−Removed: are a blank check company incorporated on March 8, 2021 as a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”) having its principal
−Removed: place of business based in the United States whose business purpose is to effect a business combination with one or more businesses,
−Removed: which we refer to throughout this Annual Report as our initial business combination.
−Removed: sponsor is InFinT Capital LLC (together with its affiliates, “InFinT Capital” or “Sponsor”), a United States
−Removed: based sponsor group with extensive investment, operating and innovating experience in financial services and technology.
−Removed: focus on private businesses where we believe InFinT Capital’s background and experience, with our assistance, can execute a plan
−Removed: to create value for our shareholders in the public markets.
−Removed: we may pursue an acquisition opportunity in any business, industry, sector or geographical location, if the proposed business
−Removed: combination with Seamless is not completed, we intend to focus our search on a target that aligns with the background and experience
−Removed: of Sponsor in the financial services and technology sector.
−Removed: Within financial services and technology, we expect to focus primarily
−Removed: on companies serving five sub-sectors:
−Removed: Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Data & Analytics, Insurance and Investment
−Removed: We seek financial technology companies in these sub-sectors that exhibit infrastructure-like characteristics and are
−Removed: strategically important to their customers and are also able to rapidly generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders.
−Removed: Furthermore, we believe that Sponsor’s fully integrated platform of investment expertise, industry perspective and skillset,
−Removed: and technological and innovation capabilities could radically change the trajectory of such companies.
−Removed: November 23, 2021, the Company consummated an initial public offering (the “IPO,” or the “Initial Public
−Removed: Offering”) of 17,391,200 units at $10.00 per unit (the “Units” and, with respect to the ordinary shares included
−Removed: in the Units, the “Public Shares”) and the sale of 7,032,580 warrants (each, a “Private Warrant” and
−Removed: collectively, the “Private Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Private Warrant in a private placement to the Sponsor that
−Removed: closed simultaneously with the closing of the IPO (the “Private Placement”).
−Removed: Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary
−Removed: share, $0.0001 par value per share, and one-half of one warrant (each, a “Public Warrant” and collectively, the
−Removed: “Public Warrants”), with each whole warrant entitling the holder to purchase one ordinary share at a price of $11.50 per
−Removed: The units were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating gross proceeds of $173,912,000.
−Removed: The Company has
−Removed: listed the Units on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).
−Removed: On November 23, 2021, the underwriters exercised their
−Removed: over-allotment option in full, according to which the Company consummated the sale of an additional 2,608,680 Units, at $10.00 per
−Removed: Unit, and the sale of an additional 764,262 Private Warrants, at $1.00 per Private Warrant.
−Removed: Following the closing of the
−Removed: over-allotment option, the Company generated total gross proceeds of $207,795,642 from the IPO and the Private Placement, of which
−Removed: the Company raised $199,998,880 in the IPO, $7,796,842 in the Private Placement and of which $202,998,782 was placed in the
−Removed: Company’s Trust Account established in connection with the IPO.
−Removed: the notice of delisting and suspension of trading of Public Warrants by the NYSE due to “abnormally low” price levels,
−Removed: Public Warrants were delisted from the NYSE effective December 13, 2023 and the trading in Public Shares and Units continues on NYSE.
−Removed: Business Combination
−Removed: On August 3, 2022, the Company, entered into a business combination agreement,
−Removed: which was amended by an amendment dated October 20, 2022, an amendment dated November 29, 2022 and an amendment dated February 20, 2023
−Removed: (as amended and it may be further amended from time to time, collectively, the “Business Combination Agreement”), with FINTECH
−Removed: Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and a wholly owned subsidiary of INFINT (“Merger Sub”), and Seamless Group
−Removed: Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Seamless”).
−Removed: If the Business Combination Agreement is approved by the Company’s
−Removed: shareholders (and the other closing conditions are satisfied or waived in accordance with the Business Combination Agreement), and the
−Removed: transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement are consummated, Merger Sub will merge with and into Seamless, with Seamless
−Removed: surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “merger” and the merger and the other transactions contemplated
−Removed: by the Business Combination Agreement, together, the “Business Combination”).
−Removed: The closing of the
−Removed: Business Combination (the “Closing”) is subject to customary conditions of the respective parties, including the approval
−Removed: of the Business Combination by the Company’s shareholders.
−Removed: Support Agreement
−Removed: with the execution of the Business Combination Agreement, the Company, the holders of Seamless’ shares (“Seamless Shareholders”)
−Removed: and Seamless entered into the Shareholder Support Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, such Seamless Shareholders party
−Removed: thereto agreed to (a) vote their Seamless shares in support and favor of the Business Combination Agreement, the Proposed Transactions
−Removed: and all other matters or resolutions that could reasonably be expected to facilitate the Proposed Transactions, (b) waive any dissenters’
−Removed: rights in connection with the transactions, (c) not transfer their respective Seamless shares and (d) terminate the Seamless’ shareholders’
−Removed: agreement at or prior to Closing.
−Removed: Support Agreement
−Removed: with the execution of the Business Combination Agreement, Sponsor, the Company and Seamless had entered into the Sponsor Support Agreement,
−Removed: pursuant to which, among other things, Sponsor agreed to (a) vote at the Company’s shareholders’ meeting in favor of the
−Removed: Business Combination Agreement and the Proposed Transactions (as defined below), (b) abstain from redeeming any Sponsor founder shares
−Removed: in connection with the Proposed Transactions (as defined below), and (c) waive certain anti-dilution provisions contained in the Charter
−Removed: (as defined below).
−Removed: Rights Agreement
−Removed: the Closing, the Company and certain Seamless Shareholders and the Company’s shareholders party thereto (such shareholders, the
−Removed: “Holders”) will enter into the Registration Rights Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company will be
−Removed: obligated to file a registration statement to register the resale of certain New INFINT Ordinary Shares (as defined therein) held by
−Removed: The Registration Rights Agreement will also provide the Holders with “piggy-back” registration rights, subject
−Removed: to certain requirements and customary conditions.
−Removed: the Closing, the Company will enter into individual Lock-Up Agreements with each of certain Seamless Shareholders (each, a “Locked-Up
−Removed: Shareholder”) pursuant to which, among other things, the New INFINT Ordinary Shares (as defined therein) held by each Locked-Up
−Removed: Shareholder will be locked-up for a period ending on the earlier of (A) six (6) months following the Closing and (B) the date after the
−Removed: Closing on which the Company consummates a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization, or other similar transaction
−Removed: with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their shares for
−Removed: cash, securities, or other property.
−Removed: Business Combination, the Business Combination Agreement, as amended, the Shareholder Support Agreement, the Sponsor Support
−Removed: Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Lock-Up Agreement are more fully described in Note 1 and Note 6 to the
−Removed: financial statements included in Item 8 of this Annual Report.
−Removed: A copy (or form) of each of the foregoing agreements was included as
−Removed: an exhibit to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 9, 2022 and is also filed as an exhibit to this Annual
−Removed: specifically stated, this Annual Report does not give effect to Business Combination and does not contain the risks associated with the
−Removed: Business Combination.
−Removed: Such risks and effects relating to the Business Combination are more fully disclosed in our preliminary prospectus/proxy
−Removed: statement included in a Registration Statement on Form S-4, filed with the SEC on September 30, 2022 and amended on December 1, 2022,
−Removed: February 13, 2023, April 18, 2023, June 9, 2023, August 11, 2023, and December 7, 2023.
−Removed: accordance with the provisions of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company (the “Charter”)
−Removed: and the Business Combination Agreement, Seamless deposited additional funds in the amount of $2,999,982 to the Company’s Trust
−Removed: Account on November 22, 2022 to automatically extend the date by which the Company must consummate a business combination from November
−Removed: 23, 2022 to February 23, 2023.
−Removed: February 14, 2023, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Charter (the “First Extension
−Removed: The First Extension Amendment extended the date by which the Company must consummate its initial business
−Removed: combination (the “First Extension”) from February 23, 2023, upon additional funds being deposited into the
−Removed: Company’s Trust Account to August 23, 2023, or such earlier date as determined by the Company’s board of directors (the
−Removed: “Board”and such date, as may be further extended by vote of the Company’s shareholders, the “First Extended
−Removed: In connection with the shareholder vote to approve the First Extension Amendment, the holders of 10,415,452 Class A
−Removed: ordinary shares property exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.49 per
−Removed: share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $109.31 million, leaving approximately $100.59 million in the Trust
−Removed: August 18, 2023, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Charter to extend the date by which it has to
−Removed: consummate a Business Combination (the “Second Extension”) from August 23, 2023 to February 23, 2024, or such earlier
−Removed: date as determined by the Board (such date, as may be further extended by vote of the Company’s shareholders, the “Second Extended Date”).
−Removed: In connection with the votes to approve the Second Extension,
−Removed: the holders of 2,176,003 Class A ordinary shares of the Company properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a
−Removed: redemption price of approximately $10.94 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $23.8 million, leaving
−Removed: approximately $81.1 million in the Company’s Trust Account.
−Removed: February 16, 2024, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Charter to extend the date by which it has to
−Removed: consummate a Business Combination (the “Third Extension”) from February 23, 2024 to November 23, 2024, or such earlier
−Removed: date as determined by the Board (such date, as may be further extended by vote of the Company’s shareholders, the “Third Extended Date”).
−Removed: In connection with the votes to approve the Third Extension,
−Removed: the holders of 2,661,404 Class A ordinary shares of the Company properly exercised their right to redeem their shares for cash at a
−Removed: redemption price of approximately $11.36 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $30.26 million, leaving
−Removed: approximately $53.97 million in the Company’s Trust Account.
−Removed: In accordance with the Business Combination Agreement, as amended, additional funds in the amount of $80,000 were
−Removed: deposited by Seamless to the Trust Account on February 20, 2024, and the required contributions will continue to be deposited on or before
−Removed: the 23rd day of each subsequent calendar month into the Trust Account until the Third Extended Date or the date an initial business combination
−Removed: is completed.
−Removed: Company was founded by our Sponsor, which was founded by a talented group of financial services and technology industry experts who have
−Removed: led or been involved in investments or M&A transactions in the financial technology & services, insurance, and info/tech services
−Removed: We believe the background and experience of our Sponsor members will allow us to source, identify and execute an attractive
−Removed: transaction for our shareholders.
−Removed: Sponsor represents a tightly knit team of industry executives with extensive investment, operating and innovating experience in financial
−Removed: The holistic combination of these three capabilities provides Sponsor with a differentiated playbook providing a competitive
−Removed: advantage across the investment life cycle, positioning it as the partner-of-choice to founders, management teams and vendors of target
−Removed: portfolio companies, and their customers alike.
−Removed: Company is led by Alexander Edgarov, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board, our Board member (and founder of our Sponsor)
−Removed: Kevin Chen, our Chairman of the Board Eric Weinstein, and Sheldon Brickman, our Chief Financial Officer, who are supported by our team
−Removed: as well as our directors, as further described below.
−Removed: Edgarov has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board since March 2021.
−Removed: Edgarov is a sponsor investor of,
−Removed: and since November 2020 has served as a senior advisor to Edoc Acquisition Corporation, (NASDAQ:
−Removed: ADOC), a healthcare special purpose
−Removed: acquisition company.
−Removed: From 2016 to 2018, he was a venture partner with New Margin Capital, a leading venture capital fund in China.
−Removed: Edgarov has served as a Principal at Sapta Group Corp since 2014.
−Removed: Earlier in his career, Mr.
−Removed: Edgarov served as a global account executive
−Removed: for a leading international supply chain company, where he oversaw multiple teams across the globe and worked with Fortune 100 companies
−Removed: overseeing multi-million dollar accounts in the fields of automotive, fashion and technology.
−Removed: He is an investor and advisor to a wide-range
−Removed: portfolio of clients including companies, alternative investment funds, venture capital funds, and family offices with a focus on both
−Removed: public and private markets in the United States and China.
−Removed: Edgarov is an expert in building multi-level connections between business
−Removed: people and companies from China, the United States and Israel in the areas of venture capital, entertainment and technology.
−Removed: on his extensive international network of contacts and partners, Mr.
−Removed: Edgarov provides strategic and tactical guidance, analysis and introduction
−Removed: services to companies and individuals who need to gain deeper understanding of local markets and seek to form partnerships and pursue
−Removed: opportunities with aligned partners who are leaders in their fields.
−Removed: Edgarov completed his undergraduate degree in Economics and Business and received his Bachelors of Art from the Ben-Gurion University
−Removed: of the Negev in Israel.
−Removed: He graduated summa cum laude from the Master of Arts program in International Affairs at the City College of
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Edgarov’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his extensive financial services leadership positions and
−Removed: entrepreneurial experience.
−Removed: Brickman has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2021.
−Removed: Brickman is the President of Rockshore Advisors LLC, which he
−Removed: founded in May of 2013.
−Removed: providing a range of advisory services, including traditional mergers & acquisitions services, due diligence,
−Removed: valuations and strategic consulting.
−Removed: Rockshore Advisors, LLC is particularly focused on advising investors in the insurance and healthcare
−Removed: Brickman, who received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brooklyn College, brings over 25 years of M&A advisory
−Removed: and business development experience.
−Removed: He has worked for numerous multibillion dollar insurance carriers, including assignments for companies
−Removed: as AIG, Aetna and National General.
−Removed: Brickman has assisted international companies in the UAE, UK, Asia and Latin America, and advised
−Removed: regional insurance carriers on their business.
−Removed: Brickman’s experience covers the property casualty and life/health markets,
−Removed: including work with insurance carriers, managing general agencies, wholesalers, retailers and third party administrators.
−Removed: Head of International M&A and Business Development for Aetna International from March of 2012 through April of 2013.
−Removed: previously worked at AIG for more than 17 years in various executive level M&A and business development positions around the world
−Removed: where he was responsible for buying and selling numerous businesses on behalf of the company.
−Removed: Before joining AIG, Mr.
−Removed: Brickman spent
−Removed: four years at Hanwa Company LTD, a Japanese investment Company, and three years at the international accounting firm of Deloitte &
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Brickman’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his substantial experience as a financial technology executive
−Removed: and entrepreneur, having held senior leadership positions in large corporations and having founded an industry-leading global financial
−Removed: services and consulting firm.
−Removed: Weinstein is the Chairman of the Board and is one of the Company’s independent directors.
−Removed: Weinstein serves as an Investment Manager at Eastmore Group
−Removed: since February 2018 where his responsibilities as a managing director include screening and overseeing investments.
−Removed: He has previously
−Removed: served as a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman from May 2009 to January 2018 where he was also the Chairman of Hedge Fund Solutions
−Removed: and a member of the Investment Risk Committee and Alternatives Investment Committee.
−Removed: Weinstein has over 30 years of experience at
−Removed: global financial services firms that include Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Swiss Bank Corporation, and Morgan Stanley.
−Removed: At Lehman Brothers, Mr.
−Removed: Weinstein acted as a Chief Investment Officer of Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management and oversaw
−Removed: a pool of capital that exceeded $5 billion U.S.
−Removed: He has served as the co-manager of a private equity investment start-up which
−Removed: was focused on providing seed capital to start up investment firms.
−Removed: He has also served as a director to a number of investment funds.
−Removed: Weinstein has global experience managing investments and servicing clients in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
−Removed: In the 1990s, Mr.
−Removed: Weinstein managed a team of derivative analysts in Hong Kong (Swiss Bank), and he visited Beijing and Hong Kong on
−Removed: a regular basis to meet with then-existing and then-potential clients when working with Lehman Brothers and then Neuberger until 2015.
−Removed: Weinstein currently serves as Investment Manager for the Eastmore Group, which makes minority investments in companies that have
−Removed: assets in China, however Mr.
−Removed: Weinstein has never advised on any such investments.
−Removed: Weinstein received his MBA from the Wharton School
−Removed: at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Brandeis University.
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Weinstein’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his substantial experience as a financial executive,
−Removed: having held senior leadership positions in large financial institutions.
−Removed: Moradzadeh is a member of the Board and is one of the Company’s independent directors.
−Removed: Michael Moradzadeh is a Founding Partner and the Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: of Rimon PC, and its affiliate NovaLaw, Inc.
−Removed: He has served and managed the firm in these capacities from its incipience in 2008.
−Removed: Moradzadeh’s legal practice focuses on technology company representation and international transactions.
−Removed: He represents both companies
−Removed: and investors in investment rounds and stock sales.
−Removed: He has worked on deals ranging from small angel investments to representing a private
−Removed: equity firm in a $6 billion acquisition.
−Removed: He is also heavily involved in secondary markets of private stock, representing sellers of restricted
−Removed: stock in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, SolarCity, Dropbox, Bloom Energy, Gilt Groupe, Etsy and other pre-IPO companies.
−Removed: Internationally,
−Removed: Moradzadeh represented Bain Capital and Morgan Stanley in their international investment funds and has worked with foreign counsel
−Removed: in 130 jurisdictions on several international securities deals.
−Removed: Moradzadeh has presented on innovations in law firm management and
−Removed: business models at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley Law School, and UC Hastings College of the Law.
−Removed: has also presented to the board of directors of global law firms to help them innovate their own structures.
−Removed: Moradzadeh’s innovations
−Removed: with Rimon have received awards from the Financial Times and the American Bar Association Journal and have appeared in a wide array of
−Removed: international publications, including the Economist, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the American Lawyer
−Removed: Magazine, the National Law Journal, American Bar Association Magazine, the National Post, Bloomberg, Law & More, Legal Management
−Removed: Magazine, the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journals, the San Francisco Business Times, the Silicon Valley Business Journal, American
−Removed: Lawyer’s Law Technology News, Law 360, and eLawyering.
−Removed: Moradzadeh received his Bachelor of Arts in from the University of California,
−Removed: Berkeley, and his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in New York.
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Moradzadeh’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his unique legal, business and management experience
−Removed: with a focus on the financial technology industry, along with his extensive private company experience.
−Removed: Cameron is a member of the Board and is one of the Company’s independent directors.
−Removed: Cameron is a strategic, C-level data security
−Removed: and risk management executive who drives enterprise profitability and protects stakeholders by securing information assets, managing
−Removed: cyber risk, and enabling business strategies.
−Removed: From April of 2017 to September of 2020, Mr.
−Removed: Cameron acted as Senior Vice President
−Removed: and Chief Security Officer for US, UK, and France-based operations of AXA XL, a multi-line global insurance and reinsurance
−Removed: companies and was accountable for driving cultural and organizational change throughout the entities and implementing a sustainable
−Removed: cost effective information security practice.
−Removed: As a key advisor, Mr.
−Removed: Cameron’s duties included global management
−Removed: responsibilities covering cyber security, business continuity management and physical security as well as global responsibility for
−Removed: the overall information risk management programs, including the company’s information risk and security strategies, tactics,
−Removed: planning, governance, architecture, and operations.
−Removed: At XL Global Services, Inc., another insurance and reinsurance company, he
−Removed: served as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, and VP of Information Risk from 2002 through April of 2017.
−Removed: XL Global Services, he had global responsibility for overall Information Risk Management program, including the company’s
−Removed: information risk and security strategies, tactics, planning, governance, architecture, and operations.
−Removed: Cameron is an expert at
−Removed: navigating the complex global regulatory environment (General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), Health Insurance
−Removed: Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), New York State Department of Financial Services
−Removed: (“NYDFS”), International Traffic in Arms Regulations( “ITAR”)) and US regulatory regime as it pertains to
−Removed: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (the “CFIUS”).
−Removed: As a firm believer in security for both
−Removed: individuals and enterprises, Mr.
−Removed: Cameron achieved an “All Star” designation from Risk and Insurance magazine for his
−Removed: ongoing peer recognition in security awareness and education.
−Removed: One of these unique initiatives raised over $10,000 for Medicine Sans
−Removed: As an active member of various global security consortiums including the FS-ISAC and the European-based Information
−Removed: Security Forum (“ISF”), he participated in thought leadership efforts to create a global information security culture.
−Removed: Additionally, he continuously participates in round table and panel discussions at international conferences to further entrench the
−Removed: security mindset and awareness.
