MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: References in this section to “we,” “us,” or “our”
−Removed: refer to SHF Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: (herein referred to as the “Company”).
−Removed: References to “management” refer to our officers
−Removed: and board of directors.
−Removed: The following discussion and analysis of our financial performance and results of operations should be read in
−Removed: conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: in this section to “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to SHF Holdings, Inc (herein referred to as the “Company”).
+Added: References to “management” refer to our officers and board of managers.
+Added: The following discussion and analysis of our financial
+Added: performance and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements.
Looking Statements
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Reorganization
−Removed: On February 11, 2022, SHF, LLC and SHF
−Removed: Holding Co., LLC, the sole member of SHF, LLC, and Partner Colorado Credit Union (“PCCU”), the sole member of SHF
−Removed: Holding, Co., LLC, entered into a definitive purchase agreement (herein referred to as the “Business Combination”) with
−Removed: Northern Lights Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: (“NLIT”), a special purpose acquisition company, and its sponsor, 5AK, LLC.
−Removed: In connection with the closing of this transaction, NLIT changed its name to “SHF Holdings, Inc.” (herein referred to as the
−Removed: PCCU’s Board of Directors approved the contribution of certain assets and operating activities
−Removed: associated with operations from both the Branches and Safe Harbor Services (“SHS” or “Oldco”), a wholly-owned
−Removed: subsidiary of PCCU, to SHF Holding, Co., LLC.
−Removed: SHF Holding, Co., LLC then contributed the same assets and related
−Removed: operations to SHF, LLC with PCCU’s investment in SHF, LLC maintained at the SHF Holding, Co., LLC level (the “reorganization”).
−Removed: reorganization effectively occurred July 1, 2021.
−Removed: In conjunction with the reorganization, all Branches’ employees and certain
−Removed: PCCU employees were terminated from PCCU and hired as SHF, LLC employees.
−Removed: Collectively, Oldco, the Branches and SHF, LLC represent the
−Removed: “Carved-Out Operations.” After the reorganization, SHF, LLC contains the entirety of the Carved-Out Operations and Oldco was
−Removed: In addition, effective July 1, 2021, the entity entered into an Account
−Removed: Servicing Agreement and Support Servicing Agreement which were subsequently amended and restated.
−Removed: Pursuant to the purchase agreement,
−Removed: upon the closing of the transaction, NLIT purchased all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of SHF in exchange for an aggregate
−Removed: of $185,000,000, consisting of (i) 11,386,139 shares of the entity’s Class A common stock with an aggregate value equal to $115,000,000
−Removed: and (ii) $70,000,000 in cash.
−Removed: At transaction close, 1,831,683 shares of the Class A Common Stock were deposited with an escrow agent to
−Removed: be held in escrow for a period of 12 months following the closing date to satisfy potential indemnification claims of the parties.
−Removed: addition, $3,143,388 in cash and cash equivalents representing the amount of cash on hand at July 31, 2021, less accrued but unpaid liabilities,
−Removed: were paid to PCCU at the final transaction close.
−Removed: On September 19, 2022, the parties entered into the first amendment to the purchase
−Removed: agreement to extend the date by which the closing had to occur from August 31, 2022 until September 28, 2022 and provide for the deferral
−Removed: of $30 million of the $70 million in cash due at the closing.
−Removed: On September 22, 2022, the parties entered into the second amendment to
−Removed: the purchase agreement to provide for the deferral of a total of $50 million of the $70 million due at the closing.
+Added: Board of Directors approved the contribution of certain assets and operating activities associated with operations from both the Branches
+Added: and Safe Harbor Services (“SHS” or “Oldco”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of PCCU, to SHF Holding, Co., LLC.
+Added: Holding, Co., LLC then contributed the same assets and related operations to SHF, LLC with PCCU’s investment in SHF, LLC maintained
+Added: at the SHF Holding, Co., LLC level (the “reorganization”).
+Added: The reorganization effectively occurred July 1, 2021.
+Added: In conjunction
+Added: with the reorganization, all of Branches’ employees and certain PCCU employees were terminated from PCCU and hired as SHF, LLC
+Added: Collectively, Oldco, the Branches and SHF, LLC represent the “Carved-Out Operations.” After the reorganization,
+Added: SHF, LLC contains the entirety of the Carved-Out Operations and Oldco was dissolved.
+Added: In addition, effective July 1, 2021, the entity
+Added: entered into an Account Servicing Agreement and Support Servicing Agreement which were subsequently amended and restated.
+Added: February 11, 2022, SHF, LLC and SHF Holding Co., LLC, the sole member of SHF, LLC, and Partner Colorado Credit Union (“PCCU”),
+Added: the sole member of SHF Holding, Co., LLC, entered into a definitive Unit Purchase Agreement (herein referred to as the “Business
+Added: Combination”) with Northern Lights Acquisition Corp.
+Added: (“NLIT”), a special purpose acquisition company, and its sponsor,
+Added: Subsequent to the completion of the transaction, NLIT changed its name to “SHF Holdings, Inc.” (herein referred
+Added: to as the “Company”).
+Added: On September 19, 2022, the parties entered into the first amendment to the Unit Purchase Agreement
+Added: to extend the date by which the closing had to occur from August 31, 2022 until September 28, 2022 and provide for the deferral of $30
+Added: million of the $70 million in cash due at the closing.
+Added: On September 22, 2022, the parties entered into the second amendment to the Unit
+Added: Purchase Agreement to provide for the deferral of a total of $50 million of the $70 million due at the closing.
On September 28, 2022,
−Removed: the parties entered into the third amendment to the purchase agreement to provide for the deferral of a total of $56,949,800 of the $70,000,000
−Removed: due at the closing.
−Removed: On September 28, 2022, the
−Removed: parties consummated the Business Combination, resulting in NLIT, consistent with the aforementioned parameters, purchasing all of the
−Removed: issued and outstanding membership interests of the SHF, LLC in exchange for an aggregate of $185,000,000, consisting of (i) 11,386,139
−Removed: shares of the Company’s Class A common stock with an aggregate value equal to $115,000,000 and (ii) $70,000,000 in cash, $56,949,801
−Removed: of which will be paid on a deferred basis.
−Removed: Subsequent to the completion
−Removed: of the Business Combination, the status of PCCU has changed from Parent to majority shareholder of the Company pursuant to its ownership
−Removed: of 60.8% of the Company.
−Removed: The Company generates both interest income and fee income through providing
−Removed: a variety of services to financial institutions desiring to service the cannabis industry including, among other things, Bank Secrecy
−Removed: Act and other regulatory compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding to account inquiries, responding to customer service inquiries
−Removed: relating to CRB depository accounts held at PCCU, and sourcing and managing loans.
−Removed: In addition to PCCU, the Company provides these similar
−Removed: services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis industry.
−Removed: These services are provided
−Removed: to other financial institutions under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
−Removed: Pursuant to the purchase agreement, the Company entered into amended services
−Removed: agreements under similar terms as the July 2021 agreements.
−Removed: In addition, in conjunction with the purchase agreement, SHF, LLC and PCCU
−Removed: entered into an Amended and Restated Loan Servicing Agreement.
−Removed: The purpose of the $56,949,800
−Removed: deferral is to provide the Company with additional cash to support its post-closing activities.
−Removed: Pursuant to the third amendment
−Removed: to the unit purchase agreement, the Company will pay the deferred consideration in one payment of $21,949,801 on or before December 15,
−Removed: 2022, and the $35,000,000 balance in six equal installments of $6,416,667, payable beginning on the first business day following April
−Removed: 1, 2023 and on the first business day of each of the following five fiscal quarters, for a total of $38,500,002, including interest of
−Removed: Furthermore, PCCU agreed to defer $3,143,388, representing certain excess cash of SHF, LLC due to the Seller under the definitive
−Removed: unit purchase agreement, and the reimbursement of certain reimbursable expenses under the definitive unit purchase agreement.
−Removed: On October 26, 2022, the Company, entered into a Forbearance Agreement (the “Forbearance Agreement”) with PCCU and Luminous Capital USA Inc.
−Removed: (“Luminous”).
−Removed: As per the terms of the agreement, PCCU has agreed to defer all payments owed pursuant to the Purchase Agreement for a period of six (6)
−Removed: months from the date hereof while the Parties engage in good faith efforts to renegotiate the payment terms applicable to the Deferred
−Removed: Obligation (the “Forbearance Period”).
−Removed: terms of the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement and Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement are as follows:
−Removed: to the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, SHF’s fees for such services will equal all cannabis-related income,
−Removed: including all lending-related income (such as loan origination fees, interest income on CRB-related loans, participation fees and
−Removed: servicing fees), investment income, interest income, account activity fees, processing fees, flat fees, and other revenue generated
−Removed: from cannabis and multi-state hemp accounts that are hosted on PCCU’s core system.
−Removed: The Amended and Restated Account Servicing
−Removed: Agreement is for an initial term of three years and will renew for additional one-year terms unless a party provides 120 days’
−Removed: notice of non-renewal, provided that PCCU may not provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the signing date.
−Removed: and Restated Account Servicing Agreement initially provided that the agreement would terminate within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying
−Removed: as a “credit union service organization” (a “CUSO”) or within 60 days of the assumption by a third party
−Removed: of all CRB-related accounts;
−Removed: however, on May 23, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Second Amended and Restated Account Servicing
−Removed: Agreement, which removed the provision providing for the termination of the agreement within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying
−Removed: as CUSO, as SHF ceased to qualify as a CUSO following the closing of the Business Combination.
−Removed: to the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, PCCU will continue to provide to SHF certain operational and administrative
−Removed: services relating to, among other things, human resources, employee benefits, IT and systems, accounting and marketing and capacity
−Removed: for CRB depository accounts for a monthly fee equal to $30.96 per account in 2022 and $25.32 per account in 2023 and 2024.
−Removed: as it pertains to CRB deposits held at PCCU, investment and interest income earned on these deposits (excluding interest income on
−Removed: loans funded by PCCU) will be shared 25% to PCCU and 75% to SHF.
−Removed: SHF will also reimburse PCCU for any of its out-of-pocket expenses
−Removed: relating to the services provided to SHF.
