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Summary of significant accounting policies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of significant accounting policies

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(a) Basis of presentation and principles of consolidation

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal and recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary to present a fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of March 31, 2025, and the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary in order to make the consolidated financial statements not misleading have been included. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and accordingly do not include all of the disclosures normally made in the Company’s annual financial statements. Accordingly, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

 

(b) Emerging Growth Company

 

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

 

Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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(c) Going concern

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the going concern basis of accounting, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.

 

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had cash balances of $62.3 million, a working capital deficit of $59.8 million and net capital deficit $43.9 million. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company had a net loss of $4.5 million and net cash used in operating activities of $1.5 million. Net cash used in investing activities was $0.2 million. These conditions cast substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

While the Company believes that it will be able to grow the Company’s revenue base and control expenditures, there is no assurance that it will be able to achieve these goals. As a result, the Company continually monitors its capital structure and operating plans and evaluates various potential funding alternatives that may be needed to finance the Company’s business development activities, general and administrative expenses and growth strategy. In addition, on February 10, 2025, the Company entered into the ELOC Purchase Agreement with a third party. Under the ELOC scheme, the company will have the capacity to issue additional shares and dispose in the market for extra liquidity, up to $10,000,000 worth of ordinary shares.

 

(d) Use of estimates

 

The preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Certain accounting estimates of the Company require a higher degree of judgment than others in their application. These include valuation of goodwill, provision for credit losses, impairment of long-lived assets, valuation of convertible bonds, income tax, valuation of employee stock options and estimates related to lease accounting involving discount rates used in lease calculations (if estimate using incremental borrowing rate) and lease term assumptions considering exercise of renewal or termination options. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Actual results may differ from these estimates, and such differences may be material.

 

(e) Revenue recognition

 

The Company complies with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.

 

Revenue from contracts with customers is measured based on the consideration specified in a contract with a customer in exchange for transferring goods or services to a customer net of sales and service tax, returns, rebates and discounts. The Company recognizes revenue when (or as) it transfers control over a product or service to its customer. An asset is transferred when (or as) the customer obtains control of the asset. Depending on the substance of the contract, revenue is recognized when the performance obligation is satisfied, which may be at a point in time or over time.

 

Contract assets represent the Company’s right to consideration for performance obligations that have been fulfilled but for which the customer has not been billed as of the balance sheet date.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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Remittance services revenue

 

Revenue from contracts with customers on service charges and gain/loss on foreign exchange arising from remittance activities are recognized upon the processing and execution of the international money transfer transactions. Remittance services are further divided into Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Service and XRP Prefunded Remittance Service. Management has considered these two services to be two product lines.

 

The customers of the remittance services or Remittance Partners, are financial institutions. Remittance Partners who use the fiat currency prefunding option for their remittance business with the Company are referred to as Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Partners, whereas customers who choose the XRP Prefunding mode are referred to as XRP Prefunded Remittance Partners.

 

Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Service

 

The Company earns revenue by charging their customers a fiat currency prefunded remittance fee when they use the Company’s platform to transfer money to a beneficiary in another country. These fiat currency prefunded remittance fees are fixed and specific for every country’s currency and are charged at the point-in-time of executing this performance obligation. Prior to delivering cash to the customer’s beneficiary, the customer must directly provide the Company with prefunding (i.e., the cash to be remitted to the beneficiary). This is the traditional prefunding process, which the Company describes as Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Service.

 

XRP Prefunded Remittance Service

 

Unlike the Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Service, the customer obtains prefunding through Ripple Solution offered by Ripple Lab Inc. with the XRP Prefunded Remittance Service. Ripple supplies the customer with the XRP equivalent of the requested prefunding. The Company subsequently liquidates this XRP on Ripple’s behalf, and the fiat currency obtained as a result of the liquidation process is transferred to the customer’s beneficiary. Customers who prefund their remittance service with XRP must enter into an agreement with Ripple and undergo stringent credit checks in order to get XRP prefunding and use Ripple’s platform. The Company charges their customers an XRP Prefunded Remittance Service Fee when the money is transferred to the customer’s beneficiary.

 

For both the XRP Prefunded and Fiat Currency Prefunded Remittance Services, the Company has no obligations to the customer in terms of guarantees, warranties or other similar obligations. There are also no significant payment terms involved as the Company obtains their fees shortly after charging their customers.

 

Sales WalletKu Modern Channel

 

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognized at the point in time when the Company satisfies its performance obligation, which is upon delivery of the goods to the customer. The credit terms are typically 3-7 days.

 

Sales of airtime

 

Revenue from airtime sold is recognized when the relevant international airtime transfer or reload request is processed and executed.