−Removed: Cameron holds and maintains a Certified Information Systems Security Professional
−Removed: (“CISSP”) designation and an Associates in Business from the University of Phoenix.
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Cameron’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his substantial experience in risk management, along with
−Removed: his extensive experience in senior management.
−Removed: Cameron has over 20 years of combined experience in Information Security, Physical
−Removed: Security, Business Continuity Management and Regulatory Affairs.
−Removed: Huang is a member of the Board and is one of the Company’s independent directors.
−Removed: Huang currently serves as Global Life &
−Removed: Health Chief Actuary for Gen Re, an American multinational property/casualty and life/health reinsurance company.
−Removed: as Senior Vice President, Consumer Lines Strategy at Oscar Health, Inc.
−Removed: OSCR), a technology-driven health insurance company
−Removed: dedicated to creating a better healthcare experience for members with inclusive products and services from November 2021 to October
−Removed: She served as Senior Vice President, Head of Individual Business, at Oscar Health, Inc.
−Removed: from October 2020 to Nov 2021 and
−Removed: Senior Vice President, Commercial Finance, at Oscar Health, Inc.
−Removed: from February 2020 to October 2020.
−Removed: Huang has prior experience
−Removed: at the multinational fintech giant Ant Group, where she acted as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ant Technologies US and
−Removed: Head of Intelligent Product and Services at Ant Financial from October 2017 to June 2019, focusing on inclusive financial service
−Removed: innovation and partnership.
−Removed: Prior to joining Ant Financial, Ms.
−Removed: Huang was Senior Managing Director, Global Treasury from April 2016
−Removed: to September 2017 at AIG, a multi-line global insurer, responsible for group capital assessment including rating agency and Basel
−Removed: requirements, engagement in the development of IAIS Insurance Capital Standards, and various regulatory requirements with domestic
−Removed: and international regulators.
−Removed: Huang also worked as a Managing Director, Global Actuarial from January 2011 to March
−Removed: 2014, and Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Insurance Company Capital and Asset Liability Management from March 2014 to April
−Removed: Huang was an adjunct faculty member of Columbia University’s Masters of Science program, Enterprise Risk Management.
−Removed: She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Fudan University and a Ph.D.
−Removed: in Computational Biology from New York
−Removed: believe that Ms.
−Removed: Huang’s qualifications to serve on our Board include her extensive experience in M&A, insurance,
−Removed: financial and risk management, regulatory engagement in global settings, and global experience in product development and
−Removed: go-to-market on financial service innovation.
−Removed: Huang is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and a member of the American
−Removed: Academy of Actuaries.
−Removed: Novikov is a member of the Board and is one of the Company’s independent directors.
−Removed: Novikov has since June of 2019 acted as Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer of Cardpay Mexico SAPI de CV, a Europe-based provider of physical and virtual payment services in Mexico.
−Removed: company offers a wide range of services and a global merchant acquirer on a mission to enable fast, convenient, and secure payments
−Removed: for the businesses worldwide.
−Removed: Meanwhile, since November of 2019, he acts as Chief Financial Officer of Yunhong International
−Removed: ZGYH), a Cayman Islands special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”).
−Removed: Since 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Novikov serves as a
−Removed: member of the board of directors of Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc.
−Removed: IPSI), a US-based provider of physical and virtual
−Removed: payment services in Mexico.
−Removed: From 2008 to 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Novikov served as Vice President of QIWI PLC (NASDAQ:
−Removed: QIWI) and was primarily
−Removed: responsible for international business development and merger and acquisition transactions.
−Removed: From 1999 to 2007, Mr.
−Removed: Novikov served as
−Removed: the Deputy Director General of Bela Catarina Ltd., a Portuguese-Russian trading and manufacturing company.
−Removed: His responsibilities
−Removed: included negotiating with customers and partners in foreign countries, organizing the marketing events in Russia and Belarus, and
−Removed: implementing new sales analysis methods for business development and expansion.
−Removed: From 1996 to 1999, Mr.
−Removed: Novikov founded and managed
−Removed: Kvalitet Ltd., a trade company where he was involved in business development and implementation of innovative sales technology.
−Removed: received an undergraduate degree from Moscow State Technological University Stankin.
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Novikov’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his leadership roles and financial expertise.
−Removed: has extensive experience and managerial skills in the international trade, FinTech, e-commerce, and financial industries.
−Removed: Chen is a member of the Board and a co-founder of our Sponsor.
−Removed: Chen is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edoc Acquisition
−Removed: Corporation (NASDAQ:
−Removed: ADOC), a SPAC focused on businesses in the North American and Asian-Pacific healthcare and healthcare provider
−Removed: sectors, since August of 2020.
−Removed: Chen also has since February of 2019 served as a member of the board of directors of Horizon
−Removed: Global Access Fund, a segregate, Cayman Islands-based, portfolio of Flagship Healthcare Properties Fund, which is a leading U.S.
−Removed: Healthcare REIT.
−Removed: Chen has also acted as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of Horizon Financial, a New York-based
−Removed: investment management firm that offers cross-border solutions for global clients, with a specialty in investment in U.S.
−Removed: facilities, since January of 2018.
−Removed: He is responsible for advising clients investing in healthcare facilities in the United States.
−Removed: In addition, Mr.
−Removed: Chen currently serves as a Manager of ACM Macro LLC, a registered investment advisor and affiliated entity of
−Removed: Horizon Financial Advisors LLC.
−Removed: He took this position in June 2017.
−Removed: From 2013 to 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Chen managed portfolios at several
−Removed: investment firms that were not registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (the “FINRA”).
−Removed: of 2017 to June 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Chen acted as Chief Strategist at Hywin Capital Management, LLC.
−Removed: Chen was the Chief Investment Officer
−Removed: at Three Mountain Capital Management LP from August of 2013 until January of 2017.
−Removed: He has extensive experience with and has
−Removed: cultivated a broad network in investment management, particularly in the context of healthcare facilities.
−Removed: In his extensive business
−Removed: experience, Mr.
−Removed: Chen held essential positions such as co-founder and vice-chairman of the Absolute Return Investment Management
−Removed: Association of China, director of asset allocation at Morgan Stanley from August 2004 to August 2008, and manager at China
−Removed: Development Bank from September 1998 to August 2000.
−Removed: Chen has been a guest speaker at Harvard University, Fordham University,
−Removed: Pace University, and IESE Business School.
−Removed: He is a former member of the Adjunct Advisory Committee and former Interim Head of the
−Removed: Private Sector Concentration program of Master of Science in Global Affairs, New York University, and has been an adjunct professor
−Removed: in the Center for Global Affairs there since 2012.
−Removed: He received his PhD in Finance from the Financial Asset Management Engineering
−Removed: Center at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, an MBA in Finance from the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University in the
−Removed: Netherlands, and a B.A.
−Removed: in Economics from the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China.
−Removed: believe that Mr.
−Removed: Chen’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his substantial experience in finance, along with his extensive
−Removed: experience in senior management.
−Removed: business strategy is to identify and consummate an initial business combination with a target that can benefit from the investment, operating
−Removed: and innovating experience of our management team.
−Removed: Specifically, we focus on opportunities where we can efficiently enact our proven and
−Removed: replicable value creation strategy, centered around five key pillars (Strategy and M&A, Sales and Marketing, Product Development
−Removed: and Innovation, Operational Improvements, Talent).
−Removed: we may pursue targets in any industry, we are focused on making investments in growth equity and buyout transactions in respect of which
−Removed: we can exercise control and/or significant influence focused on financial technology, generally headquartered in North America, Asia,
−Removed: Latin America, Europe and Israel, provided, however, that we have no intention of ever conducting our principal operations in, or acquiring
−Removed: any business that is based in, or which does business in, China or Hong Kong or which uses, or may use, a variable interest entity structure
−Removed: to conduct China-based operations.
−Removed: Specifically,
−Removed: we intend to pursue targets serving five main sub-sectors:
−Removed: Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Data & Analytics, Insurance and
−Removed: Investment Management.
−Removed: We seek financial technology companies in these sub-sectors that exhibit infrastructure-like characteristics and
−Removed: are strategically important to their customers.
−Removed: As such, these businesses tend to have attractive business models, high recurring revenues,
−Removed: stable earnings, predictable cash flows, and can generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders.
−Removed: selection process will leverage our management’s and our Sponsor’s extensive relationship network, deep and specialized operational
−Removed: experiences and proven deal sourcing capabilities to access proprietary acquisition opportunities.
−Removed: believe that our management team and Sponsor team’s track record of identifying and sourcing transactions positions us well to
−Removed: appropriately evaluate potential business combinations and select one that will be well received by the public markets.
−Removed: process will leverage the extensive networks of our Sponsor and our management team, which we believe should provide us with a number
−Removed: of business combination opportunities.
−Removed: with our strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines, which we believe are essential in evaluating prospective
−Removed: target businesses.
−Removed: We will use these guidelines to evaluate acquisition opportunities, including the proposed business combination, although
−Removed: if the proposed business combination with Seamless is not completed, we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with
−Removed: a target business that does not meet these criteria and guidelines.
−Removed: We intend to acquire one or more businesses that we believe:
−Removed: our management’s and our Sponsor’s extensive network of relationships, which enables access to proprietary and advantaged
−Removed: from our Sponsor’s investment expertise, industry perspective and skillset, and technological and innovation capabilities;
−Removed: strategically important infrastructure and business services to its customers, and thus has a defensible market position with high
−Removed: barriers to entry against new potential market entrants;
−Removed: a history of strong operating and financial results, and strong fundamentals, which can be improved further under our ownership;
−Removed: prepared to be a public company and will benefit from having a public currency in order to enhance its ability to pursue accretive
−Removed: acquisitions, high-return product development and innovation, and/or strengthen its balance sheet;
−Removed: offer an attractive risk-adjusted return for our shareholders, potential upside from growth in the target business and an improved
−Removed: capital structure that will be weighed against any identified downside risks;
−Removed: attractive business fundamentals.
−Removed: criteria are not intended to be exhaustive.
−Removed: Any evaluation relating to the merits of a particular initial business combination may be
−Removed: based, to the extent relevant, on these general guidelines as well as other considerations, factors and criteria that our management
−Removed: may deem relevant.
−Removed: In the event that we decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet
−Removed: the above criteria and guidelines, we will disclose that the target business does not meet the above criteria in our shareholder communications
−Removed: related to our initial business combination, which, as discussed in this Annual Report, would be in the form of tender offer documents
−Removed: or proxy solicitation materials that we would file with the SEC.
−Removed: Acquisition Process
−Removed: evaluating a prospective target business, as was the case with Seamless, we expect to conduct a thorough due diligence review which will
−Removed: encompass, among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, inspection of facilities, as well
−Removed: as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information which will be made available to us.
−Removed: In addition, we have agreed not
−Removed: to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combination without the prior consent of our Sponsor.
−Removed: of our management team may directly or indirectly own our ordinary shares and/or private placement warrants following the IPO, and, accordingly,
−Removed: may have a conflict of interest in determining whether a particular target business is an appropriate business with which to effectuate
−Removed: our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our officers and directors may also have conflicts of interest with other entities to which they owe
−Removed: fiduciary or contractual obligations with respect to initial business combination opportunities.
−Removed: Further, each of our officers and directors
−Removed: may have a conflict of interest with respect to evaluating a particular business combination if the retention or resignation of any such
−Removed: officers and directors is included by a target business as a condition to any agreement with respect to our initial business combination.
−Removed: of our officers and directors presently has, and any of them in the future may have additional, fiduciary or contractual obligations
−Removed: to another entity pursuant to which such officer or director is or will be required to present a business combination opportunity to
−Removed: Accordingly, if any of our officers or directors becomes aware of a business combination opportunity which is suitable for
−Removed: an entity to which he or she has then-current fiduciary or contractual obligations, he or she will honor his or her fiduciary or contractual
−Removed: obligations to present such business combination opportunity to such other entity, subject to their fiduciary duties under Cayman Islands
−Removed: We do not believe, however, that the fiduciary duties or contractual obligations of our officers or directors will materially affect
−Removed: our ability to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: Our Charter provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law:
−Removed: (i) no individual serving as a director or an officer shall have any duty, except and to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to
−Removed: refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as us;
−Removed: and (ii) we renounce
−Removed: any interest or expectancy in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction or matter which may be
−Removed: a corporate opportunity for any director or officer any director or officer, on the one hand, and us, on the other.
−Removed: Business Combination
−Removed: accordance with the rules of NYSE, our initial business combination must occur with one or more target businesses that together have
−Removed: an aggregate fair market value of at least 80% of the assets held in the Trust Account (excluding the amount of deferred underwriting
−Removed: discounts held in trust and taxes payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of our signing a definitive agreement
−Removed: in connection with our initial business combination.
−Removed: We refer to this as the 80% of net assets test.
−Removed: If our Board is not able to independently
−Removed: determine the fair market value of the target business or businesses, we will obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking
−Removed: firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions with respect to satisfaction of such criteria.
−Removed: provide a summary of any such opinion or report to shareholders in connection with any vote on an initial business combination in our
−Removed: proxy materials or tender offer documents, as applicable, related to our initial business combination in accordance with Section 1015(b)
−Removed: of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: We will also need to obtain the approval of a majority of our disinterested independent directors.
−Removed: We do not intend
−Removed: to purchase multiple businesses in unrelated industries in conjunction with our initial business combination.
−Removed: Subject to this requirement,
−Removed: our management will have virtually unrestricted flexibility in identifying and selecting one or more prospective businesses, although
−Removed: we will not be permitted to effectuate our initial business combination with another blank check company or a similar company with nominal
−Removed: anticipate structuring our initial business combination so that the post-transaction company in which our public shareholders own shares
−Removed: will own or acquire 100% of the equity interests or assets of the target business or businesses.
−Removed: We may, however, structure our initial
−Removed: business combination such that the post-transaction company owns or acquires less than 100% of such interests or assets of the target
−Removed: business in order to meet certain objectives of the prior owners of the target business, the target management team or shareholders or
−Removed: for other reasons, but we will only complete such business combination if the post-transaction company owns or acquires 50% or more of
−Removed: the outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target sufficient for it not to be
−Removed: required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
−Removed: Even if the post-transaction company owns or acquires
−Removed: 50% or more of the voting securities of the target, our shareholders prior to the business combination may collectively own a minority
−Removed: interest in the post-transaction company, depending on valuations ascribed to the target and us in the business combination transaction.
−Removed: For example, we could pursue a transaction in which we issue a substantial number of new shares in exchange for all of the outstanding
−Removed: capital stock, shares or other equity interests of a target.
−Removed: In this case, we would acquire a 100% controlling interest in the target.
−Removed: However, as a result of the issuance of a substantial number of new shares, our shareholders immediately prior to our initial business
−Removed: combination could own less than a majority of our issued and outstanding shares subsequent to our initial business combination.
−Removed: than 100% of the equity interests or assets of a target business or businesses are owned or acquired by the post-transaction company,
−Removed: the portion of such business or businesses that is owned or acquired is what will be valued for purposes of the 80% of net assets test.
−Removed: If the business combination involves more than one target business, the 80% of net assets test will be based on the aggregate value of
−Removed: all of the target businesses and we will treat the target businesses together as the initial business combination for purposes of a tender
−Removed: offer or for seeking shareholder approval, as applicable.
−Removed: the extent we effect our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages
−Removed: of development or growth, we may be affected by numerous risks inherent in such company or business.
−Removed: Although our management will endeavor
−Removed: to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all significant
−Removed: risk factors.
−Removed: are a Cayman Islands exempted company having its principal place of based in the United States.
−Removed: Exempted companies are Cayman Islands
−Removed: companies conducting business mainly outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of
−Removed: the Companies Act.
−Removed: As an exempted company, we have obtained a tax exemption undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in accordance
−Removed: with Section 6 of the Tax Concessions Act (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of the undertaking,
−Removed: no law which is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations will apply to
−Removed: us or our operations and, in addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature
−Removed: of estate duty or inheritance tax will be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or (ii) by way
−Removed: of the withholding in whole or in part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders
−Removed: or a payment of principal or interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.
−Removed: are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business
−Removed: Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”).
−Removed: As such, we are eligible to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting
−Removed: requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited
−Removed: to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley
−Removed: Act”), reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and exemptions
−Removed: from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute
−Removed: payments not previously approved.
−Removed: If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading
−Removed: market for our securities and the prices of our securities may be more volatile.
−Removed: In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides
−Removed: that an “emerging growth company” can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of
−Removed: the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
−Removed: In other words, an “emerging growth company” can
−Removed: delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies.
−Removed: We intend to take
−Removed: advantage of the benefits of this extended transition period.
−Removed: will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of
−Removed: the completion of the IPO, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to
−Removed: be a large accelerated filer, which means the volume weighted average trading price of the Company’s Class A ordinary share during
−Removed: the 20 trading day period starting on the trading day after the day on which the Company completes a Business Combination (such price,
−Removed: the “Market Value”) held by non-affiliates equals or exceeds $700 million as of the prior June 30, and (2) the date on which
−Removed: we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.
−Removed: References herein to “emerging
−Removed: growth company” will have the meaning associated with it in the JOBS Act.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: we are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in Item 10(f)(1) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: reporting companies may take advantage of certain reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, providing only two years
−Removed: of audited financial statements.
−Removed: We will remain a smaller reporting company until the last day of any fiscal year for so long as either
−Removed: (1) the Market Value of our ordinary shares held by non-affiliates does not equal or exceed $250 million as of the prior June 30, or
−Removed: (2) our annual revenues did not equal or exceed $100 million during such completed fiscal year and the Market Value of our ordinary shares
−Removed: held by non-affiliates did not equal or exceed $700 million as of the prior June 30.
−Removed: To the extent we take advantage of such reduced
−Removed: disclosure obligations, it may also make comparison of our financial statements with other public companies difficult or impossible.
−Removed: as a Public Company
−Removed: believe our structure will make us an attractive business combination partner to target businesses.
−Removed: As an existing public company, we
−Removed: offer a target business an alternative to the traditional initial public offering through a merger or other business combination with
−Removed: In a business combination transaction with us, the owners of the target business may, for example, exchange their stock, shares or
−Removed: other equity interests in the target business for our Class A ordinary shares (or shares of a new holding company) or for a combination
−Removed: of our Class A ordinary shares and cash, allowing us to tailor the consideration to the specific needs of the sellers.
−Removed: We believe target
−Removed: businesses will find this method a more expeditious and cost effective method to becoming a public company than the typical initial public
−Removed: The typical initial public offering process takes a significantly longer period of time than the typical business combination
−Removed: transaction process, and there are significant expenses, market and other uncertainties in the initial public offering process, including
−Removed: underwriting discounts and commissions, marketing and road show efforts that may not be present to the same extent in connection with
−Removed: a business combination with us.
−Removed: once a proposed business combination is completed, the target business will have effectively become public, whereas an initial public
−Removed: offering is always subject to the underwriter’s ability to complete the offering, as well as general market conditions, which could
−Removed: delay or prevent the offering from occurring or could have negative valuation consequences.
−Removed: Following an initial business combination,
−Removed: we believe the target business would then have greater access to capital, an additional means of providing management incentives consistent
−Removed: with shareholders’ interests and the ability to use its shares as currency for acquisitions.
−Removed: Being a public company can offer further
−Removed: benefits by augmenting a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees.
−Removed: we believe that our structure and our management team’s backgrounds will make us an attractive business partner, some potential
−Removed: target businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek shareholder
−Removed: approval of any proposed initial business combination, negatively.
−Removed: funds available for a business combination in the amount of approximately $47.97 million after payment of $5,999,964 of deferred underwriting
−Removed: fees and payment of an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $30.26 million as a result of the approval of the Third Extension,
−Removed: we offer a target business a variety of options such as creating a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential
−Removed: growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio.
−Removed: Because we are able to complete
−Removed: our initial business combination using our cash, debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility
−Removed: to use the most efficient combination that will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs
−Removed: However, we have not taken any steps to secure third party financing and there can be no assurance it will be available
−Removed: Our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of the IPO and the private placement of the private
−Removed: placement warrants, the proceeds of the sale of our shares in connection with our initial business combination (pursuant to forward purchase
−Removed: agreements or backstop agreements we may enter into following the consummation of the IPO or otherwise), shares issued to the owners
−Removed: of the target, debt issued to bank or other lenders or the owners of the target, or a combination of the foregoing.