−Removed: Finally, under the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, PCCU will continue
−Removed: to allow its ratio of CRB-related deposits to total assets to equal at least 65% unless otherwise dictated by regulatory, regulator
−Removed: or policy requirements.
−Removed: The Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement has the same term and termination provisions as the Amended
−Removed: and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, including a provision providing for the termination of the agreement within 60 days of
−Removed: SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization.” On May 23, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Second
−Removed: Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, which removed the provision providing for the termination of the agreement within
−Removed: 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying as a CUSO, as SHF ceased to qualify as a CUSO following the closing of the Business Combination.
−Removed: February 11, 2022, SHF entered into an Amended and Restated Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU.
−Removed: The agreement sets forth the application, underwriting and
−Removed: approval process for loans from PCCU to CRB customers and the loan servicing and monitoring responsibilities provided by both PCCU and
−Removed: For the loans subject to this agreement, SHF originates the loans and performs all compliance analysis, credit analysis of the potential
−Removed: borrower, due diligence and underwriting and all administration, including hiring and incurring the costs of all related personnel or
−Removed: third-party vendors necessary to perform these services.
−Removed: PCCU receives a monthly servicing fee at an annual rate of 0.25% of the then-outstanding
−Removed: principal balance of each loan funded by PCCU.
−Removed: Under the Loan Servicing Agreement, SHF has agreed to indemnify PCCU from all claims related
−Removed: to default-related loan losses as defined in the Loan Servicing Agreement.
−Removed: The agreement is for an initial term of three years and will
−Removed: renew for additional one-year terms unless a party provides 120 days’ notice of non-renewal or there is a termination for cause,
−Removed: provided that PCCU may not provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the signing date.
−Removed: Pursuant to this agreement, the
−Removed: Company reported expenses of $ 204,535 and $ 420,085 for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2022 and $93,285
−Removed: and $261,496 for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021.
−Removed: SHF lending services program currently depends on PCCU as its largest funding source for new loans to CRBs.
−Removed: Under PCCU’s loan policy
−Removed: for loans to CRBs, PCCU’s board of directors has approved aggregate lending limits at the lessor of 1.3125 times PCCU’s net
−Removed: worth or 65% of total CRB deposits.
+Added: the parties entered into the third amendment to the Unit Purchase Agreement to provide for the deferral of a total of $56,949,800 of
+Added: the $70,000,000 due at the closing.
+Added: to the Unit Purchase Agreement, upon the closing of the transaction, NLIT purchased all of the issued and outstanding membership interests
+Added: of SHF in exchange for an aggregate of $185,000,000, consisting of (i) 11,386,139 shares of the entity’s Class A common stock with
+Added: an aggregate value equal to $115,000,000 and (ii) $70,000,000 in cash.
+Added: At transaction close, 1,831,683 shares of the Class A Common Stock
+Added: were deposited with an escrow agent to be held in escrow for a period of 12 months following the closing date to satisfy potential indemnification
+Added: claims of the parties.
+Added: In addition, $3,143,388 in cash and cash equivalents representing the amount of cash on hand at July 31, 2021,
+Added: less accrued but unpaid liabilities, were paid to PCCU at the final transaction close.
+Added: February 11, 2022, the Company entered into a Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU.
+Added: The agreement sets forth the application,
+Added: underwriting and approval process for loans from PCCU to CRB customers and the loan servicing and monitoring responsibilities
+Added: provided by both PCCU and the Company.
+Added: For the loans subject to this agreement, the Company underwrites the loans and performs all
+Added: compliance analysis, credit analysis of the potential borrower, due diligence and underwriting and all administration, including
+Added: hiring and incurring the costs of all related personnel or third-party vendors necessary to perform these services.
+Added: PCCU receives a
+Added: monthly servicing fee at an annual rate of 0.25% of the then-outstanding principal balance of each loan funded by PCCU.
+Added: Loan Servicing Agreement, the Company has agreed to indemnify PCCU from all claims related to default-related credit losses as
+Added: defined in the Loan Servicing Agreement.
+Added: The agreement is for an initial term of three years and will renew for additional one-year
+Added: terms unless a party provides 120 days’ notice of non-renewal or there is a termination for cause, provided that PCCU may not
+Added: provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the signing date.
+Added: Pursuant to this agreement, the Company reported expenses
+Added: of $378,730 for the three months ended March 31, 2023, and $83,807 for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
+Added: On March 29, 2023, the
+Added: Company and PCCU entered into the Commercial Alliance Agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the lending-related and
+Added: account-related services governing the relationship between the Company and PCCU and supersedes the Loan Servicing Agreement, as
+Added: well as the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement and the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement.
+Added: Company’s lending services program currently depends on PCCU as its largest funding source for new loans to CRBs.
+Added: loan policy for loans to CRBs, PCCU’s board of directors has approved aggregate lending limits at the lessor of 1.3125 times PCCU’s
+Added: net worth or 60% of total CRB deposits.
Concentration limits for the deployment of loans are further categorized as (i) real estate secured,
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to the greater of $100,000 or 15% of PCCU’s net worth.
+Added: September 28, 2022, the parties consummated the Business Combination, resulting in NLIT, consistent with the aforementioned parameters,
+Added: purchasing all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of SHF in exchange for an aggregate of $185,000,000, consisting of
+Added: (i) 11,386,139 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock with an aggregate value equal to $115,000,000 and (ii) $70,000,000
+Added: in cash, $56,949,801 of which will be paid on a deferred basis.
+Added: to the completion of the business combination, the status of PCCU has changed from Parent to majority shareholder of the Company pursuant
+Added: to its ownership of 60.8% of the Company.
+Added: Company generates both interest income and fee income through providing a variety of services to financial institutions desiring to service
+Added: the cannabis industry including, among other things, Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding
+Added: to account inquiries, responding to customer service inquiries relating to CRB depository accounts held at PCCU, and sourcing and managing
+Added: In addition to PCCU, the Company provides these similar services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing
+Added: banking to the cannabis industry.
+Added: These services are provided to other financial institutions under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
+Added: to the Unit Purchase Agreement, the Company entered into the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement and the Amended and Restated
+Added: Account Servicing Agreement under similar terms as the July 2021 agreements.
+Added: In addition, in conjunction with the Unit Purchase Agreement,
+Added: the Company and PCCU entered into a Loan Servicing Agreement.
+Added: On March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into the Commercial Alliance
+Added: Agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the lending-related and account-related services governing the relationship between
+Added: the Company and PCCU and supersedes the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement,
+Added: and the Loan Servicing Agreement.
+Added: purpose of the $56,949,800 deferral is to provide the Company with additional cash to support its post-closing activities.
+Added: the third amendment to the Unit Purchase Agreement, the deferred consideration shall be paid in one payment of $21,949,801 on or before
+Added: December 15, 2022, and the $35,000,000 balance in six equal installments of $6,416,667, payable beginning on the first business day following
+Added: April 1, 2023, and on the first business day of each of the following five fiscal quarters, for a total of $38,500,002, including interest
+Added: of $3,500,002.
+Added: Furthermore, PCCU agreed to defer $3,143,388, representing certain excess cash of SHF, LLC due to the Seller under the
+Added: definitive unit purchase agreement, and the reimbursement of certain reimbursable expenses under the definitive unit purchase agreement.
+Added: October 26, 2022, the Company entered into a Forbearance Agreement (the “Forbearance Agreement”) with PCCU and Luminous Capital
+Added: (“Luminous”).
+Added: As per the terms of the agreement, PCCU has agreed to defer all payments owed pursuant to the Purchase
+Added: Agreement for a period of six (6) months from the date hereof while the Parties engage in good faith efforts to renegotiate the payment
+Added: terms applicable to the Deferred Obligation (the “Forbearance Period”).
+Added: March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into a definitive transaction to settle and restructure the deferred obligations, including
+Added: $56,949,800 into a five-year Senior Secured Promissory Note (the “Note”) in the principal amount of $14,500,000 bearing interest
+Added: at the rate of 4.25%;
+Added: a Security Agreement pursuant to which the Company has granted, as collateral for the Note, a first priority security
+Added: interest in substantially all of the assets of the Company;
+Added: and a Securities Issuance Agreement, pursuant to which the Company has issued
+Added: 11,200,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock to PCCU
Agreement and Public Company Costs
Business Combination detailed above was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded,
−Removed: in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: Under this method of accounting, NLIT is
−Removed: treated as the acquired company for financial reporting purposes.
−Removed: Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Business Combination is treated
−Removed: as the equivalent of SHF issuing shares for the net assets of NLIT, accompanied by a recapitalization.
−Removed: The net assets of NLIT are recognized
−Removed: at fair value (which is expected to be consistent with carrying value), with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
+Added: in accordance with GAAP.
+Added: Under this method of accounting, NLIT was treated as the acquired company for financial reporting purposes.
+Added: Accordingly, for accounting purposes, the Business Combination is treated as the equivalent of SHF issuing shares for the net assets
+Added: of NLIT, accompanied by a recapitalization.
+Added: The net assets of NLIT are recognized at fair value (which is expected to be consistent with
+Added: carrying value), with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
related events in connection with the Business Combination are summarized below:
−Removed: 2,875,000 of Founder Class B Stock converted at the closing to an equal number of shares of Class A stock.
−Removed: closing of the Business Combination, 11,386,139 shares of Class A Stock were issued to the Seller as set forth in and pursuant to
−Removed: the terms of the Purchase Agreement.
−Removed: Seller was due to receive a cash payment of $3.1 million at the consummation of the Business Combination, which represented the amount
−Removed: of SHF’s cash on hand at July 31, 2021, less accrued but unpaid liabilities.
−Removed: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the purchase
−Removed: agreement, the Company is responsible for reimbursing the Seller for its transaction expenses.
+Added: 2,875,000 of Class B Common Stock converted at the closing to an equal number of shares of
+Added: Class A Common stock.
+Added: closing of the Business Combination, 11,386,139 shares of Class A Common Stock were issued
+Added: to PCCU as set forth in and pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement.
+Added: was due to receive a cash payment of $3.1 million at the consummation of the Business Combination, which represented the amount of SHF’s
+Added: cash on hand at July 31, 2021, less accrued but unpaid liabilities.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreement, the
+Added: Company is responsible for reimbursing the Seller for its transaction expenses.
