−Removed: 7 – MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: following discussion and analysis of the consolidated financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with
−Removed: our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this report.
−Removed: This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking
−Removed: statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions.
−Removed: Our actual results could differ materially from the results described in
−Removed: or implied by these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed below and elsewhere in this
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.”
−Removed: FinTech is a holding company incorporated under the laws of the State of Florida.
−Removed: The Company historically engaged in the production
−Removed: and sale of fruit juice concentrates (including fruit purees and fruit juices), fruit beverages (including fruit juice beverages and
−Removed: fruit cider beverages) in People’s Republic of China (“PRC” or “China”).
−Removed: Due to drastically increased production
−Removed: costs and tightened environmental laws in China, the Company had transformed its business from fruit juice manufacturing and distribution
−Removed: to a real-name blockchain based e-commerce platform, supply chain financing services and trading business and financial technology business.
−Removed: The main business of the Company includes an online shopping platform, Chain Cloud Mall (“CCM”), which is based on blockchain
−Removed: supply chain financing services and trading, financial technology service business and the application and development of
−Removed: blockchain-based technology in financial technology services.
−Removed: The Company has also expanded into financial services and cryptocurrency
−Removed: market data and information service businesses.
−Removed: August 6, 2021, the Company completed acquisition of 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of Nice Talent Asset Management Limited
−Removed: (“NTAM”), a Hong Kong-based asset management company, from Joy Rich Enterprises Limited (“Joy Rich”).
−Removed: licensed under the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (“SFC”) to carry out regulated activities in Type 4:
−Removed: on Securities and Type 9:
+Added: ITEM 7 – MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION
+Added: AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: The following discussion and analysis of the
+Added: consolidated financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and
+Added: related notes appearing elsewhere in this report.
+Added: This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks,
+Added: uncertainties and assumptions.
+Added: Our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by these forward-looking
+Added: statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed below and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly
+Added: under the heading “Risk Factors.”
+Added: Future FinTech is a holding company incorporated under the laws of
+Added: the State of Florida and it is not a Chinese operating company.
+Added: As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct
+Added: a substantial majority of our operations through our subsidiaries and contractual arrangements with a variable interest entity (VIE) –
+Added: Cloud Chain E-Commerce (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“E-Commerce Tianjin”), based in China and this structure involves unique risks
+Added: to investors.
+Added: The Company historically engaged in the production and sale of fruit juice concentrates (including fruit purees and fruit
+Added: juices), fruit beverages (including fruit juice beverages and fruit cider beverages) in People’s Republic of China.
+Added: Due to drastically
+Added: increased production costs and tightened environmental laws in China, the Company had transformed its business from fruit juice manufacturing
+Added: and distribution to a real-name blockchain based e-commerce platform, supply chain financing services and trading business and financial
+Added: services and technology business.
+Added: The business operations of the Company include blockchain based online shopping platform, Chain Cloud
+Added: Mall (“CCM”), supply chain financing services and trading, asset management and money transfer service.
+Added: The Company is also
+Added: developing cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency market data services.
+Added: On August 6, 2021, the Company completed acquisition
+Added: of 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of Nice Talent Asset Management Limited (“NTAM”), a Hong Kong-based asset management
+Added: company, from Joy Rich Enterprises Limited (“Joy Rich”).
+Added: NTAM is licensed under the Securities and Futures Commission of
+Added: Hong Kong (“SFC”) to carry out regulated activities in Type 4:
+Added: Advising on Securities and Type 9:
Asset Management.
−Removed: September 1, 2021, FTFT UK Limited, a company organized under the laws of United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company
−Removed: (“FTFT UK”) entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Rahim Shah, a resident of United Kingdom (“Seller”)
−Removed: to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares (the “Sale Shares”) of Khyber Money Exchange Ltd., which is a money
+Added: In December 2021, FTFT Capital Investments, LLC
+Added: officially launched FTFTX, a cryptocurrency market data platform that provides investors with real-time cryptocurrency market data and
+Added: trading information from a large number of cryptocurrency exchanges.
+Added: The market data is available for Bitcoin, ETH, EOS, Litecoin, TRON
+Added: and other cryptocurrencies at https://www.ftftx.com and via the FTFTX App on iOS and Android devices.
+Added: The FTFTX app is free to download
+Added: on Google Play and the Apple Store.
+Added: March 2022, FTFT UK Limited received has received approval to operate as an Electronic Money Directive (“EMD”) Agent and
+Added: has been registered as such with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a UK regulator.
+Added: This status grants FTFT UK Limited the ability
+Added: to distribute or redeem e-money and provide certain financial services on behalf of an e-money institution (registration number 903050).
+Added: On April 18, 2022, the
+Added: Company and Future Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company jointly acquired 100% equity interest of
+Added: KAZAN S.A., a company incorporated in Republic of Paraguay for $288.
+Added: The Company owns 90% and FTFT HK owns 10% of Kazan S.A.,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: has no operation before the acquisition.
+Added: The Company plans to develop bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining
+Added: and related services in Paraguay.
+Added: The Company has changed its name from KAZAN S.A to FTFT Paraguay S.A.
+Added: on July 28, 2022.
+Added: On September 29, 2022, FTFT UK Limited
+Added: completed its acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Khyber Money Exchange Ltd., a company incorporated in
+Added: England and Wales, from Rahim Shah, a resident of United Kingdom for a total of Euros €685,000 (“Purchase Price”),
+Added: pursuant to a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated September 1, 2021.
+Added: Khyber Money Exchange Ltd.
transfer company with a platform for transferring money through one of its agent locations or via its online portal, mobile platform
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Khyber Money Exchange Ltd.
−Removed: is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the parties are waiting
−Removed: for the approval by the FCA before formal closing of the transaction.
−Removed: In December 2021, FTFT Capital Investments, LLC officially launched
−Removed: FTFTX, a cryptocurrency market data platform that provides investors with real-time cryptocurrency market data and trading information
−Removed: from a large number of cryptocurrency exchanges.
−Removed: The market data is available for Bitcoin, ETH, EOS, Litecoin, TRON and other cryptocurrencies
−Removed: at https://www.ftftx.com and via the FTFTX App on iOS and Android devices.
−Removed: The FTFTX app is free to download on Google Play and the Apple
−Removed: March 2022, FTFT UK received has received approval to operate as an Electronic Money Directive (“EMD”) Agent and has been
−Removed: registered as such with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a UK regulator.
−Removed: This status grants FTFT UK the ability to distribute or
−Removed: redeem e-money and provide certain financial services on behalf of an e-money institution (registration number 903050).
−Removed: are a holding company incorporated in Florida and we are not a Chinese operating company.
−Removed: As a holding company with no material operations
−Removed: of our own, we conduct a substantial majority of our operations through our subsidiaries and VIE E-Commerce Tianjin in China and this
−Removed: structure involves unique risks.
−Removed: Our shares of common stock are shares of our Florida holding company, and we do not have any equity
−Removed: ownership of our VIE, instead we control and receive the economic benefits of our VIE’s business operations through certain contractual
−Removed: arrangements, which are used to replicate foreign investment in Chinese-based companies where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment
−Removed: in value added telecom/e-commerce business.
−Removed: Chinese regulatory authorities could disallow the VIE structure, which would likely result
−Removed: in a material change in our operations and/or value of our shares, including that it could cause the value of shares to significantly
−Removed: are legal and operational risks associated with being based in and having a substantial majority of operations in China and Hong Kong.
−Removed: These risks could result in a material change in our operations and/or the value of our common stock or could significantly limit or
−Removed: completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our shares to significantly
−Removed: decline or be worthless.
−Removed: Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations
−Removed: in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over
−Removed: China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity
−Removed: reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
−Removed: On July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China
−Removed: Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued an announcement to crack down on illegal activities in the
−Removed: securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental
−Removed: authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based
−Removed: companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws.
−Removed: the PRC State Internet Information Office issued the Measures of Cybersecurity Review (Revised Draft for Comments, not yet effective),
−Removed: which requires cyberspace operators with personal information of more than 1 million users who want to list abroad to file a cybersecurity
−Removed: review with the Office of Cybersecurity Review.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, these new laws and guidelines have not impacted the Company’s
−Removed: ability to conduct its business, accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S.
−Removed: or other foreign stock exchange;
−Removed: however, there are uncertainties
−Removed: in the interpretation and enforcement of these new laws and guidelines, which could materially and adversely impact our business and
−Removed: financial outlook and may impact our ability to accept foreign investments or continue to list on a U.S.
+Added: is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the parties received
+Added: approval by the FCA before the formal closing of the transaction.
+Added: On October 11, 2022, the Company changed the name of Khyber Money
+Added: Exchange Ltd.
+Added: to FTFT Finance UK Limited.
+Added: On February 27, 2023, Future FinTech (Hong Kong)
+Added: Limited (“Buyer”), a company incorporated in Hong Kong and a wholly owned subsidiary of Future FinTech Group Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”)
+Added: entered into a Share Transfer Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Alpha Financial Limited, a company incorporated in Hong Kong
+Added: (“Seller”) and sole owner and shareholder of Alpha International Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, a company incorporated
+Added: in Hong Kong (“Alpha HK”) and Alpha Information Service (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., a company incorporated in China (“Alpha
+Added: Alpha HK holds Type 1 ‘Securities Trading’, Type 2 ‘Futures Contract Trading’ and Type 4 ‘Securities
+Added: Consulting’ financial licenses issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
+Added: Alpha SZ provides technical support services
+Added: We are a holding company incorporated in Florida
+Added: and we are not a Chinese operating company.