−Removed: We may seek to complete
−Removed: our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or
−Removed: growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.
−Removed: our initial business combination is paid for using equity or debt securities, or not all of the funds released from the Trust Account
−Removed: are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial business combination or used for redemptions of our Class A
−Removed: ordinary shares, we may use the balance of the cash released to us from the Trust Account following the closing for general corporate
−Removed: purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, the payment of principal or interest
−Removed: due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.
−Removed: have entered into the Business Combination Agreement with Seamless.
−Removed: While we may pursue an initial business combination target in any
−Removed: industry, we intend to focus our search on companies in the financial technology sector.
−Removed: our management will assess the risks inherent in a particular target business with which we may combine, including Seamless, we cannot
−Removed: assure you that this assessment will result in our identifying all risks that a target business may encounter.
−Removed: Furthermore, some of those
−Removed: risks may be outside of our control, meaning that we can do nothing to control or reduce the chances that those risks will adversely
−Removed: affect a target business.
−Removed: may seek to raise additional funds through a private offering of debt or equity securities in connection with the completion of our initial
−Removed: business combination and we may effectuate our initial business combination using the proceeds of such offering rather than using the
−Removed: amounts held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: In addition, we intend to target businesses with enterprise values that are greater than we could
−Removed: acquire with the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of the private placement warrants, and, as a result, if the cash portion of the
−Removed: purchase price exceeds the amount available from the Trust Account, net of amounts needed to satisfy any redemptions by public shareholders,
−Removed: we may be required to seek additional financing to complete such proposed initial business combination.
−Removed: Subject to compliance with applicable
−Removed: securities laws, we would expect to complete such financing only simultaneously with the completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: In the case of an initial business combination funded with assets other than the Trust Account assets, our proxy materials or tender
−Removed: offer documents disclosing the initial business combination would disclose the terms of the financing and, only if required by law, we
−Removed: would seek shareholder approval of such financing.
−Removed: There is no limitation on our ability to raise funds through the issuance of equity
−Removed: or equity-linked securities or through loans, advances or other indebtedness in connection with our initial business combination, including
−Removed: pursuant to forward purchase agreements or backstop agreements we may enter into following consummation of the IPO.
−Removed: At this time, we
−Removed: are not a party to any arrangement or understanding with any third party with respect to raising any additional funds through the sale
−Removed: of securities or otherwise.
−Removed: Neither our Sponsor nor any of our officers, directors or shareholders is required to provide any financing
−Removed: to us in connection with or after our initial business combination.
−Removed: of Target Businesses
−Removed: anticipate that target business candidates will be brought to our attention from various unaffiliated sources, including investment bankers
−Removed: and private investment funds.
−Removed: Target businesses may be brought to our attention by such unaffiliated sources as a result of being solicited
−Removed: by us through calls or mailings.
−Removed: These sources may also introduce us to target businesses in which they think we may be interested on
−Removed: an unsolicited basis, since many of these sources will have read this Annual Report and know what types of businesses we are targeting.
−Removed: Our officers and directors, as well as their affiliates, may also bring to our attention target business candidates of which they become
−Removed: aware through their business contacts as a result of formal or informal inquiries or discussions they may have, as well as attending
−Removed: trade shows or conventions.
−Removed: In addition, we expect to receive a number of proprietary deal flow opportunities that would not otherwise
−Removed: necessarily be available to us as a result of the track record and business relationships of our officers and directors.
−Removed: not presently anticipate engaging the services of professional firms or other individuals that specialize in business acquisitions on
−Removed: any formal basis, we may engage these firms or other individuals in the future, in which event we may pay a finder’s fee, consulting
−Removed: fee or other compensation to be determined in an arm’s length negotiation based on the terms of the transaction.
−Removed: We will engage
−Removed: a finder only to the extent our management determines that the use of a finder may bring opportunities to us that may not otherwise be
−Removed: available to us or if finders approach us on an unsolicited basis with a potential transaction that our management determines is in our
−Removed: best interest to pursue.
−Removed: Payment of a finder’s fee is customarily tied to completion of a transaction, in which case any such fee
−Removed: will be paid out of the funds held in the Trust Account.
−Removed: In no event, however, will our Sponsor or any of our existing officers or directors,
−Removed: or any entity with which they are affiliated, be paid any finder’s fee, consulting fee or other compensation by the company prior
−Removed: to, or for any services they render in order to effectuate, the completion of our initial business combination (regardless of the type
−Removed: of transaction that it is).
−Removed: In addition, commencing on November 22, 2021, we have been paying our Sponsor or an affiliate thereof up
−Removed: to $10,000 per month for office space, utilities, secretarial and administrative support services provided to members of our management
−Removed: Any such payments prior to our initial business combination will be made from funds held outside the Trust Account.
−Removed: the foregoing, there will be no finder’s fees, reimbursement, consulting fee, monies in respect of any payment of a loan or other
−Removed: compensation paid by us to our Sponsor, officers or directors, or any affiliate of our Sponsor or officers prior to, or in connection
−Removed: with any services rendered in order to effectuate, the consummation of our initial business combination (regardless of the type of transaction
−Removed: are not prohibited from pursuing an initial business combination with a business combination target that is affiliated with our Sponsor,
−Removed: officers or directors, or from completing the business combination through a joint venture or other form of shared ownership with our
−Removed: Sponsor, officers or directors.
−Removed: In the event we seek to complete our initial business combination with a business combination target
−Removed: that is affiliated with our Sponsor, officers or directors, we, or a committee of independent directors, would obtain an opinion from
−Removed: an independent investment banking firm or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, that such an initial business
−Removed: combination is fair to our company from a financial point of view.
−Removed: We will also provide a summary of any such opinion or report to shareholders
−Removed: in connection with any vote on an initial business combination in our proxy materials or tender offer documents, as applicable, related
−Removed: to our initial business combination in accordance with Section 1015(b) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: We are not required to obtain such an opinion
−Removed: in any other context.
−Removed: We will also need to obtain the approval of a majority of our disinterested independent directors.
−Removed: of a Target Business and Structuring of Our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: evaluating a prospective target business, as was the case with Seamless, we expect to conduct a due diligence review which may encompass,
−Removed: among other things, meetings with incumbent management and employees, document reviews, interviews of customers and suppliers, inspection
−Removed: of facilities, as applicable, as well as a review of financial, operational, legal and other information which will be made available
−Removed: If we determine to move forward with a particular target, we will proceed to structure and negotiate the terms of the business
−Removed: combination transaction.
−Removed: time required to select and evaluate a target business and to structure and complete our initial business combination, and the costs
−Removed: associated with this process, are not currently ascertainable with any degree of certainty.
−Removed: Any costs incurred with respect to the identification
−Removed: and evaluation of, and negotiation with, a prospective target business with which our initial business combination is not ultimately
−Removed: completed will result in our incurring losses and will reduce the funds we can use to complete another business combination.
−Removed: of Business Diversification
−Removed: an indefinite period of time after the completion of our initial business combination, the prospects for our success may depend entirely
−Removed: on the future performance of a single business.
−Removed: Unlike other entities that have the resources to complete business combinations with
−Removed: multiple entities in one or several industries, it is probable that we will not have the resources to diversify our operations and mitigate
−Removed: the risks of being in a single line of business.
−Removed: By completing our initial business combination with only a single entity, our lack of
−Removed: diversification may:
−Removed: us to negative economic, competitive and regulatory developments, any or all of which may have a substantial adverse impact on the
−Removed: particular industry in which we operate after our initial business combination;
−Removed: us to depend on the marketing and sale of a single product or limited number of products or services.
−Removed: Ability to Evaluate the Target’s Management Team
−Removed: we intend to closely scrutinize the management of a prospective target business when evaluating the desirability of effecting our initial
−Removed: business combination with that business, our assessment of the target business’s management may not prove to be correct.
−Removed: the future management may not have the necessary skills, qualifications or abilities to manage a public company.
−Removed: Furthermore, the future
−Removed: role of members of our management team, if any, in the target business cannot presently be stated with any certainty.
−Removed: The determination
−Removed: as to whether any of the members of our management team will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: While it is possible that one or more of our directors will remain associated in some capacity with us following
−Removed: our initial business combination, it is unlikely that any of them will devote their full efforts to our affairs subsequent to our initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: Moreover, we cannot assure you that members of our management team will have significant experience or knowledge
−Removed: relating to the operations of the particular target business.
−Removed: cannot assure you that any of our key personnel will remain in senior management or advisory positions with the combined company.
−Removed: determination as to whether any of our key personnel will remain with the combined company will be made at the time of our initial business
−Removed: a business combination, we may seek to recruit additional managers to supplement the incumbent management of the target business.
−Removed: cannot assure you that we will have the ability to recruit additional managers, or that additional managers will have the requisite skills,
−Removed: knowledge or experience necessary to enhance the incumbent management.
−Removed: Rights for Public Shareholders upon Completion of Our Initial Business Combination
−Removed: will provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Class A ordinary shares upon the completion
−Removed: of our initial business combination at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust
−Removed: Account calculated as of two business days prior to the consummation of the initial business combination, including interest earned on
−Removed: the funds held in the Trust Account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, divided by the number of then outstanding public
−Removed: shares, subject to the limitations and on the conditions described herein.
−Removed: The amount in the Trust Account is currently anticipated to
−Removed: be $11.36 per public share.
−Removed: The per-share amount we will distribute to investors who properly redeem their shares will not be reduced
−Removed: by the deferred underwriting commissions we will pay to the underwriter.
−Removed: The redemption rights will include the requirement that a beneficial
−Removed: holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares.
−Removed: Our Sponsor, certain advisor transferees, officers and directors and
−Removed: EF Hutton as a holder of representative shares have entered into a letter agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive
−Removed: their redemption rights with respect to their founder shares and any public shares they may hold in connection with the completion of
−Removed: our initial business combination.
−Removed: on Redemptions
−Removed: Charter provides that in no event will we redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than
−Removed: In addition, our proposed initial business combination may impose a minimum cash requirement for (i) cash consideration to
−Removed: be paid to the target or its owners, (ii) cash for working capital or other general corporate purposes or (iii) the retention of cash
−Removed: to satisfy other conditions.
−Removed: In the event the aggregate cash consideration we would be required to pay for all Class A ordinary shares
−Removed: that are validly submitted for redemption plus any amount required to satisfy cash conditions pursuant to the terms of the proposed initial
−Removed: business combination exceed the aggregate amount of cash available to us, we will not complete the initial business combination or redeem
−Removed: any shares, and all Class A ordinary shares submitted for redemption will be returned to the holders thereof.
−Removed: We may, however, raise
−Removed: funds through the issuance of equity-linked securities or through loans, advances or other indebtedness in connection with our initial
−Removed: business combination, including pursuant to forward purchase agreements or backstop arrangements we may enter into following consummation
−Removed: of the IPO, in order to, among other reasons, satisfy such net tangible assets or minimum cash requirements.
−Removed: identifying, evaluating and selecting a target business for our initial business combination, we have in the past and, if the proposed
−Removed: business combination with Seamless is not completed, may in the future encounter competition from other entities having a business objective
−Removed: similar to ours, including other special purpose acquisition companies, private equity groups and leveraged buyout funds, public companies
−Removed: and operating businesses seeking strategic acquisitions.
−Removed: Many of these entities are well established and have extensive experience identifying
−Removed: and effecting business combinations directly or through affiliates.
−Removed: Moreover, many of these competitors possess similar or greater financial,
−Removed: technical, human and other resources than us.
−Removed: Our ability to acquire larger target businesses will be limited by our available financial
−Removed: This inherent limitation gives others an advantage in pursuing the acquisition of a target business.
−Removed: Furthermore, our obligation
−Removed: to pay cash in connection with our public shareholders who exercise their redemption rights may reduce the resources available to us
−Removed: for our initial business combination and our issued and outstanding warrants, and the future dilution they potentially represent, may
−Removed: not be viewed favorably by certain target businesses.
−Removed: Either of these factors may place us at a competitive disadvantage in successfully
−Removed: negotiating an initial business combination.
−Removed: currently have two officers:
−Removed: Alexander Edgarov, Chief Executive Officer, and Sheldon Brickman, Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: These individuals
−Removed: are not obligated to devote any specific number of hours to our matters but they intend to devote as much of their time as they deem
−Removed: necessary to our affairs until we have completed our initial business combination.
−Removed: The amount of time they will devote in any time period
−Removed: will vary based on whether a target business has been selected for our initial business combination and the stage of the business combination
−Removed: process we are in.
−Removed: We do not intend to have any full-time employees prior to the completion of our initial business combination.
−Removed: corporate website address is www.infintspac.com.
−Removed: The information contained on, or accessible through our corporate website or any other
−Removed: website that we may maintain is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report.
−Removed: Reporting and Financial Information
−Removed: have registered our units, Class A ordinary shares and warrants under the Exchange Act and have reporting obligations, including the
−Removed: requirement that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with the SEC.
−Removed: In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act,
−Removed: our annual reports will contain financial statements audited and reported on by our independent registered public accountants.
−Removed: will provide shareholders with audited financial statements of the prospective target business as part of the proxy solicitation materials
−Removed: or tender offer documents sent to shareholders to assist them in assessing the target business.
−Removed: In all likelihood, these financial statements
−Removed: will need to be prepared in accordance with, or reconciled to, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
−Removed: (“GAAP”) or international financial reporting standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IFRS”),
−Removed: depending on the circumstances, and the historical financial statements may be required to be audited in accordance with the standards
−Removed: of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”).
−Removed: These financial statement requirements may limit the pool
−Removed: of potential target businesses we may conduct an initial business combination with because some targets may be unable to provide such
−Removed: statements in time for us to disclose such statements in accordance with federal proxy rules and complete our initial business combination
−Removed: within the prescribed time frame.
−Removed: We cannot assure you that any particular target business identified by us as a potential business combination
−Removed: candidate will have financial statements prepared in accordance with the requirements outlined above, or that the potential target business
−Removed: will be able to prepare its financial statements in accordance with the requirements outlined above.
−Removed: To the extent that these requirements
−Removed: cannot be met, we may not be able to acquire the proposed target business.
−Removed: While this may limit the pool of potential business combination
−Removed: candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will be material.
−Removed: are required to evaluate our internal control procedures over financial reporting for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 as required
−Removed: by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
−Removed: Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify
−Removed: as an emerging growth company, will we be required to have our internal control procedures audited.
−Removed: A target business may not be in compliance
−Removed: with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls.
−Removed: The development of the internal controls
−Removed: of any such entity to achieve compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may increase the time and costs necessary to complete any such business
−Removed: have filed a Registration Statement on Form 8-A with the SEC to voluntarily register our units, Class A ordinary shares and public warrants
−Removed: under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
−Removed: As a result, we are subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: have no current intention of filing a Form 15 to suspend our reporting or other obligations under the Exchange Act prior or subsequent
−Removed: to the consummation of our initial business combination.
−Removed: are a Cayman Islands exempted company having its principal place of business based in the United States.
−Removed: Exempted companies are Cayman
−Removed: Islands companies conducting business mainly outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions
−Removed: of the Companies Act.
−Removed: As an exempted company, we have received a tax exemption undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in
−Removed: accordance with Section 6 of the Tax Concessions Act (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of
−Removed: the undertaking, no law which is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations
−Removed: will apply to us or our operations and, in addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is
−Removed: in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax will be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or
−Removed: (ii) by way of the withholding in whole or in part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders
−Removed: or a payment of principal or interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.
−Removed: FACTORS SUMMARY
−Removed: investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk.
−Removed: The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in
−Removed: the section entitled “Item 1A.
−Removed: Risk Factors,” alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may materially
−Removed: adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
−Removed: In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline,
−Removed: and you could lose all or part of your investment.
−Removed: Such risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
−Removed: are a recently incorporated company with no operating history and no revenues, and our shareholders have no basis on which to evaluate
−Removed: our ability to achieve our business objective.
−Removed: performance by our management team or their respective affiliates may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in
−Removed: shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed initial business combination, which means we may complete
−Removed: our initial business combination even though a majority of our shareholders do not support such a combination.
−Removed: Their only opportunity
−Removed: to effect the investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of their right to redeem
−Removed: their shares from us for cash.
−Removed: we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our initial shareholders have agreed to vote in favor of such initial
−Removed: business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote.
−Removed: ability of our public shareholders to redeem their shares for cash may make our financial condition unattractive to potential business
−Removed: combination targets, which may make it difficult for us to enter into a business combination with a target.
−Removed: ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares may not allow us to
−Removed: complete the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure.
−Removed: requirement that we consummate an initial business combination prior to the Third Extended Date may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we
−Removed: have in which to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline,
−Removed: which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.
−Removed: search for a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination, may be materially
−Removed: adversely affected by the past and ongoing impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the status of debt and equity markets.
−Removed: we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our initial shareholders, directors, executive officers, advisors
−Removed: and their affiliates may elect to purchase public shares or warrants, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination
−Removed: and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares or public warrants.
−Removed: NYSE may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our
−Removed: securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
−Removed: increases in inflation and interest rates in the United States and elsewhere could make it more difficult for us to consummate an
−Removed: initial business combination.
−Removed: the Company is deemed a “foreign person” under the regulations relating to CFIUS, its failure to obtain any required
−Removed: approvals within the requisite time period may require us to liquidate.
−Removed: of our limited resources and the significant competition for business combination opportunities, it may be more difficult for us
−Removed: to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: If we have not consummated our initial business combination within the required time
−Removed: period, our public shareholders may receive only approximately $11.36 per public share, or less in certain circumstances, on the
−Removed: liquidation of our Trust Account and our warrants will expire worthless.
−Removed: the net proceeds of the IPO and the sale of the private placement warrants not being held in the Trust Account are insufficient to
−Removed: allow us to operate the Third Extended Date, it could limit the amount available
−Removed: to fund our search for a target business or businesses and our ability to complete our initial business combination, and we will
−Removed: depend on loans from our Sponsor, its affiliates or members of our management team to fund our search and to complete our initial
+Added: otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, references in this section to “Seamless,” “it,” or “their,”
+Added: generally refer to Seamless Group Inc.
+Added: prior to the Business Combination and to Currenc Group Inc.
+Added: after giving effect to the Business
+Added: Currenc Group Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”) is
+Added: a limited liability company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on March 8, 2021.
+Added: It is an investment holding company headquartered in
+Added: The Company was originally a publicly traded special
+Added: purpose acquisition company named INFINT Acquisition Corporation (“INFINT”) formed for the purpose of acquiring, engaging
+Added: in a share exchange, share reconstruction and amalgamation with, purchasing all or substantially all of the assets of, entering into contractual
+Added: arrangements with, or engaging in any other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
+Added: The Company’s principal subsidiaries as of December
+Added: 31, 2024, are set out below:
+Added: held by the Company
+Added: Place of incorporation
+Added: Principal activities
+Added: Seamless Group Inc.
+Added: Cayman Islands
+Added: Investment holding
+Added: Dynamic Investment Holdings Limited
+Added: Cayman Islands
+Added: Investment holding
+Added: Bagus Fintech Pte.
+Added: Providing business center services
+Added: Dynamic (Asia)
+Added: Holdings Limited
+Added: Cayman Islands
+Added: Investment holding
+Added: Seamless AI Inc.
+Added: Investment holdings
+Added: Seamless Lab Limited
+Added: AI Data Center and system integration
+Added: PT Tranglo Indonesia
+Added: Operating money remittance business
+Added: PT Tranglo Solusindo
+Added: Providing and sourcing airtime and other related services
+Added: Tranglo (MEA) Limited
+Added: Providing and sourcing airtime and other related services
+Added: Tranglo Europe Ltd
+Added: United Kingdom
+Added: Operating money remittance business
+Added: Operating money remittance business
+Added: Treatsup Sdn.