● Approximately
−Removed: $56.9 million of the $70.0 million of cash proceeds due to PCCU was deferred and is due to the Seller.
−Removed: Approximately $21.9 million
−Removed: of the amount is payable to PCCU beginning December 15, 2022.
−Removed: The residual $35.0 million is due in six quarterly instalments of $6.4
−Removed: million thereafter.
+Added: $56.9 million of the $70.0 million of cash proceeds due to PCCU was deferred and is due to
+Added: Approximately $21.9 million of the amount was due to PCCU beginning December
+Added: The residual $35.0 million is due in six quarterly installments of $6.4 million
Interest accrues at an effective annual rate of approximately 4.71%.
−Removed: A sum of 1,200,000 founder shares
−Removed: were escrowed until the amount is paid in full.
−Removed: Parent-Entity Net Investment appearing in the balance sheet of SHF amounting to $9,124,297 on the date of business combination was
−Removed: transferred to additional paid in capital.
−Removed: prior to the Closing, 20,450 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred were purchased by the PIPE Investors pursuant to the PIPE Securities
−Removed: Purchase Agreements for an aggregate value of $20,450,000.
−Removed: The shares of Series A Convertible Preferred are convertible into 2,045,000
−Removed: shares of Class A Stock assuming a purchase price of $10.00 per share of Class A Stock.
−Removed: Twenty (20) percent of the aggregate value
−Removed: was deposited into a third party escrow account for purposes of paying the PIPE Investors any required Registration Delay Payments.
−Removed: Upon the filing of a registration statement 10 calendar days subsequent to closing, 17.5% of the escrow amount will be released with
−Removed: the remaining amount released once all securities are included in an effective registration statement.
−Removed: tax purposes, the transaction will be treated as a taxable asset acquisition, resulting in an estimated tax basis Goodwill balance
−Removed: of $43,411,985, creating a deferred tax asset reported as Additional Paid-in Capital in the equity section of the balance sheet as
−Removed: of the date of the business combination.
−Removed: There is not any goodwill for book reporting purposes as no goodwill or other intangible
−Removed: assets are to recorded in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: The Company is authorized to issue 1,250,000 preferred shares with a par value of $0.00001 per share with such designation,
−Removed: rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s Board of Directors.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2022,
−Removed: there were 20,450 preferred shares issued or outstanding and no preferred shares outstanding on December 31, 2021.
+Added: 1,200,000 shares of Class A Common Stock were escrowed until the amount is paid in full.
+Added: Parent-Entity Net Investment appearing in the balance sheet of the Company amounting to $9,124,297
+Added: on the date of business combination was transferred to additional paid in capital.
+Added: ● Immediately
+Added: prior to the Closing, 20,450 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred were purchased by the
+Added: PIPE Investors pursuant to the PIPE Securities Purchase Agreements for an aggregate value
+Added: of $20,450,000.
+Added: The shares of Series A Convertible Preferred were converted into 2,045,000
+Added: shares of Class A Common Stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share of Class A Common
+Added: Twenty (20) percent of the aggregate value was deposited into a third party escrow
+Added: account for purposes of paying the PIPE Investors any required Registration Delay Payments.
+Added: Upon the filing of the registration statement 10 calendar days subsequent to closing, 17.5%
+Added: of the escrow amount was released with the remaining amount once all securities were included
+Added: in an effective registration statement.
+Added: tax purposes, the transaction is treated as a taxable asset acquisition, resulting in an
+Added: estimated tax basis Goodwill balance of $ 44,102,572, creating a deferred tax asset reported
+Added: as Additional Paid-in Capital in the equity section of the balance sheet as of the date of
+Added: the business combination.
+Added: There is not any goodwill for book reporting purposes as no goodwill
+Added: or other intangible assets are to be recorded in accordance with GAAP.
+Added: The Company is authorized to issue 1,250,000 preferred shares with a par value of
+Added: $0.00001 per share with such designation rights and preferences as may be determined from
+Added: time to time by the Company’s Board of Directors.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, there were
+Added: 10,896 preferred shares issued or outstanding and 14,616 preferred shares issued or outstanding
+Added: on December 31, 2022.
A Common Stock:
−Removed: The Company is authorized to issue up to 125,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock with a par value of $0.00001
−Removed: Holders of the Company’s Class A Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2022
−Removed: and December 31, 2021, there were 18,715,912 and 0 shares, respectively, of Class A Common Stock issued or outstanding.
−Removed: As of September
−Removed: 30, 2022, 3,804,872 Class A Common Stock are held by the purchasers under that certain forward purchase agreement dated June 16,
−Removed: 2022 by and among the Company and such purchasers
+Added: The Company is authorized to issue up to 130,000,000 shares of Class A Common
+Added: Stock with a par value of $0.00001 per share.
+Added: Holders of the Company’s Class A Common
+Added: Stock are entitled to one vote for each share.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, and December 31, 2022,
+Added: there were 39,659,089 and 20,815,912 shares, respectively, of Class A Common Stock issued
+Added: or outstanding.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, and December 31, 2022, 3,669,504 Class A Common Stock
+Added: are held by the purchasers under forward purchase agreement dated June 16, 2022, by and among
+Added: the Company and such purchasers.
● Parent-Entity
Net Investment:
−Removed: Parent-Entity Net Investment balance in the combined balance sheets represents PCCU’s historical net investment
−Removed: in the Carved-Out Operations.
−Removed: For purposes of these combined financial statements, investing requirements have been summarized as
−Removed: “Parent-Entity Net Investment” and represents equity as no cash settlement with PCCU is required.
−Removed: No separate equity
−Removed: accounts are maintained for SHS, SHF or the Branches.
−Removed: addition to the measures presented in our consolidated financial statements, our management regularly monitors certain measures in the
−Removed: operation of our business.
+Added: Parent-Entity Net Investment balance in the consolidated balance sheets represents
+Added: PCCU’s historical net investment in the Carved-Out Operations.
+Added: For purposes of these
+Added: condensed consolidated financial statements, investing requirements have been summarized
+Added: as “Parent-Entity Net Investment” and represent equity as no cash settlement
+Added: with PCCU is required.
+Added: No separate equity accounts are maintained for SHS, SHF or the Branches.
+Added: addition to the measures presented in our condensed consolidated financial statements, our management regularly monitors certain measures
+Added: in the operation of our business.
These key metrics are discussed below.
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Some of these limitations are as follows:
−Removed: depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the
−Removed: future, and both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect cash capital expenditure requirements for such replacements or for new
−Removed: capital expenditure requirements;
−Removed: and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
−Removed: and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect tax payments that may represent a reduction in cash available to us.
+Added: depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future,
+Added: and both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect cash capital expenditure requirements for such replacements or for new capital
+Added: expenditure requirements;
+Added: and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital
+Added: and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect tax payments that may represent a reduction in cash available
of these limitations, you should consider EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA alongside other financial performance measures, including net loss
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reconciliation of net income to non-GAAP EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is as follows:
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Interest expense
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization expense
−Removed: Other adjustments –
−Removed: Loan loss provision
−Removed: Loan origination
−Removed: fees and costs
−Removed: Adjusted EBITDA
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Interest expense
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization expense
+Added: Months Ended March 31,
+Added: (loss)/income
+Added: $ (1,413,447 )
+Added: and amortization
+Added: adjustments –
+Added: Provision for credit losses
+Added: in the fair value of warrants
+Added: option conversion
+Added: origination fees and costs
+Added: decrease in our income on an EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA basis for the three months ended March 31, 2023, is due to increase in
+Added: professional fees on account increase in compliances as well as increases in compensation, employee benefits, marketing, insurance,
+Added: and additional items, as discussed under “ Discussion of our Results of Operations ” below.
Other adjustments
−Removed: Loan loss provision
−Removed: Deferred loan origination fees and costs
−Removed: Adjusted EBITDA
−Removed: decrease in our income on an EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA basis for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 is due to decreased
−Removed: revenue and increased operating expenses, as discussed under “— Discussion of our Results of Operations ”
−Removed: Other adjustments include estimated future loan losses not yet realized including amounts indemnified to PCCU for loans
−Removed: funded by them.
−Removed: Effective February 2022, SHF entered into an Amended and Restated Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU, pursuant to which SHF has agreed to
−Removed: indemnify PCCU for claims associated with CRB activities including any loan default related losses for loans funded by PCCU.
−Removed: Deferred loan origination fees and costs represent the change in net deferred loan origination fees and costs.
−Removed: When included with a
−Removed: new loan origination, we receive an upfront loan origination fee in conjunction with new loans funded by our financial institution
−Removed: partners and incur costs associated with originating a specific loan.
−Removed: For accounting purposes, the cash received for loan origination fees and costs are initially deferred and recognized as interest
−Removed: income utilizing the interest method.
+Added: include estimated future credit losses not yet realized, including amounts indemnified to PCCU for loans funded by them.
+Added: had entered into a Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU, pursuant to which the Company agreed to indemnify PCCU for claims associated
+Added: with CRB activities including any loan default related losses for loans funded by PCCU;
+Added: the Loan Servicing Agreement has since been
+Added: superseded by the Commercial Alliance Agreement.
+Added: Deferred loan origination fees and costs represent the change in net deferred loan
+Added: origination fees and costs.
+Added: When included with a new loan origination, we receive an upfront loan origination fee in conjunction
+Added: with new loans funded by our financial institution partners and incur costs associated with originating a specific loan.
+Added: accounting purposes, the cash received for loan origination fees and costs is initially deferred and recognized as interest income
+Added: utilizing the interest method.
our business operations, we monitor the following key metrics.
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fees and therefore review account fees per average number of active accounts managed.
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Average monthly ending deposit balance
−Removed: $ 148,191,118
−Removed: (33,882,155 )
−Removed: Average active accounts
−Removed: Average account balance
−Removed: Average fees per account
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
+Added: months Ended March 31
Average monthly ending deposit balance
$ 222,857,256
−Removed: (34,029,689 )
Average active accounts
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to the below section – Discussion of Results of our Operations for additional discussion of trends.
−Removed: the average number of accounts increased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 as compared to the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2021, the average account size and account fees decreased as we experienced some churn of larger clients replaced by smaller
−Removed: We expect this trend to shift as we lead with our lending program typically requiring borrowers to place deposits with financial
−Removed: institutions with which we have relationships.
