The board of Aforti Holding S.A. („the Company”, „the Issuer”) headquartered in Warsaw, in reference to the current report of ESPI No. 13/2018 dated on 18/04/2018, hereby announces to the public that on October 31, 2018 it received information that a company Aforti Finance Romania IFN S.A. with its registered office in Bucharest (hereinafter: „Aforti Finance Romania”) whose dominant shareholder is the Issuer’s subsidiary: Aforti Finance SA with its registered office in Warsaw, obtained a license of a non-banking financial institution given by the
National Bank of Romania (hereinafter: „NBR”).
Aforti Finance Romania was registered on April 17, 2018 in order to implement the Aforti Group’s development strategy for 2018-2020 in the area of foreign expansion of the Issuer’s Capital Group.
The license of a non-banking financial institution (IFN) will allow Aforti Finance Romania to start operating activity based on granting non-bank loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), thanks to which they will be able to finance their development and current operations.
Aforti Finance S.A. with headquarters in Warsaw is the dominant shareholder of Aforti Finance Romania, which holds 99.99 percent of share in the share capital and in the total number of votes at the general meeting of shareholders. At the same time, Aforti Finance S.A. remains a subsidiary of the Issuer, which holds 72.07 percent of share in its share capital and in the total number of votes at the general meeting of shareholders.
Legal basis: Article 17 paragraph 1 of the MAR – confidential information