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CR ESPI 63/2021 – Information regarding the EMI license
The Management Board of Aforti Holding S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “Issuer”, in reference to the ESPI current report 23/2021 dated 27 April 2021, informs that today it has received information from Aforti PLC, a subsidiary based in the United Kingdom, regarding an EU Electronic Money Institution licensed under the applicable EU Directives on Payment Services and Electronic Money (“EMI”), on the completion of the review process of the EMI license activation application by the Licensing Department of the Central Bank of Cyprus and the EMI license has been finally activated.
The above occurrence will allow the commencement of operations in Cyprus.
The acquisition of EMI is part of the Aforti Group’s strategy to become a pan-European provider of comprehensive financial solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises. The Issuer will inform about further stages of the investment in subsequent current reports.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information
CR ESPI 64/2021 – Information regarding the EMI license passporting
The Management Board of Aforti Holding S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “Issuer”, in reference to the ESPI current report 63/2021 dated 23 December 2021, announces that it has today received information from Aforti PLC, a subsidiary based in the United Kingdom, regarding an EU electronic money institution licensed under the applicable EU directives on payment services and electronic money (“EMI”), regarding the submission today of an application to the Central Bank of Cyprus to passport the EMI license to the rest of the European Union.
The passporting of the EMI licencse will allow, in line with the Aforti Group’s strategy, to develop its activities in 11 East-Central European countries offering services such as currency exchange, factoring, multi-currency accounts, and currency transfers.
The acquisition of EMI is part of the Aforti Group’s strategy to become a pan-European provider of comprehensive financial solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises. The Issuer will inform about further stages of the investment in subsequent current reports.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information
CR ESPI 65/2021 – Correction to Current Report No. 27/2021
The Management Board of Aforti Holding S.A., with its registered office in Warsaw (the “Issuer”), hereby presents a correction to ESPI Report No. 27/2021 – Completion of third offering of shares in Aforti PLC private placement.
The correction of the report is related to the identification of a typing error regarding the number of shares subscribed by individual investors and the amount for which the shares were subscribed.
The content of the current report with the introduced changes:
“The Management Board of Aforti Holding S.A . based in Warsaw (the “Company”, “Issuer”), in reference to the ESPI Current Report 25/2021 dated 4 May 2021 regarding the completion of the second offering of shares in Aforti PLC’s private placement informs that today the Issuer has been informed by its subsidiary Aforti PLC, based in London, that it completed on 21.05.2021 the third offering round of new issue shares in its private placement.
The third round was attended by 53 individual investors who subscribed for a total of 1,148,698 Aforti PLC shares for £976,393 confirming a valuation of the company after paid-in capital of approximately £32.57 million. The subsidiary will commence a fourth round of offering its shares in a private placement from 24 May 2021.
Also, on 21 May 2021, the Issuer entered into agreements for the sale of AFORTI PLC shares with 113 individual investors, the aggregate value of which can be considered significant. Aforti Holding S.A. made a total sale of 5,028,170 Aforti PLC shares at a price of £0.85 per share.
Following the transaction Aforti Holding S.A. directly holds 31,335,430 shares in Aforti PLC (representing 81.96% of the share capital), whilst 193 individual investors hold 6,896,432 shares in Aforti PLC (representing 18.04% of the share capital) with a total value of £5,861,967.
The actions taken allow the continuation of activities carried out by a UK broker aimed at indirectly floating the Issuer’s subsidiary, Aforti Exchange S.A., headquartered in Warsaw, on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and raising up to €5 million in a private placement, as well as raising an additional £4.5 million through an initial public offering on the LSE.
The offering of new issue shares in a private placement of Aforti PLC and the sale of Aforti PLC shares by the Issuer is connected with the next stage of activities aimed at further implementation of the strategy of the Issuer’s Capital Group.”
Legal basis: Art. 56 section 1 item 2 of the Public Offering Act – current and periodic information
CR ESPI 66/2021 – Completion offering of shares in Aforti PLC private placement
The Management Board of Aforti Holding S.A with its registered office in Warsaw (the “Company”, “Issuer”), in reference to current report ESPI 55/2021 dated 25 October 2021 relating to the completion of the fifth offering of shares under Aforti PLC’s private placement informs that today the Issuer has received information from its subsidiary Aforti PLC, with its registered office in London, that it has completed on 30.12.2021 the sixth rounds of offering shares of a new issue under a private placement.
In the sixth round one investor took part, who subscribed for a total of 2,678,511 Aforti PLC shares for a value of GBP 2,678,511, confirming the valuation of the company after paid-in capital at approximately GBP 41.35 million.
Following the transaction Aforti Holding S.A. directly holds 33,988,187 shares in Aforti PLC (representing 82.20% of the share capital), while individual investors hold 7,361,365 shares in Aforti PLC (representing 17.80% of the share capital) with a total value of £7,361,365.
The actions taken allow the continuation of activities carried out by a UK broker aimed at indirectly floating the Issuer’s subsidiary, Aforti Exchange S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and to raise a further GBP 4.5 million through an initial public offering on the LSE.
The offering of new issue shares in the private placement of Aforti PLC’s subsidiary and the sale of Aforti PLC shares by the Issuer is related to the next stage of activities aimed at further implementation of the strategy of the Issuer’s Capital Group.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information
CR ESPI 67/2020 – Correction of the current report ESPI 65/2020 concerning the operational and sales estimates of the AFORTI Group – October 2020.
The Management Board of AFORTI Holding S.A. with its seat in Warsaw (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “Issuer”) hereby submits public revision of the current report ESPI 65/2020 concerning the operational and sales estimates of the AFORTI Group for October 2020.
The typing error occurred in the content of the current report ESPI 65/2020, i.e., in paragraph 1) concerning the exchange of currencies on the online platforms and in Appendix 1 to the current report ESPI 65/2020 in the table concerning Aforti Exchange. Other information has not changed. Below we present the content of the report after correction:
1) Exchange of currencies on online platforms
The value of trading on the currency exchange platform in October 2020 amounted to 290,183,680.09 PLN and was higher by 11.65% compared to the same period last year.
After ten months of this year, the total value of trading on the currency exchange platform reached 1,540,211,023.90 PLN, which means a decrease of 34.00% year-on-year.
2) Collection orders
The nominal value of debt collection orders in October 2020 was 46 109 355.55 PLN. This represents an increase of 243.23 % year-on-year. The number of debt collection orders was 14,731 and was 173.00 % higher than in October 2019.
On a cumulative basis, after ten months of 2020, the nominal value of debt collection orders reached 562,102,395.94 PLN, an increase of 68.07 %. At the same time, there was an increase of 122.61 % in the number of orders to 159 613.
3) Financed receivables
In October 2020, the value of the receivables financed by AFORTI Factor amounted to 1 272 380.52 PLN and was 54.07% lower than a year ago.
Cumulatively, after ten months of the current year, AFORTI Factor financed a total of 24 944 160.44 PLN of receivables, noting a reduction of 31.35% in relation to the previous year.
The table with reported estimated data for October 2020 together with comparative data is attached to this current report.
The amounts given were converted into PLN based on the average NBP exchange rate of 30.10.2020.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information