+Added: As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct a substantial majority
+Added: of our operations through our subsidiaries and the VIE E-Commerce Tianjin in China and this structure involves unique risks.
+Added: of common stock are shares of our Florida holding company, and we do not have any equity ownership of the VIE, instead we control and
+Added: is the primary beneficiary of the VIE for accounting purposes through certain contractual arrangements, which are used to provide investors
+Added: with exposure foreign investment in Chinese-based companies where Chinese law prohibits or restricts direct foreign investment in value
+Added: added telecom/e-commerce business.
+Added: Chinese regulatory authorities could disallow the VIE structure, which would likely result in a material
+Added: change in our operations and/or value of our securities, including that it could cause the value of our securities to significantly decline
+Added: or worthless.
+Added: See “Risk Factors— If the PRC government deems that the contractual arrangements in relation to the
+Added: consolidated variable interest entity do not comply with PRC regulatory restrictions on foreign investment in the relevant industries,
+Added: or if these regulations or the interpretation of existing regulations change in the future, we could be subject to severe penalties or
+Added: be forced to relinquish our interests in those operations.”
+Added: There are legal and operational risks associated
+Added: with being based in and having majority of our operations in Hong Kong and China.
+Added: Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of
+Added: regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal
+Added: activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity
+Added: structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
+Added: On July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly
+Added: issued an announcement to crack down on illegal activities in the securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital
+Added: market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement
+Added: and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system
+Added: of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws.
+Added: On December 28, 2021, Cybersecurity Review Measures was published by Cyberspace
+Added: Administration of China or the CAC, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry
+Added: of Public Security, Ministry of State Security, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Commerce, People’s Bank of China, State Administration
+Added: of Radio and Television, China Securities Regulatory Commission, State Secrecy Administration and State Cryptography Administration,
+Added: effective on February 15, 2022, which provides that, Critical Information Infrastructure Operators (“CIIOs”) that purchase
+Added: internet products and services and Online Platform Operators engaging in data processing activities that affect or may affect national
+Added: security shall be subject to the cybersecurity review by the Cybersecurity Review Office.
+Added: On November 14, 2021, CAC published the Administration
+Added: Measures for Cyber Data Security (Draft for Public Comments), or the “Cyber Data Security Measure (Draft)”, which requires
+Added: cyberspace operators with personal information of more than 1 million users who want to list abroad to file a cybersecurity review with
+Added: the Office of Cybersecurity Review.
+Added: On April 2, 2022, the CSRC released the Provisions on Strengthening Confidentiality and Archives
+Added: Administration of Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies (Draft for Comments), which provide that a domestic
+Added: company that seeks to offer and list its securities in a overseas market shall strictly abide by applicable PRC laws and regulations,
+Added: enhance legal awareness of keeping state secrets and strengthening archives administration, institute a sound confidentiality and archives
+Added: administration system, and take necessary measures to fulfill confidentiality and archives administration obligations.
+Added: On July 7, 2022,
+Added: CAC promulgated the Measures for the Security Assessment of Data Cross-border Transfer, effective on September 1, 2022, which requires
+Added: the data processors to apply for data cross-border security assessment coordinated by the CAC under the following circumstances:
+Added: any data processor transfers important data to overseas;
+Added: (ii) any critical information infrastructure operator or data processor who
+Added: processes personal information of over 1 million people provides personal information to overseas;
+Added: (iii) any data processor who provides
+Added: personal information to overseas and has already provided personal information of more than 100,000 people or sensitive personal information
+Added: of more than 10,000 people to overseas since January 1 st of the previous year;
+Added: and (iv) other circumstances under which
+Added: the data cross-border transfer security assessment is required as prescribed by the CAC.
+Added: On February 17, 2023, the CSRC released the
+Added: Trial Administrative Measures of Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Enterprises (the “New Overseas Listing Rules”)
+Added: with five interpretive guidelines, which took effect on March 31, 2023.
+Added: The New Overseas Listing Rules require Chinese domestic enterprises
+Added: to complete filings with relevant governmental authorities and report related information under certain circumstances.
+Added: The required filing
+Added: scope is not limited to the initial public offering, but also includes subsequent overseas securities offering, single or multiple acquisition(s),
+Added: share swap, transfer of shares or other means to seek an overseas direct or indirect listing and a secondary listing or dual major listing
+Added: of issuers already listed overseas.
+Added: According to the Notice on Arrangements for Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic
+Added: Enterprises, published by the CSRC on February 17, 2023, a company that (i) has already completed overseas listing or (ii) has already
+Added: obtained the approval for the offering or listing from overseas securities regulators or exchanges but has not completed such offering
+Added: or listing before effective date of the new rules and also completes the offering or listing before September 30, 2023 will be considered
+Added: as an existing listed company and is not required to make any filing until it conducts a new offering in the future.
+Added: Furthermore, upon
+Added: the occurrence of any of the material events specified below after an issuer has completed its offering and listed its securities on
+Added: an overseas stock exchange, the issuer shall submit a report thereof to the CSRC within 3 working days after the occurrence and public
+Added: disclosure of the event:
+Added: (i) change of control;
+Added: (ii) investigations or sanctions imposed by overseas securities regulatory agencies or
+Added: other competent authorities;
+Added: (iii) change of listing status or transfer of listing segment;
+Added: or (iv) voluntary or mandatory delisting.
+Added: On February 24, 2023, the CSRC revised the Provisions on Strengthening the Management of Confidentiality and Archives Related to the
+Added: Overseas Issuance of Securities and Overseas Listing by Domestic Companies which were issued in 2009 (the “Archives Rules”).
+Added: The revised Archives Rules took effect on March 31, 2023.
+Added: The revised Archives Rules expands their application to cover indirect overseas
+Added: offering and listing, stipulating that a domestic company which plans to publicly disclose any documents and materials containing state
+Added: secrets or working secrets of government agencies, shall first obtain approval from competent authorities according to law, and file
+Added: with the secrecy administrative department at the same level.
+Added: As of the date of this report, these new laws and guidelines have not impacted
+Added: the Company’s ability to conduct its business, accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S.
or other foreign stock exchange;
−Removed: Our VIE and certain subsidiaries of the Company are incorporated and operating in mainland China and they have received all required
−Removed: permissions from Chinese authorities to operate their current business in China, including a Business license, Bank Account Open Permits
−Removed: and Value Added Telecom Business License.
−Removed: Cloud Mall is a unique real-name based blockchain e-commerce shopping platform that integrates blockchain, internet technology.
−Removed: CCM shared shopping mall platform is designed to be a block-chain based shopping mall for merchants and goods, not the exchange of digital
−Removed: currencies, and it currently only accepts payment from credit cards, Alipay and WeChat.
−Removed: Company started its trial operation of NONOGIRL, a cross-border e-commerce platform, in March 2020 and formally launched it in July
−Removed: The cross-border e-commerce platform aimed to build a new s2b2c (supplier to business and consumer) outsourcing sales platform
−Removed: dominated by social media influencers.
−Removed: It was aimed at the growing female consumer market, with the ability to broadcast, short
−Removed: video, and all forms communication through the platform.
−Removed: It could also create a sales oriented sharing ecosystem with other major
−Removed: social media used by customers, etc.
−Removed: The Company’s promotion strategy previously mainly relied on the training of members and
−Removed: distributors through meetings and conferences.
−Removed: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese government put a restriction on
−Removed: large gatherings.
−Removed: These restrictions made the promotion strategy for our online e-commerce platforms difficult to be implemented and
−Removed: the Company has experienced difficulties to subscribe new members for its online e-commerce platforms.
−Removed: Due to the lack of new
−Removed: subscribers, in June 2021, the Company suspended its cross-border e-commerce platform (NONOGIRL).
−Removed: Also, since the second quarter of
−Removed: 2021, the Company has transformed its member-based business model of Chain Cloud Mall to a sale agent based eCAAS platform and began
−Removed: to provide supply chain financing services and trading of coal for coal mines and power generation plants as well as aluminum
−Removed: Company currently has nine direct wholly-owned subsidiaries:
−Removed: DigiPay FinTech Limited (“DigiPay”), a company incorporated
−Removed: under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, Future FinTech (Hong Kong) Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Hong Kong,
−Removed: GlobalKey Shared Mall Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Cayman Islands (“GlobalKey Shared Mall”), Tianjin
−Removed: Future Private Equity Fund Management Partnership, a Limited Partnership under the laws of China, FTFT UK Limited, a company incorporated
−Removed: under the laws of United Kingdom, Future Fintech Digital Capital Management, LLC, a company incorporated under the laws of Connecticut,
−Removed: Future Fintech Digital Number One GP, LLC, a company incorporated under the laws of Connecticut.
−Removed: Future FinTech Labs Inc., a company
−Removed: incorporated under the laws of New York and FTFT SuperComputing Inc.
−Removed: a company incorporated under the laws of Ohio.
−Removed: Foods Holdings Limited (“SkyPeople BVI”) was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and a company organized under the laws
−Removed: of the British Virgin Islands, which held 100% of the equity interest of HeDeTang Holdings (HK) Ltd.
−Removed: (“HeDeTang HK”), a company
−Removed: organized under the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”),
−Removed: and HeDeTang HK held 73.42% of the equity interest of SkyPeople Juice Group Co., Ltd., (“SkyPeople (China)”), a company incorporated
−Removed: under the laws of the PRC.
