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MoneySwap Plc Notice of EGM and update re. suspension (8110A)

29/03/2017 7:02am

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RNS Number : 8110A

MoneySwap Plc

29 March 2017

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.

29 March 2017

MoneySwap plc

("MoneySwap" or the "Company")

Posting of circular, notice of EGM and update regarding suspension

Posting of circular

Further to the announcement on 21 March 2017, the Company will today post to its shareholders a circular (the "Circular") containing a notice convening an extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") to be held at 10:00 a.m. on 20 April 2017 at the offices of Allenby Capital Limited, 3 St. Helen's Place, London, EC3A 6AB.

The purpose of the EGM is to approve, inter alia:

i. the subscription for new ordinary shares in the Company by Wraith Holding B.V. ("Wraith"), together with certain options to be granted to Wraith to subscribe for additional new ordinary shares;

ii. the grant of the fee conversion options to an existing director, a former director and a substantial shareholder;

iii. the waiver of certain existing options held by the board and a former director of the Company; and

   iv.   the adoption of new articles of association of the Company. 

(together the "Proposals").

Extracts from the Circular are set out below and a copy of the Circular, along with the proposed amendments to the Company's articles of association, will shortly be available on the Company's website, www.moneyswapholdings.com.

Update regarding suspension

The Company's ordinary shares (the "Ordinary Shares") are currently suspended from trading on AIM pending the Company putting in place a new depository interest ("DI") facility representing the Company's Ordinary Shares. The Company submitted the requisite legal opinions and other necessary documents to Euroclear (the entity which administers the DI facility) on 24 March 2017. The Company anticipates that the new DI facility will be in place on or about 10 April 2017. Once a new DI facility has been established, the Board anticipates that trading in the Ordinary Shares on AIM will be restored.

Shareholders who previously traded their Ordinary Shares in uncertificated form through the previous DI facility will have received a share certificate in respect of their Ordinary Shares when the DI facility was cancelled. An update will be provided in due course on the process for enabling the electronic trading of Ordinary Shares through the new DI facility.

For further information, please contact:

 
 MoneySwap Plc             Allenby Capital Limited 
 Interim Chief Executive   Nominated Adviser 
 Craig Niven               Nick Naylor / James 
                            Reeve 
 +44 7767 497400           +44 20 3328 5656 
 

EXTRACTS FROM THE CIRCULAR

The following has been extracted without amendment from, and should be read in conjunction with, the Circular to Shareholders dated 28 March 2017, available from the Company's website, www.moneyswapholdings.com.

EXPECTED TIMETABLE OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS

 
 Publication of this Circular          28 March 2017 
 Latest time and date for receipt   10.00 a.m. on 17 
  of Forms of Direction                   April 2017 
 Latest time and date for receipt   10.00 a.m. on 18 
  of Forms of Proxy                       April 2017 
 Extraordinary General Meeting      10.00 a.m. on 20 
                                          April 2017 
 

SUBSCRIPTION STATISTICS

 
 Issue Price                                     GBP0.001 
 Existing Ordinary Shares                   1,197,755,282 
 Initial Subscription Shares*               2,443,420,775 
 Enlarged Share Capital*                    3,641,176,057 
 Gross aggregate proceeds of the             GBP2,443,421 
  Initial Subscription* 
 Maximum number of new Ordinary 
  Shares that could be issued pursuant 
  to the Subscription Option assuming 
  no other new Ordinary Shares are 
  issued prior to the exercise of 
  the Subscription Option                   1,149,845,071 
 Maximum number of Ordinary Shares 
  that can be issued to Wraith assuming 
  no other new Ordinary Shares are 
  issued other than the Subscription 
  Shares and the Wraith Further 
  Option is not exercised                   3,593,265,846 
 Maximum number of Fee Conversion 
  Shares that could be issued pursuant 
  to the Fee Conversion Options               224,634,147 
 Number of Management Options being 
  waived                                       19,666,081 
 Existing Options                              41,312,800 
 Fully Diluted Share Capital**              5,854,808,916 
 

*Assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued prior to Completion

**Assuming exercise in full of the Subscription Option, the Fee Conversion Options, all Existing Options and the Wraith Further Option, and assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued

LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF MONEYSWAP PLC

   1.         Introduction 

Further to the discussions with Wraith, as announced by the Company on 6 March 2017, the Board announced on 21 March 2017 that MoneySwap had entered into a conditional Subscription Agreement with Wraith to raise approximately GBP2.44 million (before expenses) for the Company by way of the Initial Subscription. In addition, the Company has granted Wraith the Subscription Option and the Wraith Further Option. Wraith is a privately-owned company incorporated in the Netherlands, controlled by Gilbert Armenta, that has been incorporated for the purpose of investing in MoneySwap. Further details on Wraith are set out in paragraph 4 below.

The purpose of this Circular is to set out the background to and reasons for the Proposals and why the Board considers them to be in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole.

