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Lendified Announces Closing of First Tranche of Private Placement

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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – June 16, 2021) – Lendified Holdings Inc. (TSXV: LHI) (formerly, Hampton Bay Capital Inc.) (the “Company” or “Lendified“) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agency agreement with Canaccord Genuity Corp. (the “Agent“) in connection with its previously announced private placement of subscription receipts (the “Subscription Receipts“) of the Company (the “Private Placement“), as previously announced on April 7, 2021 and May 14, 2021, and has closed the first tranche of the Private Placement consisting of an aggregate of 26,350,000 Subscription Receipts at a price of $0.05 per Subscription Receipt (“Issue Price“) for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,317,500.

Each Subscription Receipt will entitle the holder thereof to receive, without payment of any additional consideration and without further action on the part of the holder thereof, one unit of the Company (a “Unit“) composed of one common share in the capital of the Company (a “Common Share“) and one Common Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant“). Each Warrant will be exercisable to acquire one Common Share at an exercise price of $0.07 per Common Share for a period of 24 months from the date on which the Escrow Release Conditions are satisfied (the “Escrow Release Date“). Each Subscription Receipt shall convert into Units, with not further action by the purchaser, upon satisfaction of the following escrow release conditions (collectively, the “Escrow Release Conditions“):

a) written confirmation and evidence that no more than $12,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s existing debt obligations (“Existing Debt“) remains outstanding;

b) all holders of the remaining Existing Debt shall approve the conversion of all remaining principal amount and accrued interest of the Existing Debt into Common Shares of the Company at a conversion price of $0.05 per Common Share (the “Proposed Conversion“), in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably;

c) the receipt of all regulatory, shareholder and third-party approvals, if any, required in connection with the Proposed Conversion;

d) the Company shall not be in breach or default of any of its covenants or obligations under the subscription receipt agreement governing the Subscription Receipts or the Agency Agreement, except (in the case of the Agency Agreement only) for those breaches or ‎defaults that have been waived by the Agent, and all conditions set out in the Agency Agreement shall have been fulfilled, which shall all be confirmed to be true in a certificate of a senior officer of the Company; and

e) the Company and the Agent have delivered an escrow release notice to the Escrow Agent (as defined below) in accordance with the terms of the subscription receipt agreement confirming that the conditions set forth above have been satisfied or waived.

The gross proceeds from the Private Placement, less the expenses, fees and commission payable to the Agent pursuant to the Private Placement, are currently held in escrow with Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the “Escrow Agent“) pending the satisfaction or waiver of the Escrow Release Conditions. If all conditions precedent to the Escrow Release Conditions are satisfied or waived on or before August 16, 2021 (the “Escrow Deadline“), the net proceeds (less the outstanding cash commission and any outstanding costs and expenses of the Agent to be released to the Agent out of the escrowed proceeds) from the sale of the Subscription Receipts will be released from escrow to Lendified. If the Escrow Release Conditions are not satisfied or waived on or before the Escrow Deadline, then the escrowed funds will be used by the Company to repurchase the Subscription Receipts at the Issue Price taking into consideration the pro rata amount of any interest accrued in respect of the escrowed funds. To the extent that the escrowed funds are not sufficient to purchase all of the Subscription Receipts, the Company will contribute such amounts as are necessary to satisfy any shortfall.

In connection with the first tranche of the Private Placement, the Company paid the Agent an aggregate of $92,225 in cash commission, issued the Agent an aggregate of 1,844,500 broker warrants that are exercisable to acquire Units at the Issue Price for a period of 24 months following satisfaction of the Escrow Release Date, and issued the Agent an aggregate of 790,500 Subscription Receipts in satisfaction of a corporate finance fee.

The net proceeds of the Private Placement, following satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions, will be used for key professional personnel additions, regulatory and compliance costs and for general working capital purposes.

All securities issued in connection with the Private Placement are subject to a four month and one day hold period from the date of this press release in accordance with applicable securities laws.

The securities offered have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This release does not constitute an offer for sale of securities in the United States.

The Private Placement is subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV“).

ABOUT LENDIFIED HOLDINGS INC.

Lendified, a company located in Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian company operating a lending platform which provides working capital loans to small and medium-sized businesses across Canada.

Further Information

For further information regarding Lendified, please contact:

John Gillberry, Chief Executed Officer and Director
1-844-451-3594
[email protected]

Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements which reflect the Company’s current expectations regarding future events. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. The forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as “seek”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “estimate”, “expect”, “intend” and statements that an event or result “may”, “will”, “should”, “could” or “might” occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, whether the Private Placement and the Proposed Conversion will be approved by the TSXV or if the proceeds of the Private Placement will be sufficient for the Company’s purposes, the satisfaction of the Escrow Release Conditions prior to the Escrow Release Date, the anticipated timing of the Proposed Conversion, whether the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be even more severe than it has been to date, any of which could cause results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from the results discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Many risks are inherent in the industries in which the Company participates; others are more specific to the Company, there can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. The Company’s ongoing quarterly filings should be consulted for additional information on risks and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking information contained in this press release is given as of the date hereof and is based upon the opinions and estimates of management and information available to management as at the date hereof. Management assumes no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, further events or otherwise.