−Removed: SkyPeople (China) had eleven subsidiaries in the PRC, which were mainly involved in the production and sales
−Removed: of fruit juice concentrates, fruit juice beverages and other fruit-related products in the PRC and overseas markets.
−Removed: On February 27,
−Removed: 2020, SkyPeople BVI (the “Seller”) completed the transfer of its ownership of HeDeTang HK to New Continent International
−Removed: (the “Buyer”), an unrelated third party and a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands for a total price
−Removed: of RMB 0.6 million (approximately $85,714), pursuant to a Share Transfer Agreement entered into by the Seller and the Buyer on September
−Removed: 18, 2019 and approved at the special shareholders meeting of the Company on February 26, 2020 (the “Sale Transaction”).
−Removed: BVI had no operational assets or business after the transfer and the Company dissolved SkyPeople BVI on July 27, 2020.
−Removed: Shopping Mall
−Removed: to the lack of new member subscriptions caused by restrictions on our promotion strategy for the control of spread of COVID-19, we have
−Removed: transformed the CCM shopping mall from a member based platform to a sale agent based eCAAS platform.
−Removed: The eCAAS platform is entrusted
−Removed: by the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee to run its Responsible Brand Program.
−Removed: Anti-Counterfeiting
−Removed: Committee will review and accept the companies to join its Responsible Brand Program.
−Removed: After acceptance, these companies are authorized
−Removed: to use 315 anti-counterfeiting labels on their products and sell them on our eCAAS platform.
−Removed: The companies can also use sales agents
−Removed: to sell their products on our eCAAS platform and parties can negotiate the commission percentages for the products sold.
−Removed: Any new sales
−Removed: agent must be recommended by existing agents and pay a one-time fee to the eCAAS platform to be admitted as the authorized agent to provide
−Removed: sales agent services on the platform.
−Removed: and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing Service and Trading
−Removed: the second quarter of 2021, we started coal supply chain financing service and trading business.
−Removed: Since the third quarter of 2021, we
−Removed: started aluminum ingots supply chain financing service and trading business.
−Removed: supply chain finance business mainly serves the receivables and payables of industrial customers, obtains the creditor’s rights
−Removed: or commodity goods rights of large state-owned enterprises through trade execution, provides customers with working capital, accelerates
−Removed: capital turnover, and then expands the business scale and improves the industrial value.
−Removed: our supply chain service ability and customer resources, we can tap into low-risk assets, flexibly carry out financial services around
−Removed: the actual financial needs of certain industries, and reduce the overall risk of the business by using the control of business flow,
−Removed: goods logistics and capital flow in the process of commodity circulation.
−Removed: focus on bulk coal and aluminum ingots an take large state-owned or listed companies as the core service targets;
−Removed: We use our own funds
−Removed: as the operation basis, actively uses a variety of channels and products for financing, such as banks, commercial factoring companies,
−Removed: accounts receivable, asset-backed securities, and other innovative financing methods to obtain sufficient funds.
−Removed: sign purchase and sale agreements with suppliers and buyers.
−Removed: The suppliers are responsible for the supply and transportation of coal
−Removed: to the end users’ designated freight yard or transfer the title of aluminum ingots to us in certain warehouses.
−Removed: We select the customers
−Removed: and suppliers that have good credit and reputation.
−Removed: Management Service .
−Removed: engages assets management and advisory services.
−Removed: NTAM’s main revenue is generated from providing professional advices to customers
−Removed: and management fees for managing the investment of the clients.
−Removed: NTAM is licensed under the Securities and Futures Commission of
−Removed: Hong Kong (SFC) for carrying out regulated activities in “Advising on Securities” and “Asset Management”.
−Removed: offers diversified asset management portfolio for professional investors.
−Removed: Assets of NTAM’s clients are held in banks, where clients
−Removed: gave the banks their authorization allowing NTAM to place trading instructions on behalf of the clients in order to manage the clients’
−Removed: engages in following asset management services for its clients:
−Removed: manages clients’ investment portfolio in stocks of the companies listed on the international market with strong liquidity.
−Removed: same time, it selects companies that have unique or differentiated businesses, realizing above average profit growth.
−Removed: NTAM manages clients’ investment portfolio in bonds that are denominated in major international currencies such as US dollar, euro
−Removed: and sterling, the issuer of debts shall have good credit rating and asset liability ratio.
−Removed: Through active management, NTAM focus in bonds
−Removed: with higher yield to maturity among bonds with the same maturity and credit rating.
−Removed: metals and currencies investment
−Removed: also manages clients’ investment portfolio in major international currencies and precious metals, including US dollar, euro, British
−Removed: pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar and offshore Chinese yuan.
+Added: there are uncertainties in the interpretation and enforcement of these new laws and guidelines, which could materially and adversely
+Added: impact our business and financial outlook and may impact our ability to accept foreign investments or continue to list on a U.S.
+Added: foreign stock exchange.
+Added: In the opinion of our PRC counsel Fengdong Law Firm, the VIE and certain subsidiaries of the Company are incorporated
+Added: and operating in mainland China and they have received all required permissions from Chinese authorities to operate their current business
+Added: in China, including a Business license, Bank Account Open Permits and Value Added Telecom Business License.
+Added: As of the date of this report,
+Added: in the opinion of our PRC counsel Fengdong Law Firm, we, our subsidiaries and the VIE in China are not subject to permission requirements
+Added: from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC”), Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) or any other
+Added: entity that is required to approve of the VIE’s operations and have not received or were denied such permissions by any PRC authorities.
+Added: However, given the current PRC regulatory environment, it is uncertain whether we, our subsidiaries or the VIE, will be able to obtain
+Added: permission from the PRC government to offer our securities to foreign investors, and even when such permission is obtained, whether it
+Added: will be denied or rescinded.
+Added: If we or any of our subsidiaries or the VIE do not receive or maintain such permissions or approvals, inadvertently
+Added: conclude that such permissions or approvals are not required, or applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations change and we or our
+Added: subsidiaries are required to obtain such permissions or approvals, it could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer
+Added: or continue to offer our securities to investors and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
+Added: If applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations change and the VIE is required to obtain permissions or approvals in the future,
+Added: we may face substantial uncertainties as to whether we can obtain such permissions or approvals in a timely manner, or at all.
+Added: to take timely and appropriate measures to adapt to any of these or similar regulatory compliance challenges could materially and adversely
+Added: affect our current corporate structure and business operations.
+Added: Chain Cloud Mall is
+Added: a unique real-name based blockchain e-commerce shopping platform that integrates blockchain, internet technology.
+Added: The CCM shared shopping
+Added: mall platform is designed to be a block-chain based shopping mall for merchants and goods, not the exchange of digital currencies, and
+Added: it currently only accepts payment from credit cards, Alipay and WeChat.
+Added: The Company started
+Added: its trial operation of NONOGIRL, a cross-border e-commerce platform, in March 2020 and formally launched it in July 2020.
+Added: The cross-border
+Added: e-commerce platform aimed to build a new s2b2c (supplier to business and consumer) outsourcing sales platform dominated by social media
+Added: It was aimed at the growing female consumer market, with the ability to broadcast, short video, and all forms communication
+Added: through the platform.
+Added: It could also create a sales oriented sharing ecosystem with other major social media used by customers, etc.
+Added: Company’s promotion strategy previously mainly relied on the training of members and distributors through meetings and conferences.
+Added: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese government put a restriction on large gatherings.
+Added: These restrictions made the promotion
+Added: strategy for our online e-commerce platforms difficult to be implemented and the Company has experienced difficulties to subscribe new
+Added: members for its online e-commerce platforms.
+Added: Due to the lack of new subscribers, in June 2021, the Company suspended its cross-border
+Added: e-commerce platform (NONOGIRL) which has been closed now.
+Added: Also, since the second quarter of 2021, the Company has transformed its member-based
+Added: business model of Chain Cloud Mall to a sale agent based eCAAS platform and began to provide supply chain financing services and trading
+Added: of coal for coal mines and power generation plants as well as aluminum ingots.
+Added: The Company currently has ten directly controlled
+Added: subsidiaries:
+Added: DigiPay FinTech Limited (“DigiPay”), a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, Future
+Added: FinTech (Hong Kong) Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Hong Kong, GlobalKey Shared Mall Limited, a company incorporated
+Added: under the laws of Cayman Islands (“GlobalKey Shared Mall”), Tianjin Future Private Equity Fund Management Partnership, a
+Added: Limited Partnership under the laws of China, FTFT UK Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of United Kingdom, Future Fintech
+Added: Digital Capital Management, LLC, a company incorporated under the laws of Connecticut, Future Fintech Digital Number One GP, LLC, a company
+Added: incorporated under the laws of Connecticut, Future FinTech Labs Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of New York, FTFT SuperComputing
+Added: a company incorporated under the laws of Ohio and FTFT Paraguay S.A., a company incorporated under the laws of Paraguay.
+Added: SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited (“SkyPeople
+Added: BVI”) was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and a company organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, which
+Added: held 100% of the equity interest of HeDeTang Holdings (HK) Ltd.
+Added: (“HeDeTang HK”), a company organized under the laws of the
+Added: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (“Hong Kong”), and HeDeTang HK held 73.42%
+Added: of the equity interest of SkyPeople Juice Group Co., Ltd., (“SkyPeople (China)”), a company incorporated under the laws of
+Added: SkyPeople (China) had eleven subsidiaries in the PRC, which were mainly involved in the production and sales of fruit juice
+Added: concentrates, fruit juice beverages and other fruit-related products in the PRC and overseas markets.