+Added: Research, development and commercialisation of Treatsup application and provision of implementation, technical services and maintenance related to the application
+Added: Dynamic Indonesia Holdings Limited
+Added: Cayman Islands
+Added: Investment holding
+Added: Dynamic Indonesia Pte.
+Added: Retail sales via the internet and development of other software and programming activities
+Added: PT Dynamic Wallet Indonesia
+Added: Business operations have not commenced
+Added: PT Walletku Indompet Indonesia
+Added: (i) Retail commerce through media, for textile commodities, clothing, footwear and personal needs, (ii) web portal and/or digital platforms for commercial purposes, and (iii) software publisher
+Added: Through our two major lines of business, remittance
+Added: and airtime, Currenc is a leading operator of global money transfer services and airtime trading in Southeast Asia.
+Added: The remittance business
+Added: facilitates users in different countries sending money from one country to another in a low cost and efficient manner.
+Added: The airtime business
+Added: sells airtime to users in different countries worldwide, including retail users in Indonesia.
+Added: In the past, Currenc operated the two different
+Added: business lines through four main subsidiaries:
+Added: Tranglo, WalletKu, TNG Asia and GEA.
+Added: On July 30, 2024, Currenc divested GEA and on August
+Added: 30, 2024, Currenc also disposed TNG Asia.
+Added: Since then, Currenc operates the global remittance business mainly through Tranglo, which is
+Added: one of the leading money remittance platforms in Southeast Asia.
+Added: Tranglo provides business-to-business (“B2B”) remittance
+Added: services for financial institutions and is considered as an upstream player of the remittance industry.
+Added: Currenc also provides cross-border
+Added: international airtime transfer services through Tranglo, acting as a switching platform provider for telecom airtime transfer and a wholesale
+Added: reseller of foreign airtime.
+Added: Currenc also runs WalletKu, which is an Indonesian airtime operator facing end users directly.
+Added: Tranglo is a leading global money
+Added: and airtime transfer hub in Southeast Asia.
+Added: For Tranglo’s money remittance business, it provides a single unified application
+Added: programming interface for licensed banks and money service operators and acts as a one-stop settlement agent for cross-border money
+Added: transfer, offering customers the ability to process payments globally.
+Added: Tranglo is also a global airtime transfer hub, offering
+Added: cross-border airtime wholesale and transfer services.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, Tranglo had more than 5,000 bank partners, 35
+Added: eWallets, 130,000 cash pick-up points, and 500 mobile operators that cover 150 countries and served more than 40 airtime corporate
+Added: As for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, Tranglo processed around 11.4 million transactions with a total
+Added: processing value of $5.14 billion, which represents a growth in volume by 3.6% and 13.2% in value as compared to 11 million
+Added: transactions, with a total processing value of $4.53 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: As for the fiscal year ended
+Added: December 31, 2024, the top four sending countries for Tranglo’s remittance business were UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea,
+Added: whereas the top four receiving countries were Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
+Added: The predominant portion of
+Added: Tranglo’s Hong Kong related revenue was derived from two customers, TNG Asia and GEA, which were divested by Currenc in August
+Added: and July 2024 respectively.
+Added: Based on the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, operating results, post-Divestiture, the percentage of
+Added: revenue generated in Hong Kong and the PRC represented approximately 5.6% of Currenc’s total revenue.
+Added: WalletKu is an
+Added: independent electronic platform in Indonesia directly facing end users, and allows its customers to purchase airtime and conduct
+Added: internet data top-up.
+Added: WalletKu platform also allows users to conduct cash top-up, transfers, and utility or bill payments.
+Added: is also a participant in the Indosat Cluster Partnership for managing the marketing work of Indosat telecommunication and airtime
+Added: products in two cluster areas in Indonesia.
+Added: WalletKu’s business scope has been expanded to cover services for traveling,
+Added: gaming and education sectors as well as ticket sales for trains, buses and entertainment.
+Added: WalletKu airtime business covers a number
+Added: of major geographical areas within Indonesia, including Jakarta and Bandung.
+Added: WalletKu was incorporated on September 1, 2016, and was
+Added: acquired by Seamless in July 2018.
+Added: In March 2021, we disposed of a controlling interest in WalletKu.
+Added: In June 2022, we reacquired
+Added: sufficient interest in WalletKu to hold a controlling interest in it.
+Added: WalletKu served approximately 128,000 customers as of December
+Added: 31, 2024, distributing airtime with a total value of $14.5 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Tranglo Remittance Business
+Added: Tranglo is a leading cross-border payment company
+Added: that delivers cutting edge remittance solutions globally, with a focus on Asia Pacific corridors.
+Added: Its proprietary technology ensures transactions
+Added: are processed reliably and near instantaneously, with sending and receiving support through a network of payment methods including bank/e-wallet
+Added: transfers and cash pickup points.
+Added: Tranglo was incorporated on March 10, 2008, and on November 5, 2018, Seamless acquired 60% controlling
+Added: stake of Tranglo.
+Added: Through advanced technological support, Tranglo offers
+Added: seamless integration and user-friendly solutions for its clients to remit money and telecom credit across borders for their customers.
+Added: The success of Tranglo’s business can be witnessed by the solid growth in corporate customer base from 156 as of December 31, 2018,
+Added: and 195 as of December 31, 2023 to 184 as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2023, and 2024, Tranglo’s revenue
+Added: declined from $31.6 million to $28.4 million, respectively.
+Added: Tranglo’s revenue from the money remittance
+Added: business comes from the foreign exchange spread and a fixed transaction fee charged to every transaction it processes.
+Added: The foreign exchange
+Added: spread is derived from the spread differences between Tranglo’s cost of foreign currencies purchase and price of foreign currencies
+Added: sales to its customers.
+Added: The fixed transaction fees charged by Tranglo depend on the recipient countries, type of outlet and others.
+Added: reviews and revises its pricing policies in response to the changing costs of its payout agents, and also to ensure that Tranglo can maintain
+Added: its market competitiveness in the market.
+Added: Tranglo offers its cross-border payout services
+Added: through Tranglo Connect and Tranglo Business.
+Added: Tranglo Connect - cross-border payments for
+Added: financial businesses and payment providers
+Added: Tranglo provides cross-border payment services for
+Added: licensed financial institutions, payment gateways and money service businesses via Tranglo Connect, where Tranglo acts as a payment intermediary
+Added: and payment aggregator for its clients.
+Added: Tranglo has developed a single unified API that can be easily duplicated for all supported recipients’
+Added: jurisdictions and payout networks, and provide coverage to multiple sender channels, whether physical outlets or electronic or mobile
+Added: This enables Tranglo’s platform to scale to other regions with ease.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, Tranglo Connect provides
+Added: 24/7 real-time or same business day payout to more than 5,000 bank partners and other non-bank financial institution partners in multiple
+Added: jurisdictions.
+Added: Tranglo Business - cross-border payments for
+Added: non-financial institutions
+Added: Tranglo also provides cross-border payment services
+Added: for non-financial businesses of all sizes.
+Added: They include non-payment providers such as e-commerce traders, vendors with regional or international
+Added: suppliers and customers, travel agencies, and global freelancers or outsourcing companies.
+Added: Through Tranglo’s services, merchants
+Added: and retail customers enjoy the advantage of transferring funds to a large number of recipients on a single platform seamlessly.
+Added: e-commerce operators can send funds to their merchants and customers by placing the order on Tranglo’s platform, utilizing Tranglo’s
+Added: foreign exchange services to conduct cross-border business without worrying about currency conversion, complicated procedures and execution
+Added: Tranglo International Airtime Transfer Business
+Added: Tranglo has a strong foothold
+Added: in the global airtime transfer market, acting as a switching platform provider for telecom airtime transfer and wholesale reseller of
+Added: foreign airtime.
+Added: Its proprietary technology enables customers to request for a variety of recharge options, including support for both
+Added: pin and pinless airtime transfers.
+Added: Currently, Tranglo operates one of the biggest airtime transfer networks in the world, providing access
+Added: to over 500 mobile operators across 150 countries.
+Added: Airtime transfer also allows telecom users to transfer telecom credit to another telecom
+Added: In the years since Tranglo started providing airtime transfer in 2008, the industry has been overshadowed by the proliferation of
+Added: e-wallets and new forms of cross-border payments.
+Added: However, businesses continue purveying airtime as a supplementary product as it remains
+Added: relevant, especially in developing countries where there are large underbanked communities.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, Tranglo’s
+Added: top three airtime corridors are Malaysia-Indonesia, Malaysia-Bangladesh and UAE-Indonesia, collectively accounting for 66.9% of its total
+Added: airtime transfers that year.
+Added: Tranglo Retail Airtime Business - Treatsup (Recharge
+Added: of telecom credit)
+Added: Other than the airtime wholesale
+Added: business, Tranglo also operates a retail airtime business through a mobile application called “Treatsup”.
+Added: Treatsup Sdn Bhd
+Added: is currently engaged in the provision of implementation and technical support services to the Treatsup mobile application who is also
+Added: the IP holder of the application.
+Added: Treatsup allows users to reload mobile and telecom credit for anyone, anytime, anywhere and it is currently
+Added: connected to more than 500 mobile service providers worldwide.
+Added: It also allows user to earn Treatsup points for each reload transaction
+Added: and rewards activities by discovering new and exciting offers.
+Added: Transfer Business
+Added: remittances are cross-border money transfers conducted over the internet mostly by the migrant population using digital transfer networks
+Added: like e-Wallets, easy-to-use mobile applications and others.
+Added: People living in Asian countries are increasingly engaging with counterparts
+Added: abroad for medical, business, education, entertainment, leisure and other activities.
+Added: In addition, there is a rapidly growing need for
+Added: remittance services for migrant workers sending money back to their homelands on a regular basis.
+Added: in general include fund transfers between residents and non-residents and earnings transfer from short-term workers from other countries
+Added: to their country of origin.
+Added: Remittances are often made on a regular or periodic basis and most users do not switch their fund transfer
+Added: provider frequently.
+Added: Digital remittances refer to those funds sent to other countries using digital transfer platforms other than bank
+Added: SWIFT systems.
+Added: Funds that are transferred domestically are usually not included in the digital remittances segment.
+Added: the past, traditionally, sending money across borders has been done through the bank SWIFT system.
+Added: bank SWIFT remittance systems enjoy the advantages of reliability and security, which is an important consideration for people and especially
+Added: corporations for sending large sums of money to other countries, and the wide coverage of the global network of SWIFT which covers almost
+Added: all countries.
+Added: However, there are many pain points in the bank SWIFT system.
+Added: First, the processing costs and expenses are high.
+Added: is particularly so for those remittance flows which involve small amounts of money, which are often done on a regular and frequent basis.
+Added: The relatively high fixed transaction fees charged by banks may constitute a larger proportion of the remittance money if the remittance
+Added: amount involved is small.
+Added: Second, the process is tedious and usually takes a few days for processing.
+Added: That may lead to frustration and
+Added: anxiety for the senders and receivers, especially when the recipient needs the money urgently.
+Added: Third, to receive funds through the SWIFT
+Added: system a recipient must have access to a bank account, which poses a serious problem for many residents of Southeast Asian countries
+Added: that have no bank accounts and have no access to banking services.
+Added: digital remittance, the fund transfer is conducted outside the bank SWIFT system.
+Added: Instead, it goes through a remittance hub like Tranglo,
+Added: which connects with participants like banks, e-Wallets or other remittance licensees by an application programming interface (“API”)
+Added: and web-based integration.
+Added: The participants fund transactions through the remittance hub by prepayment, depositing a tranche of funds
+Added: in a segregated bank account of the remittance agent in what is known in the industry as the prefunding process.
+Added: The remittance agent
+Added: connects with various payout agents in different countries using a similar integration through an API and web-based applications.
+Added: connection with a fund transfer using Tranglo as remittance hub, Tranglo serves as the remittance agent.
+Added: Upon the execution of a remittance
+Added: order by the user of a participant, the remittance agent will execute the order and render payout of the fund via a payout agent on a
+Added: real-time basis, deducting the amount of the transaction from the prefunded deposit of the participant.
+Added: As a result, instead of having
+Added: to wait for a few days as the sender sends the money via the banking system, the recipients can receive funds in the form of cash almost
+Added: instantly after the sender initiates the transfer by clicking a button on a digital remittance platform.
+Added: as the remittance agents connect not only with banks as their payout agents, but also with post offices, convenience shops or other cash
+Added: pick up points, the recipients are able to enjoy the luxury of choosing different modes for cashing out the money.
+Added: the past few years, the digital remittance industry has expanded its market reach beyond individual senders or migrant workers to include
+Added: corporations.
+Added: The demand by corporations to send or collect larger sums of money to and from other countries has been growing as globalization
+Added: continues its rapid pace.
+Added: Also, as e-Commerce and cross-border selling or purchasing of goods have grown rapidly in Southeast Asia, the
+Added: need of corporations to send or collect funds have increased.
+Added: Corporations are looking for more cost effective and efficient means for
+Added: cross-border money transfers, especially in Southeast Asian countries and other emerging markets.
+Added: Corporations are increasingly turning
+Added: to digital remittance platforms or institutions for conducting regular cross-border money transfers.
+Added: These corporations or eCommerce
+Added: platforms are not financial institutions and do not possess the required financial licenses for processing money or funds transfers.
+Added: The digital remittance industry has emerged to serve as a platform for these non-financial institutions to meet this demand.
+Added: digital remittance industry can provide an all-in-one platform for non-financial institutions to collect and distribute large numbers
+Added: of payments across different countries in a timely and highly cost-effective manner.
+Added: Online money transfer platforms also help manage
+Added: transfers of funds between organizations as well as between organizations and their customers.
+Added: These efficient, user-friendly platforms
+Added: allow users to have access to money transactions directly and execute the fund transfer process easier, allowing corporations to reduce
+Added: administrative costs.
+Added: increasing penetration of smartphones in emerging countries, the increasing number of cross-border transactions and the growing adoption
+Added: of mobile-based payment channels are expected to propel market growth.
+Added: Further, the increasing adoption of digital wallets is expected
+Added: to accentuate segment growth.
+Added: Digital wallets enable customers to transfer and track their funds from their digital wallet application,
+Added: and digital remittance services offer privacy and protection for consumers’ transactions and funds.
+Added: significant trend impacting digital remittance businesses is increasing regulation.
+Added: Regulations in the region apply not only banks but
+Added: extend the same measures to the money service operators to establish a strong focus on anti-money laundry and counter-terrorism financing
+Added: programs, cybersecurity and consumer protection.
+Added: Regulations also require money remittance providers, banks and other financial institutions
+Added: to develop systems to detect, monitor and prevent suspicious transactions by screening all of their transactions against a comprehensive
+Added: set of rules, and reporting exceptions to the authorities in a regular manner.
+Added: of confidence in the security and compliance of digital remittance services has hindered growth in the market in the past.
+Added: toward tightened regulations is expected to drive out less reputable service providers and enhance the overall image of the digital remittances
+Added: The strict regulations which subject digital remittance players to the same regulatory standards of banks should further increase
+Added: user confidence in these services, a critical requirement for adoption by financial institutions and corporations.
+Added: Sending money globally
+Added: through digital remittance platforms can now provide the same level of protection as banks, but at a lower cost and on a real-time basis.
+Added: Wider adoption by financial institutions and corporations is important for the growth of the digital remittance industry as a whole.
+Added: statistics on Digital Remittance – Worldwide ( source - statista)
+Added: transaction value is projected to reach $273.49 billion in 2025.
+Added: value is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2025-2029) of 3.94% resulting in a projected total annual transaction value
+Added: of $319.15 billion by 2029.
+Added: number of annual users is expected to reach 18.83 million by 2029.
+Added: average transaction value per user is expected to amount to $16,260 in 2025.
+Added: There are two main modes that users use to send and receive airtime credit-pin-based transactions
+Added: and pinless transfers.
+Added: transfer is the traditional mode of transfer.
+Added: Utilizing physical reload cards that can be scratched to reveal a string of numbers (a
+Added: pin), a user will need to key in these numbers into an SMS or USSD menu to reload airtime.
+Added: These single-use reload cards are available
+Added: physically and electronically.
+Added: They are further divided into single- or multi-country pins.
+Added: A single-country pin allows a sender to make
+Added: a top-up to any operator of a single country, while multi-country pin allows a sender to make a one-time top-up to any one operator in
+Added: a few designated countries.
+Added: airtime transfer uses an API to provide real-time airtime top-ups.
+Added: This direct integration allows telcos to conveniently offer multiple
+Added: top-up services in different top-up denominations to their customers.
+Added: airtime transfer business faces a number of challenges:
+Added: - System loopholes can be exploited and pin-based reload cards may be subject to theft, leading to significant loss of value.
+Added: this end, many top-up providers have migrated to pinless transfer solutions for better security.
+Added: security - Mobile numbers can also be misused by unscrupulous traders and sellers, subjecting users to harassment in the form of
+Added: unsolicited calls and spam messages.
+Added: A recent development that seeks to address this problem lies in the form of a tokenization system,
+Added: where sensitive data is replaced with a unique string of numbers that cannot be compromised.
+Added: roaming market - According to Juniper Research, roaming revenues accounted for under 7% ($50.6 billion) of total operator revenues
+Added: But new data roaming services like Roam-Like-Home and Wi-Fi calling allow users to use their home numbers without needing to
+Added: seek foreign airtime top-ups, lowering demand.
+Added: Airtime Business in Indonesia
+Added: traditional telecommunication industry in Indonesia as of 2019 is a lucrative business, with more than 341.3 million users registered
+Added: by the incumbent phone networks, exceeding the population in Indonesia of 270.6 million.
+Added: Approximately 331.9 million (97.2%) of those
+Added: users purchase prepaid airtime before using their phone for Internet access or to make or receive phone calls, and only 9.41 million
+Added: (2.8%) users pay for their service in arrears (source:
+Added: databoks.katadata.co.id ).
+Added: In 2020 the market for mobile telecommunication
+Added: services was $7.11 billion, divided among five large telecommunication operators in Indonesia:
+Added: TELKOMSEL, XL AXIATA, INDOSAT OOREDOO,
+Added: TRI INDONESIA & SMARTFREN.
+Added: These sales are made through two principal two channels - in store purchases of airtime products by end
+Added: users that are distributed through a distributor partnership;
+Added: and modern channel distribution through online shops and online platforms
+Added: including websites and applications.
+Added: on data from bisnis.com, in 2021 more than 50% of the total market transactions were generated by the traditional channel and less than
+Added: 50% generated by the modern channels.
+Added: In 2021, there were between 100 and 150 authorized distributors across all operators, which in
+Added: turn manage over seven million telecommunication outlets/merchants across Indonesia serving 331.9 million end users.
+Added: Distribution is
+Added: tiered into four separate levels:
+Added: 1 - Authorized Distribution Partner - For these distributors, the average margin ranges from 3.75% to 4.75%, excluding incentive
+Added: payouts from operators.
+Added: 2 - Distributor Reseller/Big Player - These distributors focus on achieving a high volume of transactions, and the average
+Added: margin ranges from 0.5% to 1.5%.
+Added: 3 - Airtime All Operator Wholesaler - These distributors provide websites and applications to resell airtime to outlets or
+Added: directly to end users, and the average margin ranges from 1% to 2%.
+Added: 4 - Outlets/Merchants - The outlets and merchants, which can be a business or an individual, conduct direct selling to end
+Added: users, and achieve average margins ranging from 4% to 7%.
+Added: Retail Airtime Business in Indonesia
+Added: is focusing on retail airtime business serving the Indonesian market.
+Added: In addition to allowing users to purchase airtime usages and internet
+Added: data top-up, WalletKu also allows users to make bill payments and other cash top-up and money transfers.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, WalletKu
+Added: had approximately 128,000 merchant and individual users, approximately 300 active users for WalletKu Digital and 2,600 active users for
+Added: WalletKu Indosat.
+Added: Digital is a market retailer in Indonesia (Level 3 of the Indonesian distribution model hierarchy), serving the market needs such as
+Added: Airtime & Internet Data, Electricity, Water Supplies, etc.
