinal and research purposes, and the Israeli Parliament passed a law allowing for medical cannabis exports. On...

Benzinga and New Frontier Data to host cannabis investor forum on Latin American opportunities in Miami January 2019 Benzinga, a leading financial media outlet, announced today that it will host the second Cannabis Capital Conference presented by New Frontier Data in Miami January 15-16, 2019. The...

“This is a big day,” said Benzinga Founder and CEO Jason Raznick, as he joined the "420 Investor" Alan Brochstein on Aug. 17 in welcoming the sold-out crowd to the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference. "What has changed over the years is how exciting this industry is....

This week, Tilray and Sproutly Canada went public, Sunniva announced plans to spin off its Canadian assets, Zynerba Pharmaceuticals posted positive data for its Phase 2 trial for ZYN002 in Fragile X syndrome, and Zogenix released positive top-line results from its second pivotal Phase 3 study...

A shortened week brought less cannabis news than usual, providing the people in the industry with a chance to exhale and look back at the convoluted weeks leading up to the Fourth of July holiday.  We did witness some relevant action. Zynerba Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ZYNE) reported...

Back in November, during a conversation with Benzinga, The ArcView Group’s CEO Troy Dayton explained why he conceived cannabis legalization as a collective effort — a perspective with quite the stick. So, when chatter came through the lines regarding New Frontier Data and its multiple...

New Frontier Data, one of the leading analytics firms in the cannabis industry, recently published a 400-page research note titled "The Cannabis Industry Annual Report" looking at the state of legal marijuana markets for 2017. The extensive document goes into a wide array of topics, from...