+Added: On February 27, 2020, SkyPeople
+Added: BVI (the “Seller”) completed the transfer of its ownership of HeDeTang HK to New Continent International Co., Ltd.
+Added: (the “Buyer”),
+Added: an unrelated third party and a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands for a total price of RMB 0.6 million (approximately
+Added: $85,714), pursuant to a Share Transfer Agreement entered into by the Seller and the Buyer on September 18, 2019 and approved at the special
+Added: shareholders meeting of the Company on February 26, 2020 (the “Sale Transaction”).
+Added: SkyPeople BVI had no operational assets
+Added: or business after the transfer and the Company dissolved SkyPeople BVI on July 27, 2020.
+Added: CCM Shopping Mall
+Added: Due to the lack of new member subscriptions caused
+Added: by restrictions on our promotion strategy for the control of spread of COVID-19, we have transformed the CCM shopping mall from a member
+Added: based platform to a sale agent based eCAAS platform.
+Added: The eCAAS platform is entrusted by the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee to run its
+Added: Responsible Brand Program.
+Added: Anti-Counterfeiting Committee will review and
+Added: accept the companies to join its Responsible Brand Program.
+Added: After acceptance, these companies are authorized to use 315 anti-counterfeiting
+Added: labels on their products and sell them on our eCAAS platform.
+Added: The companies can also use sales agents to sell their products on our eCAAS
+Added: platform and parties can negotiate the commission percentages for the products sold.
+Added: Any new sales agent must be recommended by existing
+Added: agents and pay a one-time fee to the eCAAS platform to be admitted as the authorized agent to provide sales agent services on the platform.
+Added: Coal and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing
+Added: Service and Trading
+Added: Since the second quarter
+Added: of 2021, we started coal supply chain financing service and trading business.
+Added: Since the third quarter of 2021, we started aluminum ingots
+Added: supply chain financing service and trading business.
+Added: Our supply chain finance business mainly serves
+Added: the receivables and payables of industrial customers, obtains the creditor’s rights or commodity goods rights of large state-owned
+Added: enterprises through trade execution, provides customers with working capital, accelerates capital turnover, and then expands the business
+Added: scale and improves the industrial value.
+Added: Through our supply chain service ability and
+Added: customer resources, we can tap into low-risk assets, flexibly carry out financial services around the actual financial needs of certain
+Added: industries, and reduce the overall risk of the business by using the control of business flow, goods logistics and capital flow in the
+Added: process of commodity circulation.
+Added: We focus on bulk coal and aluminum ingots and
+Added: take large state-owned or listed companies as the core service targets;
+Added: We use our own funds as the operation basis, actively uses a
+Added: variety of channels and products for financing, such as banks, commercial factoring companies, accounts receivable, asset-backed securities,
+Added: and other innovative financing methods to obtain sufficient funds.
+Added: We sign purchase and sale agreements with suppliers and buyers.
+Added: suppliers are responsible for the supply and transportation of coal to the end users’ designated freight yard or transfer the title
+Added: of aluminum ingots to us in certain warehouses.
+Added: We also provide trading service as we don’t take control over the ownership of the
+Added: goods and lower margin for the transaction.
+Added: We select the customers and suppliers that have good credit and reputation.
+Added: The Company’s revenues are substantially
+Added: reported on a net basis as the supply chain service is primarily responsible for providing the underlying supply chain service and the
+Added: Company does not control the service provided by the supply chain supplier to the customer.
+Added: Asset Management
+Added: NTAM engages assets management and advisory services.
+Added: NTAM’s main revenue is generated from providing professional advices to customers and management fees for managing the investment
+Added: of the clients.
+Added: NTAM is licensed under the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) for carrying out regulated activities
+Added: in “Advising on Securities” and “Asset Management”.
+Added: NTAM offers diversified asset management portfolio for professional
+Added: Assets of NTAM’s clients are held in banks, where clients gave the banks their authorization allowing NTAM to place
+Added: trading instructions on behalf of the clients in order to manage the clients’ assets.
+Added: NTAM mainly engages in following asset management services for its
+Added: (1) Equity Investment
+Added: NTAM manages clients’ investment portfolio
+Added: in stocks of the companies listed on the international market with strong liquidity.
+Added: At the same time, it selects companies that have
+Added: unique or differentiated businesses, realizing above average profit growth.
+Added: (2) Debt investment
+Added: When NTAM manages clients’ investment portfolio
+Added: in bonds that are denominated in major international currencies such as US dollar, euro and sterling, the issuer of debts shall have
+Added: good credit rating and asset liability ratio.
+Added: Through active management, NTAM focuses in bonds with higher yield to maturity among bonds
+Added: with the same maturity and credit rating.
+Added: (3) Precious metals and currencies investment
+Added: NTAM also manages clients’ investment portfolio
+Added: in major international currencies and precious metals, including US dollar, euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar and
+Added: offshore Chinese yuan.
Precious metals include gold, platinum and silver.
−Removed: With research on
−Removed: the fundamentals of market supply and demand to predict the trend of commodity prices, NTAM endeavors to improve the rate of return for
−Removed: clients through dual currency investment, options and structured products.
−Removed: (4) Derivative
−Removed: also manages clients’ investment portfolio in financial derivatives in different asset classes, such as options and structured
−Removed: Asset Management Services (EAM)
−Removed: business takes customer demand as the service purpose, cooperates with several private banks which provide asset custody services, and
−Removed: innovatively introduces the function of investment bank to provide exclusive private solutions for our clients.
−Removed: main revenue is generated from providing professional advices to clients and management fees for managing the investment of the clients.
−Removed: of March 15, 2022, NTAM has approximately US$260 million assets under its management.
−Removed: Developments Related to the COVID-19 Outbreak
−Removed: In December 2019, a novel
−Removed: strain of coronavirus was reported and has spread throughout China and other parts of the world.
−Removed: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization
−Removed: characterized the outbreak as a “pandemic”.
−Removed: In early 2020, Chinese government took emergency measures to combat the spread
−Removed: of the virus, including quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of office buildings and facilities in China.
−Removed: response to the evolving dynamics related to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company is following the guidelines of local authorities as it
−Removed: prioritizes the health and safety of its employees, contractors, suppliers and business partners.
−Removed: Our offices in China were closed and
−Removed: the employees worked from home at the end of January until late March 2020 and was closed again in January 2022 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
−Removed: The quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of office buildings have materially negatively impacted our business.
−Removed: Our suppliers were negatively affected, and could continue to be negatively affected in their ability to supply and ship products to our
−Removed: customers in case of any resurgence of COVID-19.
−Removed: Our customers that have been negatively impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19 may reduce
−Removed: their budgets to purchase products and services from us, which may materially adversely impact our revenue.
−Removed: The business operations of
−Removed: the third parties’ stores on our e-commerce platform have been and continue to be negatively impacted by the outbreak, which in
−Removed: turn adversely affects the business of our platform as a whole as well as our financial condition and operating results.
−Removed: has had and continues to have disruption to our supply chain, logistics providers, customers or our marketing activities with the new
−Removed: variants of COVID-19, which could materially adversely impact our business and results of operations.
−Removed: Although China has already begun
−Removed: to recover from the outbreak of COVID-19, there are still outbreak in various cities and provinces due to new variants, including
−Removed: the recent outbreak of Omicron variant in Xi’an city, Hong Kong and Shanghai city in 2022, which have resulted quarantines, travel
−Removed: restrictions, and temporary closure of office buildings and facilities in these cities.
−Removed: The Company’s promotion strategy of CCM
−Removed: Shopping Mall previously mainly relied on the training of members and distributors through meetings and conferences.
−Removed: Although China has
−Removed: already begun to recover from the outbreak of COVID-19, there are still outbreak in various cities and provinces due to new variants
−Removed: including the recent outbreak of Omicron variant in Xi’an city, Hong Kong and Shanghai city during the first quarter of 2022 which
−Removed: have resulted quarantines, travel restrictions, and temporary closure of office buildings and facilities in these cities.
−Removed: Chinese government
−Removed: still puts a restriction on large gatherings.
−Removed: These restrictions made the promotion strategy for our online e-commerce platforms difficult
−Removed: to implement and the Company has experienced difficulties to subscribe new members for its online e-commerce platforms.
−Removed: lack of new subscribers, in June 2021, the Company suspended its cross-border e-commerce platform NONOGIRL.
−Removed: Also, since the second quarter
−Removed: of 2021, the Company has transformed its member-based Chain Cloud Mall to a sale agent based eCAAS platform and began to provide supply
+Added: With research on the fundamentals of market supply and demand
+Added: to predict the trend of commodity prices, NTAM endeavors to improve the rate of return for clients through dual currency investment,
+Added: options and structured products.
+Added: (4) Derivative Investment
+Added: NTAM also manages clients’ investment portfolio
+Added: in financial derivatives in different asset classes, such as options and structured products.
+Added: (5) External Asset Management Services (EAM)
+Added: This business takes customer demand as the service
+Added: purpose, cooperates with several private banks which provide asset custody services, and innovatively introduces the function of investment
+Added: bank to provide exclusive private solutions for our clients.
+Added: NTAM’s main revenue is generated from providing
+Added: professional advices to clients and management fees for managing the investment of the clients.
