Volition Announces Closure of Share Exchange Agreement

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Oct 07, 2011, 02:00 ET

SINGAPORE, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore Volition Pte Limited ("Volition"), a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests, today announces the closure of the Share Exchange Agreement with Standard Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation currently quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol SNDC.OB ("Standard Capital"). Upon closure of the Agreement at 10am Pacific Daylight Time on Thursday October 6, 2011, Volition became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Standard Capital. Standard Capital has applied for a name change to VolitionRX Limited and an accompanying change to the trading symbol to VOLN.OB, but will be quoted as SNDC.OB until the changes come into effect.

"We are delighted that we have closed this Share Exchange Agreement with SNDC, and are pleased that the shareholders of Singapore Volition showed such support for us going public with 100% voting in favour of the Agreement," said Cameron Reynolds, CEO of Volition. "We are continuing to make very strong progress in all key areas of company development, and we hope to move up to the NASDAQ small cap exchange or the Amex exchange in the next 12 months upon meeting the necessary listing criteria."

The Board of Directors of VolitionRX Limited following closure of the Share Exchange Agreement are as follows:

Chairman: Dr. Martin C. Faulkes
President, CEO & Director: Cameron Reynolds
Director: Dr. Satu Vainikka
Director: Guy Archibald Innes
Director: Dr. Alan Colman
Director: Kevin John Alexander

A short biography for each Director is available on Volition's website at http://www.volitionrx.com/board-of-directors.html.

In addition to the Directors above, two senior executives have been appointed: Malcolm Lewin has been appointed as CFO and Treasurer, and Rodney Gerard Rootsaert has been appointed as Secretary.

About Volition

Volition is a life sciences company whose goal is to make its non-invasive blood tests for cancer as common and simple to use as existing diabetic and cholesterol tests on similar formats.

Volition is managed by a well-respected team with extensive experience in diagnostics and commercialization. Volition's development activities are currently centered in Belgium and will be augmented by commercialization work in Singapore with a focus on bringing its revolutionary diagnostic products to market first in Europe, then the U.S. and worldwide.

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SOURCE VolitionRX Limited