Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – May 2, 2022) – Tenet Fintech Group Inc. PKK PKKFF (“Tenet” or the “Company”), an revolutionary AI service supplier and operator of the Business Hubs™, immediately introduced its monetary outcomes for the yr ended December 31, 2021. The Company reported revenues of $103.6M, an adjusted EBITDA of $2.48M and a web loss of $48.5M for the yr. While the figures fall brief of the forecasts set by the Company for the yr, they’re nonetheless indicative of the Company’s progress potential. The missed forecast is essentially ascribed to the Company having to reassess and regulate its short-term money circulate technique, which led to surprising delays in sure segments of its operations. All quantities expressed are in Canadian {dollars}.
2021 Financial Highlights:
Comparative Summary of Key Financial Metrics from 2018 to 2021
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | |
Revenue | $103,632,774 | $42,698,047 | $11,708,653 | $1,681,534 |
Expenses1 | $101,145,243 | $44,556,226 | $10,173,036 | $3,260,765 |
Adjusted EBITDA2 | $2,487,531 | ($1,858,179) | $1,535,617 | ($1,579,231) |
Net Income (Loss) 3 | ($48,561,968) | ($5,513,511) | ($1,830,361) | ($3,608,920) |
- Expenses don’t embody curiosity, taxes, depreciation (together with impairment of intangible property) loss on settlement of debt, achieve on cut price buy and amortization
- Adjusted EBITDA equals web revenue (loss) earlier than finance prices, taxes, depreciation, amortization and impairment of intangible property, loss on extinction of debt, achieve on cut price buy and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is offered as supplementary earnings measure to help readers in figuring out the Company’s potential to generate cash-flows from operations and to cowl finance expenses. Adjusted EBITDA and EBITDA are additionally broadly used for enterprise valuation functions. Adjusted EBITDA doesn’t have a standardized that means prescribed by IFRS and might not be corresponding to related measures offered by different firms.
- The web loss for 2021 features a complete of $53,364,705 in impairment expenses associated to the Company’s acquisition of Cubeler for which forecasted revenues shifted by virtually a yr as a consequence of the delayed launched of the Company’s Canadian Business Hub™. Part of the impairment expenses could also be reversed in the future following the launch of the Company’s Canadian operations.
2021 Operating Highlights:
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Partnership settlement with ecommerce software program supplier ShopEx
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Re-emergence and integration of the Gold River ecommerce and logistics platform to Business Hub
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Integration of Business Hub™ to China UnionPay community
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Creation of first digital financial institution accounts on Business Hub™ and first fund switch and cost processing transactions on China UnionPay community
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First participation in “618 Shopping Festival” with JD.com retailers and suppliers
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Opening of new places of work in Beijing and Guangzhou
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Creation of new subsidiary to permit the Company to supply companies associated to the promoting and distribution of oil and fuel merchandise and clear expertise merchandise via the Business Hub™
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Creation of new subsidiary to permit the Company to supply companies associated to the promoting and distribution of property and legal responsibility insurance coverage merchandise in China via the Business Hub™
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Rebranding of ecosystem from “Lending Hub” to “Business Hub”
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Closing of a brief type prospectus financing of $52M
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Acquisition of “Heartbeat” insurance coverage product administration and brokerage platform
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Acquisition of AI and analytics firm and proprietor of Business Hub mental property, Cubeler Inc.
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Agreement with Ping An Insurance for the sale and distribution of auto trade insurance coverage insurance policies via Heartbeat platform
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Revenue sharing settlement with PetroChina associated to the set up and upkeep of automated espresso distribution machines in addition to the sale of espresso at PetroChina comfort shops.