−Removed: lending operations are considered early stage, as it began its focused efforts on expanding its lending in 2021.
−Removed: We are focused on enhancing
−Removed: and growing our lending platform.
−Removed: Incremental lending key metrics will be monitored as this portion of our business grows in volume.
−Removed: Metrics will include average loan balance, average life to repayment, average effective interest rate and loan status, amongst others.
+Added: the average number of accounts increased for the three months ended March 31, 2023 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2022,
+Added: the average account size and account fees decreased as we experienced some churn of larger clients replaced by smaller business.
+Added: this trend to shift as we lead with our lending program typically requiring borrowers to place deposits with financial institutions with
+Added: which we have relationships.
+Added: are focused on enhancing and growing our lending platform.
+Added: Incremental lending key metrics will be monitored as this portion of our business
+Added: grows in volume.
+Added: Metrics will include average loan balance, average life to repayment, average effective interest rate and loan status,
+Added: amongst others.
of our Results of Operations
−Removed: generates interest and fee income through providing a variety of services to PCCU to facilitate its banking services to CRBs including,
−Removed: among other things, Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding to account inquiries, responding
−Removed: to customer service inquiries relating to CRB deposit accounts held at financial institution clients, and sourcing and originating loans.
−Removed: In addition, SHF provides these similar services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis
+Added: Company generates interest and fee income through providing a variety of services to PCCU to facilitate its banking services to CRBs
+Added: including, among other things, Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding to account inquiries,
+Added: responding to customer service inquiries relating to CRB deposit accounts held at financial institution clients, and sourcing and originating
+Added: In addition, the Company provides these similar services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking
+Added: to the cannabis industry.
These services are provided under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
−Removed: expenses consist of compensation and benefits, professional services, rent expense, parent allocations, provisions for loan losses and
−Removed: other general and administrative expenses.
+Added: expenses consist of compensation and benefits, professional services, rent expense, parent allocations, provisions for credit losses
+Added: and other general and administrative expenses.
and benefits consist of employee wages and associated benefits while professional services consist of legal, general consulting and accounting
−Removed: allocations include corporate allocations such as information technology, customer support, marketing, executive compensation and other
−Removed: general and administrative expenses attributed to the Carved-Out Operations based on the size of the specifically identifiable CRB’s
−Removed: deposit balances, deposit activity and accounts relative to the totals of consolidated PCCU.
−Removed: These allocations were discontinued effective
−Removed: July 1, 2021 in conjunction with the reorganization.
−Removed: reports a provision for loan losses both as it relates to loans funded internally and those carried by PCCU or other financial institutions.
−Removed: SHF indemnifies PCCU for losses on loans to borrowers sourced by SHF and funded by PCCU.
−Removed: SHF anticipates comparable arrangements with
−Removed: other financial institutions that fund loans to borrowers sourced by SHF.
−Removed: general and administrative expenses consist of various miscellaneous items including account hosting fees, insurance expense,
−Removed: advertising and marketing, travel meals and entertainment and other office and operating expense.
−Removed: of our Results of Operations —2022 Compared to 2021 (Three Months Ended September 30)
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Company reports a provision for credit losses both as it relates to loans funded internally and those carried by PCCU or other
+Added: financial institutions.
+Added: The Company indemnifies PCCU for losses on loans to borrowers sourced by the Company and funded by PCCU.
+Added: Company anticipates comparable arrangements with other financial institutions that fund loans to borrowers sourced by the
+Added: general and administrative expenses consist of various miscellaneous items including account hosting fees, insurance expense, advertising
+Added: and marketing, travel meals and entertainment and other office and operating expense.
+Added: of our Results of Operations —2023 Compared to 2022 (Three Months Ended March 31)
+Added: Three Months Ended March 31,
Deposit, activity, onboarding income
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fee income consists of deposit account fees, activity fees and onboarding income.
−Removed: Historically, SHF has received from PCCU fees based
−Removed: on cannabis related deposit account activity.
+Added: Historically, the Company has charged fees based on
+Added: cannabis related deposit account activity.
During 2023, we reduced our fee percentage for cannabis specific accounts in order to ensure
−Removed: we were competitive with the market.
−Removed: During January 2022, we implemented a flat fee for certain CRB accounts based on historical and
−Removed: anticipated deposit levels.
−Removed: In addition, we receive a flat fee and lower rates for ancillary accounts, which are accounts are provided
−Removed: to businesses servicing the cannabis industry in general but that do not manufacture, possess, distribute or transport cannabis.
−Removed: ratio of ancillary accounts to cannabis specific accounts increased during 2021.
−Removed: licenses similar account services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis industry.
−Removed: These services are provided under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
−Removed: Revenue from the licensing of this program has intentionally
−Removed: decreased as we strategically narrow the financial institutions permitted to license the program.
−Removed: income increased as a result of recent Federal Reserve interest rate increases.
−Removed: interest income has increased as SHF increases its focus on providing lending services.
−Removed: At the end of 2020, SHF serviced two loans as
−Removed: compared to four at the end of 2021.
−Removed: In addition, for the period ending September 30, 2022, SHF sourced six incremental loans funded
−Removed: by PCCU under the Loan Servicing Agreement.
−Removed: SHF anticipates significantly increasing its loan services during 2022 with approximately
−Removed: $24.40 million of SHF originated loans in underwriting as of November 2, 2022.
−Removed: discussed in the Business Reorganization section above, PCCU allocations were discontinued effective July 1, 2021 and SHF entered
−Removed: into both an account servicing agreement and support service agreement.
−Removed: There is no impact on revenue as a result of implementing these
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Compensation and employee benefits
−Removed: Professional services
−Removed: Provision for loan losses
−Removed: General and administrative expenses
−Removed: Total Operating Expenses
−Removed: and employee benefits increased primarily as a result of Sundie Seefried, our CEO, and one of our Vice Presidents resigning from PCCU
−Removed: effective July 1, 2021 and beginning employment at SHF the same date.
−Removed: Prior to the July 1, 2021 reorganization a portion of their costs
−Removed: would have been included in the corporate allocations.
−Removed: Amounts also increased as SHF increased head count in conjunction with anticipated
−Removed: services expense increased primarily due to audit fees incurred and increased consulting fees as we increased our lending activity and
−Removed: prepared for the reverse recapitalization transaction and becoming a public company.
−Removed: allocations decreased to zero as they were discontinued in conjunction with the reorganization discussed in the Business Reorganization
−Removed: section above.
−Removed: for loan losses has increased as SHF focuses on increasing lending activity.
−Removed: and administrative expenses increased across various categories including:
−Removed: i) approximately $111,251 in account and investment fees hosting
−Removed: fees as a result of the reorganization, ii) approximately $59,803 in increased advertising and marketing as we focus on growth, iii)
−Removed: $15,118 in travel, meals, and entertainment, iv) $7,846 in dues and subscriptions, and v) $9,160 in loan servicing fees, and vi) $13,030
−Removed: in other operating expenses due to a legal settlement during the three months ending September 30, 2021.
−Removed: of our Results of Operations —2022 Compared to 2021 (Nine Months Ended September 30)
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30,
−Removed: Deposit, activity, onboarding income
−Removed: Safe Harbor Program income
−Removed: Investment income
−Removed: Loan interest income
−Removed: Total Revenue
−Removed: fee income consists of deposit account fees, activity fees and onboarding income.
−Removed: Historically, SHF has charged fees based on cannabis
−Removed: related deposit account activity.
−Removed: During 2022, we reduced our fee percentage for cannabis specific accounts in order to ensure we were
−Removed: competitive with the market and for many accounts implemented a flat fee structure for certain CRB accounts based on historical and anticipated
−Removed: deposit levels.
−Removed: In addition, we receive a flat fee and lower rates for ancillary accounts, which are accounts provided to businesses
−Removed: servicing the cannabis industry in general but do not manufacture, possess, distribute or transport cannabis.
−Removed: The ratio of ancillary
−Removed: accounts to cannabis specific accounts increased during 2022.
−Removed: provides similar account services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis industry.
+Added: we were competitive with the market and for many accounts implemented a flat fee structure for certain CRB accounts based on historical
+Added: and anticipated deposit levels.
+Added: In addition, we receive a flat fee and lower rates for ancillary accounts, which are accounts provided
+Added: to businesses servicing the cannabis industry in general but do not manufacture, possess, distribute or transport cannabis.
+Added: of ancillary accounts to cannabis specific accounts increased during 2023.
+Added: Company provides similar account services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis industry.
These services are provided under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
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and states we allow under this program and instead focus on servicing CRBs directly.
−Removed: income increased as a result of recent Federal Reserve interest rate increases.
−Removed: interest income has increased as SHF increases its focus on lending.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, SHF serviced 4 loans
−Removed: as compared to 10 loans for the nine months ended September 30, 2022.
+Added: have an investment servicing agreement with PCCU (related party) where our financial institution clients invest their customer deposits
+Added: into short term US treasury instruments.
+Added: The investment income in our income statement reflects our share of that investment income.
+Added: Investment income earned on deposits with the Federal Reserve Bank increased as a result of recent interest rate increases.
+Added: have a Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU (related party) where our financial institution carries the loan balances on their financial
+Added: the Loan Servicing Agreement has since been superseded by the Commercial Alliance Agreement.
+Added: The loan interest income reflects
+Added: our share of loan interest on issued credit.
+Added: Loan interest earned on the Company’s direct loans and the indemnified loans increased
+Added: as the Company increases its focus on lending.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2023, SHF serviced eight loans, as compared to seven
+Added: loans in the three months ended March 31, 2022.
discussed in the reverse recapitalization section above, PCCU allocations were discontinued effective July 1, 2022, and SHF entered
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There is no impact on revenue as a result of implementing these
−Removed: Nine Months Ended Sep 30,
+Added: Three months Ended March 31,
Compensation and employee benefits
−Removed: Professional services
−Removed: Provision for loan losses
General and administrative expenses
+Added: Professional services
+Added: Provision for credit losses
Total operating expenses
−Removed: and employee benefits increased partially as a result of Sundie Seefried, our CEO, and one of our Vice President’s resigning from
−Removed: PCCU effective July 1, 2021, and beginning employment at SHF the same date.