+Added: As of March 15, 2023, NTAM has approximately
+Added: US$300 million assets under its management.
+Added: Money Transfer Business
+Added: FTFT Finance UK Limited (“FTFT Finance”)
+Added: formerly known as Khyber Money Exchange Ltd.
+Added: was acquired by FTFT UK in September 2022.
+Added: It is regulated by UK Financial Conduct Authority
+Added: (“FCA”) for its cross-border money transfer systems and service.
+Added: FTFT Finance was incorporated in 2009 and is a pioneer in
+Added: the UK for money remittance services.
+Added: FTFT Finance provides money transfer services through its platform to transfer money around the
+Added: world via one of its agent locations or its online portal, mobile platform, or over the phone.
+Added: FTFT Finance is headquartered in the UK
+Added: and it has a trade name of FTFT Pay.
+Added: FTFT Finance’s plan is to develop products and services across different regions of the world
+Added: and become a global name in money remittance services.
+Added: FTFT Finance is a financial platform that enables
+Added: its customers to send their hard-earned money to their country of origin, or any other country of their liking, with ease and at a reasonable
+Added: cost, transparent exchange rate and without any hidden charges.
+Added: We believe that it is our understanding of our customers and their diverse
+Added: backgrounds that has helped FTFT Finance to become a credible and trustworthy money remittance business.
+Added: The FTFT Pay platform and system
+Added: support direct connections to over 130 countries and their local banks, targeting customers with transfer destinations based in prominent
+Added: countries across the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
+Added: Remittance service is a highly saturated market
+Added: in the United Kingdom.
+Added: There are many companies that offer remittance services however FTFT Finance only sees Ace Money Transfer, Wise
+Added: (formerly known as Transfer Wise), Remitly and Remit World as its main competitors.
+Added: FTFT Finance has an edge over companies like wise
+Added: in many different ways, for example, FTFT Finance offers competitive rates for our services and does not charge customer fees for remittance to Pakistan as it receives
+Added: its rebate from local banks is Free of Cost.
+Added: approach provides gives us an advantage over our competitors.
+Added: In the Year 2022, the total UK Remittance
+Added: Market was estimated to be valued at $49.55 billion with a growth rate of 6.0% according to a report of Remittance Brave Global
+Added: Headwinds of World Bank in November 2022.
+Added: It is also estimate that by the year 2027 the UK’s remittance market will be $66.5 billion according
+Added: to the UK remittance statistics from Finder.com.
+Added: Expats living in the United Kingdom often send
+Added: money to their relatives either to support them, or for emergency uses or weddings.
+Added: The UK has a large migrant population of Indians,
+Added: Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
+Added: FTFT Finance has been in money remittance business
+Added: since 2009 and has over 500,000 customers.
+Added: FTFT Finance advertises through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn in order to reach
+Added: out to new customers.
+Added: FTFT Finance implemented email marketing, in which they email customers daily to keep them updated on their account,
+Added: transactions as well as marketing and promotions.
+Added: The management of FTFT Finance are currently engaged
+Added: in talks with different PR companies to kick start a new campaign under FTFT Finance brand name as all previous campaigns were under Khyber
+Added: Money Exchange brand.
+Added: Recent Developments Related to the COVID-19
+Added: In December 2019, a
+Added: novel strain of coronavirus was reported and has spread throughout China and other parts of the world.
+Added: On March 11, 2020, the World Health
+Added: Organization characterized the outbreak as a “pandemic”.
+Added: In early 2020, Chinese government took emergency measures to
+Added: combat the spread of the virus, including quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of office buildings and facilities
+Added: In response to the evolving dynamics related to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Company followed the guidelines of local authorities
+Added: as it prioritizes the health and safety of its employees, contractors, suppliers and business partners.
+Added: Our offices in China were closed
+Added: and the employees worked from home at the end of January 2020 until late March 2020.
+Added: The quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary
+Added: closure of office buildings have materially negatively impacted our business.
+Added: Our suppliers were negatively affected, and could continue
+Added: to be negatively affected in their ability to supply and ship products to our customers in case of any resurgence of COVID-19.
+Added: Our customers
+Added: that have been negatively impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19 may reduce their budgets to purchase products and services from us, which
+Added: may materially adversely impact our revenue.
+Added: The business operations of the third parties’ stores on our e-commerce platform have
+Added: been and continue to be negatively impacted by the outbreak, which in turn adversely affects the business of our platform as a whole
+Added: as well as our financial condition and operating results.
+Added: The outbreak has had and continues to have disruption to our supply chain,
+Added: logistics providers, customers or our marketing activities with the new variants of COVID-19, which could materially adversely impact
+Added: our business and results of operations, especially to our supply chain financing and trading business during the first quarter of 2022.
+Added: There was outbreak in various cities and provinces due to Omicron variant in Xi’an city, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing in 2022,
+Added: which have resulted quarantines, travel restrictions, and temporary closure of office buildings and facilities in these cities.
+Added: In December 2022,
+Added: the Chinese government eased its strict zero COVID-19 policy which resulted in a surge of new COVID-19 cases during December 2022 and
+Added: January 2023, which has disrupted our business operations in China.
+Added: The Company’s promotion strategy of CCM Shopping Mall previously
+Added: mainly relied on the training of members and distributors through meetings and conferences.
+Added: Chinese government put a restriction on large
+Added: gatherings in 2020 and 2021, which made the promotion strategy for our online e-commerce platforms difficult to implement and the Company
+Added: experienced difficulties to subscribe new members for its online e-commerce platforms.
+Added: Due to the lack of new subscribers, in June
+Added: 2021, the Company suspended its cross-border e-commerce platform NONOGIRL which has been closed now.
+Added: Also, since the second quarter of
+Added: 2021, the Company has transformed its member-based Chain Cloud Mall to a sale agent based eCAAS platform and began to provide supply
chain financing services.
−Removed: global economy has also been materially negatively affected by the COVID-19 and there is continued severe uncertainty about the duration
−Removed: and intensity of its impacts.
+Added: The global economy has
+Added: also been materially negatively affected by the COVID-19 and there is continued uncertainty about the duration and intensity of its impacts.
The Chinese and global growth forecast is extremely uncertain, which would seriously affect our business.
−Removed: the potential economic impact brought by, and the duration of COVID-19 and its new variants may be difficult to assess or predict, a
−Removed: widespread pandemic could result in significant disruption of global financial markets, reducing our ability to access capital, which
−Removed: could negatively affect our liquidity.
−Removed: In addition, a recession or market correction resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and its new
−Removed: variants could materially negatively affect our business and the value of our common stock.
−Removed: as we do not have access to a revolving credit facility, there can be no assurance that we would be able to secure commercial debt financing
−Removed: in the future in the event that we require additional capital.
−Removed: We currently believe that our financial resources will be adequate to
−Removed: see us through the outbreak.
−Removed: However, in the event that we do need to raise capital in the future, outbreak-related instability in the
−Removed: securities markets could adversely affect our ability to raise additional capital.
−Removed: Consequently,
−Removed: our results of operations have been materially and adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Any potential further impact to our
−Removed: results will depend on, to a large extent, future developments and new information that may emerge regarding the duration and
−Removed: severity of the COVID-19, new variants of COVID-19, the efficacy and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and the actions taken by
−Removed: government authorities and other entities to contain the COVID-19 or treat its impact, almost all of which are beyond our control.
−Removed: September 18, 2019, SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited, entered into a Share Transfer Agreement (the “Agreement”) with New
−Removed: Continent International Co., Ltd., (the “Buyer”) a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms
−Removed: of the Agreement, the Buyer purchased 100% ownership of HeDeTang HK from SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited, which value is primarily derived
−Removed: from HeDeTang HK’s wholly-owned subsidiary HeDeJiaChuan Holdings Co., Ltd.
−Removed: and 73.41% owned subsidiary SkyPeople Juice Group Co.,
−Removed: Ltd., for a total price of RMB 600,000 (approximately $85,714) (the “Sale Transaction”).
−Removed: The Sale Transaction was closed
−Removed: on February 27, 2020.
−Removed: In accordance with ASC Topic 205, Presentation of Financial Statement Discontinued Operations (“ASC
−Removed: Topic 205”), the Company presented the operation results of HeDeTang HK and its subsidiaries as a discontinued operation, as the
−Removed: Company believed that no continued cash flow would be generated by the discontinued component and that the Company would have no significant
−Removed: continuing involvement in the operations of the discontinued component.
−Removed: The total assets of HeDeTang HK were $106.85 million as of February
−Removed: 27, 2020 and the total liabilities of HeDeTang HK were $231.21 million as of February 27, 2020, resulting in a gain on disposal of $123.69
−Removed: There was no income or loss from HeDeTang HK from January 1, 2020 to the close of Sale Transaction.
−Removed: March 11, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors passed a resolution to sell the operation of Globalkey Supply Chain Limited and
−Removed: Zhonglian Hengxin Assets Management Co., Ltd (“Zhonglian Hengxin”) and close the operation of Digital Online Marketing Limited, SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited and Chain Future Digital Tech (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
−Removed: on the disposal plan and in accordance with ASC 205-20, the Company presented the operating results from these operations as a discontinued
−Removed: On May 7, 2020, Future Business Management Co.,
−Removed: completed the transfer of its ownership of Zhonglian Hengxin to an individual third party.
−Removed: On July 24, 2020, the Company’s
−Removed: Board of Directors passed a resolution to sale the operation of Hedetang Farm Products Trading Markets (Mei County) Co., Ltd.