The Proposals comprise:

(i) Wraith's subscription (assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued by the Company prior to Completion) for 2,443,420,775 Initial Subscription Shares, raising approximately GBP2.44 million and which will result in Wraith acquiring an interest equivalent to 67.1 per cent. of the Company's Enlarged Share Capital;

(ii) the grant of the Subscription Option, which gives Wraith the option to subscribe for, at the Issue Price, new Ordinary Shares in such number as would enable Wraith to increase its interest to up to a total of 75 per cent. of the Increased Share Capital;

(iii) the grant of the Wraith Further Option, which gives Wraith the option to subscribe for, at the Issue Price, three times the number of any new Ordinary Shares issued to any person other than Wraith in the period between Completion and 12 August 2021, so as to ensure that Wraith has the right to subscribe for up to 75 per cent. of the Fully Diluted Share Capital;

(iv) the grant of the Fee Conversion Options by the Company to the Current Director, the Former Director and the Substantial Shareholder;

   (v)         the waiver of the Management Options; 

(vi) the resignation of the Current Director and the appointment of the Proposed Directors to the Board; and

   (vii)       the adoption of the New Articles. 

As part of the negotiations relating to the Subscription, the Company has agreed to grant the Fee Conversion Options to certain individuals in respect of the outstanding fees owed to them by MoneySwap. The Fee Conversion Options will, on Completion, be granted by the Company to the Fee Conversion Option Holders, pursuant to which the Fee Conversion Option Holders will agree not to demand repayment of the unpaid fees due to them by the Group (which total approximately GBP224,635) for a period of 15 months following Completion. During that 15-month period following Completion, those unpaid fees can, on exercise of the Fee Conversion Options by the Fee Conversion Option Holders, be used to satisfy the Fee Conversion Exercise Price for the issue of the Fee Conversion Shares to them (and as a result the outstanding fees will be treated as having been paid in full). In addition, the Management Option Holders have agreed, conditional on Completion, that all outstanding Management Options issued to them will be waived. Further details on the Fee Conversion Options and waiver of the Management Options are set out in paragraph 7 below.

Conditional on Completion, Emma Xu, a Non-Executive Director, will resign from the Board and William Morro and Calvin Yan will be appointed to the Board. Further details on the proposed Board Changes are set out in paragraph 6 below.

The Subscription, the grant of the Fee Conversion Options, the waiver of the Management Options, the Board Changes and the adoption of the New Articles are conditional on, inter alia, Completion and the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting, which is to be held at the offices of Allenby Capital Limited at 3 St Helen's Place, London EC3A 6AB on 20 April 2017 at 10.00 a.m. Further details of the Resolutions are set out below and a Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting is contained at the end of this Circular.

The Company has received irrevocable undertakings from Shareholders owning 927,586,494 Existing Ordinary Shares (being 77.44 per cent. of the Existing Ordinary Shares) to vote in favour of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting. Details of those irrevocable undertakings are set out in paragraph 15 below.

Having spent a significant amount of time seeking additional funding, the Board believes that the Subscription is the only option available to the Company at the current time that will provide the Company with sufficient working capital to continue as a going concern. Should the Resolutions not be passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting, the Board considers there to be a significant chance that the Directors would need to take actions to protect the interest of creditors, which may result in the ultimate winding up of the Company.

Your attention is drawn to the Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting contained at the end of this document and paragraphs 13 and 14 below, which explain the purpose of the Extraordinary General Meeting and action to be taken by you in relation to the Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting.

   2.         Details of the Subscription 

On 20 March 2017, the Company and Wraith entered into a conditional Subscription Agreement that contains a number of conditions, further details of which are set out below, and provides for:

i) an initial investment by Wraith of approximately GBP2.44 million through the issue of the 2,443,420,775 Initial Subscription Shares at the Issue Price;

ii) the grant to Wraith of the Subscription Option, exercisable at the Issue Price, to acquire (when taken together with the Ordinary Shares held by Wraith pursuant to the Initial Subscription) up to 75 per cent. of the Increased Share Capital. The Subscription Option would result (assuming that the Company does not issue Ordinary Shares to anyone other than Wraith in the interim period and assuming exercise in full) in the issue of a further 1,149,845,071 Subscription Option Shares to Wraith, which would raise approximately an additional GBP1.15 million for the Company. The Subscription Option is exercisable (in whole or in part) by Wraith at any time during the two years following Completion; and

iii) the Wraith Further Option, whereby, if any Ordinary Shares are issued to any person other than Wraith, at any time between Completion and 12 August 2021, Wraith has the right (but not the obligation) to subscribe for three times the number of Ordinary Shares issued to that person at the Issue Price (to ensure that Wraith's shareholding is not diluted as a result of those issue(s) of shares, provided that the Wraith Further Option shall not be used by Wraith to enable Wraith to hold more than 75 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company).

Following the issue of the Initial Subscription Shares, Wraith will hold a 67.1 per cent. interest in the Enlarged Share Capital (provided no other new Ordinary Shares are issued by the Company before Completion). If Wraith exercises the Subscription Option in full, it would hold 3,593,265,846 new Ordinary Shares, equivalent to 75 per cent. of the Company's Increased Share Capital (noting the Wraith Further Option described above, and assuming no other new Ordinary Shares are issued by the Company following the Initial Subscription).

The Subscription is conditional on satisfaction or waiver by Wraith of the Conditions.