−Removed: Prior to the July 1, 2021 reorganization a portion of their
−Removed: costs would have been included in the Parent allocations.
−Removed: Amounts also increased as SHF increased head count in conjunction with anticipated
−Removed: services expense increased primarily due to audit fees incurred and increased consulting fees as we increase our lending activity and
−Removed: prepare to become a public company.
−Removed: allocations decreased to zero as they were discontinued in conjunction with the reorganization discussed in the Business Reorganization
−Removed: section above.
−Removed: for loan losses has increased as SHF focuses on increasing lending activity.
+Added: and employee benefits increased on account of stock-based compensation and also the increase in the head count in anticipation of growth.
+Added: services expense increased primarily due to the increase in the legal fees, audit fees, and consulting fees towards SEC filing and other
+Added: ancillary reporting’s.
+Added: for credit losses has increased due to increase in the loss rate and with increase in the absolute value of the loans.
and administrative expenses increased across various categories including:
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result of the reorganization, ii) approximately $76,879 in increased advertising and marketing as we focus on growth, iii) $387,132 in
−Removed: travel, meals, and entertainment, iv) $17,682 in dues and subscriptions, v) $14,264 in loan servicing fees, and vi) $6,068 in business
−Removed: insurance, offset by a decrease of $155,874 in other operating expenses.
−Removed: cash equivalents, and restricted cash
−Removed: cash equivalents, and restricted cash totaled $7,273,012 and $5,495,905 as of September 30, 2022, December 31, 2021, respectively.
−Removed: compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2021, cash provided by operations decreased from $1,972,803 to $2,349,763 for the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2022, mainly due to reduced net income from operations with an additional amount resulting from changes across
−Removed: operating assets and liabilities.
−Removed: See discussion under “— Discussion of our Results of Operations ” above for
−Removed: more information.
+Added: amortization and depreciation, and iv) $208,813 in business insurance.
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: and cash equivalents totaled $8,628,752 and $8,390,195 as of March 31, 2023, December 31, 2022, respectively.
+Added: the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Company’s cash used in operations was ($210,737) compared to cash provided by $506,455,
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
+Added: This was mainly due to reduced net income from operations with an additional amount resulting
+Added: from changes across operating assets and liabilities.
+Added: See discussion under “ Discussion of our Results of Operations ”
+Added: above for more information.
assets and liabilities
−Removed: revenue is primarily related to contract liabilities associated with Safe Harbor agreements.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, SHF reported a
−Removed: contract asset and liability of $18,317 and $8,333, respectively.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2022, SHF reported a contract asset of $7,676 and contract
−Removed: liability of $14,583.
−Removed: of September 30, 2022, the Company had $7,273,012 in cash and net working capital of ($28,241,810), as compared to $5,495,905 in
−Removed: cash and net working capital of $5,922,023 at December 31, 2021.
−Removed: The driver of the working capital deficit is the current portion of
−Removed: the long-term payable owed to the Seller, PCCU, from the aforementioned business combination.
−Removed: To permit the business combination
−Removed: transaction to be completed, PCCU agreed to an unsecured future payment obligation of $56,949,800, the current portion of which is
−Removed: This large payment is offset by $4,090,000 in proceeds the Company expects pursuant to the PIPE offering currently held
−Removed: in escrow to be released when the Company’s currently pending registration statement on Form S-1 becomes effective, as well as
−Removed: proceeds from the Forward Purchase Agreement subsequent to the effectiveness of the pending Form S-1.
−Removed: Furthermore, PCCU has agreed to
−Removed: a six-month deferral while the Company and PCCU negotiate a solution regarding the Company’s payment obligation to
−Removed: Company has not incurred significant cumulative consolidated operating losses and does not have negative cash flows.
−Removed: As of September
−Removed: 30, 2022, the Company has retained earnings of $243,981;
−Removed: furthermore, for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company generated
−Removed: $1,894,179 in net income and $1,972,803 in operating cash flows.
−Removed: The Company also has the potential ability to renegotiate its aforementioned
−Removed: payable with PCCU, thus eliminating any working deficit.
−Removed: These factors, however, do not remove substantial doubt regarding the Company’s
−Removed: ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: If the Company is not able to sustain its present level of operations, it may be forced to make
−Removed: reductions in spending, extend payment terms with suppliers, liquidate assets where possible, or suspend or curtail planned expansion
−Removed: Any of these actions could materially harm the Company’s business, results of operations and future prospects.
−Removed: The accompanying
−Removed: unaudited combined financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates
−Removed: the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business, and do not include any adjustments to
−Removed: reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classification of liabilities that
−Removed: may result should the Company not continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Management does not believe they have sufficient cash for the next twelve
−Removed: months from the date of this report to continue as a going concern without maintaining its present level of business activity.
−Removed: also believes that its pending business combination transaction that was agreed to on October 31, 2022 (refer to the “Subsequent
−Removed: Events” section within Form 10-Q) will be consistent with allowing the Company to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: purchase agreement
−Removed: June 16, 2022, NLIT entered into a Forward Purchase Agreement with Midtown East Management NL, LLC (“Midtown East”).
−Removed: to entering into the Forward Purchase Agreement, the Company, NLIT, and Midtown East entered into assignment and novation agreements
−Removed: with Verdun Investments LLC (“Verdun”) and Vellar Opportunity Fund SPV LLC – Series 1 (“Vellar”), pursuant
−Removed: to which Midtown East assigned its obligations as to 1,666,666 shares of the shares of Class A Stock to be purchased under the Forward
−Removed: Purchase Agreement to each of Verdun and Vellar.
−Removed: As contemplated by the Forward Purchase Agreement:
−Removed: to the closing, Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar purchased approximately 3.8 million shares
−Removed: of NLIT Class A common stock directly from investors at market price in the public market.
−Removed: Midtown East and other counter parties waived their redemption rights with respect to the
−Removed: acquired shares.
−Removed: business day following the closing, NLIT paid approximately $39.3 million from the cash held
−Removed: in its trust account to Midtown East;
−Removed: Verdun and Vellar for the shares purchased and approximately
−Removed: $0.3 million in related expense amounts.
−Removed: any time prior to the Maturity Date (defined as the earlier of i) the third anniversary of
−Removed: the closing of the Business Combination, ii) the shares are delisted from The Nasdaq Stock
−Removed: Market or (iii) during any 30 consecutive Scheduled Trading Day-period following the closing
−Removed: of the Business Combination, the VWAP Price for 20 Scheduled Trading Days during such period
−Removed: shall be less than $3.00 per share), Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar may elect an optional
−Removed: early termination to sell some or all of the shares (the “Terminated Shares”)
−Removed: of Class A Stock in the open market.
−Removed: If Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar sell any shares prior
−Removed: to the Maturity Date, the pro-rata portion of the Reset Price will be released from the escrow
−Removed: account and paid to SHF.
−Removed: Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar shall retain any proceeds in excess
−Removed: of the Reset Price that is paid to SHF.
−Removed: ● At the Maturity Date, Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar shall be entitled
−Removed: to (1) the product of the shares then held by them multiplied by the Forward Price, and (2) an amount, in cash or shares at the sole discretion
−Removed: of NLIT, equal to (a) in the case of cash, the product of(i)(x) 3.8 million shares less (y) the number of Terminated Shares and (ii) $2.00
−Removed: (the “Maturity Cash Consideration”) and (b) in the case of shares, (i) the Maturity Cash Consideration divided by (ii) the
−Removed: VWAP Price for the 30 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Maturity Date.
+Added: revenue is primarily related to contract liabilities associated with the Company agreements.
+Added: As of March 31, 2023, SHF reported a contract
+Added: asset and liability of $34,189 and $79,612 and on December 31, 2022, SHF reported a contract asset and liability of $21,170 and $996,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: and going concern
+Added: of March 31, 2023, the Company had $8,628,752 in cash and net working capital of deficit of $8,998,880, as compared to $8,390,195 in
+Added: cash and net working capital deficit of $39,340,020 at December 31, 2022.
+Added: Included in the working capital deficit at March 31, 2023
+Added: and December 31, 2022 are $11,685,419 and $11,622,831, respectively, which represent the equity consideration payable towards the
+Added: Abaca acquisition.
+Added: The Company has also incurred an operating loss of $1,621,669 for the period ended March 31, 2023.
+Added: At December 31, 2022, a significant component of the working capital deficit was $25,973,017 as current portion of
+Added: As outlined above, the Company restructured the due to PCCU issuing equity and a long-term payable.
+Added: As a result, this risk
+Added: factor that the Company may not be able to continue as a going concern which existed at December 31, 2022 was alleviated.
+Added: restructuring of the due to PCCU, at March 31, 2023, the working capital deficit substantially includes an equity commitment equity commitment
+Added: towards the Abaca acquisition, which is a non-cash liability amounting to $11,685,419.
+Added: upon these factors, management of the Company has determined that there is a risk of substantial doubt about the Company’s ability
+Added: to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from the date these condensed consolidated financial statements
+Added: have been issued.
+Added: The Company also hired an experienced Chief Financial Officer in
+Added: October 2022, who has immediately begun to institute certain cost-cutting measures across the Company, including expense reduction measures
+Added: and negotiating reduced amounts and extended terms for certain payables.
+Added: These factors, however, do not fully remove substantial doubt
+Added: regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern that has been identified.
+Added: If the Company is not able to sustain
+Added: its present level of operations, it may be forced to make reductions in spending, extend payment terms with suppliers, liquidate assets
+Added: where possible, or suspend or curtail planned expansion programs.
+Added: Any of these actions could materially harm the Company’s business,
+Added: results of operations and future prospects.
+Added: accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern, which
+Added: contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business, and do not include any adjustments
+Added: to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classification of liabilities
+Added: that may result should the Company not continue as a going concern as a result of this uncertainty.
Accounting Policies and Estimates
−Removed: consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
−Removed: Preparing consolidated financial statements
−Removed: requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses,
−Removed: as well as disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
−Removed: An appreciation of our critical accounting policies is necessary to understand
−Removed: our financial results.
−Removed: In some cases, we could reasonably use different accounting policies and estimates, and changes in our estimates
−Removed: are reasonably likely to occur from period to period.