+Added: WalletKu has also become one of the Authorized Distributors (Level 1 of
+Added: the distribution model hierarchy) of the second largest Indonesia telecommunication provider, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, and managing
+Added: acluster area out of 100+ clusters of Indosat.
+Added: WalletKu has also become an E-Money services provider by relying
+Added: on PT E2Pay Global Utama’s licence Account Linkage, a company that is already registered in the Central Bank of Indonesia to be
+Added: a E-Money Services Provider in Indonesia.
+Added: With this model, WalletKu can facilitate the unbanked population in Indonesia to access E-Money
+Added: Along with this E-Money service, WalletKu can act as a remittance platform for users to send and receive money domestically,
+Added: and leverage Seamless’ platform to allow Indonesians who are foreign workers in many countries to remit money back to their homeland.
Business Combination
−Removed: of Class A ordinary shares will not be entitled to vote on any appointment of directors we hold prior to our initial business combination.
−Removed: our initial business combination, substantially all of our assets may be located in a foreign country and substantially all of our
−Removed: revenue may be derived from our operations in any such country.
−Removed: Accordingly, our results of operations and prospects will be subject,
−Removed: to a significant extent, to the economic, political and social conditions and government policies, developments and conditions in
−Removed: the country in which we operate.
−Removed: in our Charter may inhibit a takeover of us, which could limit the price investors might
−Removed: be willing to pay in the future for our Class A ordinary shares and could entrench management.
−Removed: we are deemed to be an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we may be required to institute burdensome compliance
−Removed: requirements and our activities may be restricted, which may make it difficult for us to complete our initial business combination.
−Removed: mitigate the risk that we might be deemed to be an investment company for purposes of the Investment Company Act, we may, at any
−Removed: time, instruct the trustee to liquidate the securities held in the Trust Account and instead to hold the funds in the Trust Account
−Removed: in cash until the earlier of the consummation of our initial business combination or our liquidation.
−Removed: As a result, following the
−Removed: liquidation of securities in the Trust Account, the interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account may be materially reduced,
−Removed: which would reduce the dollar amount our public shareholders would receive upon any redemption or liquidation of the Company.
−Removed: Our independent registered public accounting firm’s report contains an explanatory paragraph that expresses
−Removed: substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a “going concern.”
+Added: On August 30, 2024 (the “Closing Date”),
+Added: INFINT, INFINT Fintech Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and wholly owned subsidiary of INFINT (“Merger Sub”),
+Added: and Seamless Group Inc., a limited liability company under the laws of the Cayman Islands (along with its wholly owned subsidiaries, “Seamless”),
+Added: consummated a business combination pursuant to the business combination agreement, dated as of August 3, 2022, as amended (the “Business
+Added: Combination Agreement”).
+Added: On the Closing Date, INFINT completed a series of
+Added: transactions (the “Closing”) that resulted in the combination (the “Business Combination”) of INFINT with Seamless.
+Added: On August 30, 2024, pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement, the Merger Sub merged with and into Seamless, with Seamless surviving
+Added: the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of INFINT, and INFINT changed its name to Currenc Group Inc.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “CURR”.
+Added: As consideration for the Business Combination, Currenc
+Added: issued to Seamless shareholders an aggregate of 40,000,000 ordinary shares (the “Exchange Consideration”).
+Added: In addition, Currenc
+Added: issued 400,000 commitment shares to the PIPE investor (as described below) and an aggregate of 200,000 shares to vendors in connection
+Added: with the Closing, issued promissory notes for approximately $5.7 million to EF Hutton LLC (“EF Hutton”), approximately $3.2
+Added: million to Greenberg Traurig LLP (“Greenberg Traurig”), and $603,623 to INFINT Capital LLC (the “Sponsor”), and
+Added: entered into a $1.75 million PIPE Offering, as set forth below.
+Added: PIPE Offering
+Added: Simultaneous with the closing of the Business Combination,
+Added: Currenc also completed a series of private financings, issuing a Convertible Note for $1.94 million, 400,000 commitment shares, and warrants
+Added: to purchase 136,110 ordinary shares in a private placement to a PIPE investor (the “PIPE Offering”), which raised $1.75 million
+Added: in net proceeds.
+Added: Prior to the closing of the Business Combination,
+Added: Seamless had 58,030,000 shares outstanding and the following transactions occurred immediately prior to the Closing:
+Added: Seamless divested (a) TNG (Asia) Ltd., (b) Future Network Technology Investment Co., Ltd.
+Added: and (c) GEA Holdings Limited, such that these entities are no longer affiliates;
+Added: Seamless acquired an additional ownership share in Dynamic Indonesia Holdings Limited (“Dynamic Indonesia”), the parent company of the WalletKu operating group, through the exercise by the holder of a put option for 772,970 Seamless shares, such that Seamless controls 79% of Walletku (see Note 8, Acquisition of Dynamic Indonesia Holdings Limited, for more information);
+Added: The applicable holder exercised its right to convert Seamless’ outstanding bonds payable into 2,736,287 common shares of Seamless;
+Added: 5,803,000 Seamless shares were issued to employees subject to the employee Share Incentive Plan;
+Added: 290,000 Seamless shares were issued and reserved for service providers;
+Added: For the purposes of splitting Seamless, GEA and TNG, a one-for-nine share repurchase exercise was undertaken and resulted in 6,153,926 shares repurchased;
+Added: After all the above transactions, Seamless had a total of 61,478,331 shares outstanding.
+Added: Scalable and Transferable Business Model Allowing Rapid Expansion of Seamless’ Operations in Southeast Asia
+Added: business model is highly scalable and transferrable to other geographic markets.
+Added: Tranglo’s remittance and airtime transfer platforms
+Added: have demonstrated the capability of Seamless to expand its business and market reach from Southeast Asia to other countries worldwide.
+Added: Indonesia has served as a showcase for Seamless’ consumer facing operations.
+Added: The knowledge it has gained from building Tranglo’s
+Added: global remittance and airtime transfer platforms and Indonesian operations has helped Seamless to understand the frustrations faced by
+Added: individuals and merchants in Asian markets.
+Added: Seamless’ accumulated knowledge has also facilitated the development of its infrastructure,
+Added: product and compliance processes, allowing it to rapidly replicate and build up its business across the markets it serves.
+Added: focus on a tech-enabled and tech-focused business model allows it to set up, launch and scale-up operations quickly.
+Added: Its platforms and
+Added: technology have been designed to be scalable and easily transferable to new markets.
+Added: They are modularized, meaning each function on Seamless’
+Added: platform is an independent feature that can be easily implemented, on its own or along with other functions, into other platforms.
+Added: is able to deploy user data and insights from one market, adjusting for local market characteristics, to gain insights into user behavior.
+Added: addition, Seamless’ management team has substantial operating experience across Southeast Asian markets, including Malaysia, Singapore
+Added: and Indonesia.
+Added: It is also continuously exploring opportunities to further expand into other markets in Southeast Asia and around the
+Added: In-house Cross-Border Transfer Capabilities
+Added: provides in-house cross-border payment processing capabilities in markets around the world.
+Added: This capability gives Seamless a unique position
+Added: compared to most of its competitors that have to rely on third-party money transfer enablers.
+Added: Having this in-house capability provides
+Added: it with greater certainty over the quality and reliability of its services, while at the same time increasing its profit margins by virtue
+Added: of reducing the money transfer charges that it incurs.
+Added: Tranglo acts as a one-stop settlement agent for cross-border money transfer and
+Added: provides a single unified application programming interface, or API, and settlement interface for licensed banks, e-Wallets and money
+Added: service operators.
+Added: is a leading cross border digital payment gateway, offering its customers the ability to process payout services.
+Added: Tranglo has a payout
+Added: network of more than 5,000 bank and eWallets partners, and over 140 corporate customers, covering more than 100 countries globally as
+Added: of December 31, 2024.
+Added: has a large portfolio of blue chip customers including WISE, SingTel, Remitly, SBI Japan, Mastercard, CelcomDigi, WeChat Pay HK, Maxis,
+Added: Etisalat and Ding.
+Added: These customers rely on Tranglo to provide switching, foreign exchange transactions and settlement services to enable
+Added: instantaneous cross-border payouts into multiple countries and corridors.
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2024, Tranglo managed approximately 11.4 million transactions globally with a total value of $5.14 billion.
+Added: Tranglo’s average daily transaction amount for the year ended December 31, 2024 was approximately $14.04 million.
+Added: A majority of
+Added: Tranglo’s remittance revenue is derived from transactions for customers in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Republic of South Korea.
+Added: Post-Divestiture, based for the year ended December 31, 2024 operating results, the percentage of revenue generated in Hong Kong and
+Added: the PRC represented approximately 5.6% of Currenc’s total revenue.
+Added: Compliance Culture and Fully Licensed to Expand Seamless’ Services
+Added: its inception, Seamless has maintained strict and steadfast compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
+Added: It works closely with regulators
+Added: in consultation of new policies, and follows international risk management and relevant anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
+Added: (“AML/CTF”) standards to ensure robust controls both internally and when onboarding new customers/merchants.
+Added: the markets it serves and other jurisdictions, Seamless is licensed as follows:
+Added: Money Remittance license
+Added: Money Service Business license
+Added: Money Service Operator license
+Added: Authorized Payment Institution
+Added: entrepreneurial and dynamic founding team backed by strong finance and technology professionals and on-the-ground local management
+Added: senior management is highly skilled, deeply entrepreneurial and boasts a wealth of relevant experience with leading financial and technology
+Added: chairman of the board, Alexander Kong, is an experienced and seasoned entrepreneur.
+Added: Kong founded SINO Dynamic Solutions Limited,
+Added: a company conducting enterprise software development for some of the world’s largest conglomerates and insurance companies.
+Added: has a truly pan-Asian management team with management team members from most of the major jurisdictions in Southeast Asia.
+Added: In Indonesia,
+Added: it maintains strong local, on-the-ground management teams who have a deep understanding of local consumers’ behavior and the local
+Added: regulatory environment.
+Added: This ensures that its operations retain a local perspective and receive sufficient oversight.
+Added: Connect - cross-border payments for financial businesses and payment providers
+Added: provides cross-border payment services for licensed financial institutions, payment gateways and money service businesses via Tranglo
+Added: Connect, where Tranglo acts as a payment intermediary and payment aggregator for its clients.
+Added: Tranglo has developed a single unified
+Added: API that can be easily duplicated for all supported recipients’ jurisdictions and payout networks, and provide coverage to multiple
+Added: sender channels, whether physical outlets or electronic or mobile channels.
+Added: This enables Tranglo’s platform to scale to other regions
+Added: of December 31, 2024, Tranglo Connect provides 24/7 real-time or same business day payout to more than 5,000 bank partners and other
+Added: non-bank financial institution partners in multiple jurisdictions.
+Added: Business - cross-border payments for non-financial institutions
+Added: also provides cross-border payment services for non-financial businesses of all sizes.
+Added: They include non-payment providers such as e-commerce
+Added: traders, vendors with regional or international suppliers and customers, travel agencies, and global freelancers or outsourcing companies.
+Added: Through Tranglo’s services, merchants and retail customers enjoy the advantage of transferring funds to a large number of recipients
+Added: on a single platform seamlessly.
+Added: For example, e-commerce operators can send funds to their merchants and customers by placing the order
+Added: on Tranglo’s platform, utilizing Tranglo’s foreign exchange services to conduct cross-border business without worrying about
+Added: currency conversion, complicated procedures and execution uncertainty.
+Added: International Airtime Transfer Business
+Added: has a strong foothold in the global airtime transfer market, acting as a switching platform provider for telecom airtime transfer and
+Added: wholesale reseller of foreign airtime.
+Added: Its proprietary technology enables customers to request for a variety of recharge options, including
+Added: support for both pin and pinless airtime transfers.
+Added: Currently, Tranglo operates one of the biggest airtime transfer networks in the world,
+Added: providing access to over 500 mobile operators across 150 countries.
+Added: Airtime transfer also allows telecom users to transfer telecom credit
+Added: to another telecom user.
+Added: Tranglo, this mode of transfer is handled by gloTransfer.
+Added: A typical process via gloTransfer is provided below:
+Added: partner sends a transaction request to Tranglo via API (Request_ReloadSync)
+Added: verifies the parameters and forwards to the receiving partner (airtime destination) to process the recharge request.
+Added: the recharge request is processed, the API connection will return a response to the sending partner.
+Added: Retail Airtime Business - Treatsup (Recharge of telecom credit)
+Added: than the airtime wholesale business, Tranglo also operates a retail airtime business through a mobile application called “Treatsup”.
+Added: Treatsup Sdn Bhd is currently engaged in the provision of implementation and technical support services to the Treatsup mobile application
+Added: who is also the IP holder of the application.
+Added: Treatsup allows users to reload mobile and telecom credit for anyone, anytime, anywhere
+Added: and it is currently connected to more than 500 mobile service providers worldwide.
+Added: It also allows user to earn Treatsup points for each
+Added: reload transaction and rewards activities by discovering new and exciting offers.
+Added: Data of Tranglo 2021 - 2024
+Added: Operating Data - Customers
+Added: Tranglo Active Customers
+Added: Operating Data - Transactions
+Added: Cross Border Payment
+Added: Transaction value (US$ millions)
+Added: Number of transactions (’000)
+Added: Airtime Transfer
+Added: Transaction value (US$ millions)
+Added: Number of transactions (’000)
+Added: Total Transactions
+Added: Total transaction value (US$ millions)
+Added: Total number of transactions (’000)
+Added: Strategic Partnership Network
+Added: Customers/Partners
+Added: addition to being the backbone that enables the transfer and withdrawal of funds across e-Wallet platforms and banks, Tranglo has a large
+Added: portfolio of blue-chip customers across both its payment segment and airtime transfer segment, including WISE, SingTel, Remitly, SBI
+Added: Japan, Mastercard, CelcomDigi WeChat Pay HK, Maxis, Etisalat and Ding amongst others.
+Added: These customers rely on Tranglo’s cross-border
+Added: payout solutions to enable instantaneous payouts across multiple countries and channels.
+Added: has an in-house business development team to acquire customers or partners and it also relies on and engage third parties to help promote
+Added: its services.
+Added: partnership with Ripple
+Added: 2021, Ripple Labs Singapore Pte.
+Added: Ltd., a leading provider of enterprise blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for cross-border payments,
+Added: acquired 40% of Tranglo from certain prior investors in Tranglo.
+Added: The transaction did not involve Tranglo or result in Ripple Labs Singapore
+Added: Ltd making an investment of new capital into Tranglo.
+Added: As part of the transaction, Tranglo adopted RippleNet, Ripple Labs Singapore
+Added: Ltd’s global financial network, to tackle the complexities of the payment landscape in Southeast Asia and beyond.
+Added: partnership introduced Ripple Labs Singapore Pte.
+Added: Ltd On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service to Tranglo’s customers, enabling participating
+Added: remittance partners to process instant cross-border payments to eliminate costly prefunding arrangements.
+Added: ODL leverages the digital asset
+Added: XRP to facilitate low-cost transactions via RippleNet.
+Added: chart below illustrates how Tranglo uses Ripple Labs Singapore Pte.
+Added: Ltd ODL to streamline payments and enhance liquidity:
+Added: performs know-your-customer (“KYC”) due diligence, including AML/CFT compliance, screening velocity check and a risk-based
+Added: approach towards money service businesses and banks in relevant jurisdictions.
+Added: As partners of Tranglo Connect are already licensed and
+Added: regulated in their local jurisdiction, at times of onboarding, Tranglo reviews the relevant documents of the background of partners,
+Added: such as the place of incorporation, ultimate beneficial owner, source of fund, business nature and scale, as well as the licensing requirement
+Added: in that relevant jurisdiction, to ensure they are fully compliant with the regulatory requirements.
+Added: Tranglo conducts further diligence
+Added: periodically to ensure that its partners remain compliant after the initial onboarding and are following the latest regulatory developments.
+Added: In addition, Tranglo has an internal monitoring system where it screens each transaction on a real-time basis.
+Added: Where Tranglo finds any
+Added: discrepancy, Tranglo notifies its partner to take further steps to improve their KYC process and monitoring systems.
+Added: For the fund transfer
+Added: and airtime transfer business, Tranglo does a screening on its customer via Lexis Nexis to check on any sanctioning status.
+Added: efficient, swift yet comprehensive and prudent KYC process is another competitive edge in the fintech market.
+Added: Tranglo’s onboarding and compliance process, summarized in the following
+Added: chart and explanation, is designed to insure compliance with this restriction.
+Added: reviews and assesses the compliance function of the customers, and screens the directors and shareholders or beneficial owners of the
+Added: customers to determine if any of them is a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) or residing in a High Risk Country as defined by the Financial
+Added: Action Task Force.
+Added: If so, Tranglo conducts further in-depth assessment via its Enhanced Due Diligence (ECDD) process.
+Added: Malaysia, Tranglo holds a Money Services Business license.
+Added: The Money Services Business license is a class “B” license dated
+Added: October 1, 2018 and renewed on May 23, 2023 issued to Tranglo by Bank Negara Malaysia pursuant to the Money Services Business Act 2011
+Added: for Tranglo to carry on money services business.
+Added: In the United Kingdom, Tranglo is an Authorized Payment Institution licensed by the
+Added: Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations 2017 to issue and/or acquire payment instruments, and provide money
+Added: remittance services.
+Added: In Singapore, Tranglo is a major payment institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore under the Payment
+Added: Services Act 2019 to provide account issuance, domestic money transfer, cross-border money transfer, and E-money issuance services.
+Added: Indonesia, Tranglo is a holder of a Non-bank Fund Transfer Operator license from Bank Indonesia under the Bank Indonesia Regulation Number
+Added: 23/06/PBI/2021 on Payment Service Provider for non-bank fund transfer services.
+Added: Functions, Risk & Internal Controls
+Added: has a well-defined organizational structure with clearly delineated lines of accountability, authority and responsibility to the board,
+Added: its committees, and operating units.
+Added: Key processes have been established in reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of the risk management
+Added: and internal control system.
+Added: management is a core discipline which supports Tranglo to achieve a measured balance between risk and return, and is embedded across
+Added: all business functional lines throughout Tranglo.
+Added: As an integral part of the control functions in providing the check and balance to
+Added: the business processes and management strategic planning, risk management ensures timely and effective identification, measurement, mitigation
+Added: and reporting of significant and emerging risks faced by Tranglo.
+Added: first level of defense entails the responsibilities of risk owners (business functional lines) in the day-to-day management of risks
+Added: inherent in the various business and operational activities.
+Added: At the second level of defense, the control functions (Compliance and Risk
+Added: Management) perform the role of policy setting which includes the development of relevant tools and methodologies to identify, measure,
+Added: mitigate and report significant and emerging risks.
+Added: Complementing this, at the third level of defense, is internal audit (Internal Audit),
+Added: which provides independent assurance of the effectiveness of the risk management and compliance approach.
+Added: adopts and promotes risk management culture throughout the organization to enhance and inculcate risk awareness culture which is a key
+Added: aspect of an effective company-wide risk management framework.
+Added: is responsible for strengthening compliance culture within Tranglo.
+Added: The Board’s oversight, coupled with the Senior Management’s
+Added: commitment help in ensuring effective implementation of compliance programs and staff adherence to the applicable compliance standards.
+Added: in its role as the second line of defense, is also responsible to coordinate the process of identifying, assessing and monitoring of
+Added: regulatory and compliance risk within Tranglo which includes compliance with regulatory, operational, AMLA and Anti-Money Laundering,
+Added: Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 requirements.
+Added: assessment on the level of compliance is through the establishment of compliance programs, periodic compliance assessments and regular
+Added: engagement sessions with business and operational functions.
+Added: In addition, Compliance provides advisory, training and engagement sessions
+Added: to update and communicate/educate compliance-related matters within Tranglo.
+Added: In managing regulatory or compliance risk, it is also responsible
+Added: to regularly report its assessment and/or activities to the Board and Senior Management.
+Added: internal audit function undertakes regular reviews of Tranglo’s operations and the systems of internal control.
+Added: Regular reviews
+Added: are performed on the business processes to examine and evaluate the adequacy and efficiency of financial and operating controls.