   3.         Use of proceeds of the Initial Subscription 

The subscription amount of the Initial Subscription of approximately GBP2.44 million will be settled as to:

(a) the extinguishment of the amount due to Wraith under the Loan Agreement (details of which were announced on 6 March 2017), which, as at the date of this document totals a principal amount of USD 435,000;

(b) the extinguishment of additional amounts due to Wraith, totalling USD 1.425 million (and which arose as a result of certain loan assignments which were announced on 6 March 2017); and

(c) cash to meet the transaction costs not already funded from monies advanced by Wraith under the Loan Agreement, trade and other creditors and the general working capital requirements of the Company.

   4.         Information on Wraith 

Wraith is a Netherlands based investment company wholly owned by Gilbert Armenta and incorporated for the purpose of investing in MoneySwap. It has not traded to date and has been funded by Gilbert Armenta and other affiliated entities under his control. Gilbert Armenta has considerable experience in the payments sector and is the founder and chief executive officer of Fates Group, a family office management enterprise created to bring traditional venture capital operating methodologies and private equity financial sophistication to mid-market investments. Fates Group is focused on investment in three core market segments: (i) real estate and towers for telecommunications infrastructure; (ii) renewable energy; and (iii) process management systems in the financial services sector.

Following Completion, Wraith will work closely with MoneySwap to assist MoneySwap in developing its payment process business, both by providing technical and business development assistance and in introducing opportunities for new business. The Company and Wraith intend to enter into commercial agreements on terms to be agreed detailing the nature and terms of such assistance, further details of which will be announced in due course.

The directors of Wraith are Gilbert Armenta and William Morro.

   5.         Relationship Agreement 

Wraith, Allenby Capital and the Company will enter into the Relationship Agreement on Completion, which will regulate the ongoing relationship between the Company and Wraith to ensure that the Company is at all times capable of carrying on its business independently of Wraith and its respective associates and that any future transactions between the Company and Wraith and its respective associates are conducted on an arm's-length basis.

Under the Relationship Agreement, Wraith has the right to nominate one person to be a director of the Company for so long as it (together with its associates) holds 10 per cent. or more of total voting rights in the Company, and to nominate two persons to be directors of the Company for so long as it (together with its associates) holds 30 per cent. or more of total voting rights in the Company. William Morro, who is proposed to be appointed as a director of MoneySwap with effect from Completion, is the sole nominee of Wraith to be appointed to the Board pursuant to its rights under the Relationship Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Wraith has the right to replace William Morro as one of its nominee directors and to nominate a second director following Completion, subject to the satisfactory completion of regulatory due diligence.

Further details of the Relationship Agreement are set out in the Appendix to the Circular.

   6.         Board Changes 

Conditional on Completion, the following changes to the composition of the Board will be effected:

   i)    Emma Xu will resign from her position as a Non-Executive Director on the Board; 

ii) Calvin Yan, the Company's existing financial controller, will join the Board as Chief Financial Officer; and

iii) William Morro will be appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Board. William Morro is a nominee director of Wraith.

Following Completion, the Board composition will be as follows:

 
 Craig Niven            Chairman and Interim 
                         Chief Executive 
 Calvin Yan             Chief Financial Officer 
 Javier Amo Fernandez   Non-Executive Director 
  de Avila 
 William Morro          Non-Executive Director 
 

It is intended that a new full-time Chief Executive will be identified and appointed in due course.

Biographies of the Proposed Directors

Calvin Yan

Since 2013, Calvin Yan (aged 45) has been the Chief Financial Officer (non-Board) of the Company and is responsible for the overall financial management of the Group.

Previously, Calvin Yan was group chief financial officer of Greenwood Financial PR and prior to that he had spent 13 years with The Nielsen Company, the worldwide leader in market research, where he worked across finance, operations, client-facing, IT & systems development, facility, and legal divisions, covering Greater China and Asia Pacific. His last position at Nielsen was finance director and chief financial officer for China, based in Shanghai. Earlier in his career, Mr Yan worked with Schneider Electric and The Clorox Company.

Calvin Yan has bachelor's and master's degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Southern California. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

There are no known disclosures needed to be made at this time under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules in respect of Calvin Yan's proposed appointment.

William Morro

William Morro (aged 63) has three decades of senior executive and board experience with more than 20 companies, both public and private, in which he has been a direct investor. In February 2014, he joined the board of BlueNRGY Group Ltd, a US listed technology-based solutions provider focused on renewable energy and energy-efficiency sectors, and was appointed managing director and chairman in Jan 2015. William Morro is a managing partner of the InterAmerican Group, a U.S. investment, strategic consulting and advisory firm focused primarily on middle-market businesses with cross-border operations in North America and/or Latin America.

Prior to joining InterAmerican in 2001, William Morro headed private equity business units for BMO Group and Heller Financial and was a principal and shareholder of the international management consulting firm, Cresap, McCormick & Paget until shortly after its acquisition by Towers, Perrin.

William Morro holds an undergraduate degree in engineering and chemistry from Dartmouth College and a master's degree with concentrations in finance and economics from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

William Morro currently holds, or has held within the previous five years, directorship or partnership positions with the entities set out in the table below:

 
 Current directorships/partnerships   Directorships/partnerships 
                                       held within previous five 
                                       years 
 
   InterAmerican Advisors               Eco-Kinetics Group Pty 
   LLC                                  Ltd* 
   InterAmerican Acquisition            Eco-Kinetics Pty Ltd* 
   Group Inc.                           Eco-Kinetics NSW Pty Ltd* 
   InterAmerican Capital Partners       Eco-Kinetics Victoria Pty 
   II LLC                               Ltd* 
   BlueNRGY Group Ltd (prev.            Eco-Kinetics Northern Territory 
   CBD Energy Ltd)                      Pty Ltd* 
   IHL Acquisition Co Pty               Eco-Kinetics Energy Systems 
   Ltd                                  Pty Ltd* 
   BlueNRGY LLC                         Remote Area Power Systems 
   BlueNRGY Renewable Solutions         Pty Ltd* 
   Pty Ltd (formerly Westinghouse       CBD Solar Labs Pty Ltd* 
   Solar Pty Ltd)                       KI Solar Pty Ltd* 
   Draker Corporation                   Boardman Molded International 
   Parmac Air Conditioning              LLC 
   & Mechanical Services Pty 
   Ltd 
   Green Earth Developers 
   LLC 
   CNC Development Limited 
   Sing Kung Limited 
   ZGL XII Limited 
   Air Desert Rose Limited 
   Calenmore Limited 
   ESOL B.V. 
   EO Asset Management B.V. 
   Wraith Holding B.V. 
   Orpheus B.V. 
   WHI, Inc. 
   OMS Program Management 
   LLC 
   iCARD1 Inc 
   Zala Group Limited 
   AEE Power Corporacion S.A. 
   (Spain) 
   AEE Acquisition Holdings 
   LLC 
   IAG Sportsman's Card LLC 
   Sportsman's Card Program 
   Management LLC 
 

Fibrex Cordage LLC (formerly, Wellington Cordage LLC), a company for which William Morro served as a director, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, as a result of which its assets were sold and distributed to secured creditors in full satisfaction of their debt. Following the sale, the insolvency proceedings of that company were converted to a Chapter 7 and discharged in 2015 with an indeterminate amount payable to unsecured creditors.

On 14 November 2014, while William Morro was serving as a director, an administrator was voluntarily appointed by CBD Energy Ltd (now BlueNRGY Group Ltd) that resulted in the adoption of a deed of company arrangement for the company and its subsidiary, Westinghouse Solar Pty Ltd. that was effective as of 27 January 2015. After conclusion of the administration, no obligations remained outstanding to pre-administration creditors of CBD Energy Ltd. and Westinghouse Solar Pty Ltd. Certain other subsidiaries, including those marked with an asterisk (*) in the table of past directorships above, were liquidated as part of this administration process.

   7.         Fee Conversion Options and the waiver of the Management Options 

Outstanding fees in respect of unpaid salary and consultancy services are currently owed by the Group to each of the Former Director, the Current Director and the Substantial Shareholder. On Completion, the Company will enter into option agreements with each of these individuals, granting each of these individuals the right to subscribe for the Fee Conversion Shares at the Fee Conversion Exercise Price. The right to subscribe for the Fee Conversion Shares will be capable of being exercised by each relevant individual (at the discretion of each individual) during the period commencing three months after Completion, and ending after 15 months following Completion. The subscription price for the Fee Conversion Shares due on exercise of the Fee Conversion Options is equal to the amount of the outstanding fees currently owed to each of the relevant individuals, such that upon the exercise of the Fee Conversion Options by each individual, the amount of the fees owed to the relevant individual by the Group will be set-off against the relevant individual's obligation to pay the subscription price for the Fee Conversion Shares.

The Fee Conversion Options will be issued as follows:

 
 Fee Conversion    Outstanding   Fee Conversion 
  Option Holder     fees (GBP)          Options 
 Emma Xu                81,301       81,300,813 
 Kung Min Lin           45,772       45,772,358 
 Henry Lin              97,561       97,560,976 
 TOTAL                 224,634      224,634,147 
 

Under the terms of the Fee Conversion Options, each individual will agree that, during the period of the Fee Conversion Options, he or she will not be entitled to make any demand of the Group for outstanding fees, but if any individual does not exercise the Fee Conversion Options before the end of 15 months following Completion, at the end of that period the fees owed by the Group to that individual will be payable on demand.

On Completion, the Management Option Holders will enter into deeds of waiver in favour of the Company pursuant to which each Management Option Holder will waive in full and cancel the Management Options.

The Management Option Holders, and the number of Management Options that they will each be waiving is set out in the table below:

 
 Management Option Holder        Management 
                              Options being 
                                     waived 
 Craig Niven                      2,994,159 
 Emma Xu                          5,428,927 
 Javier Amo Fernandez 
  de Avila                        5,083,967 
 Kung Min Lin                     6,159,028 
 TOTAL                           19,666,081 
 
   8.         Significant shareholders' and Directors' shareholdings 

Assuming the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting and following Completion, insofar as the Company is aware, the shareholdings of the Directors and the Company's significant Shareholders would be as follows:

 
                                                                                     Interest 
                                                                                  in Ordinary 
                                                                                       Shares 
                                                       Current                      following 
                                                      interest        Interest     Completion 
                                    Current    as a percentage     in Ordinary        as %age 
                                   interest             of the          Shares    of Enlarged 
                                in Ordinary           Existing       following          Share 
 Holder Name                         Shares             Shares      Completion        Capital 
 Wraith Holding B.V.                      -              0.00%   2,443,420,775         67.11% 
 Broad Rivers International 
  Limited                       287,500,000             24.00%     287,500,000          7.90% 
 LLV Company Ltd                227,483,488             18.99%     227,483,488          6.25% 
 Ton Yuan Enterprise 
  Limited                       152,403,370             12.72%     152,403,370          4.19% 
 Henry Lin(1)                   132,828,136             11.09%     132,828,136          3.65% 
 Kung Min Lin                    63,170,055              5.27%      63,170,055          1.73% 
 Emma Xu                         11,891,187              0.99%      11,891,187          0.33% 
 Javier Amo Fernandez 
  de Avila                       10,167,934              0.85%      10,167,934          0.28% 
 Craig Niven                      5,988,317              0.50%       5,988,317          0.16% 
 

Notes

1: The figure for Henry Lin's shareholding includes the Ordinary Shares in which he is beneficially interested indirectly via his controlling interests in Kolarmy Technology Inc, Power Capital Exchange Corp, and Power Capital Forex Management Limited.

2. The above table takes no account of the Subscription Option or the Wraith Further Option or the Fee Conversion Options.

   9.         Lock-ins and orderly market arrangements 

Wraith, Allenby Capital and MoneySwap will enter into the Lock-in Agreement on Completion. The Lock-in Agreement will contain clauses that govern the circumstances under which Wraith may sell the Subscription Shares. Further details of the Lock-In Agreement are set out in the Appendix to the Circular.

   10.        Admission and lifting of the Suspension 

Conditional on, inter alia, the passing of the Resolutions and the satisfaction or waiver by Wraith of the Conditions, application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the Initial Subscription Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is currently anticipated that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Initial Subscription Shares on AIM will commence by the end of June 2017.

The Ordinary Shares were suspended from trading on AIM on 21 September 2016 due to the Company's failure to publish its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016 (the "2016 Results") within six months of the Company's year-end. In addition, the Company was required under the AIM Rules for Companies to publish the interim results for the six months to 30 September 2016 (the "Interim Results") before 31 December 2016.

Following the publication of the 2016 Results and the Interim Results on 21 March 2017, those Suspension conditions have now been addressed. However, the Company has recently been informed by the provider of its Depositary Interests that, as a result of unpaid fees due to the Company's working capital constraints, the Depositary Interest facility put in place at the time of the admission of the Company's Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM in 2011 has been cancelled. At this time all dematerialised interests were converted into certificated form, and Shareholders should have each received a share certificate in respect of their holdings of Ordinary Shares. As the Company is incorporated in Gibraltar, the Ordinary Shares are not eligible for electronic settlement in the UK. The DIs were put in place in order to provide holders of Ordinary Shares with a mechanism of electronic settlement using the CREST system.

The AIM Rules for Companies require that all AIM companies must ensure that their securities are eligible for electronic settlement, and the Company is currently unable to comply with its obligations under AIM Rule 36 in this regard. As a result, the Ordinary Shares will remain suspended from trading on AIM until such time as the Company has put in place a replacement DI facility. The Company submitted the requisite legal opinions and other necessary documents to Euroclear (the entity which administers the DI facility) on 24 March 2017. The Company anticipates that the new DI facility will be in place on or about 10 April 2017. Once a new DI facility has been established the Board anticipates that trading in the Ordinary Shares on AIM will be restored. An update will be provided in due course on the process for enabling the electronic trading of Ordinary Shares through the new DI facility. Shareholders who elect to dematerialise their shareholdings of Ordinary Shares prior to the EGM will find a Form of Direction included with this document in relation to the EGM.

   11.        Current trading and prospects 

In the months prior to its suspension from trading, the Company's trading has been adversely affected by the lack of access to adequate working capital and the uncertainty surrounding the financial viability of the business and its ability to raise capital. The Company's trading has also been adversely affected by the departure of a number of employees. With the proceeds from the Subscription and the Board Changes, it is expected that progress can be made towards building increased revenue streams based on the platforms and licences currently held by the Company, but there can be no assurance that this will be sufficient for the Company to attain profitability or to preclude the necessity of raising further capital that could be dilutive to Shareholders' interests.

The Directors anticipate that, subject to passing the Resolutions and the satisfaction or waiver by Wraith of the Conditions, Completion will occur within three months following the EGM date. However, satisfaction of certain of the Conditions, such as the receipt of the letter of no objection to the changes of qualifying holding in the Company from the FCA, are outside the control of the Company and Wraith. There can therefore be no guarantee as to when Completion will occur, if at all. In the period between the Extraordinary General Meeting and Completion, the Company will continue to be funded by draw-downs pursuant to the Loan Agreement (further details of which can be found in the Company's announcement of 6 March 2017). As at the date of this document, the Company is indebted to Wraith in a total principal amount of USD 435,000 under the Loan Agreement. The Loan Agreement provides a secured loan facility to MoneySwap of USD 725,000. Amounts drawn down under the Loan Agreement by the Company carry interest at 10 per cent. per annum. Further draw-downs under the Loan Agreement may be made at the request of the Company and with the approval of Wraith, in order to meet the working capital needs of the Company prior to Completion.

   12.        New Articles 

The Board considers it appropriate that the Company should adopt new articles of association to reflect certain updated statutory references and updated references to regulatory bodies that may have changed since the Company's existing articles of association were adopted. The New Articles are broadly similar to the Existing Articles but contain additional provisions relating to the conversion of Ordinary Shares into stock, in the event that the Company should resolve to do so in the future, and additionally permit the Shareholders to remove directors by ordinary resolution, rather than by special resolution.

A copy of the New Articles showing the changes to the Existing Articles has been posted to Shareholders along with this Circular and can be also found at www.moneyswapholdings.com.

   13.        Extraordinary General Meeting 

The issue of the Subscription Shares is conditional on, inter alia, the passing of the Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting. In the event that the Resolutions are not approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting, the Subscription will not proceed. If the Subscription does not proceed the Proposals will not complete.

Set out at the end of this Circular you will find a notice convening the Extraordinary General Meeting, to be held on 20 April 2017 at 10.00 a.m. at the offices of Allenby Capital Limited at 3 St Helen's Place, London EC3A 6AB, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolutions:

Ordinary Resolutions

1. to receive and approve the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2016;

   2.   to approve the Subscription; 
   3.   to approve the waiver of the Management Options; 
   4.   to grant the directors the authority to allot: 
   (i)   the Subscription Shares; 
   (ii)   the Fee Conversion Shares; 

(iii) 119,776,000 additional Ordinary Shares under a general authority; and

Special Resolution

   5.   to adopt the New Articles. 
   14.        Action to be taken 

Shareholders will find enclosed with the document a Form of Proxy and a Form of Direction (for use in the event that any Shareholder is a Depositary Interest Holder on the date of the Extraordinary General Meeting), in each case for use in connection with the Extraordinary General Meeting. Whether or not you intend to be present at the Extraordinary General Meeting, you are requested to complete and sign:

(a) in the case of Shareholders, the Form of Proxy, which should be returned to Prime Secretaries, Prime Management Limited, 13/15 Giro's Passage, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA as soon as possible and, in any event, so as to arrive no later than 10.00 a.m. on 18 April 2017; and

(b) in the case of Depositary Interest Holders, the Form of Direction, which should be returned to Capita Asset Services, PXS, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4TU as soon as possible and, in any event, so as to arrive no later than 10.00 a.m. on 17 April 2017.

If the Form of Proxy or Form of Direction is not received by the dates and times set out above, it will be rendered void. The completion and return of a Form of Proxy will not preclude you from attending the Extraordinary General Meeting and voting in person if you so wish. Depositary Interest Holders wishing to attend the EGM should contact the Depositary as per the instructions on the Form of Direction. Depositary Interests may be voted through the CREST Proxy Voting Service in accordance with the procedures set out in the CREST manual. The CREST message should be received not later than 10.00 a.m. on 17 April 2017.

   15.        Irrevocable undertakings 

The Company has received indications from Shareholders, including the Directors, representing, in aggregate, approximately 77.44 per cent. of the Existing Ordinary Shares to vote in favour of the Resolutions.

   16.        Recommendation 

Having spent a significant amount of time seeking additional funding, the Board believes that the Subscription is the only option available to the Company at the current time that will provide the Company with sufficient working capital to continue as a going concern. Should the Resolutions not be passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting, the Board considers there to be a significant chance that the Directors would need to take actions to protect the interest of creditors, which may result in the ultimate winding up of the Company. Accordingly, the Directors unanimously recommend that Shareholders vote in favour of the Resolutions to be proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting as they intend to do in respect of their own holdings of Ordinary Shares.

Yours sincerely,

Craig Niven

Chairman and Interim Chief Executive

DEFINITIONS

The following definitions apply throughout this document, unless the context requires otherwise:

 
Admission                  admission of the Initial Subscription 
                            Shares to trading on AIM, such 
                            admission becoming effective 
                            in accordance with the AIM 
                            Rules; 
AIM                        AIM, a market operated by the 
                            London Stock Exchange; 
AIM Rules for Companies    the rules of AIM as set out 
 or AIM Rules               in the publication entitled 
                            AIM Rules for Companies published 
                            by the London Stock Exchange 
                            from time to time; 
Allenby Capital            Allenby Capital Limited, the 
                            Company's nominated adviser 
                            and broker for the purposes 
                            of the AIM Rules; 
Board                      the board of directors of the 
                            Company from time to time; 
Board Changes              the proposed resignation of 
                            the Current Director from the 
                            Board, and the appointment 
                            of the Proposed Directors to 
                            the Board, further details 
                            of which are set out in paragraph 
                            6 of the letter from the Chairman 
                            of the Company; 
certificated or in         the description of a share 
 certificated form          or other security which is 
                            not in uncertificated form 
                            (that is not in CREST); 
Circular or this document  this document dated 28 March 
                            2017; 
Company or MoneySwap       MoneySwap plc, a company incorporated 
                            in Gibraltar with registered 
                            number 96229 and whose registered 
                            office is 13/15 Giro's Passage, 
                            Gibraltar; 
Completion                 completion of the issue of 
                            the Initial Subscription Shares 
                            to Wraith, pursuant to the 
                            Subscription Agreement between 
                            MoneySwap and Wraith; 
Conditions                 the conditions to the Initial 
                            Subscription occurring in accordance 
                            with the Subscription Agreement, 
                            being in summary that: (i) 
                            the financial statements of 
                            the Company for the financial 
                            year ended 31 March 2016 have 
                            been duly audited on an unqualified 
                            basis (but modified as to an 
                            emphasis of matter); (ii) the 
                            Ordinary Shares are restored 
                            to trading and continue to 
                            be admitted to trading on AIM, 
                            and Allenby Capital continues 
                            to be engaged as the Company's 
                            nominated adviser; (iii) the 
                            FCA has provided a letter of 
                            no objection to the changes 
                            of qualifying holding in the 
                            Company; (iv) the Resolutions 
                            have been passed; (v) there 
                            has been no breach of certain 
                            of the warranties contained 
                            in the Subscription Agreement; 
                            and (vi) there has been no 
                            material adverse change in 
                            any major financial market 
                            in the US, the UK, Hong Kong 
                            or the EU; 
CREST                      the relevant system (as defined 
                            in the CREST Regulations) in 
                            respect of which Euroclear 
                            is the Operator (as defined 
                            in the CREST Regulations); 
Current Director           Emma Xu, a Director of the 
                            Company; 
Depositary                 Capita IRG Trustees Limited, 
                            The Registry, 34 Beckenham 
                            Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4TU; 
Depositary Interests       the depositary interests in 
 or DIs                     uncertificated form representing 
                            Ordinary Shares; 
Directors                  the directors of the Company 
                            at the date of this document, 
                            as set out on page 10 of this 
                            document; 
Enlarged Share Capital     the Company's issued share 
                            capital as enlarged by the 
                            issue of the Initial Subscription 
                            Shares; 
EU                         the European Union; 
Euroclear                  Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited; 
Existing Articles          the Company's articles of association, 
                            in effect as at the date of 
                            this document; 
Existing Options           the share options granted by 
                            the Company prior to the date 
                            of this Circular to any person 
                            other than pursuant to: (i) 
                            the Subscription; (ii) the 
                            Fee Conversion Options; and 
                            (iii) the Management Options 
                            to be waived; 
Existing Ordinary Shares   the 1,197,755,282 Ordinary 
                            Shares in issue as at the date 
                            of this document, having a 
                            nominal value of GBP0.001 per 
                            Existing Ordinary Share; 
Extraordinary General      the extraordinary general meeting 
 Meeting or EGM             of the Company, notice of which 
                            is set out at the end of this 
                            Circular, and including any 
                            adjournment(s) thereof; 
FCA                        the UK's Financial Conduct 
                            Authority; 
Fee Conversion Exercise    an amount equal to the aggregate 
 Price                      outstanding fees currently 
                            owed by the Group to each of 
                            the Current Director, the Former 
                            Director and the Substantial 
                            Shareholder, respectively, 
                            such that upon the exercise 
                            of the Fee Conversion Options 
                            by each individual, the amount 
                            of the fees owed to the relevant 
                            individual by the Group will 
                            be set-off against the relevant 
                            individual's obligation to 
                            pay the subscription price 
                            for the Fee Conversion Shares; 
Fee Conversion Options     a proposed option to be granted 
                            to each of the Current Director, 
                            the Former Director and the 
                            Substantial Shareholder to 
                            subscribe for the Fee Conversion 
                            Shares at the Fee Conversion 
                            Exercise Price (further details 
                            of which are set out in paragraph 
                            7 of this document below); 
Fee Conversion Option      the Current Director, the Former 
 Holders                    Director and the Substantial 
                            Shareholder; 
Fee Conversion Shares      the 224,634,147 new Ordinary 
                            Shares to be issued at the 
                            Fee Conversion Exercise Price 
                            to the Fee Conversion Option 
                            Holders on exercise of the 
                            Fee Conversion Options; 
Form of Direction          the form of direction for DI 
                            holders accompanying this document 
                            relating to the Extraordinary 
                            General Meeting; 
Form of Proxy              the form of proxy accompanying 
                            this document relating to the 
                            Extraordinary General Meeting; 
Former Director            Kung Min Lin, a former director 
                            of the Company who resigned 
                            on 30 December 2015; 
FSMA                       the UK Financial Services and 
                            Markets Act 2000, as amended; 
Fully Diluted Share        the aggregate of the then issued 
 Capital                    share capital of the Company 
                            and any Ordinary Shares the 
                            subject of any options or rights 
                            to subscribe granted by the 
                            Company which are capable of 
                            exercise from time to time 
                            (including the Existing Options, 
                            the Subscription and the Fee 
                            Conversion Options); 
GBP or GBP                 pound sterling, the legal currency 