−Removed: Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from our estimates, and our
−Removed: financial condition or results of operations could be affected.
−Removed: We base our estimates on our experience and other assumptions that we
−Removed: believe are reasonable, and we evaluate these estimates on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: We refer to accounting estimates of this type as critical
−Removed: accounting policies and estimates, which we discuss further below.
−Removed: adopted Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).
−Removed: The core principle of ASC 606 requires that an entity recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers
−Removed: in an amount that reflects the consideration to which SHF expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.
−Removed: ASC 606 defines
−Removed: a five-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, it is possible more judgment and estimates may be required within
−Removed: the revenue recognition process than required under existing accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
−Removed: GAAP”) including identifying performance obligations in the contract, estimating the amount of variable consideration
−Removed: to include in the transaction price and allocating the transaction price to each separate performance obligation.
−Removed: SHF adopted ASC 606
−Removed: for all applicable contracts using the modified retrospective method, which would have required a cumulative-effect adjustment, if any,
−Removed: as of the date of adoption.
−Removed: The adoption of ASC 606 did not have a material impact on SHF’s financial statements as of the date
−Removed: As a result, a cumulative-effect adjustment was not required.
+Added: condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
+Added: Preparing condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue,
+Added: and expenses, as well as disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
+Added: An appreciation of our critical accounting policies is necessary
+Added: to understand our financial results.
+Added: In some cases, we could reasonably use different accounting policies and estimates, and changes
+Added: in our estimates are reasonably likely to occur from period to period.
+Added: Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from our estimates,
+Added: and our financial condition or results of operations could be affected.
+Added: We base our estimates on our experience and other assumptions
+Added: that we believe are reasonable, and we evaluate these estimates on an ongoing basis.
+Added: We refer to accounting estimates of this type as
+Added: critical accounting policies and estimates, which we discuss further below.
+Added: recognized revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers
+Added: The core principle of ASC 606 requires that an entity recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods
+Added: or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which SHF expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods
+Added: ASC 606 defines a five-step process to achieve this core principle including identifying performance obligations in the
+Added: contract, estimating the amount of variable consideration to include in the transaction price and allocating the transaction price to
+Added: each separate performance obligation.
is recorded at a point in time when the performance obligation is satisfied, and no contingencies exist.
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SHF also records revenue for interest on loans and investment income allocated by PCCU based on specific customer balances.
−Removed: received in advance of the service being provided is recorded as a liability under deferred revenue on the combined balance sheets.
−Removed: Safe Harbor Program contracts are three-year contracts with amounts due monthly, quarterly or annually based on contract terms.
+Added: received in advance of the service being provided is recorded as a liability under deferred revenue on the consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: Typical Safe Harbor Program contracts are three-year contracts with amounts due monthly, quarterly or annually based on contract terms.
consist of financial institutions providing services to CRBs.
Revenues are concentrated in the United States.
−Removed: for loan losses
−Removed: allowance for loan losses is a valuation allowance for probable incurred credit losses, increased by the provision for loan losses and
−Removed: decreased by charge-offs less recoveries.
−Removed: Management estimates the required allowance for loan losses balance using past loan loss experience,
−Removed: known and inherent risks in the nature and volume of the portfolio, information about specific borrower situations and estimated collateral
−Removed: values, economic conditions, and other factors.
−Removed: Allocations of the allowance for loan losses may be made for specific loans, but the
−Removed: entire allowance is available for any loan that, in management’s judgment, should be charged-off.
−Removed: Loan losses are charged against
−Removed: the allowance for loan losses when management believes the uncollectibility of a loan balance is confirmed.
−Removed: allowance for loan losses consists of specific and general components.
−Removed: The specific component relates to loans that are individually
−Removed: classified as impaired or loans otherwise classified as substandard or doubtful.
−Removed: The general component covers non-classified loans and
−Removed: is based on historical loss experience adjusted for current factors.
−Removed: to the nature of uncertainties related to any estimation process, Management’s estimate of loan losses inherent in the loan portfolio
−Removed: may change in the near term.
−Removed: However, the amount of the change that is reasonably possible cannot be estimated.
−Removed: loan is considered impaired when, based on current information and events, full payment under the loan terms is not expected.
−Removed: is generally evaluated in total for smaller-balance loans of similar nature such as a commercial loan and commercial lines of credit,
−Removed: but may be evaluated on an individual loan basis if deemed necessary.
−Removed: If a loan is impaired, a portion of the allowance is allocated
−Removed: so that the loan is reported, net, at the present value of estimated future cash flows using the loan’s existing rate or at the
−Removed: fair value of collateral if repayment is expected solely from the collateral.
−Removed: loans SHF intends to originate will be secured by various types of assets of the borrowers, including real property and certain personal
−Removed: property, including value associated with other assets to the extent permitted by applicable laws and the regulations governing the borrowers.
−Removed: The documents governing the loans also include a variety of provisions intended to provide remedies against the value associated with
−Removed: Collection procedures are designed to ensure that neither SHF nor its financial institution clients who provide funding for
−Removed: a loan, nor a third-party agent engaged to assist with the liquidation or foreclosure process, will take possession of cannabis inventory,
−Removed: cannabis paraphernalia, or other cannabis-related assets, nor will they take title to real estate used in cannabis-related businesses.
−Removed: Upon default of a loan, a third-party agent will be engaged to work with the borrower to have the borrower sell collateral securing the
−Removed: loan to a third party or to institute a foreclosure proceeding to have such collateral sold to generate funds towards the payoff of the
−Removed: Applicable regulations under state law that govern CRBs generally do not permit the taking of title to real estate involved in
−Removed: commercial sales of cannabis, whether through foreclosure or otherwise, without prior regulatory approval.
−Removed: The sale of a license or other
−Removed: realization of the value of licenses also requires the approval of state and local regulatory authorities.
−Removed: A defaulted loan may also
−Removed: be sold if such a sale would yield higher proceeds or that a sale could be accomplished more quickly than a foreclosure proceeding while
−Removed: yielding proceeds comparable to what would be expected from a foreclosure sale.
−Removed: Such sale of the loan would be conducted through a third-party
−Removed: administrative agent.
−Removed: However, SHF can provide no assurances that a sale of such loans would be possible or that the sales price of such
−Removed: loans would be sufficient to recover the outstanding principal balance, accrued interest, and fees.
−Removed: indemnification component of the Loan Servicing Agreement is accounted for in accordance with ASC 450-20 Loss Contingencies.
+Added: indemnification component of the Loan Servicing Agreement is accounted for in accordance with ASC 460 Guarantees.
In determining
the applicability of ASC 460, we considered that the agreement outlines a broad indemnification of all claims related to the cannabis-related
−Removed: The most immediate and potentially significant of these are potential default-related loan losses.
+Added: The most immediate and potentially significant of these are potential default-related credit losses.
In the lending industry,
−Removed: it is inherently anticipated future loan losses will result from currently issued debt.
+Added: it is inherently anticipated future credit losses will result from currently issued debt.
SHF’s indemnity obligation is subordinate
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as to possible loss to the Company that will ultimately be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur.
−Removed: indemnity liability reflects SHF management’s estimate of probable loan losses inherent under the agreement at the balance sheet
+Added: indemnity liability reflects SHF management’s estimate of probable credit losses inherent under the agreement at the balance sheet
Management uses a disciplined process and methodology to establish the liability, and the estimates are sensitive to risk ratings
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ratings are evaluated quarterly by SHF management based on each situation.
−Removed: addition to default-related loan losses, SHF continuously monitors all other circumstances pursuant to the agreement and identifies events
+Added: addition to default-related credit losses, SHF continuously monitors all other circumstances pursuant to the agreement and identifies events
that may necessitate a loss contingency under the Loan Servicing Agreement.
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a future event will confirm that a loss had been incurred on or before the related balance sheet date and the loss is reasonably estimable.
+Added: 2022 Plan (“Equity Incentive Plan”) was approved by the Company’s stockholders on June 28, 2022.
+Added: The 2022 Plan
+Added: permits the grant of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted
+Added: stock units, stock bonus awards, and performance compensation awards.
+Added: The Company has not issued stock appreciation rights,
+Added: restricted stock, stock bonus awards, or performance compensation awards in years 2023 and 2022.
+Added: In conjunction with the 2022 Plan,
+Added: as of March 31, 2023, the Company had granted stock options and restricted stock units which are described in more detail
+Added: options are awarded to encourage ownership of the Company’s common stock by employees and to provide increased incentive for employees
+Added: to render services and to exert maximum effort for the success of the Company.
+Added: The Company’s incentive stock options generally
+Added: permit net-share settlement upon exercise.
+Added: The option exercise price, vesting schedule and exercise period are determined for each grant
+Added: by the administrator (person appointed by board to administer the stock plans) of the applicable plan.
+Added: The Company’s stock options
+Added: generally have a 10-year contractual term.
+Added: Company measures all equity-based payment arrangements to employees and directors in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation–Stock
+Added: Compensation.
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation cost is measured based on the fair value at the grant date of the stock-based
+Added: It is recognized as expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.
+Added: Forfeitures are recognized
+Added: as they occur.
+Added: The Company estimates the fair value of each stock-based award on its measurement date using either the current market
+Added: price of the stock or Black-Scholes option valuation model, whichever is most appropriate.
+Added: The Black-Scholes valuation model incorporates
+Added: assumptions such as expected term of the instrument, volatility of the Company’s future share price, risk free rates, future dividend
+Added: yields and estimated forfeitures at the initial grant date, by reference to the underlying terms of the instrument, and the Company’s
+Added: experience with similar instruments.
+Added: Changes in assumptions used to estimate fair value could result in materially different results.
+Added: shares of the Company were listed on the stock exchange for a limited period of the time and also the stock price has dropped significantly
+Added: from the date of listing, based on which the Company has considered the expected volatility at 100% for the purpose of stock compensation.
+Added: The risk-free interest rates are based on quoted U.S.
+Added: Treasury rates for securities with maturities approximating the awards’ expected
+Added: The expected term of the options granted is calculated based on the simplified method by taking average of contractual term and
+Added: vesting period the awards.
+Added: The expected dividend yield is zero as the Company has never paid dividends and does not currently anticipate
+Added: paying any in the foreseeable future.