+Added: risks and non-compliance impacting Tranglo are highlighted and where applicable, recommendations are provided to improve on the effectiveness/efficiency
+Added: of risk management, internal control systems and governance processes.
+Added: on Tranglo’s information systems is conducted to determine whether the IT environment is operating effectively to achieve Tranglo’s
+Added: objectives while safeguarding the assets and maintaining data integrity and confidentiality.
+Added: Audit also provides consultation as well as advice and insight to the stakeholders to add value and suggest improvements to Tranglo’s
+Added: In ensuring its capabilities to provide the necessary assurance more effectively and efficiently, Internal Audit makes continuous
+Added: improvements to internal audit processes.
+Added: of December 31, 2024, Tranglo had 244 full-time employees.
+Added: It also engages temporary employees and consultants as needed to support its
+Added: None of Tranglo’s employees are represented by a labor union or subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
+Added: has not experienced any work stoppages, and it considers its relations with its employees to be good.
+Added: Digital - Retail Airtime Business in Indonesia
+Added: has a strong foothold in Indonesia’s airtime market, including in sectors such as utility payments, airtime top-up, and Internet
+Added: data plan top-up services.
+Added: WalletKu’s business scope has been expanded to cover services for traveling, gaming and education sectors
+Added: as well as ticket sales for trains, buses and entertainment.
+Added: with local merchants
+Added: operates the B2C airtime business in Indonesia, reaching out to retail customers through a wide network of business partners who are
+Added: mostly small retail outlets i.e., small merchants.
+Added: Merchant partners are provided with the WalletKu app which can accept payments from
+Added: their end customers or users for a variety of services, including purchasing airtime top-up.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, WalletKu had approximately
+Added: 128,000 registered partners, of which approximately 300 are active partner merchants for WalletKu Digital and approximately 2,600 partner
+Added: merchants for WalletKu Indosat.
+Added: recruits merchants through its on-the-ground sales team.
+Added: Each member of the sales team is assigned a geographic region and a quota of
+Added: partners whom they are to recruit and service, including regularly collecting cash payments from the merchants.
+Added: WalletKu has developed
+Added: an in-house monitoring system of each individual sales employee that can monitor the geographical locations and cash to be collected
+Added: from merchants.
+Added: This system is able to track on a real-time basis all the transactions in relation to the merchants.
+Added: WalletKu provides
+Added: a swift and efficient electronic onboarding and e-KYC process for its partners.
+Added: New partners can submit all required information and
+Added: documentation online with the help of WalletKu’s sales representatives.
+Added: services are primarily focused on serving the day-to-day mobile payment needs of Indonesia’s population.
+Added: The service offerings
+Added: top-up and Internet data plan top-up
+Added: to the characteristics of the Indonesian market, where the overwhelming majority of the population uses prepaid SIM cards, airtime and
+Added: data plan top-up requires visiting a physical outlet, WalletKu has recruited business partners or merchants including airtime top-up
+Added: locations, convenience stores, and other retail outlets to provide airtime top-up and Internet data plan top-up services through the
+Added: WalletKu app.
+Added: Any person with a mobile device can pay cash to any one of WalletKu’s merchant partners to purchase airtime top-up
+Added: WalletKu charges the customer a commission on each transaction which is built into the transaction cost payable by the customer.
+Added: WalletKu provides top-up services for the four largest telecom providers in Indonesia via a single channel, which is attractive to both
+Added: end users and merchants.
+Added: has partnered with a number of utility providers to allow Indonesians to pay utility bills, such as water supply, telecom, leasing and
+Added: health insurance through using the WalletKu app.
+Added: strives to capture the market by direct interaction with its customers.
+Added: Through the customer relationship team, WalletKu helps its users
+Added: and customers navigate the applications and master the transactions smoothly.
+Added: This has contributed to an increase in loyalty and enhanced
+Added: the reputation.
+Added: WalletKu also provides an array of digital channels and social media channels, customer service email, as well as a customer
+Added: service hotline.
+Added: and Marketing
+Added: attracts new users and partners by offering better and more extensive service offerings.
+Added: As Indonesia is a widely dispersed country with
+Added: many different localities and communities, WalletKu specifically develops and designs its marketing programs for different localities
+Added: of Indonesia, and continually strives to innovate and optimize its marketing strategies.
+Added: Cluster Managing Partnership
+Added: Cluster Managing Partner (CMP) is a distribution partnership in collaboration with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat), which is one
+Added: of the largest telecommunication operators in Indonesia offering telecom services and internet data and airtime products.
+Added: Under the Indosat
+Added: Cluster Managing Partner program, Indosat has set up 5 Regional areas covering all areas of Indonesia.
+Added: These regions are Jabo, Central
+Added: West Java, Sumatra, Kalisumapa, and East Java Bali Nusra, which are further subdivided into more than a hundred cluster areas.
+Added: area is awarded to only one operator to run, manage, and sell Indosat’s products in that particular cluster area.
+Added: become an Indosat Distribution Partner and operate one or more cluster areas, a CMP must build a team of Distributor Sales Executive
+Added: (DSEs) and Sales Force (SF).
+Added: The DSEs are responsible for acquiring outlet partners, which are traditional offline small mom-and-pop
+Added: shops that sell Indonesian Telecommunication products directly to end users.
+Added: Each DSE manages a dedicated number of outlets within that
+Added: cluster area, and sells Indosat Products to the Outlets under management.
+Added: The SF is composed of salespersons, which has not been managed
+Added: by WalletKu since July 2023, that sell or distribute Indosat Product directly to End Users.
+Added: products are mainly:
+Added: (Mobile Outlet) - the airtime or internet data provided by Indosat that the CMP sells directly to the Outlets they manage, which
+Added: in turn, can be sold to the end users by the Outlets.
+Added: packs (SIM Card).
+Added: joined the CMP program and started managing two Indosat clusters in 2021, namely Denpasar and Gilikangkung, which now has been merged
+Added: to become one.
+Added: For this cluster area, WalletKu has now 30 DSEs.
+Added: WalletKu regularly launches promotional and marketing campaigns in these
+Added: two cluster areas.
+Added: Total revenue generated from the cluster area as of December 31, 2024 was $14.5 million, with an average revenue of around $1.21 million
+Added: The average gross margin for selling airtime under the CMP scheme was 0.23% during that period.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, WalletKu
+Added: had approximately 2,600 active outlet partners under its CMP program.
+Added: provides incentives or bonuses to CMPs based on the KPIs they have achieved.
+Added: WalletKu has met Indosat’s KPIs each month of its
+Added: participation in the CMP program, and in the year ended December 31, 2023, received incentive rewards averaging 3.64% of total revenue.
+Added: These rewards, together with its gross profit margin of 5.74%, contributed to an average total gross profit of 9.38%.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, WalletKu
+Added: received incentive rewards averaging 3.02% of total revenue, which, together with its gross profit margin of 6.31%, contributed to an
+Added: average total gross profit of 9.33% for this business.
+Added: of December 31, 2024, WalletKu had approximately 89 employees.
+Added: It also engages temporary employees and consultants as needed to support
+Added: its operations.
+Added: None of WalletKu’s employees are represented by a labor union or subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
+Added: WalletKu has not experienced any work stoppages, and it considers its relations with its employees to be good.
+Added: Property Rights
+Added: rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and restrictions on disclosure to protect our intellectual property
+Added: We own copyrights to the software we develop in-house as well as that developed by third parties under contract.
+Added: We enter into
+Added: standard employment agreements with our programmers and other employees, which provide that the intellectual property created by them
+Added: in connection with their employment with us is our intellectual property.
+Added: As of the date of this registration statement/proxy, we have
+Added: registered one trademark in Singapore and five trademarks in Indonesia, and registered three domain names in Indonesia.
+Added: our efforts to protect ourselves from infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights, unauthorized parties may
+Added: attempt to copy or otherwise obtain and use our intellectual property.
+Added: In the event of a successful claim of infringement and our failure
+Added: or inability to develop non-infringing intellectual property or license the infringed or similar intellectual property on a timely basis,
+Added: our business could be harmed.
+Added: See “ Risk Factors-Risks Relating to Seamless’ Business, Industry and Operations-We may not
+Added: be able to protect our intellectual property rights .” and “ Risk Factors-Risks Relating to Seamless’ Business,
+Added: Industry and Operations-We are subject to risks related to litigation, including intellectual property claims, consumer protection actions
+Added: and regulatory disputes.
+Added: Legal proceedings against us could harm our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, results
+Added: of operations, financial condition and prospects .”
+Added: Malaysia, Tranglo holds a Money Services Business license.
+Added: The Money Services Business license is a class “B” license dated
+Added: October 1, 2018 and renewed on May 23, 2023, issued to Tranglo by Bank Negara Malaysia pursuant to the Money Services Business Act 2011
+Added: for Tranglo to carry out money services business.
+Added: This license regulates and supervises all of the money services business industry which
+Added: comprises the money changing, remittance and wholesale currency businesses and other related matters.
+Added: In particular to class “B”
+Added: license, it regulates all activities that involve outward & inward fund transfers by individuals and businesses via non-bank remittance
+Added: service providers.
+Added: the United Kingdom, Tranglo is an Authorized Payment Institution licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services
+Added: Regulations 2017.
+Added: This license allows Tranglo to execute payment transactions, issuing of payment instruments, acquiring payment transactions,
+Added: conduct money remittance, provide account information services and payment initiation services.
+Added: Singapore, Tranglo is a major payment institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore under the Payment Services Act 2019,
+Added: which is an Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of payment service providers, the oversight of payment systems, and connected
+Added: matters, to repeal the Money changing and Remittance Businesses Act (Chapter 187 of the 2008 Revised Edition) and the Payment Systems
+Added: (Oversight) Act (Chapter 222A of the 2007 Revised Edition), and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.
+Added: license allows Tranglo to provide account issuance, domestic money transfer, cross-border money transfer, and E-money issuance services.
+Added: Tranglo utilizes the services of the four licensed Cryptocurrency Exchanges partners to liquidate XRP it receives from its customers
+Added: as part of its ODL service, but as a user of these services is not required to maintain a separate license.
+Added: Tranglo continuously evaluates
+Added: its business and the changing regulatory landscape in the jurisdictions in which it operates, it currently believes it is compliance
+Added: with cryptocurrency regulations in Singapore and that it is not required to comply with any cryptocurrency regulations in jurisdictions
+Added: other than Singapore.
+Added: See the section entitled “ Seamless’ Business - Tranglo - Strong Strategic Partnership Network -
+Added: Strategic partnership with Ripple .”
+Added: Indonesia, Tranglo is a holder of a Non-bank Fund Transfer Operator license from Bank Indonesia under the Bank Indonesia Regulation Number
+Added: 23/06/PBI/2021 on Payment Service Provider for non-bank fund transfer services.
+Added: It regulates nonbank funds transfer providers having
+Added: business entities incorporated in Indonesia engaged in funds transfer activities.
+Added: WalletKu, it is regulated by several regulations.
+Added: We are subject to a wide range of regulations in the Republic of Indonesia;
+Added: and informatics security, trades through electronic systems, electronic money licensing, and labor law.
+Added: as an electronic system operator.
+Added: We have made effective our registration of Indonesian Standard of Business Classification (in Indonesian:
+Added: Klasifikasi Baku Lapangan Usaha Indonesia-KBLI) number 63122 of “Web Portal and/or Digital Platform with Commercial Purposes”.
+Added: Within this KBLI, we launched and managed the WalletKu App and WalletKu web portal.
+Added: One of the regulators of this activity is the Ministry
+Added: of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Indonesia (MCI-RI) by the Regulation of the MCI-RI number 5 year 2020 (including
+Added: its changes) on Private Electronic System Operators (ESO).
+Added: It requires ESO that provides, manages, and/or operates offers and/or trades
+Added: of goods and/or services to register its body to the MCI-RI.
+Added: Consequently, we registered the company as an ESO in ESO registration number
+Added: 000128.01/DJAI.PSE/02/2021.
+Added: The electronic information ecosystem is regulated as such as the ministry wants to ensure that no ESO provides
+Added: and facilitates the circulation of prohibited contents.
+Added: Furthermore, to counter the privacy data breach problems of ESOs, the ministry
+Added: wants the ESOs to be cautious about their internal mechanism of privacy data protection.
+Added: retail trades.
+Added: Alongside the KBLI 63122, we also have made effective our registration of KBLI number 47912 of “Retail Trade through
+Added: the Media for Textile, Clothing, Footwear, and Personal Goods Commodities”.
+Added: This one is for our retail trades that are available
+Added: in our WalletKu app.
+Added: Within this KBLI, WalletKu is a subject to Government Regulation number 80 year 2019 on Trades through Electronic
+Added: System (in Indonesian:
+Added: Perdagangan Melalui Sistem Elektronik-PMSE).
+Added: According to the mentioned regulation, PMSE entities are obliged
+Added: to ethically advertise;
+Added: disclosing truthful information of the products they sell (along with their obligation to disclose the accurate
+Added: information about the products, the suitability of real products from the ads, consumption eligibility, legality, quality, and accessibility
+Added: of the goods or services, and to protect consumers).
+Added: electronic money.
+Added: Supporting our sales inside the app is the electronic money usages.
+Added: W-Cash is a product of co-branding agreement.
+Added: rely on PT E2Pay Global Utama’s license from the Bank of Indonesia.
+Added: Currently, the electronic money licensing itself is regulated
+Added: by the Regulation of the Bank of Indonesia number 20/6/PBI/2018 on Electronic Money.
+Added: The co-branding agreement is registered and being
+Added: reported by PT E2Pay Global Utama to Bank of Indonesia.
+Added: Pursuant to the regulation, the provision of electronic money system must be
+Added: done by following the mentioned principles:
+Added: a) not implying a systemic risk;
+Added: b) the whole operations must be conducted with good financial
+Added: c) strengthening consumer’s protection;
+Added: d) enterprises that benefits the nation’s economics;
+Added: and e) money laundering
+Added: and terrorism funding prevention.
+Added: partnership with payment gateway services.
+Added: WalletKu uses payment initiation and acquiring services provided by third parties.
+Added: the users of the services.
+Added: This area is regulated by the Regulation of Bank of Indonesia number 23/6/PBI/2021 concerning Payment Services
+Added: is subject to Indonesian labor law.
+Added: Indonesian labor law is being referred to Law number 13 year 2003 on Manpower, which had been changed
+Added: by the Constitutional Court for several provisions and by Law number 11 year 2020 on Job Creation.
+Added: It contained various norms:
+Added: term of definite employment, the severance payment, numerous mandatory workers’ rights protection, leave provisions, etc.
+Added: The Indonesian
+Added: labor law is generally designed to enhance the welfare of the workers within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia.
+Added: table below provides an overview of our existing licenses across different jurisdictions.
+Added: We believe we are in material compliance with
+Added: the requirements of each of these licenses.
+Added: None of the licenses have an expiration or renewal date except the Malaysian license, which
+Added: expires in March 2026.
+Added: We expect to renew the license prior to its expiration.
+Added: to conduct Money Services Business (Class of License:
+Added: Negara Malaysia
+Added: Payment Institution
+Added: Authority of Singapore
+Added: Remitter (Non-bank Fund Transfer Operator)
+Added: System Operator
+Added: of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Indonesia (MCI-RI)
+Added: through Electronic System
+Added: of Trades of the Republic of Indonesia
+Added: Rely on PT E2Pay Global Utama’s license Account Linkage
+Added: Payment Institution)
+Added: Conduct Authority
+Added: Business (Tranglo)
+Added: & Middle East
+Added: comparison metrics of Tranglo and some of its competitors within the cross-border remittance industry are set forth in the table above.
+Added: We believe that Tranglo and most competitors retain a comprehensive competitive advantage against traditional banks.
+Added: Traditional banks
+Added: rely on many gatekeepers and intermediary networks in their end-to-end process, adding to costs and transaction turnaround time.
+Added: banks - between 3 to 7 working days
+Added: operators - 1 to 3 working days
+Added: providers - 40% payments are instant (industry average)
+Added: - 80% of payments are instant (within 5 minutes)
+Added: banks - 3% to 7%
+Added: gateways - 3% + FX rates
+Added: Union - 0.3% to 3%
+Added: - 1% on average
+Added: money transfer operators and regional mobile wallets .
+Added: Retail money transfer operators and regional mobile wallets adopt a “follow
+Added: the consumer” approach.
+Added: While the focus is still on consumers in their core market(s), these players target to serve the consumers’
+Added: payment needs both domestically and internationally.
+Added: Consumers can make use of the same e-wallet even in overseas markets when they travel.
+Added: Examples include MoneyGram and Western Union.
+Added: Retail money transfer operators tend to have better network and availability.
+Added: these retail money transfer operators may need to connect and integrate with other wholesale remittance providers in order to expand
+Added: their coverage areas.
+Added: This will bring in additional costs and delay the remittance processes.
+Added: remittance providers.
+Added: These operators tend to fare better in terms of speed and pricing as compared to retail money transfer
+Added: operators, whereas retail money transfer operators tend to have better network and availability.
+Added: Tranglo is a wholesale remittance provider.
+Added: Other competitors in the wholesale remittance industry include Thunes, NIUM and EMQ.
+Added: These remittance providers generally have a transfer
+Added: speed advantage because of direct and negotiated partnerships with local infrastructure providers.
+Added: For example, Tranglo has an extensive
+Added: network in the Philippines.
+Added: NIUM, with a focus on Europe, is making aggressive expansion in that region, adding workforce, support as
+Added: well as building local networks.
+Added: uploads, a traditional transaction request option that eliminates the need for API, can add to the attractiveness of a remittance operator
+Added: vis-à-vis its competitors.
+Added: Businesses with the need for added flexibility would opt to engage a provider that supports both API
+Added: integration and batch processing, as developing an in-house platform to integrate API could add considerable costs.
+Added: of the standout competitive factors for Tranglo is its added liquidity management via support from Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity
+Added: (ODL) service.
+Added: ODL leverages the digital asset XRP to eliminate traditional pre-funding.
+Added: Traditionally, pre-funding is required to initiate
+Added: transactions, which locks up substantial working capital for remittance participants and financial institutions.
+Added: This may impose significant
+Added: restrictions on the cash flows of eWallets or banks.
+Added: ODL provides a way out for remittance participants to send money without the need
+Added: for providing the pre-funding.
+Added: In Southeast Asia markets, only NIUM is also capable of providing ODL for its participants.
+Added: International
+Added: Airtime Transfer Business (Tranglo)
+Added: the airtime transfer service business, Tranglo competes with Prepay Nation, Ding, DT One, Merchantrade, Reloadly, Du and Thuns, which
+Added: also provide services for top-up transactions to mobile operators and other digital service providers.
+Added: Specifically, Thunes, which enables
+Added: users to connect digital wallets and is a global cross-border payments network, is another competitor of Tranglo in the businesses of
+Added: both airtime transfer services and money transfer.
+Added: global support
+Added: global support
+Added: global support
+Added: global support
+Added: operates a wholesale-focused model, with retail top-ups offered as a supplementary product.
+Added: This allows Tranglo to differentiate from
+Added: wholesale-only competitors like DT One and Reloadly, while also matching the offerings of retail- and wholesale-focused competitors like
+Added: the industry average network coverage is global, most airtime operators include inactive operators in their network.
+Added: Tranglo has performed
+Added: numerous list cleanups to ensure an accurate representation of active networks while ensuring optimal support for these channels.
+Added: - 700 operators in 150 countries
+Added: One - 900 operators in 180 countries
+Added: - 800 operators in 170 countries
+Added: - 500 operators in 150 countries
+Added: and customer support rendered may vary according to geographical location.
+Added: As the Tranglo team is primarily based in Malaysia and Singapore,
+Added: support generally works best for queries coming from countries in similar time zones.
+Added: The same applies for different operators, i.e.,
+Added: Reloadly operates out of Spain, the United States, France and Canada.
+Added: for API allows direct integration for developers and digital retailers offering direct foreign top-ups via their platforms, while web
+Added: platform supports offline retailers or operators that prefer to link without going through API.