Review of 2021
“We believe the revenue growth and operational progress we made in China in 2021 validate what we’ve been telling everyone all along about the potential behind the concept of our Hub,” commented Tenet CEO Johnson Joseph. “With the addition of payment processing features, the integration of service offerings to the insurance sector and value-added programs and features to facilitate transactions among our members, we rebranded our ecosystem from ‘Lending Hub’ to ‘Business Hub’ in 2021 because it is about so much more than just lending. While some may look at the 2021 financial results from a ‘glass half empty’ perspective and focus on the EBITDA and net income shortfalls, we, on the other hand, believe there are far greater reasons to look at the glass as being ‘half full’ than ‘half empty’. Not only are we continuing to show the ability and potential for exceptional growth in China, but our acquisition of Cubeler has freed us to turn the Business Hub concept into a global AI-powered network that will allow the world’s SME business owners and executives to connect and conduct business with each other. Also, if you take away the impairment hit that we took related to the Cubeler acquisition and the fact that almost all the insurance related revenue and profits expected in Q4 were delayed by about two quarters, then the total revenue, EBITDA and net income for the year would actually beat what we had forecasted for 2021.”
The foregoing feedback however, 2021 was a banner yr for Tenet in additional methods than one. From a Chinese operations standpoint, the Company took half for the first time in three procuring festivals, “618” in June, “Singles’ Day” in November and “Couples’ Day” in December, which mixed to assist Tenet generate over 25% of its complete income for the yr and helped enhance its general margins associated to its service providing to the client items provide chain phase. While the client items provide chain phase ought to present a stable base for potential progress in China for years to return, Tenet started servicing a number of different verticals in 2021 that must also present sturdy progress potential however with higher revenue margins. The insurance coverage sector is one such vertical, which the Company was capable of enter due to its acquisition of the Heartbeat insurance coverage product administration and brokerage platform in the third quarter. Tenet had anticipated to see vital returns from Heartbeat in phrases of income and earnings in the fourth quarter. However, the Company needed to delay sure investments associated to the operation of the platform and the growth of sure associated merchandise. This was mandatory as Tenet reassessed its short-term money circulate technique in consequence of the uncertainty surrounding the Company’s potential to entry the US capital markets as a consequence of the ongoing evaluation of Tenet’s registration assertion by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
As the world’s second largest economic system, China will all the time play a key function in in Tenet’s future plans. But so as to create a world AI-powered community for the world’s SME enterprise house owners and executives, the Company would have develop past China’s borders to create Business Hubs™ throughout the world, which might then be linked into that single international community. That is largely why Tenet believes its acquisition of Cubeler throughout the fourth quarter to be the most vital transaction in the Company’s historical past. Cubeler’s expertise is at the core of Tenet’s Business Hub™. It may be likened to the working system that each one the Business Hub’s elements and platforms sit on or are linked to so as to operate. So not solely did the acquisition of Cubeler present Tenet with possession of the expertise accountable for producing over 90% of the Company’s income, it additionally permits Tenet to commercialize the expertise on a world foundation. The Company believes that that transaction alone made 2021 an distinctive yr for the Company, regardless of the indisputable fact that varied elements mixed to delay the launch of the Company’s first Business Hub™ outdoors of China.
Outlook for 2022
The launch of the Company’s Canadian Business Hub™ is the single most vital occasion to look out for in 2022. That launch is predicted to steer to a couple changes to Tenet’s Chinese Business Hub™. The guidelines for posting messages, working a web site and for normal Internet behaviour are completely different in China than they sometimes are in different components of the world. Considering that the Company’s Chinese Business Hub™ will first be linked to its Canadian Business Hub™ and finally to different Hubs round the world, sure changes shall be made to each Hubs in 2022 to make sure compliance with Chinese requirements for Internet conduct whereas minimizing potential opposed impacts on the options obtainable to all Hub members. The enterprise fashions of the two Hubs may even differ significantly, at the least initially. While the Chinese Hub mannequin companies particular verticals and earns income via transactional companies charges, income with the Canadian Hub is predicted via a mix of the growth of AI and analytics primarily based services and products and thru promoting, income streams that can finally even be launched in China. Given that the majority different markets the place the Company expands the community in the future can have extra in widespread with Canada than with China, Tenet additionally plans to make the mandatory investments in 2022, in phrases of money and time, to make sure that the Canadian Business Hub, as soon as launched, can have enhanced options and modules that can enable for the comparatively fast and seamless growth of the platform to different components of the world.