+Added: purchase agreement
+Added: June 16, 2022, NLIT entered into a Forward Purchase Agreement with Midtown East Management NL, LLC (“Midtown East”).
+Added: to entering into the Forward Purchase Agreement, the Company, NLIT, and Midtown East entered into assignment and novation agreements
+Added: with Verdun Investments LLC (“Verdun”) and Vellar Opportunity Fund SPV LLC – Series 1 (“Vellar”), pursuant
+Added: to which Midtown East assigned its obligations as to 1,666,666 shares of the shares of Class A Stock to be purchased under the Forward
+Added: Purchase Agreement to each of Verdun and Vellar.
+Added: As contemplated by the Forward Purchase Agreement:
+Added: to the business combination, Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar purchased approximately 3.8
+Added: million shares of NLIT Class A common stock directly from investors at market price in the
+Added: public market.
+Added: Midtown East and other counter parties waived their redemption rights with
+Added: respect to the acquired shares;
+Added: business day following the Closing, NLIT paid approximately $39.3 million from the cash held
+Added: in its trust account to Midtown East;
+Added: Verdun and Vellar for the shares purchased and approximately
+Added: $0.3 million in related expense amounts.
+Added: any time prior to the Maturity Date (defined as the earlier of i) the third anniversary of
+Added: the Closing of the Business Combination, ii) the shares are delisted from The Nasdaq Stock
+Added: Market or (iii) during any 30 consecutive Scheduled Trading Day-period following the closing
+Added: of the Business Combination, the Volume Weighted Average share Price (VWAP) Price for 20
+Added: Scheduled Trading Days during such period shall be less than $3.00 per share), Midtown East,
+Added: Verdun and Vellar may elect an optional early termination to sell some or all of the shares
+Added: (the “Terminated Shares”) of Class A Stock in the open market.
+Added: If Midtown East,
+Added: Verdun and Vellar sell any shares prior to the Maturity Date, the pro-rata portion of the
+Added: Reset Price will be released from the escrow account and paid to SHF.
+Added: Midtown East, Verdun
+Added: and Vellar shall retain any proceeds in excess of the Reset Price that is paid to SHF.
+Added: the Maturity Date, Midtown East, Verdun and Vellar shall be entitled to (1) the product of
+Added: the shares then held by them multiplied by the Forward Price, and (2) an amount, in cash
+Added: or shares at the sole discretion of NLIT, equal to (a) in the case of cash, the product of(i)(x)
+Added: 3.8 million shares less (y) the number of Terminated Shares and (ii) $2.00 (the “Maturity
+Added: Cash Consideration”) and (b) in the case of shares, (i) the Maturity Cash Consideration
+Added: divided by (ii) the VWAP Price for the 30 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Maturity Date.
+Added: trading value of the common stock combined with preferred shareholders electing to convert
+Added: their preferred shares to common stock triggered a lower reset price embedded in the forward
+Added: purchase agreement, or FPA.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the Company had already called a special
+Added: meeting to lower the make-whole price under the preferred share purchase agreement to $1.25/share.
+Added: The Company, majority common shareholders and the preferred investors had entered into a
+Added: voting agreement whereby the vote to approve the $1.25/share make-whole price was secured.
+Added: Knowing the Company would ultimately be issuing shares to the preferred stockholders with
+Added: a make whole issuance at $1.25/share compelled the company to recognize a reset price under
+Added: the terms of the FPA of $1.25/share.
+Added: These events significantly reduced the FPA receivable
+Added: to approximately $4.6 million, from approximately $37.9 million reported at the end of the
+Added: September 2022 quarter.
+Added: The loss in value resulted not only in a compression of the balance
+Added: sheet, but also $42.3 million charge to other expense on the statement of operations.
+Added: purchase derivative
+Added: Company accounts for the forward purchase derivative assumed in the business combination in accordance with the guidance contained in
+Added: ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging” (“ASC 815”).
+Added: The Company classifies the forward purchase derivatives
+Added: as liabilities carried at their fair value and adjusts the forward purchase derivatives to fair value at each reporting period.
+Added: derivative asset or liability is subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date until the conditions under the forward purchase
+Added: agreement are exercised or expire, and any change in fair value is recognized in the condensed consolidated statement of operations.
+Added: The fair value of the forward purchase derivative was estimated using a Monte-Carlo Simulation in a risk-neutral framework (a special
+Added: case of the Income Approach).
+Added: Specifically, the future stock price is simulated assuming a Geometric Brownian Motion (“GBM”).
+Added: For each simulated path, the forward purchase value is calculated based on the contractual terms and then discounted at the term-matched
+Added: risk-free rate.
+Added: Lastly, the value of the forward is calculated as the average present value over all simulated paths.
+Added: The Company measured
+Added: the fair value of the forward purchase option derivative upon execution of the Forward Purchase Agreement and as of March 31, 2023, with
+Added: the respective fair value adjustments recorded within its Statements of Operations.
+Added: The Company will continue to monitor the fair value
+Added: of the forward option derivative each reporting period with subsequent revisions to be recorded in the Statements of Operations.
+Added: for Credit Losses (ACL)
+Added: 2023, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Codification Topic 326 - Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (ASC Topic 326), which
+Added: replaced the incurred loss methodology for estimated probable credit losses with an expected credit loss methodology that is referred to
+Added: as the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) methodology.
+Added: ACL is a valuation account that is deducted from the amortized cost basis of financial assets carried at their amortized cost, including
+Added: loans held for investment, to present the net amount that is expected to be collected throughout the life of the financial asset.
+Added: estimated ACL is recorded through a provision for credit losses charged against operations.
+Added: Management periodically evaluates the adequacy
+Added: of the ACL to maintain it at a level it believes to be reasonable.
+Added: The Company uses the same methods used to determine the ACL to assess
+Added: any reserves needed for off-balance sheet credit risks such as unfunded loan commitments including Indemnified loans to PCCU.
+Added: These reserves
+Added: for off-balance sheet credit risks are presented in the liabilities section in the consolidated balance sheets as an “Indemnity
+Added: ACL consists of two components:
+Added: an asset-specific component for estimating credit losses for individual loans that do not share similar
+Added: risk characteristics with other loans;
+Added: and a pooled component for estimating credit losses for pools of loans that share similar risk
+Added: characteristics.
+Added: The ACL for the pooled component is derived from an estimate of expected credit losses primarily using an expected loss
+Added: methodology that incorporates risk parameters such as probability of default (“PD”) and loss given default (“LGD”)
+Added: which are derived from various vendor models and/or internally developed model estimation approaches for smaller homogenous loans.
+Added: is projected in these models or estimation approaches using economic scenarios, whose outcomes are weighted based on the Company’s
+Added: economic outlook and are developed to incorporate relevant information about past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable
+Added: The Company considers relevant current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts that relate to its lending practices
+Added: and environment and the specific borrower and determines that the significant factor affecting the loan’s performance is the fact
+Added: that these borrowers are involved in the cannabis business.
+Added: Despite being legal at the state level in certain jurisdictions, cannabis
+Added: remains federally illegal in the United States as of the date of this memorandum.
+Added: As cannabis related lending is a new practice in the
+Added: United States, there is very little historical or industry data on which to base a loss forecast.
+Added: Therefore, significant judgement is
+Added: required in creating a reasonable loss estimate, using similar non-MRB loans as a baseline and adjusting for the inherent risks in the
+Added: cannabis industry.
+Added: While the Company considers other qualitative factors, including national macroeconomic conditions, in its overall
+Added: risk analysis, it has determined that they are not significant inputs to the overall loss estimate calculations.
+Added: ACL estimation process applies an economic forecast scenario, or a composite of scenarios based on management’s judgment and expectations
+Added: around the current and future macroeconomic outlook.
+Added: Expected credit losses are estimated over the contractual term of the loans, adjusted
+Added: for expected prepayments when appropriate.
+Added: The contractual term of a loan excludes expected extensions, renewals, and modification under
+Added: certain conditions.
+Added: on loans represent collections received on amounts that were previously charged off against the ACL.
+Added: Recoveries are credited to the ACL
+Added: when received, to the extent of the amount previously charged off against the ACL on the related loan.
+Added: Any amounts collected in excess
+Added: of this limit are first recognized as interest income, then as a reduction of collection costs, and then as other income.
Growth Company Status
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As a result of the elected JOBS
−Removed: Act relief, these combined and consolidated financial statements may not be comparable to companies that do not elect JOBS Act relief
−Removed: or choose to early adopt different accounting pronouncements than SHF.
+Added: Act relief, these combined and condensed consolidated financial statements may not be comparable to companies that do not elect JOBS
+Added: Act relief or choose to early adopt different accounting pronouncements than SHF.
Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: connection with the audit of our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020, two material weaknesses were identified in
−Removed: our internal controls over financial reporting.
−Removed: A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal controls
−Removed: over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of SHF’s annual or interim consolidated
−Removed: financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: material weakness was identified related to a failure to complete an analysis of the accounting impact of ASC Topic 606, Revenue from
−Removed: Contracts with Customers particularly as it related to revenue recognition associated with our Safe Harbor Program revenue, and one material
−Removed: weakness was identified associated with our application of carve out accounting guidance and our failure to exclude certain specifically
−Removed: identifiable expenses from corporate allocations.
−Removed: We have implemented a plan to remediate these material weaknesses, through measures
−Removed: that include the following:
−Removed: have hired a Chief Financial Officer with previous experience as a public company executive.
−Removed: are utilizing third-party consultants and specialists, to supplement our internal resources.
−Removed: have enhanced our reconciliation and review controls including review by our parent CFO.
−Removed: the implementation of this plan, the material weaknesses have been remediated for the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: SHF’s principal
−Removed: financial and accounting officer has concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: were effective at a reasonable assurance level and, accordingly, provided reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed
−Removed: by us in reports filed under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the
−Removed: SEC’s rules and forms.
−Removed: have begun our implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley and we plan to continue to assess our internal controls and procedures and to take further
−Removed: action as necessary or appropriate to address any other matters we identify.
+Added: connection with our management assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of and for the three months ended March
+Added: 31, 2023, the Company has identified Four (4) material weaknesses within our internal controls over financial reporting related to
+Added: its Deferred Tax Asset, Revenue Recognition, Complex Financial Instruments and Credit Losses.