+Added: As is the case with remittance, Tranglo,
+Added: being able to offer both, can enjoy certain competitive advantages in the market.
+Added: Airtime Business - Indonesia (WalletKu)
+Added: Indonesian e-Commerce players are the direct competitors of WalletKu’s retail Airtime Business.
+Added: Shopee is now the biggest online
+Added: shopping place.
+Added: Shopee invites users to join as Shopee Partners.
+Added: Partners can resell products purchased through the application offline.
+Added: Products that can be purchased on the Shopee Partner application are Credit & Data Packages, Game Vouchers, PLN Electricity (Tokens
+Added: & Bills), Indonesian Train Tickets, and other bills such as Credit Installments, Health Social Security Administration Agency (BPJS
+Added: Kesehatan), Regional Water Companies Drinking (PDAM), Postpaid, Telkom, and Cable TV.
+Added: In addition, Shopee Partners can also make use
+Added: of the Shopee app for users to send money, pay installments, and Shopee marketplace payments.
+Added: competitors include GrabKios which is operated by KUDO Company.
+Added: It is the airtime reseller company managed by Grab Indonesia.
+Added: helps all of Grab Merchants or general merchants to sell retail airtime top-up, and the products offered are of the same nature as WalletKu’s.
+Added: GrabKios offers price discounts as a promotional campaign every month.
+Added: However, GrabKios does not offer any financial assistance in the
+Added: form of delay payments, unlike WalletKu which offers 3-5 days of receivables for the merchants.
+Added: GrabKios also allows its partners to
+Added: send money to all banks as well as to make bill payments.
+Added: is another application created for shop owners, stalls, and individuals who could open shops to sell digital products using the online
+Added: Wholesale app.
+Added: Small enterprises are able to sell products ranging from wholesale products, credit, data packages, PLN, Telkom, PDAM,
+Added: BPJS, game vouchers, and cable TV.
+Added: offers a platform for partners to sell products ranging from physical goods to virtual products like Toll, Data Packages, Send Money,
+Added: Cash Deposits, Electricity Tokens, Electricity Bills, Game Vouchers, and Train Tickets.
+Added: Plant and Equipment
+Added: corporate headquarters is located in Singapore which is under a lease that expires in September 2025.
+Added: We also have offices in Kuala Lumpur
+Added: consisting of 14,096 square feet of space in the same building under a lease that expires in October 2026.
+Added: We have offices in several
+Added: other locations and believe our facilities are sufficient for our current needs.
+Added: maintains property and liability insurance.
+Added: Consistent with customary industry practice in Southeast Asia, we do not maintain business
+Added: interruption insurance, nor do we maintain key-man life insurance.
+Added: Management and Internal Control Framework
+Added: approach to risk
+Added: nature of Seamless’ business, including managing domestic and international flows of money, means that it faces wider and more
+Added: complex risk management challenges than many businesses.
+Added: Its position of trust in its users is an overarching focus for Seamless, on
+Added: top of the risks commonly faced by businesses which are highly dependent on information technology, and provides an added dimension in
+Added: defining and managing our risk and control systems.
+Added: Realization of a risk within any of the major risk categories could trigger significant
+Added: reputational damage for Seamless’ business, which may affect its ability to maintain its successful operational record, as well
+Added: as deliver damaging financial losses.
+Added: Please refer to “Risk Factors” for details of other risks affecting Seamless business.
+Added: a consequence, risk and its management and mitigation are a particular focus for Seamless.
+Added: governance of risk
+Added: governance of risk is managed on a tiered basis.
+Added: The process starts with its directors who delegate authority to its risk and compliance
+Added: committee and then, by the clear articulation of policy, through the management hierarchy to the executives running its different operating
+Added: The policies and risk appetite statements are communicated throughout Seamless, encouraging employees at all levels to consider
+Added: risk in their decision-making and take personal accountability for the risks they take.
+Added: each stage of the risk management process, Seamless seeks to establish clear accountability and responsibility for risk in order to drive
+Added: a culture of transparency and openness among its employees.
+Added: Seamless believes this encourages the early escalation of response to risks
+Added: and creation of mitigation plans as appropriate.
+Added: its risk governance structure, Seamless has several levels of defense with clearly defined accountabilities and responsibilities.
+Added: division executives on the ground in the various countries where Seamless operates represent the first level of defense and have the
+Added: responsibility to identify, manage, measure and monitor risks within their region.
+Added: The second line of defense is provided by Seamless’
+Added: on-the-ground risk and compliance teams who provide assistance and independent challenge to the operating divisions.
+Added: The third line of
+Added: defense is Seamless’ risk and compliance team in its corporate headquarters under the guidance of its risk and compliance committee.
+Added: Seamless’ risk and compliance committee is a committee of the Board established in accordance with its articles and is authorized
+Added: by the Board to assist in fulfilling statutory and regulatory responsibilities in relation to its operations.
+Added: The committee assists the
+Added: Board in its oversight of the effectiveness of Seamless’ system of risk management and compliance function.
+Added: Seamless hires an external
+Added: service provider for its internal audit function to carry out regular review of our policies and procedures, internal control systems
+Added: and safeguards to inherent risks.
+Added: particular to our cross-border arm - Tranglo, it has a well-defined organizational structure with clearly delineated lines of accountability,
+Added: authority and responsibility to the Board, its committees, and operating units.
+Added: Key processes have been established in reviewing the
+Added: adequacy and effectiveness of our risk management and internal control system.
+Added: management function and overview
+Added: management is a core discipline which supports Tranglo’s aim to achieve a measured balance between risk and return, and is embedded
+Added: across all business functional lines throughout Tranglo.
+Added: As an integral part of the control functions in providing checks and balances
+Added: to the business processes and management strategic planning, risk management ensures timely and effective identification, measurement,
+Added: mitigation and reporting of significant and emerging risks faced by Tranglo.
+Added: first level of defense entails the responsibilities of risk owners (business functional lines) in the day-to-day management of risks
+Added: inherent in the various business and operational activities.
+Added: At the second level of defense, the control functions (Compliance and Risk
+Added: Management) perform the role of policy setting which includes the development of relevant tools and methodologies to identify, measure,
+Added: mitigate and report significant and emerging risks.
+Added: Complementing this, the third level of defense is internal audit, which provides
+Added: independent assurance of the effectiveness of the risk management and compliance approach.
+Added: adopts and promotes risk management culture throughout the organization to enhance and inculcate risk awareness culture, which is a key
+Added: aspect of an effective company-wide risk management framework.
+Added: Fundamental risk management culture is strong corporate governance, organizational
+Added: structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, effective communication and training, commitment to compliance with laws,
+Added: regulations and internal controls, integrity in fiduciary responsibilities and clear policies, procedures and guidelines cascaded across
+Added: of risks and controls
+Added: may face regulatory, financial, legal, operational, technology, fraud, and reputational risks.
+Added: The relatively small values involved in
+Added: remittance transfers mean that it is unlikely that there will be systemic risk.
+Added: Risk - regulatory adherence in relation to complexity, clarity, pace of guidelines’ changes and heightened scrutiny by regulators
+Added: which lead to fiduciary breaches, especially AML/CFT and other regulatory requirements.
+Added: Preventive controls in place via requirements
+Added: for every business function to ensure proper policy, process, procedure or work instructions are being revised on a periodic and
+Added: ad hoc basis to be more relevant and up-to-date in line with daily operational requirements and activities.
+Added: Additionally, we also
+Added: instill awareness amongst staff on the importance of adhering to statutory and regulation as well as ensure alignment of the requirements.
+Added: Risk - accounting transactions not captured completely and accurately in the accounting system.
+Added: Preventive controls in place via
+Added: in-house dedicated tools developed by technology team and revenue assurance team to perform reconciliation (it is inclusive of mandatory
+Added: information, e.g., date and time stamp, unique transaction ID and amount).
+Added: Risk - contractual disputes, litigation or claim risks.
+Added: Preventive controls in place via automated systems and internal procedures
+Added: and processes to monitor the status of agreement to ensure no transaction will be executed prior the execution of agreement.
+Added: Risk - loss of funds in transit depending on the nature of the remittance service.
+Added: Preventive controls in place via requirements
+Added: for every business function to ensure dedicated people or team, adequate operational process, robust operating system, and external
+Added: factors including third-party management are being assessed, monitored and resolved effectively based on risk management and internal
+Added: control tools as well as process.
+Added: Risk - system outage/IT failures in applications, software and hardware due to improper software maintenance, poor license management
+Added: and obsolete systems.
+Added: Preventive controls in place via maintaining list of the available components and monitoring their support
+Added: window, tracking of end-of-life or end-of-support components from the aspects of technology, cyber and business continuity key risk
+Added: indicators as well proper incident management process.
+Added: Risk - falsification of documents, including identity theft, fake ID card, fraudulent company or financial documents and other business
+Added: Preventive controls in place via effective awareness and training on the detection of fraud (including cyberfraud/cybercrime)
+Added: and highlighting the current or emerging modus operandi of fraud.
+Added: Risk - inadequate arrangements to ensure receivers or beneficiaries getting their funds on time even when there has been a loss in
+Added: It could also arise from misuse of the service for illegal purposes such as money laundering.
+Added: Preventive controls in place
+Added: via adequate processes and systems to ensure minimal impact throughout the transactional flow, Dedicated people and team are in place
+Added: in managing operational issues either from sales, technology & infrastructure, and customer support perspectives.
+Added: a highly regulated company, Tranglo is required by law to undertake preventive measures to prevent the company from being used as a conduit
+Added: for money laundering (ML), terrorism financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF) activities.
+Added: Therefore, we implement a stringent
+Added: Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism and Targeted Financial Sanctions (AML/CFT & TFS) compliance program to ensure
+Added: good governance and sound management of ML/TF risks.
+Added: do this, our business is monitored by an in-house compliance department whose primary role is to ensure compliance with laws, regulatory
+Added: requirements, policies and procedures.
+Added: The department is led by a highly qualified executive with extensive experience on development,
+Added: operation and management of corporate compliance programs and projects in the money services business (MSB).
+Added: The Head of Compliance is
+Added: a former President of the Group of Compliance Officers (GOCO), an external examination committee member for Asian Institute AICB’s
+Added: AML/CFT & TFS and regulatory compliance certification programs, and an external trainer for Risk-based Approach (RBA) workshops offered
+Added: by the Asian Banking School.
+Added: compliance measures include:
+Added: implementation of AML/CFT & TFS Compliance program to ensure consistency and adherence to all applicable local laws and regulations
+Added: across all regions in which Tranglo operates.
+Added: and maintaining compliance policies, procedures, controls and keeping them up to date with regulatory changes and providing compliance
+Added: advisory support for business initiatives.
+Added: oversight, risk assessment, control, support, including Customer Due Diligence/Enhanced Due diligence (CDD/EDD), remittance partner
+Added: due diligence, and analysis of any suspicious transactions in accordance with AML/CFT & TFS regulations
+Added: and implementing AML/CFT & TFS compliance training program for staff
+Added: guidance in consultation with the product and business stakeholders regarding new feature and service offerings
+Added: with regulatory authorities
+Added: system and suspicious transaction reporting
+Added: has built a robust AML/CFT & TFS system for sanction/PEP screening as well as transaction monitoring.
+Added: Tranglo subscribes to LexisNexis
+Added: sanction/PEP lists database which covers major global sanction/PEP lists such as OFAC, UNSCR, UK and other major domestic authorities
+Added: Customers in our database are subject to rescreening on a daily basis.
+Added: applies the Risk-Based Approach (RBA) in both its customer and own company risk profiling.
+Added: The risk parameters are incorporated into
+Added: the AML system and customer risk scores are calculated automatically.
+Added: in-house transaction monitoring system covers both during- and post-transaction monitoring.
+Added: On a real-time basis, the system will reject
+Added: a transaction automatically if the transaction data hits auto-reject data validation parameters.
+Added: For post-transaction monitoring, the
+Added: system will send auto alerts to prompt a review of transactions whose patterns hit monitoring thresholds.
+Added: transaction reports (STRs) will be raised to the respective regulators if any suspicious transaction activities are detected and/or any
+Added: customer/sender/beneficiary true match with sanction lists.
+Added: compliance training & awareness
+Added: also conduct compliance training for our employees to safeguard Tranglo from any non-compliant acts.
+Added: In 2021 and 2022, we conducted 15
+Added: and 28 in-house AML/CFT compliance training sessions, respectively.
+Added: Compliance officers are also regularly sent to attend the external
+Added: training and workshops, such as the MSB industry training modules conducted by GOCO under the Malaysia Association of MSB, to enhance
+Added: their AML/CFT & TFS knowledge and ensure that knowledge is up to date.
+Added: addition, a two-day dedicated in-house “Sanction and Sanction Screening” workshop was conducted by an external trainer under
+Added: ABS in September 2021.
+Added: provide financial support to our employees who wish to complete personal accreditation programs.
+Added: Under the Tranglo Staff Training Program,
+Added: 10 compliance officers have been enrolled into AML/CFT & TFS Compliance accreditation programs since 2017.
+Added: & Regulations
+Added: Malaysia, Tranglo holds a Money Services Business license.
+Added: The Money Services Business license is a class “B” license dated
+Added: October 1, 2018 and renewed May 23, 2023 issued to Tranglo by Bank Negara Malaysia pursuant to the Money Services Business Act 2011 for
+Added: Tranglo to carry out money services business.
+Added: This license regulates and supervises all of the money services business industry which
+Added: comprises the money changing, remittance and wholesale currency businesses and other related matters.
+Added: In particular to class “B”
+Added: license, it regulates all activities that involve outward & inward fund transfers by individuals and businesses via non-bank remittance
+Added: service providers.
+Added: the United Kingdom, Tranglo is an Authorized Payment Institution licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services
+Added: Regulations 2017.
+Added: This license allows Tranglo to execute payment transactions, issuing of payment instruments, acquiring payment transactions,
+Added: conduct money remittance, provide account information services and payment initiation services.
+Added: Singapore, Tranglo is a major payment institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore under the Payment Services Act 2019,
+Added: which is an Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of payment service providers, the oversight of payment systems, and connected
+Added: matters, to repeal the Money changing and Remittance Businesses Act (Chapter 187 of the 2008 Revised Edition) and the Payment Systems
+Added: (Oversight) Act (Chapter 222A of the 2007 Revised Edition), and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.
+Added: license allows Tranglo to provide account issuance, domestic money transfer, cross-border money transfer, and E-money issuance services.
+Added: Tranglo also partners with the four licensed Cryptocurrency Exchanges partners to liquidate XRP it receives from its customers as part
+Added: of its ODL service, but as a user of these services is not required to maintain a separate license.
+Added: Indonesia, Tranglo is a holder of a Non-bank Fund Transfer Operator license from Bank Indonesia under the Bank Indonesia Regulation Number
+Added: 23/06/PBI/2021 on Payment Service Provider for non-bank fund transfer services.
+Added: It regulates nonbank funds transfer providers having
+Added: business entities incorporated in Indonesia engaged in funds transfer activities.
+Added: is subject to a wide range of regulations in the Republic of Indonesia relating to electronic and information security, trades through
+Added: electronic systems, electronic money licensing, and labor law.
+Added: as an electronic system operator .
+Added: WalletKu holds a registration under Indonesian Standard of Business Classification (in Indonesian:
+Added: Klasifikasi Baku Lapangan Usaha Indonesia-KBLI) number 63122 of a “Web Portal and/or Digital Platform with Commercial Purposes”.
+Added: Within this KBLI, WalletKu launched and manages the WalletKu App and WalletKu web portal.
+Added: One of the regulators of this activity is the
+Added: Ministry of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Indonesia (MCI-RI) by the Regulation of the MCI-RI number 5 year 2020 (including
+Added: its changes) on Private Electronic System Operators (ESO).
+Added: It requires an ESO that provides, manages, and/or operates offers and/or trades
+Added: of goods and/or services to register with the MCI-RI.
+Added: Consequently, WalletKu registered as an ESO in ESO registration number 000128.01/DJAI.PSE/02/2021.
+Added: The electronic information ecosystem is regulated as such as the ministry wants to ensure that no ESO provides and facilitates the circulation
+Added: of prohibited contents.
+Added: Furthermore, to counter the privacy data breach problems of ESOs, the ministry wants the ESOs to be cautious
+Added: about their internal mechanism of privacy data protection.
+Added: retail trades .
+Added: Alongside the KBLI 63122, we also have made effective our registration of KBLI number 47912 of “Retail Trade
+Added: through the Media for Textile, Clothing, Footwear, and Personal Goods Commodities”.
+Added: This one is for our retail trades that are
+Added: available in our WalletKu app.
+Added: Within this KBLI, WalletKu is a subject to Government Regulation number 80 year 2019 on Trades through
+Added: Electronic System (in Indonesian:
+Added: Perdagangan Melalui Sistem Elektronik-PMSE).
+Added: According to the mentioned regulation, PMSE entities are
+Added: obliged to ethically advertise;
+Added: disclosing truthful information of the products they sell (along with their obligation to disclose the
+Added: accurate information about the products, the suitability of real products from the ads, consumption eligibility, legality, quality, and
+Added: accessibility of the goods or services, and to protect consumers).
+Added: electronic money .
+Added: Supporting our sales inside the app is the electronic money usages.
+Added: W-Cash is a product of co-branding agreement.
+Added: We rely on PT E2Pay Global Utama’s license from the Bank of Indonesia.
+Added: Currently, the electronic money licensing itself is regulated
+Added: by the Regulation of the Bank of Indonesia number 20/6/PBI/2018 on Electronic Money.
+Added: The co-branding agreement is registered and being
+Added: reported by PT E2Pay Global Utama to Bank of Indonesia.
+Added: Pursuant to the regulation, the provision of electronic money system must be
+Added: done by following the mentioned principles:
+Added: a) not implying a systemic risk;
+Added: b) the whole operations must conducted with good financial
+Added: c) strengthening consumer’s protection;
+Added: d) enterprises that benefits the nation’s economics;
+Added: and e) money laundering
+Added: and terrorism funding prevention.
+Added: partnership with payment gateway services .
+Added: WalletKu uses payment initiation and acquiring services provided by third parties.
+Added: area is regulated by the Regulation of Bank of Indonesia number 23/6/PBI/2021 concerning Payment Services Provider.
+Added: is subject to Indonesian labor law .
+Added: WalletKu is subject to Law number 13 year 2003 on Manpower, as modified by the Indonesian Constitutional
+Added: Court, and by Law number 11 year 2020 on Job Creation.
+Added: These laws establish various norms relating to the maximum term of definite employment,
+Added: severance payments, mandatory workers’ rights protections, leave provisions, among others.
+Added: These laws are generally designed to
+Added: enhance the welfare of the workers within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia.
+Added: in particular to Indonesia
+Added: section sets forth a summary of the significant regulations or requirements in Indonesia.
+Added: The primary laws and regulations to which Seamless
+Added: is subject relate to foreign investment, dividend distributions, foreign exchange controls, electronic money, payment processing, data
+Added: protection, intellectual property rights, anti-money laundering and terrorism financing and employment and labor.
+Added: on Foreign Investment
+Added: 25/2007 regarding Investment issued on April 26, 2007, or the Indonesia Investment Law, states that all business sectors or business
+Added: types are open to foreign investment, except those over which the Indonesian government has expressly prohibited or restricted foreign
+Added: Under the Indonesia Investment Law and the Negative Investment List promulgated by the Indonesian government applicable at
+Added: the time of establishment of our Indonesia operating entities, foreign investors can own up 49% of the equity in the electronic money
+Added: businesses and 100% of the equity in fund transfer in Indonesia.
+Added: According to Regulation of the Bank of Indonesia number 20/6/PBI/2018,
+Added: the provision of maximum 49% ownership of foreign entities (51% minimum for local shareholders) is enforceable to the issuer of electronic
+Added: WalletKu did not issue new electronic money as it has a co-branding agreement with PT E2Pay Global Utama (which is the party that
+Added: issues the “M-Bayar” electronic money).
+Added: In addition, according to President Regulation number 10 year 2021 on Investment
+Added: List (as amended), fintech business (especially in KBLI 58200, 63122, and 47912 is not restricted nor strictly regulated in respect to
+Added: foreign ownership).