 

Other services

 

Revenue from contracts with customers on other services is recognized as and when services are rendered.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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(f) Segments

 

As the chief operating decision-maker, or CODM, of the Company, the Chief Executive Officer, or CEO, reviews the financial results when making decisions about allocating resources and assessing the performance of the Company. The Tranglo Sdn BHD and related subsidiaries (“Tranglo”) and PT Walletku Indompet Indonesia (“WalletKu”) are all considered operating segments. These have been aggregated into two reportable segments, which are remittance services and sales of airtime. Other services are not assigned to a specific reportable segment as their results of operations are immaterial.

 

The remittance segment is operated through Tranglo. Tranglo operates the remittance hub covering Southeast Asia and globally, which in the downstream segment of the remittance business. Management operates, monitors and evaluates the whole remittance business so as to create maximum value for the Company.

 

The Company operates the airtime segment via its international airtime transfer business through Tranglo and its retail airtime trading business locally in Indonesian through WalletKu. As with the remittance segment, management believes maximum synergy and business value can best be achieved by aggregating and managing the airtime business through these two subsidiaries.

 

On July 30, 2024, Seamless Group Inc. disposed all of its equity interest in GEA Holdings Limited to L&L Health Holdings Limited, a related company. On August 30, Seamless Group Inc. has disposed all of the equity interest in TNG (Asia) Limited and deconsolidated the subsidiary. For comparability, TNGA and GEA operation were not included in the segment reporting in the three months period ended March 31, 2025, onwards, while the TNGA and GEA operation were included in the three months period ended March 31, 2024.

 

(g) Share-based compensation

 

The Company accounts for share-based payments in accordance with ASC Topic 718 “Compensation – Stock Compensation”, or ASC 718, under which the fair value of awards issued to employees is expensed over the period in which the awards vest.

 

As of March 31, 2025, 2,188,771 vested shares have been distributed to the staff, while 1,775,553 vested shares remain in trust. Fair value of the outstanding unvested shares to employee are $13,178,775.56

 

The Company estimates the fair value of awards using an Income Approach (Finnerty method). The Company accounts forfeitures as they occur. For the awards granted on July 29, 2022, the following assumptions were used in the model:

 

Expected Volatility (39.84% to 43.74%)

 

Expected Dividend Yield (0%)

 

Expected Time to Liquidity (0.92 years to 2.92 years)

 

Exercise Price ($Nil)

 

Stock price at grant date ($6.55)

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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Weighted Average Fair Value of 1 Share ($5.73)

 

The fair value of the awards granted on July 29, 2022 is $33,284,970.

 

For the awards granted on August 21, 2024, the following assumptions were used in the model:

 

Expected Volatility (26.65% to 42.32%)

 

Expected Dividend Yield (0%)

 

Expected Time to Liquidity (0.03 years to 2.03 years)

 

Exercise Price ($Nil)

 

Stock price at grant date ($6.22)

 

Weighted Average Fair Value of 1 Share ($5.75)

 

On August 30, 2024, Seamless re-granted 466,573 shares out of the forfeited shares mentioned above. The fair value of the awards granted on August 30, 2024 is $2,695,334.

 

In February 2025, Seamless granted 320,071 shares out of the forfeited shares to its employees.

 

Fair value of the shares granted is $310,292. Fair value is based on the closing market price of the shares prior to the grant date.

 

For the awards granted on February 25, 2025, the following assumptions were used in the model:

 

  Closing stock price of the Company before the grant date was $1.49.

 

  Share-based compensation expense of $2,158,749 and $Nil was recognized under General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Share-based compensation expense is not recognized in three months ended March 31, 2024 as the expenses are start recognising upon the completion of de-SPAC process.

 

(h) Prefunding to remittances partner

 

Prefunding to remittance partner represents deposits made with such a partner for remittance services to be rendered by the partner in the future. The prepayments are utilized when a remittance order is executed by the partner and the resulting amount of the order is deducted from the balance with the partner.

 

The Company allows its remittance partners to prefund their balance through cryptocurrencies. These cryptocurrencies are mainly XRP. Ripple provides the XRP upon request to the Company and its remittance partners. Under applicable accounting standards, the Company is an agent when facilitating cryptocurrency transactions on behalf of its customers. These cryptocurrencies are held under a bailment arrangement in an account in the Company’s name on behalf of its business partner but they are not Seamless’s assets and therefore, are not reflected as cryptocurrency assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets . Although the Company does not control the XRP in the bailment account, the Company is responsible for safeguarding the XRP in the bailment account.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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(h) Prefunding to remittances partner (continued)

 

Independent Reserve SG Pte Ltd (“Independent Reserve”), Philippine Digital Asset Exchange (“Pdax”), Betur, Inc. (“Coins.ph”) and Bitstamp Global Limited (“Bitstamp”) (collectively, the “Cryptocurrency Exchanges”) are centralized crypto exchanges which keep the cryptographic keys for each respective XRP wallet and provide the Company with its respective API access keys. The Company is the only party that holds the API access keys that grant it direct access to its XRP wallet maintained on the respective Cryptocurrency Exchange. The Cryptocurrency Exchanges maintain records of all assets deposited by its users and send statements to the Company. The Company reconciles its internal ODL transaction records to the statements received from the Cryptocurrency Exchanges to ensure that these are accurate. The Company has an obligation to protect the API access keys from being abused or stolen. The Company is responsible for any damages caused by loss or theft.