+Added: Refer to Item 9A of this document for additional
Party Relationships
−Removed: allocations include overhead expenses such as information technology, customer support, marketing, executive compensation and other general
−Removed: and administrative expenses that are attributed to the Branches proportionately based on the relative size of the specific identifiable
−Removed: customer deposits to the consolidated PCCU.
Servicing Agreement
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It shall renew thereafter
−Removed: for one-year terms until either SHF or PCCU provide sixty days prior written notice.
+Added: for 1-year terms until either SHF or PCCU provide sixty days prior written notice.
Pursuant to this agreement, SHF reported revenue of
−Removed: $ 2,340,716 and $ 5,777,446 for the three month and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022 and $ 1,633,667 and $ 4,938,413 for the
−Removed: three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2021.
−Removed: described elsewhere in this document, on February 11, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Amended and Restated Account Servicing
−Removed: Agreement, pursuant to which SHF provides services including, among other things, Bank Secrecy Act compliance and reporting, onboarding,
−Removed: responding to account inquiries, and responding to customer service inquiries relating to accounts at PCCU held for cannabis-related
−Removed: businesses (“CRBs”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, SHF’s fees for such services
−Removed: will equal all cannabis-related income, including all lending-related income (such as loan origination fees, interest income on CRB-related
−Removed: loans, participation fees and servicing fees), investment income, interest income, account activity fees, processing fees, flat fees,
−Removed: and other revenue generated from cannabis and multi-state hemp accounts that are hosted on PCCU’s core system.
−Removed: The Amended and
−Removed: Restated Account Servicing Agreement is for an initial term of three years and will renew for additional one-year terms unless a party
−Removed: provides 120 days’ notice of non-renewal, provided that PCCU may not provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the
−Removed: signing date.
−Removed: The Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement initially provided that the agreement would terminate within 60 days
−Removed: of SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization” or within 60 days of the assumption by a third party
−Removed: of all CRB-related accounts;
−Removed: however, on May 23, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Second Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement,
−Removed: which agreement amended and restated the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement to remove the provision providing for the termination
−Removed: of the agreement within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization,” as SHF ceased to
−Removed: qualify as a CUSO following the closing of the Business Combination.
+Added: $3,261,284 for the three months ended March 31, 2023, and $1,628,091 for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
+Added: described elsewhere in this document, on February 11, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement,
+Added: pursuant to which SHF provides services including, among other things, Bank Secrecy Act compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding
+Added: to account inquiries, and responding to customer service inquiries relating to accounts at PCCU held for cannabis-related businesses
+Added: Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, SHF’s fees for such services will equal
+Added: all cannabis-related income, including all lending-related income (such as loan origination fees, interest income on CRB-related loans,
+Added: participation fees and servicing fees), investment income, interest income, account activity fees, processing fees, flat fees, and other
+Added: revenue generated from cannabis and multi-state hemp accounts that are hosted on PCCU’s core system.
+Added: The Amended and Restated Account
+Added: Servicing Agreement is for an initial term of three years and will renew for additional one-year terms unless a party provides 120 days’
+Added: notice of non-renewal, provided that PCCU may not provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the signing date.
+Added: and Restated Account Servicing Agreement initially provided that the agreement would terminate within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying
+Added: as a “credit union service organization” or within 60 days of the assumption by a third party of all CRB-related accounts;
+Added: however, on May 23, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Second Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, which agreement amended
+Added: and restated the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement to remove the provision providing for the termination of the agreement
+Added: within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization,” as SHF will cease to qualify as a CUSO
+Added: following the closing of the Business Combination.
Services Agreement
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commenced on the effective date and continue unless terminated by either SHF or PCCU upon giving sixty days prior written notice.
−Removed: to these agreements and as amended and restated on February 11, 2022, the Company reported expenses of $204,535 and $420,085 for the
−Removed: three month and nine month periods ended September 30, 2022 and $93,285 and $261,496 for the three and nine month periods ended September
−Removed: described elsewhere in this document, on February 11, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Amended and Restated Support Services
−Removed: Agreement, pursuant to which PCCU will continue to provide to SHF certain operational and administrative services relating to, among
−Removed: other things, human resources, employee benefits, IT and systems, accounting and marketing for a monthly fee equal to $30.96 per account
−Removed: in 2022 and $25.32 per account in 2023 and 2024.
−Removed: In addition, as it pertains to CRB deposits held at PCCU, investment and interest income
−Removed: earned on these deposits (excluding interest income on loans funded by PCCU) will be shared 25% to PCCU and 75% to SHF.
−Removed: SHF will also
−Removed: reimburse PCCU for any of its out-of-pocket expenses relating to the services provided to SHF.
−Removed: The Amended and Restated Support Services
−Removed: Agreement also sets forth certain agreements of PCCU to limit bonus distributions to its members to $30,000,000 during any 12-month period
−Removed: following the effective date of the agreement and to allow its ratio of CRB-related deposits to total assets to equal at least 65% unless
−Removed: otherwise dictated by regulatory, regulator or policy requirements.
−Removed: The Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement has the same
−Removed: term and termination provisions as the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, including a provision providing for the termination
−Removed: of the agreement within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization.” On May 23, 2022, SHF
−Removed: and PCCU entered into the Second Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, which agreement amended and restated the Amended and
−Removed: Restated Support Services Agreement to remove the provision providing for the termination of the agreement within 60 days of SHF no longer
−Removed: qualifying as a “credit union service organization,” as SHF ceased to qualify as a CUSO following the closing of the
−Removed: Business Combination.
+Added: to these agreements and as amended and restated on February 11, 2022, the Company reported expenses of $378,730 for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2023, and $83,807 for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
+Added: described elsewhere in this document, on February 11, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered into the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement,
+Added: pursuant to which PCCU will continue to provide to SHF certain operational and administrative services relating to, among other things,
+Added: human resources, employee benefits, IT and systems, accounting and marketing for a monthly fee equal to $30.96 per account in 2022 and
+Added: $25.32 per account in 2023 and 2024.
+Added: In addition, as it pertains to CRB deposits held at PCCU, investment and interest income earned
+Added: on these deposits (excluding interest income on loans funded by PCCU) will be shared 25% to PCCU and 75% to SHF.
+Added: SHF will also reimburse
+Added: PCCU for any of its out-of-pocket expenses relating to the services provided to SHF.
+Added: The Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement
+Added: also sets forth certain agreements of PCCU to limit bonus distributions to its members to $30,000,000 during any 12-month period following
+Added: the effective date of the agreement and to allow its ratio of CRB-related deposits to total assets to equal at least 65% unless otherwise
+Added: dictated by regulatory, regulator or policy requirements.
+Added: The Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement has the same term and termination
+Added: provisions as the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement, including a provision providing for the termination of the agreement
+Added: within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying as a “credit union service organization.” On May 23, 2022, SHF and PCCU entered
+Added: into the Second Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement, which agreement amended and restated the Amended and Restated Support
+Added: Services Agreement to remove the provision providing for the termination of the agreement within 60 days of SHF no longer qualifying
+Added: as a “credit union service organization,” as SHF will cease to qualify as a CUSO following the closing of the Business Combination.
Servicing Agreement
−Removed: February 11, 2022, SHF entered into an Amended and Restated Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU.
+Added: February 11, 2022, SHF entered into a Loan Servicing Agreement with PCCU.
The agreement sets forth the application, underwriting and
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Under the Loan Servicing Agreement, SHF has agreed to indemnify
−Removed: PCCU from all claims related to default-related loan losses as defined in the Loan Servicing Agreement.
+Added: PCCU from all claims related to default-related credit losses as defined in the Loan Servicing Agreement.
The agreement is for an initial
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is a termination for cause, provided that PCCU may not provide notice of non-renewal until 30 months following the signing date.
−Removed: to this agreement, the Company reported expenses of $ 9,160 and $ 14.264 for the three month and nine month periods ended September 30,
−Removed: 2022 and $0 for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2021.
+Added: to this agreement, the Company reported expenses of $ 11,929 for the three months ended March 31, 2023, and $1,373 for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2022.
+Added: March 29, 2023, The Company and PCCU entered into the Commercial Alliance Agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the lending-related
+Added: and account-related services governing the relationship between the Company and PCCU and supersedes the Loan Servicing Agreement, as
+Added: well as the Amended and Restated Support Services Agreement and the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement.
July 1, 2021, SHF entered into a one-year gross lease with the Parent to lease space in its existing office at a monthly rent of $5,400.
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are reported pursuant to ASC 842.
+Added: of shares to PCCU
+Added: March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into the following definitive transaction documents to settle and restructure the deferred
+Added: five-year Senior Secured Promissory Note (the “Note”) in the principal amount of $14,500,000 bearing interest at the
+Added: rate of 4.25% and a Security Agreement pursuant to which the Company will grant, as collateral for the Note, a first priority security
+Added: interest in substantially all of the assets of the Company.
+Added: Securities Issuance Agreement, pursuant to which the Company will issue 11,200,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock
+Added: Following the issuance of the Shares, PCCU will own 54.93% of the outstanding Class A Common Stock.
+Added: In connection with the
+Added: Securities Issuance Agreement, the parties also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement and a Lock-Up Agreement.
+Added: Registration Rights Agreement requires the Company to register the Shares for resale pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
+Added: (the “Securities Act”);
+Added: and the Lock-Up Agreement restricts PCCU from transferring the Shares until the earlier of (i)
+Added: six (6) months after the date of the Securities Issuance Documents or (ii) the consummation of a transaction with an unaffiliated
+Added: third party in which all of the Company’s stockholders have the right to exchange their shares of Class A Common Stock for
+Added: cash, securities, or other property;
+Added: Commercial Alliance Agreement that sets forth the terms and conditions of the lending-related and account-related services governing
+Added: the relationship between the Company and PCCU which supersedes the Loan Servicing Agreement, as well as the Amended and Restated
+Added: Support Services Agreement and the Amended and Restated Account Servicing Agreement.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
−Removed: The Company is a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and is not required to provide the information
+Added: Holdings, Inc.
+Added: is a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and is not required to provide the information
otherwise required with respect to market risk.
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