+Added: Accordingly, WalletKu does not believe that the maximum provision for foreign entities is applicable for WalletKu’s
+Added: current business.
+Added: on the Use of Rupiah
+Added: June 28, 2011, the government of Indonesia enacted Law No.
+Added: 7 of 2011 on Currency, or the Indonesia Currency Law, which took immediate
+Added: Furthermore, on March 31, 2015, Bank Indonesia enacted Bank Indonesia Regulation No.
+Added: 17/3/PBI/2015 on the Mandatory Use of Indonesian
+Added: Rupiah within the Territory of the Republic of Indonesia, or the Indonesia Currency Law Implementation Regulations.
+Added: The implementation
+Added: rules of the Indonesia Currency Law require the use of Indonesian Rupiah for all transactions conducted within Indonesia including transactions
+Added: for payment, settlement of obligations and other financial transactions, except for certain exemptions provided under the Indonesia Currency
+Added: Law Implementation Regulations.
+Added: Failures to comply with any provisions under the Indonesia Currency Law Implementation Regulations may
+Added: subject the person to administrative, criminal or monetary sanctions of up to IDR1 billion (US$72,695.6).
+Added: on Dividend Distributions
+Added: distributions are regulated under Law No.
+Added: 40 of 2007 on Limited Liability Company, or the Indonesian Company Law.
+Added: A decision to distribute
+Added: a dividend needs to be made by a resolution of the shareholders at the annual or general meeting of shareholders upon the recommendation
+Added: of the board of directors of a company.
+Added: A company may only declare dividends at the end of a fiscal year if it has positive retained
+Added: Furthermore, the Indonesian Company Law allows a company to distribute interim dividends prior to the end of a financial year
+Added: so long as it is permitted by its articles of association and provided that the interim dividend does not result in the company’s
+Added: net assets becoming less than the total issued and paid-up capital and the compulsory reserves fund.
+Added: Such distribution shall be determined
+Added: by the company’s board of directors after being first approved by the board of commissioners.
+Added: If, after the end of the relevant
+Added: financial year, the company has suffered a loss, any distributed interim dividends must be returned by the shareholders, and the board
+Added: of directors and board of commissioners of the company will be jointly and severally responsible if the interim dividend is not returned.
+Added: A limited liability company is required to reserve a certain amount from its net profit each year as a reserve fund until such fund amounts
+Added: to at least 20% of its issued and paid up capital.
+Added: on Foreign Exchange
+Added: has limited foreign exchange controls.
+Added: The Indonesian Rupiah is generally freely convertible within or from Indonesia.
+Added: The Indonesian
+Added: Investment Law stipulates that foreign investors are allowed to make capital contributions and repatriate dividends, profits and other
+Added: income in foreign currency without obtaining prior approvals from governmental authorities and/or Bank Indonesia, the central bank of
+Added: The conversion of foreign currency into Indonesian Rupiah for capital contribution purposes does not require any governmental
+Added: September 5, 2016, Bank Indonesia issued Bank Indonesia Regulation No.
+Added: 18/18/PBI/2016 on the Foreign Exchange Transactions against Rupiah
+Added: between Banks and Domestic Parties and Bank Indonesia Regulation No.
+Added: 18/19/PBI/2016 on Foreign Exchange Transactions against Rupiah between
+Added: Banks and Foreign Parties, or the Indonesia Foreign Exchange Regulations.
+Added: According to such regulations, a party wishing to convert Indonesian
+Added: Rupiah to foreign currency exceeding certain thresholds set forth in the Indonesia Foreign Exchange Regulations is required to submit
+Added: certain supporting documents to the bank handling the foreign exchange conversion, including the underlying transaction documents and
+Added: a duly stamped statement confirming that the underlying transaction documents are valid and that the foreign currency will only be used
+Added: to settle the relevant payment obligations.
+Added: For conversions not exceeding the threshold set forth in the Indonesia Foreign Exchange Regulations,
+Added: the person only needs to declare in a duly stamped letter that its aggregate foreign currency purchases have not exceeded the monthly
+Added: threshold set forth in the Indonesian banking system.
+Added: and regulations relating to Electronic Money Business
+Added: money, or E-Money, is regulated specifically under Bank Indonesia Regulation No.
+Added: 20/6/PBI/2018 on Electronic Money, or E-Money Regulation.
+Added: E-Money Regulation mainly outlines the obligations of the electronic money operators in the E-Money system including licensing and user
+Added: The five E-Money operators are namely the principal, the acquirer, the issuer, the clearing operator and the settlement operator.
+Added: Each of these roles serves its own respective roles in the facilitation of transactions between the merchants and the users of the electronic
+Added: money system.
+Added: Other than banks, the E-Money Regulation also permits non-bank entities to act as E-Money operators insofar it is established
+Added: as a limited liability company in Indonesia and has obtained the necessary licenses from Bank Indonesia.
+Added: Non-bank entities that apply
+Added: for the permit as an E-Money issuer, is subject to minimum issued capital of not less than IDR 3,000,000,000 and a foreign shareholding
+Added: cap of 49%, both directly and indirectly.
+Added: has a co-branding arrangement with PT E2Pay Global Utama’s license as an e-money operator who issues the M-Bayar e-money product.
+Added: WalletKu co-brands M-Bayar as “W-Cash”.
+Added: Pursuant to Article 4 paragraph (1) of the Bank of Indonesia regulation, the party
+Added: which obliged to has a license of the Bank of Indonesia is the operator (PT E2Pay Global Utama).
+Added: Pursuant to Article 5 paragraph (2)
+Added: of the regulation a quo, there are two groups of Payment Services Provider which is the basis for the e-money provider grant from Bank
+Added: of Indonesia:
+Added: (a) front-end;
+Added: and (b) back-end.
+Added: The front-end group consists of issuer, acquirer, payment gateway provider, electronic
+Added: wallet operator, and fund transfer operator.
+Added: The back-end group consists of principal, switching operator, clearing operator, and end-settlement
+Added: WalletKu’s mechanism of e-money is provided by PT E2Pay Global Utama.
+Added: In addition, our payment gateway is also provided
+Added: by third party too.
+Added: Hence, the front-end group is not applicable and the back-end group is not relevant under WalletKu’s current
+Added: and Regulations relating to Fund Transfer
+Added: underlying regulation governing fund transfers is Law No.
+Added: 3 of 2011 on Fund Transfer, or Fund Transfer Law, which is implemented by several
+Added: Bank Indonesia regulations.
+Added: Fund Transfer Law defines a fund transfer as a chain of actions with the intention of transferring a certain
+Added: amount of funds to the recipient mentioned within the fund transfer order, up until the receipt of such fund by the recipient.
+Added: transfer operator is defined as a bank and non-bank business entity in the form of an Indonesian legal entity that operates fund transfer
+Added: non-bank fund transfer operator is required to obtain a license from Bank Indonesia, and is further subject to several requirements,
+Added: including a minimum capital requirement and fit and proper test for primary parties.
+Added: A licensed fund transfer operator shall commence
+Added: its operation within 3 months of the license issuance date and failure to commence operations within such period will require the fund
+Added: transfer operator to submit a report to Bank Indonesia on infrastructure readiness as well as details explaining the hindrances that
+Added: have caused such delay.
+Added: In such case, Bank Indonesia reserves the right to cancel the fund transfer operator license if there is a reasonable
+Added: basis to conclude that the fund transfer operator is no longer capable of undertaking its operation.
+Added: transfers from and/or to overseas shall be based on the written agreement with the fund transfer operator who has obtained a license
+Added: from the relevant authority in the destined jurisdiction.
+Added: Bank Indonesia reserves the right to determine the nominal limit of transfers.
+Added: Offshore fund transfer operators shall firstly submit written information containing a business plan and details of the business partnership
+Added: to Bank Indonesia, upon which such submission will be subject to Bank Indonesia’s approval, rejection, determination and/or limitation.
+Added: A fund transfer operator may also enter into a partnership with a licensed domestic fund transfer operator, subject to approval from
+Added: Bank Indonesia.
+Added: of Applications and Content Services through the Internet
+Added: March 31, 2016, MOCIT issued Circular Letter No.
+Added: 3 of 2016 on Provision of Applications and Contents Services through the Internet, or
+Added: the OTT Circular Letter, which regulates the provision of virtually all over-the-top services or services provided over the Internet,
+Added: or the “OTT services”.
+Added: The definition of OTT services includes online messaging, online games, webpages and e-commerce platforms.
+Added: The OTT Circular Letter has extraterritorial reach and applies to any OTT services providers serving the Indonesian market.
+Added: providers are required to employ data protection measures, conduct filtering, screening, and censorship functions, use national payment
+Added: gateways and Indonesian IP addresses and provide manuals in the Indonesian language.
+Added: Furthermore, a foreign OTT services provider is
+Added: required to establish a permanent establishment in Indonesia in accordance with Indonesian taxation laws and is expected to comply with
+Added: all Indonesian laws and regulations.
+Added: Due to the broad coverage of the OTT Circular Letter, we are subject to this circular letter and
+Added: therefore must adhere to all of its requirements.
+Added: on Electronic System Operator
+Added: holds a registration under Indonesian Standard of Business Classification (in Indonesian:
+Added: Klasifikasi Baku Lapangan Usaha Indonesia-KBLI)
+Added: number 63122 of a “Web Portal and/or Digital Platform with Commercial Purposes”.
+Added: Within this KBLI, WalletKu launched and
+Added: manages the WalletKu App.
+Added: One of the regulators of this activity is the Ministry of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of
+Added: Indonesia (MCI-RI) by the Regulation of the MCI-RI number 5 year 2020 (including its changes) on Private Electronic System Operators
+Added: It requires ESO that provides, manages, and/or operates offers and/or trades of goods and/or services to register its body to
+Added: Consequently, WalletKu registered as an ESO in ESO registration number 000128.01/DJAI.PSE/02/2021.
+Added: The electronic information
+Added: ecosystem is regulated as such as the ministry wants to ensure that no ESO provides and facilitates the circulation of prohibited contents.
+Added: Furthermore, to counter the privacy data breach problems of ESOs, the ministry wants the ESOs to be cautious about their internal mechanism
+Added: of privacy data protection.
+Added: on Personal Data Protection and Information Security
+Added: December 2016, MOCIT enacted MOCIT Regulation No.
+Added: 20 of 2016 on Personal Data Protection, or the Personal Data Protection Regulation,
+Added: which sets out the rules governing the protection of personal data that are stored in electronic form.
+Added: The regulation requires that prior
+Added: to any action taken in relation to personal data, including the acquisition, processing, storage, transfer, disclosure and access, and
+Added: erasure, the prior consent of the owner of such personal data is obtained.
+Added: Under the Personal Data Protection Regulation, electronic
+Added: system providers are required to notify the personal data owner in the case of any breach involving his/her personal data no later than
+Added: 14 days subsequent to the occurrence of the breach.
+Added: we fail to comply with the Personal Data Protection Regulation, we may be subject to sanctions in the form of warnings or written reprimands,
+Added: temporary suspensions, or may be blacklisted.
+Added: on Retail Trades
+Added: holds registration KBLI number 47912 for “Retail Trade through the Media for Textile, Clothing, Footwear, and Personal Goods Commodities”
+Added: for retail trades that are available in its WalletKu app.
+Added: Within this KBLI, WalletKu is a subject to Government Regulation number 80
+Added: year 2019 on Trades through Electronic System (in Indonesian:
+Added: Perdagangan Melalui Sistem Elektronik-PMSE).
+Added: According to the mentioned
+Added: regulation, PMSE entities are obliged to ethically advertise;
+Added: disclosing truthful information of the products they sell (along with their
+Added: obligation to disclose the accurate information about the products, the suitability of real products from the ads, consumption eligibility,
+Added: legality, quality, and accessibility of the goods or services, and to protect consumers).
+Added: on Consumer Protection
+Added: protection in Indonesia is regulated under Law No.
+Added: 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection, or the Consumer Protection Law, which became effective
+Added: on April 20, 2000.
+Added: It is the first comprehensive law devoted to protecting the rights of and promoting the recourses available to, users
+Added: of both goods and services.
+Added: The law details activities and circumstances that are prohibited such as disclosing incorrect and unclear
+Added: information regarding the services rendered or promoting false advertising.
+Added: Violations of the Consumer Protection Law may result in an
+Added: administrative and/or criminal sanction such as a mandatory contribution to a compensation fund or an imprisonment sanction.
+Added: on Intellectual Property Rights
+Added: and Geographical Indication Law
+Added: the end of 2016, the Indonesian House of Representatives enacted the Law No.
+Added: 20 of 2016 on Trademark and Geographical Indication, or
+Added: the Trademark and Geographical Indication Law.
+Added: The new Trademark and Geographical Indication Law has expended the scope of trademark
+Added: protection and adopted the Madrid protocol provisions, which cover the trademarks of our Indonesian entities.
+Added: Trademark and Geographical Indication Law shortened the trademark registration process from 12 to 18 months to eight months.
+Added: the Trademark and Geographical Indication Law recognizes two types of international trademark registration application:
+Added: an application
+Added: originating from Indonesia to an International Bureau which is filed through the Directorate General of Intellectual Properties under
+Added: the Minister of Law and Human Rights, or an application addressed to Indonesia as the receiving office from an International Bureau.
+Added: To be able to file an application in Indonesia for the international registration of a trademark, the applicant either must have applied
+Added: for registration of the trademark in Indonesia or must already own the trademark in Indonesia.
+Added: has filed an application for a registered trademark on the mark “WalletKu” in financial services class (class 36).
+Added: The application
+Added: is currently under substantive review by the government officials.
+Added: WalletKu also plans to file an application for a registered trademark
+Added: on the mark “WalletKu” in the mobile application class (class 9).
+Added: Relating to Copyrights
+Added: in Indonesia are regulated under Law No.
+Added: 28 of 2014 on Copyrights, or the Indonesia Copyright Law.
+Added: Indonesia adopts the declarative system
+Added: of copyright protection whereby a copyright is an exclusive right of a creator of content which arises automatically after a creation
+Added: appears in a concrete form.
+Added: The Indonesia Copyright Law protects creations in the field of science, arts and literature, which includes,
+Added: among others, computer programs, video games, photography, songs or music with or without lyrics, and all forms of art.
+Added: WalletKu App is subject to the copyright protection under the Indonesian Copyright Law.
+Added: Pursuant to Article 1 paragraph (1) Indonesian
+Added: Copyright Law, copyright is defined as exclusive rights on a creation of the creator that automatically arises based upon the declarative
+Added: principle right after a creation is manifested in a real form.
+Added: Based on Article 40 paragraph (1) Indonesian Copyright Law, computer programs
+Added: are one of the creations that are protected under copyright title.
+Added: rights and economic rights are protected under the.
+Added: Moral rights are rights that confer upon the creator the right to attach the creator’s
+Added: name to the creation, to limit the right of others to modify the creation or change the creation’s name, and to defend his/her
+Added: personal rights if the creation is distorted, mutilated or modified or the creator’s reputation is otherwise diminished.
+Added: rights consist of rights that grant powers to the creator to publish, copy, translate, adapt or transform, distribute the original or
+Added: the copy, show, announce, communicate, and lease the creation.
+Added: Parties who want to exercise the economic rights must have a creator or
+Added: copyright holder license.
+Added: rights on computer program prevail eternally and economic rights prevail for 50 years after the announcement of the creation.
+Added: meant by “announcement” in the Indonesian Copyright Law is a reading, broadcast, exhibition of the creation by any media
+Added: either electronic or non-electronic or an activity with any means, so a creation could be read, heard, or seen by any person.
+Added: App first launched in May 2017 and the protection prevails 50 years from that date.
+Added: WalletKu is currently in the initial phase of obtaining a copyright registration of the WalletKu App with the Ministry of Law and Human
+Added: Right (MoLHR) in Indonesia.
+Added: The documentation of copyright in the MoLHR functionally serves as a legal proof of the creation of the work.
+Added: on Anti-money Laundering and Prevention of Terrorism Financing
+Added: and Eradication of Money Laundering
+Added: 8 of 2010 on Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering regulates the types of transactions which are required to be reported
+Added: to the Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (the “PPATK”), and the entities responsible to report
+Added: such transactions.
+Added: Under this law, any party who conceals or disguises the origin, source, location, allocation, assignment, or actual
+Added: ownership or assets known or reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crimes may be subject to monetary sanctions of up to IDR5 billion
+Added: (US$336,468) and imprisonment of up to 20 years.
+Added: Financial service providers must comply with know-your-customer principles and report
+Added: suspicious financial transactions that it believes is related to money laundering to the PPATK.
+Added: The reporting party is required to report
+Added: to PPATK any suspicious financial transactions, and any transaction entered into with its customers having a minimum amount of IDR500
+Added: million (US$33,646.81), or an equivalent value in other currencies, and/or any financial transaction involving the transfer of funds
+Added: from and to other countries, no later than 14 business days after the transaction is conducted.
+Added: to submit a report may subject the reporting party to administrative sanction(s) which will be imposed by the supervisory and regulatory
+Added: body in the form of a warning letter, public announcement on the action or sanction and/or an administrative penalty.
+Added: and Eradication of Terrorism Financing
+Added: 9 of 2013 on the Prevention and Eradication of Terrorism Financing was enacted in order to prevent the funding of terrorists.
+Added: this regulation, an act of terrorism financing is defined as direct and/or indirect acts in order to provide, collect, grant, or loan
+Added: funds to persons that knowingly would use the funds to conduct terrorist acts.
+Added: Companies that fund terrorism in Indonesia may face large
+Added: monetary fines, have their assets seized and their permits revoked.
+Added: Moreover, such companies may also be dismantled or expropriated by
+Added: the government.
+Added: Financial service providers must comply with know-your-customer principles and report suspicious financial transactions
+Added: that it believes is related to terrorism to the PPATK.
+Added: Failure to do so will result in fines of up to IDR1 billion (US$67,293.62).
+Added: service providers that provide fund transfer services must also request the sender of funds to present identification and information
+Added: explaining the purpose of the fund transfer and must keep a record of all transactions for at least five years.
+Added: Funds of the alleged
+Added: financers of terrorism may be frozen upon the request of the PPATK, investigators, public prosecutors, a judge, and other legally designated
+Added: March 25, 2003, the House of Representatives enacted Law No.
+Added: 13 of 2003 on Manpower, or the Indonesia Manpower Law.
+Added: Under the Indonesia
+Added: Manpower Law, we are not allowed to pay our employee wages below the minimum wage stipulated annually by the relevant provincial, regency
+Added: or municipal government.
+Added: The minimum wage is set in accordance with the need for a decent standard of living, taking into consideration
+Added: the productivity and growth of the economy.
+Added: If we fail to abide by requisite minimum wage regulations in the Indonesia Manpower Law,
+Added: our directors may be liable to a term of imprisonment of no less than one year and up to four years.
+Added: Moreover, we may also be subject
+Added: to a fine of up to IDR400 million US$26,917.45).
+Added: has adopted social protection and social welfare programs for employees who are working in Indonesia under Law No.
+Added: 24 of 2011 on the
+Added: Social Security Agency, or the Indonesia Social Security Agency Law.
+Added: The Indonesia Social Security Agency Law establishes two social
+Added: welfare programs, namely, the healthcare social security insurance and employment social security.
+Added: Employment social security covers
+Added: workers compensation, pensions and life insurance.
+Added: Under the Indonesia Social Security Agency Law, an employer is required to register
+Added: itself and its employees as employment social security participants.
+Added: If an employer fails to comply with this obligation, it will be
+Added: subject to a written warning, fines and/or exclusion from certain public services.
+Added: The Indonesia Social Security Agency Law further stipulates
+Added: that an employer that violates its obligation to provide the requisite financial contributions to healthcare social security insurance
+Added: and employment social security will be subject to up to eight years of imprisonment and fines of up to IDR1 billion (US$67,293.62).
+Added: addition, pursuant to the Indonesia Manpower Law, every person, including foreign nationals, who is employed for at least six months
+Added: in Indonesia, must participate in the social security programs in Indonesia.
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