−Removed: the operation of Chain Cloud Mall Logistics Center (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd, a subsidiary located in the national kiwifruit Industrial Park
−Removed: of Baoji City (“CCM Logistics”).
−Removed: On July 27, 2020, Skypeople Foods Holdings Limited was dissolved;
−Removed: On July 28, 2020, Digital
−Removed: Online Marketing Limited was dissolved;
+Added: While the potential
+Added: economic impact brought by, and the duration of COVID-19 and its new variants may be difficult to assess or predict, a widespread pandemic
+Added: could result in significant disruption of global financial markets, reducing our ability to access capital, which could negatively affect
+Added: our liquidity.
+Added: In addition, a recession or market correction resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and its new variants could materially
+Added: negatively affect our business and the value of our common stock.
+Added: Further, as we do not
+Added: have access to a revolving credit facility, there can be no assurance that we would be able to secure commercial debt financing in the
+Added: future in the event that we require additional capital.
+Added: We currently believe that our financial resources will be adequate to see us
+Added: through the outbreak.
+Added: However, in the event that we do need to raise capital in the future, outbreak-related instability in the securities
+Added: markets could adversely affect our ability to raise additional capital.
+Added: Consequently, our results of operations have
+Added: been materially and adversely affected by COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: Any potential further impact to our results will depend on, to a large extent,
+Added: future developments and new information that may emerge regarding the duration and severity of the COVID-19, new variants of COVID-19,
+Added: the efficacy and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and the actions taken by government authorities and other entities to contain the
+Added: COVID-19 or treat its impact, almost all of which are beyond our control.
+Added: Discontinued Operations
+Added: On September 18, 2019, SkyPeople Foods Holdings
+Added: Limited, entered into a Share Transfer Agreement (the “Agreement”) with New Continent International Co., Ltd., (the “Buyer”)
+Added: a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the Buyer purchased 100% ownership of HeDeTang
+Added: HK from SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited, which value is primarily derived from HeDeTang HK’s wholly-owned subsidiary HeDeJiaChuan
+Added: Holdings Co., Ltd.
+Added: and 73.41% owned subsidiary SkyPeople Juice Group Co., Ltd., for a total price of RMB 600,000 (approximately $85,714)
+Added: (the “Sale Transaction”).
+Added: The Sale Transaction was closed on February 27, 2020.
+Added: In accordance with ASC Topic 205, Presentation
+Added: of Financial Statement Discontinued Operations (“ASC Topic 205”), the Company presented the operation results of HeDeTang
+Added: HK and its subsidiaries as a discontinued operation, as the Company believed that no continued cash flow would be generated by the discontinued
+Added: component and that the Company would have no significant continuing involvement in the operations of the discontinued component.
+Added: total assets of HeDeTang HK were $106.85 million as of February 27, 2020 and the total liabilities of HeDeTang HK were $231.21 million
+Added: as of February 27, 2020, resulting in a gain on disposal of $123.69 million.
+Added: There was no income or loss from HeDeTang HK from January
+Added: 1, 2020 to the close of Sale Transaction.
+Added: On March 11, 2020, the Company’s Board
+Added: of Directors passed a resolution to sell the operation of Globalkey Supply Chain Limited and Zhonglian Hengxin Assets Management Co.,
+Added: Ltd (“Zhonglian Hengxin”) and close the operation of Digital Online Marketing Limited, SkyPeople Foods Holdings Limited and
+Added: Chain Future Digital Tech (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
+Added: Based on the disposal plan and in accordance with ASC 205-20, the Company presented the
+Added: operating results from these operations as a discontinued operation.
+Added: On May 7, 2020, Future Business Management Co., Ltd.
+Added: completed the
+Added: transfer of its ownership of Zhonglian Hengxin to an individual third party.
+Added: On July 24, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors
+Added: passed a resolution to sale the operation of Hedetang Farm Products Trading Markets (Mei County) Co., Ltd.
+Added: and close the operation of
+Added: Chain Cloud Mall Logistics Center (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd, which was dissolved and deregistered in June 2022.
+Added: On July 27, 2020, Skypeople Foods
+Added: Holdings Limited was dissolved;
+Added: On July 28, 2020, Digital Online Marketing Limited was dissolved;
On November 12, 2020, CCM Tianjin, a wholly owned
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that it owns to Liyuan Ying for RMB1,000 (approximately $147).
−Removed: April 9, 2021, FT Commercial Management (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
+Added: On April 9, 2021, FT Commercial Management (Beijing)
was dissolved and deregistered.
−Removed: August 2, 2021, the Company sold Guangchengji (Guangdong) Industrial Co., Ltd.
+Added: On August 2, 2021, the Company sold Guangchengji
+Added: (Guangdong) Industrial Co., Ltd.
to an unrelated third party.
−Removed: On September 2, 2021, Future Supply Chain Co., Ltd.
−Removed: discontinued its
−Removed: operations, and on November 4, 2021, it completed the transfer of its ownership to Shaanxi Fu Chen Venture Capital Management Co.
−Removed: Information Reclassification
−Removed: Company’s businesses mainly are CCM Shopping Mall, Coal and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing Service and Trading and Asset
−Removed: Management Services.
−Removed: Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP and this requires management to make
−Removed: estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure at contingent assets and liabilities
−Removed: at the date of the consolidated financial statements and reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period.
−Removed: The significant
−Removed: areas requiring the use of management estimates include the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable, estimated useful life and residual
−Removed: value of property, plant and equipment, impairment of long-lived assets, provision for staff benefit, valuation of change in fair value
−Removed: of warrant liability, recognition and measurement of deferred income taxes and valuation allowance for deferred tax assets.
−Removed: these estimates are based on management’s knowledge of current events and actions management may undertake in the future, actual
−Removed: results may ultimately differ from those estimates.
−Removed: Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: January 1, 2009, the Company adopted FASB Accounting Standard Codification Topic on Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC
−Removed: 820”), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value
−Removed: measurements.
−Removed: ASC 820 does not require any new fair value measurements, but provides guidance on how to measure fair value by providing
−Removed: a fair value hierarchy used to classify the source of the information.
−Removed: In February 2008, FASB deferred the effective date of ASC 820
−Removed: by one year for certain non-financial assets and non-financial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value
−Removed: in the financial statements on a recurring basis (at least annually).
−Removed: The Company adopted the provisions of ASC 820, except as it applies
−Removed: to those non-financial assets and non-financial liabilities for which the effective date has been delayed by one year.
−Removed: 820 establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy of valuation techniques based on observable and unobservable input, which may be used
−Removed: to measure fair value and include the following:
−Removed: 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 2 - Input other than Level 1 that is observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities;
+Added: On September 2, 2021, Future Supply Chain Co.,
+Added: discontinued its operations, and on November 4, 2021, it completed the transfer of its ownership to Shaanxi Fu Chen Venture Capital
+Added: Management Co.
+Added: On June 27, 2022, Chain Cloud Mall Logistics Center (Shaanxi) Co.,
+Added: Limited was dissolved and deregistered.
+Added: Segment Information Reclassification
+Added: The Company’s businesses mainly are CCM
+Added: Shopping Mall, Coal and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing Service and Trading and Asset Management Services.
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The Company’s consolidated financial statements
+Added: have been prepared in accordance with U.S.
+Added: GAAP and this requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported
+Added: amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure at contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements
+Added: and reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: The significant areas requiring the use of management estimates
+Added: include the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable, estimated useful life and residual value of property, plant and equipment, impairment
+Added: of long-lived assets, provision for staff benefit, valuation of change in fair value of warrant liability, recognition and measurement
+Added: of deferred income taxes and valuation allowance for deferred tax assets.
+Added: Although these estimates are based on management’s knowledge
+Added: of current events and actions management may undertake in the future, actual results may ultimately differ from those estimates.
+Added: Fair Value of Financial Instruments
+Added: On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted FASB
+Added: Accounting Standard Codification Topic on Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”), which defines fair value,
+Added: establishes a framework for measuring fair value in GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements.
+Added: ASC 820 does not require
+Added: any new fair value measurements, but provides guidance on how to measure fair value by providing a fair value hierarchy used to classify
+Added: the source of the information.
+Added: In February 2008, FASB deferred the effective date of ASC 820 by one year for certain non-financial assets
+Added: and non-financial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring
+Added: basis (at least annually).
+Added: The Company adopted the provisions of ASC 820, except as it applies to those non-financial assets and non-financial
+Added: liabilities for which the effective date has been delayed by one year.
+Added: ASC 820 establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy
+Added: of valuation techniques based on observable and unobservable input, which may be used to measure fair value and include the following:
+Added: Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for
+Added: identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 2 - Input other than Level 1 that is observable,
+Added: either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities;
quoted prices in markets that are not active;
−Removed: or other input that is observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for
−Removed: substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 3 - Unobservable input that is supported by little or no market activity and that is significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: Classification within the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
−Removed: Company adopted ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, from January 1, 2018.
−Removed: The adoption had no impact on the Company’s
−Removed: retained earnings as of January 1, 2018 as well as the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019.
−Removed: achieve that core principle, we apply the five steps defined under Topic 606:
−Removed: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer, (ii) identify
−Removed: the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance
−Removed: obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.
−Removed: We assess its revenue
−Removed: arrangements against specific criteria in order to determine if it is acting as principal or agent.
−Removed: Revenue is recognized upon the transfer
−Removed: of control of promised goods or services to a customer.
+Added: or other input that is observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 3 - Unobservable input that is supported
+Added: by little or no market activity and that is significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: Classification within the hierarchy
+Added: is determined based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
+Added: Revenue Recognition
+Added: The Company adopted ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts
+Added: with Customers, from January 1, 2018.
+Added: The adoption had no impact on the Company’s retained earnings as of January 1, 2018 as well
+Added: as the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: To achieve that core principle, we apply the five steps
+Added: defined under Topic 606:
+Added: (i) identify the contract(s) with a customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii)
+Added: determine the transaction price, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize
+Added: revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.
+Added: We assess its revenue arrangements against specific criteria in order
+Added: to determine if it is acting as principal or agent.
+Added: Revenue is recognized upon the transfer of control of promised goods or services
+Added: to a customer.
Historically, the Company has not had any returned products.
−Removed: Accordingly, no
−Removed: provision has been made for returnable goods.
−Removed: The Company is not required to rebate or credit a portion of the original fee if it subsequently
−Removed: reduces the price of its products.
−Removed: Currency and Other Comprehensive Income
−Removed: financial statements of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are measured using the local currency as the functional currency;
−Removed: the reporting currency of the Company is the United States dollar (“USD”).
−Removed: Assets and liabilities of the Company’s
−Removed: foreign subsidiaries have been translated into USD using the exchange rate at the balance sheet date, while equity accounts are translated
−Removed: using historical exchange rate.
−Removed: The average exchange rate for the period has been used to translate revenues and expenses.
−Removed: adjustments are reported separately and accumulated in a separate component of equity (cumulative translation adjustment).
−Removed: comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 represented foreign currency translation adjustments and were included
−Removed: in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
−Removed: is no guarantee the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted into USD at rates used in translation.
−Removed: taxes are provided on an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting of income taxes.
−Removed: Any tax paid by subsidiaries
−Removed: during the year is recorded.
−Removed: Current tax is based on the profit or loss from ordinary activities adjusted for items that are non-assessable
−Removed: or disallowable for income tax purpose and is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted at the balance sheet date.
−Removed: Deferred income
−Removed: tax liabilities or assets are recorded to reflect the tax consequences in future years of differences between the tax basis of assets
−Removed: and liabilities and the financial reporting amounts at each period end.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is recognized if it is more likely than
−Removed: not that some portion, or all, of a deferred tax asset will not be realized.
−Removed: 740 provides guidance for recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions, and it prescribes a threshold condition that a tax position
−Removed: must meet for any of the benefits of the uncertain tax position to be recognized in the financial statements.
−Removed: ASC 740 also provides accounting
−Removed: guidance on derecognizing, classification and disclosure of these uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: of Long-Lived Assets
−Removed: accordance with the FASB ASC 360-10, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets , long-lived assets, such
−Removed: as property, plant and equipment and purchased intangibles subject to amortization are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes
−Removed: in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable.
−Removed: It is reasonably possible that these assets could
−Removed: become impaired as a result of technological or other industrial changes.
−Removed: Determination of recoverability of assets to be held and used
−Removed: is by comparing the carrying amount of an asset to future net undiscounted cash flows to be generated by the assets.
−Removed: such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of
−Removed: the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets.
−Removed: Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value
−Removed: less costs to sell.
+Added: Accordingly, no provision has been made for returnable goods.
+Added: The Company is not required to rebate or credit a portion of the original fee if it subsequently reduces the price of its products.
+Added: Foreign Currency and Other Comprehensive Income
+Added: The financial statements of the Company’s
+Added: foreign subsidiaries are measured using the local currency as the functional currency;
+Added: however, the reporting currency of the Company
+Added: is the United States dollar (“USD”).
+Added: Assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries have been translated
+Added: into USD using the exchange rate at the balance sheet date, while equity accounts are translated using historical exchange rate.
+Added: average exchange rate for the period has been used to translate revenues and expenses.
+Added: Translation adjustments are reported separately
+Added: and accumulated in a separate component of equity (cumulative translation adjustment).
+Added: Other comprehensive income for the years ended
+Added: December 31, 2022 and 2021 represented foreign currency translation adjustments and were included in the consolidated statements of comprehensive
+Added: There is no guarantee the RMB amounts could have
+Added: been, or could be, converted into USD at rates used in translation.
+Added: Income taxes are provided on an asset and liability
+Added: approach for financial accounting and reporting of income taxes.
+Added: Any tax paid by subsidiaries during the year is recorded.
+Added: is based on the profit or loss from ordinary activities adjusted for items that are non-assessable or disallowable for income tax purpose
+Added: and is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted at the balance sheet date.
+Added: Deferred income tax liabilities or assets are recorded
+Added: to reflect the tax consequences in future years of differences between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and the financial reporting
+Added: amounts at each period end.
+Added: A valuation allowance is recognized if it is more likely than not that some portion, or all, of a deferred
+Added: tax asset will not be realized.
+Added: ASC 740 provides guidance for recognizing and
+Added: measuring uncertain tax positions, and it prescribes a threshold condition that a tax position must meet for any of the benefits of the
+Added: uncertain tax position to be recognized in the financial statements.
+Added: ASC 740 also provides accounting guidance on derecognizing, classification
+Added: and disclosure of these uncertain tax positions.
+Added: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
+Added: In accordance with the FASB ASC 360-10, Accounting
+Added: for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets , long-lived assets, such as property, plant and equipment and purchased intangibles
+Added: subject to amortization are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an
+Added: asset may not be recoverable.
+Added: It is reasonably possible that these assets could become impaired as a result of technological or other
+Added: industrial changes.
+Added: Determination of recoverability of assets to be held and used is by comparing the carrying amount of an asset to
+Added: future net undiscounted cash flows to be generated by the assets.
+Added: If such assets are considered to be impaired,
+Added: the impairment to be recognized is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets.
+Added: Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell.
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: We have reviewed all the recently issued, but
+Added: not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and we do not believe any of these pronouncements will have a material impact on the Company.
+Added: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to our Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of applicable recent
accounting pronouncements.
−Removed: have reviewed all the recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting pronouncements and we do not believe any of these pronouncements
−Removed: will have a material impact on the Company.
−Removed: of Operation Results of years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
−Removed: following table presents our consolidated revenues for our main products and services for the fiscal years 2021 and 2020, respectively,
−Removed: (in thousands):
+Added: Comparison of Operation Results of years ended
+Added: December 31, 2022 and 2021
+Added: The following table presents our consolidated
+Added: revenues for our main products and services for the fiscal years 2022 and 2021, respectively, (in thousands):
CCM Shopping Mall Membership
Coal and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing/Trading
−Removed: Sales of goods
Asset management service
−Removed: increased from $0.37 million in 2020 to $25.05 million in 2021, increase of $24.68 million or 6,688.89%.
−Removed: The increase in overall revenue
−Removed: was mainly due to an increase in asset management services and supply chain financing service and trading business.
−Removed: Shopping Mall Membership fees decreased from $0.34 million for the year ended 2020 to $86 for the year ended 2021, because there was
−Removed: no new membership enrollment during the year of 2021 and the Company has transformed its business model of CCM Shopping Mall from a member-based
−Removed: platform to a sales agent based eCAAS platform.
−Removed: Due to COVID-19 related restriction on large gathering for meetings and conference which
−Removed: primarily used by us before the pandemic for marketing and business development of new members, we were unable to attract new member
−Removed: enrollment during the year ended 2021 and have transformed business model for the platform.
−Removed: and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing Service and Trading business increased from $0 for year ended 2020 to $19.73 million for the
−Removed: year ended 2021.
−Removed: This is a new business we started during the second quarter of 2021 which did not exist in 2020.
−Removed: of goods decreased from $1,675 for the year ended 2020 to $0 for the year ended 2021 as no sale of goods during the same period of 2021.
−Removed: management service fee increased from $0 for the year ended 2020 to $5.32 million for the year ended 2021.
−Removed: This is a new business we
−Removed: acquired during the third quarter 2021 which did not exist in 2020.
+Added: Revenue decreased from $25.05 million in 2021
+Added: to $23.88 million in 2022, decrease of $1.17million or 4.67%.
+Added: The decrease in overall revenue was mainly due to decrease in revenues generated
+Added: from asset management services and supply chain financing service and trading business.
+Added: The Company has transformed its business model
+Added: of CCM Shopping Mall from a member-based platform to a sales agent based eCAAS platform.
+Added: Due to COVID-19 related restriction and slow-down
+Added: of economy in China, we were unable to revenue for the sales agent based eCAAS platform during the year ended 2022.
+Added: Revenues from coal and aluminum ingots supply chain financing service
+Added: and trading business decreased from $19.73 million for year ended 2021 to $10.11 million for the year ended 2022.
+Added: The COVID-19 outbreak
+Added: in Xi’an and other cities in China where we had our supply chain services and related control measures by local government in 2022
+Added: has had negative impact on the coal and aluminum ingot business and we also had more business in sales agent type trading service mode
+Added: which we did not take ownership of the goods but receive lower margin for the transactions in the third and fourth quarters of 2022, which
+Added: resulted the decrease in revenue in the year 2022 comparing to the same period of 2021.
+Added: Asset management service fee increased from $5.32 million for the year
+Added: ended 2021 to $13.63 million for the year ended 2022.