NOT FOR DISSEMINATION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES

To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/87757

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Central banks and the FinTech sector unite to change global payments space

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The BIS, along with seven leading central banks and a cohort of private financial firms, has embarked on an ambitious venture known as Project Agorá.

Named after the Greek word for “marketplace,” this initiative stands at the forefront of exploring the potential of tokenisation to significantly enhance the operational efficiency of the monetary system worldwide.

Central to this pioneering project are the Bank of France (on behalf of the Eurosystem), the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Korea, the Bank of Mexico, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These institutions have joined forces under the banner of Project Agorá, in partnership with an extensive assembly of private financial entities convened by the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

At the heart of Project Agorá is the pursuit of integrating tokenised commercial bank deposits with tokenised wholesale central bank money within a unified, public-private programmable financial platform. By harnessing the advanced capabilities of smart contracts and programmability, the project aspires to unlock new transactional possibilities that were previously infeasible or impractical, thereby fostering novel opportunities that could benefit businesses and consumers alike.

The collaborative effort seeks to address and surmount a variety of structural inefficiencies that currently plague cross-border payments. These challenges include disparate legal, regulatory, and technical standards; varying operating hours and time zones; and the heightened complexity associated with conducting financial integrity checks (such as anti-money laundering and customer verification procedures), which are often redundantly executed across multiple stages of a single transaction due to the involvement of several intermediaries.

As a beacon of experimental and exploratory projects, the BIS Innovation Hub is committed to delivering public goods to the global central banking community through initiatives like Project Agorá. In line with this mission, the BIS will soon issue a call for expressions of interest from private financial institutions eager to contribute to this ground-breaking project. The IIF will facilitate the involvement of private sector participants, extending an invitation to regulated financial institutions representing each of the seven aforementioned currencies to partake in this transformative endeavour.

Source: fintech.globa

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TD Bank inks multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud

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TD Bank has inked a multi-year deal with Google Cloud as it looks to streamline the development and deployment of new products and services.

The deal will see the Canadian banking group integrate the vendor’s cloud services into a wider portion of its technology solutions portfolio, a move which TD expects will enable it “to respond quickly to changing customer expectations by rolling out new features, updates, or entirely new financial products at an accelerated pace”.

This marks an expansion of the already established relationship between TD Bank and Google Cloud after the group previously adopted the vendor’s Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for TD Securities Automated Trading (TDSAT), the Chicago-based subsidiary of its investment banking unit, TD Securities.

TDSAT uses GKE for process automation and quantitative modelling across fixed income markets, resulting in the development of a “data-driven research platform” capable of processing large research workloads in trading.

Dan Bosman, SVP and CIO of TD Securities, claims the infrastructure has so far supported TDSAT with “compute-intensive quantitative analysis” while expanding the subsidiary’s “trading volumes and portfolio size”.

TD’s new partnership with Google Cloud will see the group attempt to replicate the same level of success across its entire portfolio.

Source: fintechfutures.com

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MAS launches transformative platform to combat money laundering

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The MAS has unveiled Cosmic, an acronym for Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Information and Cases, a new money laundering platform.

According to Business Times, launched on April 1, Cosmic stands out as the first centralised digital platform dedicated to combating money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing on a worldwide scale. This move follows the enactment of the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Act 2023, which, along with its subsidiary legislation, commenced on the same day to provide a solid legal foundation and safeguards for information sharing among financial institutions (FIs).

Cosmic enables participating FIs to exchange customer information when certain “red flags” indicate potential suspicious activities. The platform’s introduction is a testament to MAS’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the financial sector, mandating participants to establish stringent policies and operational safeguards to maintain the confidentiality of the shared information. This strategic approach allows for the efficient exchange of intelligence on potential criminal activities while protecting legitimate customers.

Significantly, Cosmic was co-developed by MAS and six leading commercial banks in Singapore—OCBC, UOB, DBS, Citibank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered—which will serve as participant FIs during its initial phase. The initiative emphasizes voluntary information sharing focused on addressing key financial crime risks within the commercial banking sector, such as the misuse of legal persons, trade finance, and proliferation financing.

Loo Siew Yee, assistant managing director for policy, payments, and financial crime at MAS, highlighted that Cosmic enhances the existing collaboration between the industry and law enforcement authorities, fortifying Singapore’s reputation as a well-regulated and trusted financial hub. Similarly, Pua Xiao Wei of Citi Singapore and Loretta Yuen of OCBC have expressed their institutions’ support for Cosmic, noting its potential to ramp up anti-money laundering efforts and its significance as a development in the banking sector’s ability to combat financial crimes efficiently. DBS’ Lam Chee Kin also praised Cosmic as a “game changer,” emphasizing the careful balance between combating financial crime and ensuring legitimate customers’ access to financial services.

Source: fintech.global

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