 

On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 122, which rescinds SAB No. 121. Under SAB 121, entities that safeguard crypto-assets for platform users were required to recognize a corresponding liability and asset for those obligations. SAB 122 eliminates this requirement and must be applied retrospectively for all periods presented.

 

In accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99, “Materiality,” and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108, “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,” the Company evaluated the changes and has determined that the related impacts were material to previously presented financial statements.

 

The following tables summarize the effect of the restatement on each financial statement line item as of the date, and for the periods indicated.

 

Schedule of restatement of each financial statement 

   Previously Reported   Adjustments   As Restated 
   December 31, 2024 
   Previously Reported   Adjustments   As Restated 
   US$   US$   US$ 
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024            
Prepayments, receivables and other assets   24,738,392    (3,790,176)   20,948,216 
Accounts payable, accruals and other payables   59,119,916    (3,790,176)   55,329,740 

  

(i) Net loss per share

 

Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding for the period, without consideration of potentially dilutive securities.

 

Diluted net earnings per share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of ordinary shares and potentially dilutive securities outstanding for the period. If there is a loss, potentially dilutive securities are not considered, as they would be anti-dilutive.

 

The following tables provide the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per ordinary share for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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   2025   2024 
   Three months ended March 31, 
   2025   2024 
         
Numerator:          
Net loss  $(4,674,358)  $(3,034,984)
           
Denominator:          
Weighted average ordinary shares outstanding   35,374,891    33,980,753 
           
Basic and diluted net (loss) per share  $(0.13)  $(0.09)

 

The following table sets forth the total number of shares that may potentially be dilutive ordinary shares in the future. The holders of these shares do not have a contractual obligation to share in the Company’s losses. The Company excluded the following potential ordinary shares, presented based on amounts outstanding at each period end, from the computation of diluted loss per share:

 

   March 31, 2025   March 31, 2024 
         
Warrants   17,796,765    - 
Convertible bonds (treasury stock method)   1,027,997    2,604,554 

 

(j) Warrants

 

The Company accounts for warrants as either equity-classified or liability-classified instruments based on an assessment of the warrant’s specific terms and applicable authoritative guidance in ASC 480 and ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”). The assessment considers whether the warrants are freestanding financial instruments pursuant to ASC 480, meet the definition of a liability pursuant to ASC 480, and whether the warrants meet all of the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815, including whether the warrants are indexed to the Company’s own common stock, among other conditions for equity classification. This assessment, which requires the use of professional judgment, is conducted at the time of warrant issuance and as of each subsequent reporting period end date while the warrants are outstanding. All of the Company’s warrants have met the criteria for equity treatment (see Note 11, Shareholders’ Deficit, for additional information).

 

(k) Fair Value Measurements

 

Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly, hypothetical transaction between market participants at the measurement date, or exit price. ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement (“ASC 820”) establishes a fair value hierarchy for inputs, which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. Level 1 provides the most reliable measure of fair value, whereas Level 3 generally requires significant management judgment. The three levels are defined as follows:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 – Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; and
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

 

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ASC 825-10, Financial Instruments, allows entities to voluntarily choose to measure certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value (fair value option). The fair value option may be elected on an instrument-by-instrument basis and is irrevocable unless a new election date occurs. If the fair value option is elected for an instrument, unrealized gains and losses for that instrument should be reported in earnings at each subsequent reporting date. The Company elected to apply the fair value option to its the convertible bonds and convertible promissory note described in Note 8, Convertible bonds and notes. These financial liabilities were initially measured at its issue-date fair value and is subsequently remeasured at fair value on a recurring basis at each reporting period date. The Company elected to present the fair value and the accrued interest component separately in the statements of operations. Changes in fair value of debt presented in the “Other income” or “Other expenses” line item under other income in the statements of operations.

 

(l) Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

 

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03 Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses). The new standard requires disclosure in the notes to the financial statements of additional specified information about certain costs and expenses. The standard does not change or remove current expense disclosure requirements. This ASU is effective for the Company’s annual periods beginning on October 1, 2027, and interim periods beginning on October 1, 2028. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the new rule on its financial statements and disclosures.

 

 

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS