RE: The funder is the problem1 Apr 2021 19:37
I agree and this caught my attention in today’s RNS..
Progress has been made with Quadrivio Group and the Captive Bank acquisition process.
The Inventory Funder, that had initially proposed to fund a wholly Italian portfolio (through the Open-funding route explained below), has expressed a preference to invest in a more diversified inventory portfolio across several countries rather than in a single country.
SYME has therefore agreed with its partners that, subject to the successful completion of the Captive Bank transaction, this Captive-funding route will be used to begin the monetisation of its Italian portfolio of Client companies. The first group of Italian Client companies that are expected to be monetised have been informed of this solution.
SYME anticipates that the Captive Bank should be able to provide a lower cost of funding than other investors which, if achieved, would deliver higher gross returns to SYME from each contract.
“The Company and Quadrivio Group will provide further details of this dedicated Italian monetisation programme through a separate announcement.”
The question from me is when will we get this separate announcement? It could be quite soon as (although it’s now late) we had this in the December RNS..
“The Trading Update on 30 November 2020 stated that the parties' objective is to complete the acquisition and the authorisation processes regarding the banking license during the first quarter of 2021. This timetable remains on track.”