                            of the United Kingdom; 
Group                      the Company and its subsidiary 
                            undertakings at the date of 
                            this document; 
Increased Share Capital    the issued share capital of 
                            the Company as at the date 
                            of exercise of the Subscription 
                            Option as increased to take 
                            into account the Subscription 
                            Option Shares to be issued 
                            pursuant to the Subscription 
                            Option and any other Ordinary 
                            Shares that the Company has 
                            an unconditional obligation 
                            to issue as at that date; 
Initial Subscription       the issue of the Initial Subscription 
                            Shares at Completion to Wraith 
                            pursuant to the terms of the 
                            Subscription Agreement; 
Initial Subscription       the 2,443,420,775 new Ordinary 
 Shares                     Shares proposed to be issued 
                            to Wraith pursuant to the Initial 
                            Subscription at Completion 
                            (or such higher number of Ordinary 
                            Shares as would entitle Wraith 
                            to hold at least 51 per cent. 
                            of the Enlarged Share Capital 
                            on Completion); 
Issue Price                GBP0.001 per new Ordinary Share 
                            to be paid by Wraith pursuant 
                            to the Initial Subscription 
                            and the Subscription Option; 
Loan Agreement             the loan facility dated 6 March 
                            2017 between the Company and 
                            Wraith, further details of 
                            which were announced by the 
                            Company on 6 March 2017; 
Lock-in Agreement          the lock-in agreement to be 
                            entered into between Wraith, 
                            Allenby Capital and the Company 
                            on Completion, further details 
                            of which are set out in the 
                            Appendix to the Circular; 
Lock-in Period             the period commencing on the 
                            date of Admission and expiring 
                            on the date falling 12 months 
                            after Admission; 
London Stock Exchange      the London Stock Exchange Group 
                            plc; 
Management Options         the existing options granted 
                            to the Management Option Holders 
                            by the Company over 19,666,081 
                            unissued Ordinary Shares pursuant 
                            to (i) certain employee share 
                            option schemes and rights to 
                            subscribe for Ordinary Shares 
                            and (ii) certain employee and 
                            non-executive long-term incentive 
                            plans put in place by the Company; 
Management Option Holders  the Directors and the Former 
                            Director; 
New Articles               the proposed new articles of 
                            association of the Company; 
Notice of Extraordinary    the notice of Extraordinary 
 General Meeting            General Meeting, set out at 
                            the end of this document; 
Ordinary Shares            the ordinary shares of GBP0.001 
                            each in the capital of the 
                            Company in issue from time 
                            to time; 
PRC or China               the People's Republic of China; 
Proposals                  the Subscription, the waiver 
                            of the Management Options, 
                            the grant of the Fee Conversion 
                            Options and the adoption of 
                            the New Articles; 
Proposed Directors         William Morro and Calvin Yan; 
Prospectus Rules           the Prospectus Rules published 
                            by the FCA; 
Registrars                 Capita Registrars (Guernsey) 
                            Limited, The Registry, Mont 
                            Crevelt House, Bulwer Avenue, 
                            St Sampson, Guernsey GY2 4LH; 
Relationship Agreement     the agreement to be entered 
                            into on Completion between 
                            the Company, Allenby Capital 
                            and Wraith, details of which 
                            are set out in the Appendix 
                            to the Circular; 
Resolutions                the resolutions to be proposed 
                            at the Extraordinary General 
                            Meeting, as set out in the 
                            Notice of Extraordinary General 
                            Meeting; 
Shareholders               holders of Ordinary Shares; 
Subscription               the conditional subscription 
                            by Wraith for the Subscription 
                            Shares comprising, together, 
                            the Initial Subscription, the 
                            Subscription Option and the 
                            Wraith Further Option, on the 
                            terms of the Subscription Agreement 
                            between Wraith and the Company 
                            and further described in this 
                            document; 
Subscription Agreement     the agreement dated 20 March 
                            2017 between the Company and 
                            Wraith relating to the Subscription, 
                            as amended by a deed of variation 
                            dated 28 March 2017, details 
                            of which are set out in the 
                            Appendix of the Circular; 
Subscription Option        the option granted to Wraith 
                            pursuant to the terms of the 
                            Subscription Agreement by which, 
                            if exercised, Wraith has the 
                            right to be issued and allotted 
                            further new Ordinary Shares 
                            at the Issue Price such that 
                            its total shareholding in the 
                            Company may increase to up 
                            to 75 per cent. of the Increased 
                            Share Capital; 
Subscription Option        the new Ordinary Shares that 
 Shares                     may be issued to Wraith pursuant 
                            to the Subscription Option; 
Subscription Shares        the Initial Subscription Shares, 
                            the Subscription Option Shares 
                            and any new Ordinary Shares 
                            to be issued pursuant to the 
                            Wraith Further Option; 
Substantial Shareholder    Henry Lin, a substantial shareholder 
                            (under the definition of the 
                            AIM Rules) of the Company's 
                            Existing Ordinary Shares and 
                            the brother of the Former Director; 
Suspension                 the suspension of the Ordinary 
                            Shares from trading on AIM 
                            in accordance with the AIM 
                            Rules; 
uncertificated             shares recorded on a register 
                            of securities maintained by 
                            Euroclear in accordance with 
                            the CREST Regulations as being 
                            in uncertificated form in CREST 
                            and title to which, by virtue 
                            of the CREST Regulations, may 
                            be transferred by means of 
                            CREST; 
UK or United Kingdom       the United Kingdom of England, 
                            Scotland, Wales and Northern 
                            Ireland; 
US$ or $                   US dollars, the legal currency 
                            of the United States; 
Wraith                     Wraith Holding B.V., a company 
                            incorporated in the Netherlands 
                            with Company number 67229581 
                            and whose registered address 
                            is Startbaan 8, 1185 XR, Amstelveen, 
                            the Netherlands; and 
Wraith Further Option      the option granted to Wraith 
                            pursuant to the terms of the 
                            Subscription Agreement by which 
                            Wraith will have the right, 
                            but not the obligation, from 
                            Completion to 12 August 2021 
                            to subscribe for three times 
                            the number of any new Ordinary 
                            Shares issued to any other 
                            person, with that option being 
                            exercisable at the Issue Price 
                            for each Ordinary Share. 
 

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