+Added: We acquire this new business on August 6, 2021 and only consolidated partial of
+Added: its revenues for the five months revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021, comparing to full year revenues for 2022.
+Added: (in thousands)
CCM Shopping Mall Membership
Coal and Aluminum Ingots Supply Chain Financing/Trading
−Removed: Sales of goods
Asset management service
−Removed: Overall gross margin as a percentage of revenue
−Removed: was 7.19% for the year ended 2021, a decrease of 83.31% compared to 90.5% for the same period of last fiscal year, mainly due to less
−Removed: revenues from the membership fee which has a much higher margin than that of coals and aluminum ingots financial service and trading and
−Removed: asset management business.
−Removed: following table presents consolidated operating expenses and operating expenses as a percentage of revenue for 2021 and 2020, respectively,
−Removed: (in thousands):
+Added: gross margin as a percentage of revenue was 22.59% for the year ended 2022, an increase of 15.4% compared to
+Added: 7.19% for the same period of last fiscal year, mainly due to more revenues from the asset management service which had a
+Added: higher gross margin.
+Added: Operating Expenses
+Added: The following table presents consolidated operating
+Added: expenses and operating expenses as a percentage of revenue for 2022 and 2021, respectively, (in thousands):
General and administrative
7 unchanged sentences
by $6.8 million, or 88.51%, from $7.7million to $14.47 million for the year ended 2022, compared to the same period of last fiscal year.
−Removed: The increase in general and administrative expenses was mainly due to new business development and new subsidiaries established by the
−Removed: Company during the year ended 2021 comparing to the same period of 2020.
−Removed: expenses increased by $0.33 million to $0.37 million in 2021 as compared to $0.04 million in 2020, mainly due to an increase in selling
−Removed: expenses from our new business.
−Removed: compensation expense decreased by $0.5 million during the year ended 2021, compared to the same period of last fiscal year as the Compensation
−Removed: Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company granted certain shares of common stock of the Company to
−Removed: certain officers and employees in July 2021 which had less value than the shares we granted to the officers, employees and director of
−Removed: the Company in 2020.
−Removed: from Operations
−Removed: from operations decreased by $1.84 million to $13.21 million for 2021 from $15.05 million for 2020, mainly due to in the increase in revenue.
−Removed: Noncontrolling
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, Shaanxi Chunlv Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Shaanxi Chunlv”) holds 20.0% interest in CCM logistics,
+Added: The increase in general and administrative expenses was mainly due to increased professional service fees for acquisition projects and
+Added: certain training and consulting fees for the acquired and newly established companies during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Selling expenses increased by $0.44 million to
+Added: $0.81 million in 2022 as compared to $0.37 million in 2021, the increase in selling expenses was mainly due to increased salary and advertising
+Added: Stock compensation expense was $1.28 million during the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2022, as the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company granted certain shares
+Added: of common stock of the Company to certain officers and employees in July 2022.
+Added: Stock compensation expense was decreased 76.68% from $5.49
+Added: million in the year ended December 30, 2021 to $1.28 million in same period of 2022, mainly due to our stock price was lower in 2022 than
+Added: The Company recorded $0.91 million of impairment
+Added: loss in the year ended December 31, 2022 relating to short term investment which mainly due to Future Private Equity Fund Management
+Added: (Hainan) Co., Ltd.
+Added: invested $1.87 million (RMB13,000,000) to entrust Shanghai Yuli Enterprise Management Consulting Firm to invest in
+Added: various types of investment portfolios.
+Added: The impairment loss relating to the short term investment is due to that overall economic environment
+Added: has worsened in China with Covid-19 outbreak and related lockdown in various cities in China in 2022, Ukraine war, inflation, looming
+Added: recession worldwide.
+Added: According to the market value, the Company’s balance of the short term investment was $0.91 million on December
+Added: Loss from Operations
+Added: Loss from operations increased by $1.57 million to $14.77 million for
+Added: 2022 from $13.21 million for 2021, mainly due to decrease in revenue.
+Added: Noncontrolling Interests
+Added: Shaanxi Chunlv Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Shaanxi Chunlv”) holds 20.0% interest in Chain Cloud Mall Logistics Center (Shaanxi) Co., Limited, which was dissolved and
+Added: deregistered on June 27, 2022.
Nature Worldwide Resources Ltd.
holds 40% interest in DCON DigiPay Limited (“DCON Digipay”).
−Removed: and diluted loss per share from continuing operations were $0.17 and $0.17 in fiscal 2021, as compared to $0.8 and $0.7 in fiscal 2020,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Basic and diluted loss per share attributable to discontinued operations was $0.04 and $0.04 for fiscal year 2021 as compared
−Removed: to basic and diluted income per share $3.13 and $2.76 for fiscal year 2020 respectively.
−Removed: and Capital Resources
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, we had cash and cash equivalents of $50.27 million, an increase of $40.85 million, from $9.43 million as of December
−Removed: The increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was mainly due to financing from the issuance of shares of common
+Added: Each of Bin Wu and Lixiong Huang holds 25% and 20% interest in FTFT Capital Investments L.L.C., respectively.
+Added: Aspenwood Capital Partner
+Added: Limited holds 5%, Cheung Hiu Tung holds 2.22% and Choi Tsz Leung holds 2.78% of equity interest of NATM.
+Added: Yaohua Dai holds
+Added: 20% equity interest of Future Fintech Digital Capital.
+Added: Loss per Share
+Added: Basic and diluted loss per share from continuing
+Added: operations were $0.19 and $0.19 in fiscal 2022, as compared to $0.17 and $0.17 in fiscal 2021, respectively.
+Added: Basic and diluted loss per
+Added: share attributable to discontinued operations was nil and nil for fiscal year 2022 as compared to basic and diluted income per share
+Added: $0.04 and $0.04 for fiscal year 2021 respectively.
+Added: Liquidity and Capital Resources
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we had cash and cash equivalents of $26.15
+Added: million, a decrease of $24.12 million, from $50.27 million as of December 31, 2021.
+Added: The decrease in cash, cash equivalents was mainly
+Added: due the loss in operations and the Company did not issue shares of common stock to raise money for the year ended December 31, 2022 comparing
+Added: to the same period of 2021.
Our working capital has historically been generated
from our operating cash flows, advances from our customers and loans from bank facilities.
−Removed: Our working capital was positive $65.49 million
−Removed: as of December 31, 2021, an increase of $56.80 million from positive $8.69 million as of December 31, 2020, mainly due to an increase
−Removed: in current assets.
+Added: Our working capital was $46.42 million as
+Added: of December 31, 2022, an increase of $19.07 million from $65.49 million as of December 31, 2021, mainly due to an increase in current
In 2022, net cash used in our operating activities
was $2.69 million compared to net cash used in operating activities of $18.74 million in 2021.
−Removed: The increase in net cash used
−Removed: by operating activities was primarily due to an increase in accounts receivable during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: 2021, net cash used in our investing activities was $11.18 million compared to net cash used in operating activities of $2,944 in 2020
−Removed: mainly due to payment for loan receivable.
−Removed: 2021, cash provided by financing activities was $69.27 million as compared to cash used in financing activities $16.42 million in 2020.
−Removed: The increase in cash provided by financing activities was mainly due to financing from the issuance of shares of common stock.
−Removed: On August 6, 2021, Future FinTech Group Inc., through
−Removed: its wholly owned subsidiary Future FinTech (Hong Kong) Limited., acquired of 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of Nice Talent Asset
−Removed: Management Limited (NTAM) from Joy Rich Enterprises Limited for HK$144,000,000, goodwill arises from the acquisition amounting to HK$127,618,555.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the Company engaged a third party professional to reassess the valuation of NTAM by using discounted cash flow
−Removed: model to estimate its fair value.
−Removed: The Company’s evaluation of goodwill for impairment involves the comparison of the fair value
−Removed: of NTAM to its carrying value.
−Removed: The fair value of NTAM decreases by 4.56% of its original value, which resulted a write down of goodwill
−Removed: The Company uses discounted cash flow model to estimate
−Removed: fair value of NTAM, which requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions related to forecasts of future revenue and
−Removed: operating margin.
−Removed: In addition, the discounted cash flow model requires the Company to select an appropriate weighted average cost of capital
−Removed: based on current market conditions as of December 31, 2021.
−Removed: A high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort were required
−Removed: when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimates and assumptions related to the forecasts.
−Removed: The main factor that causes the changes in the estimation attributable to uncertainty of the future economic growth when the Omicron variant
−Removed: circulating globally.
−Removed: Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements.
−Removed: 7A – QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
+Added: The decrease in net cash used by operating
+Added: activities was primarily due to an increase in accounts payable and notes payable during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: In 2022, net cash used in our investing activities
+Added: was $14.18 million compared to net cash used in operating activities of $11.18 million in 2021 mainly due to payment for loan receivable
+Added: and repayment for loan receivable.
+Added: In 2022, cash provided by financing activities
+Added: was negative $0.25 million as compared to cash used in financing activities positive $69.27 million in 2021.
+Added: The decrease in cash provided
+Added: by financing activities was mainly due to financing from the issuance of shares of common stock.
+Added: Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we did not have any
+Added: off-balance sheet arrangements.
+Added: ITEM 7A – QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT
Not applicable.
−Removed: 8 – FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
−Removed: information called for by this item is included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: 9 – CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: ITEM 8 – FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
+Added: The information called for by this item is included
+Added: in the Company’s consolidated financial statements beginning on page F-1 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: ITEM 9 – CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON
+Added: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Not applicable.
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