While the launch of the Canadian Business Hub shall be the high precedence for Tenet in 2022, its Chinese operations will stay the Company’s important income generator throughout the yr. China was the preliminary launchpad of the Company’s Business Hub and with good cause. China is estimated to have over 40M SMEs and over 70M micro-enterprises and this wealth of potential customers and clients will proceed to supply distinctive progress alternatives for the Company for years to return. Tenet plans to proceed to make use of the industrial vertical focusing on method that has labored so nicely thus far to proceed to develop its operations in China. In specific, the client items provide chain vertical ought to as soon as once more tempo the Company’s revenues in 2022. The Chinese Business Hub companies the vertical via varied packages and occasions, reminiscent of via its JD.com provider financing program, at Chinese procuring festivals, and to purchasers starting from social media influencers to large-scale client items distributors.
In phrases of potential profitability, the industrial sector that the Company is most obsessed with is the clear tech sector, which Tenet plans to dive into in 2022 with its revolutionary i3060 platform. With China and international locations round the world wanting for clear tech options to assist combat local weather change, the i3060 platform’s potential to digitize the feasibility examine and life cycle of clear power tasks makes Tenet nicely positioned to capitalize on clear tech alternatives, which might account for as a lot as 8% of the Company’s income in 2022.
Part of Tenet’s capital markets technique for 2022 stays what it was for 2021, which is to have the Company’s securities listed on senior inventory exchanges in some of the world’s higher recognized capital markets. Although the Company has not been given a timetable as to when the SEC evaluation course of could be accomplished, Tenet plans to proceed to work in a collaborative trend with the SEC with a view to an eventual return of its securities on the Nasdaq in 2022. Meanwhile, the Company will take measures to have its widespread shares listed on different senior exchanges in 2022 in the UK and Canada. Tenet believes that having its securities listed on senior exchanges in London and Toronto will present the Company with larger entry to capital and a diversified pool of traders and place the Company for success regardless of how lengthy the SEC’s evaluation course of of its itemizing registration assertion finally takes.
Despite the delay in the launch of its Canadian Business Hub™ and the shifting of its insurance coverage associated income in China, the Company has not judged it essential to revise its steerage for 2022 because it believes different income streams will compensate for the delays.
Fiscal 2021 Financial Results Summary
In abstract, the Company generated $103,632,774 in income in 2021 (in comparison with $42,698,047 in fiscal 2020). Total bills for fiscal 2021 amounted to $153,806,561, in comparison with $47,359,548 in 2020.
The web loss for the yr was $48,561,968 in comparison with $5,513,511 in 2020. Full particulars of the Company’s 2021 monetary outcomes may be present in the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, which can be found at www.sedar.com.
Tenet will host an investor webinar on Tuesday, May 3rd at 4:30 pm ET, the place President & CEO Johnson Joseph and CFO Jean Landreville will focus on the This autumn 2021 monetary outcomes. Registration for the occasion is obtainable at: https://tinyurl.com/8z5pja7e. Please submit your questions associated to the This autumn outcomes prematurely to cathy@chfir.com or mark.schwalenberg@mzgroup.us.
About Tenet Fintech Group Inc.:
Tenet Fintech Group Inc. is the dad or mum firm of a bunch of revolutionary monetary expertise (Fintech) and synthetic intelligence (AI) firms. All references to Tenet on this information launch, except explicitly specified, contains Tenet and all its subsidiaries. Tenet’s subsidiaries present varied analytics and AI-based companies to companies and monetary establishments via varied Business Hubs™ to create a world ecosystem the place analytics and AI are used to create alternatives and facilitate B2B transactions amongst its members. Please go to our web site at: http://www.tenetfintech.com
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Cathy Hume, CEO
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Mark Schwalenberg, CFA
312-261-6430
mark.schwalenberg@mzgroup.us
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