STRATEGIC ACQUISITIONS INC NV
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Mar 26, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Mar 26, 2024
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Item 1. Business
Strategic Acquisitions, Inc. (the “Company,” “Strategic,” “we,” “us” and words of similar import) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on January 27, 1989. On December 22, 2022, we entered into and consummated an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”) with Exworth Union Inc (“Exworth Union”) and the owners of all of its outstanding shares of capital stock — Exworth Management LLC (“Exworth Management”) and World Class Global Technology PTE LTD. (“World Class,” collectively with Exworth Management, the “Stockholders”) whereby we acquired Exworth Union (the “Merger”). Exworth Union is engaged in providing loans collateralized by digital assets. Prior to the Merger, we were a “shell” company with no commercial operations and had generated no revenues other than nominal interest income.
Immediately prior to the Merger, Exworth Management owned 91% of the outstanding shares of Exworth Union and 74% of the shares of our common stock outstanding. Consequently, the transaction effected through the Merger Agreement was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization. Exworth Union was determined to be the accounting acquirer and we, Strategic, were treated as the acquired company for financial reporting purposes.
As a result of the acquisition of Exworth Union we are now engaged in providing loans collateralized by digital assets. Our loan business is currently limited due to the early stage of the digital asset industry, changing economic conditions and the need to more fully develop a proprietary software technology platform, or the “Platform,” to facilitate the origination and servicing of digital asset-backed loans, and as of December 31, 2023, we do not have a definitive timeline for completing the development of the Platform, due to the lack of funding and personnel. Our target customers are small businesses and individuals that hold intangible assets including digital currencies seeking loans secured by such assets. We intend to provide term loans to these enterprises and individuals which are collateralized with intangible assets, such as Bitcoin. We intend to generate revenue from interest income and transaction-based services fees. We intend to design the Platform to originate and service loans backed by various assets. Nevertheless, to date, Bitcoin is the only asset we have accepted as collateral for a loan and we intend to focus on the market for loans secured by digital currencies for the immediate future.
The Platform
The Platform that we intend to development will facilitate the origination and servicing of digital asset-backed loans and will consist of a customer facing website, a mobile application and a loan management system used to monitor the loans made by us.
The Platform will provide an integrated service for the origination, documentation and servicing of collateralized loans. Our current core offering is a digital asset-backed loan. We may in the future offer various other loan products, such as a portfolio line of credit, debit card, credit card and digital asset-denominated loans.
We manage and administer all aspects of loans originated by us, including the application process, qualification of the borrower, structuring the terms of the loan, loan funding and servicing, and related regulatory compliance. We will manage borrowers’ digital assets serving as collateral, through services provided by third party providers of digital asset custody services who hold and transfer the collateral.
The Platform will allow us to process and complete transactions. We plan to use the Platform to onboard borrowers, decide whether to approve a loan, to structure the amount and terms of the loans we offer, including the value of the collateral to be deposited under our control as a condition to funding, and to provide funds to borrowers. The Platform will enable us to closely monitor collection and portfolio performance data that we use to determine whether to foreclose on a loan and liquidate the collateral and to refine the statistical measures used in making loan transaction decisions. We will also use the Platform to facilitate the transfer of digital asset collateral for loans and manage the custodial needs for such collateral.
The Platform’s software will also provide an end-to-end system for managing loan processes from acquisition to repayment or foreclosure. The Platform will help us manage applications and track loans through all stages, from initial inquiry through funding, diligence, servicing, margin call and collateral management. Borrowers will receive notifications from the Platform upon collateral deposit, withdrawal requests, margin call, and other account changes.
The Platform will have a borrower-facing website and the mobile application, which will provide prospective borrowers and customers with the ability to directly manage their loans, collateral and account information.
We plan to develop the Platform as a flexible and scalable technology system so that we can include new products intended to meet changes in borrowers’ demands and increased volume.
As of the date hereof, the design and development of the Platform have been temporarily suspended due to the lack of funding and personnel.
Digital Asset-Backed Loans
We intend to originate U.S. Dollar denominated loans. We plan to offer loans to small business and individual borrowers who own digital assets and desire liquidity in U.S. Dollar denominated loans. We currently only provide loans to businesses and individuals outside of the United States, mainly in Asia and Europe. We serve this niche market with term loans ranging in size from $500,000 to $5,000,000. Currently, the only digital asset we are accepting as collateral is Bitcoin. Our loan agreements with borrowers permit us to sell the borrower’s collateral assets to repay the loan principal and accrued interest if a margin call is not timely cured. If the threshold for collateral liquidation is breached, we trigger a liquidation event. Liquidation events may result in fees which are passed along to the borrower. The margin requirements are determined by us and agreed to by borrowers.
Terms are set forth in loan agreements entered into with each borrower. The loans have a fixed term that ranges from 3 to 36 months in duration. The loans generally require either periodic payments of principal and interest with a fixed payment amount due each period during the term of the loan or periodic payments of interest only with a final lump sum payment of principal at the end of the loan term. Payments are due monthly or quarterly based on the contractual terms. The applicable interest rates, origination fees and liquidation fees for our loans will vary based on several factors including the originating loan-to-value ratio, the business status of the borrower, loan duration and jurisdiction.
We make loans based upon: (i) our ability to securely take possession, store, manage, and liquidate the digital assets held as collateral; (ii) market capitalization, volatility, liquidity, and trading volumes for the digital assets; and (iii) the legal status of the digital assets to be used as collateral; subject to due diligence and applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering regulations.
Under our loan agreements with borrowers, we may, from time to time, repledge certain collateral, including under capital facilities we maintain with financial partners for capital management purposes. The Company regularly monitors such re-hypothecation and repledging transactions as well as the credit standing of its financial partners in order to maintain sufficient available capital.
Loan Agreement with Our Lenders
Exworth Union is and will be party to loan agreements with certain lenders and other strategic partners, pursuant to which it borrows U.S. dollar-based capital for use in our lending business. We currently are the party to a master loan agreement and a master pledge agreement with a U.S. based lender. According to the master loan agreement, we can borrow utilizing bitcoin as collateral with 70% loan-to-value on a non-recourse basis. We may elect to enter into additional loans secured by such digital and other assets we have the right to pledge, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon. Our current loan has a term of 24 months with quarterly interest-only payments with principal paid at the maturity date. No prepayment of the loan principal amount or of any interest due under the loan is allowed. If the fair market value of our pledged collateral based upon the closing market price has fallen to less than seventy percent (70%) of its fair market value as of the closing of the loan, the lender will provide written notice and we have five business days to cure the deficiency by the delivery to the lender of additional collateral in U.S. Dollars or bitcoin equivalent. The lender has the right to demand that curative payments be made in U.S. Dollars. According to the Loan agreement with our Lender, when all of our obligations have been paid in full, the lender must return the pledged collateral, including any curative payments within five business days.
Geographic Market
Our primary geographical markets are Asia and Europe. We hope to increase our engagement with and gain our clients’ trust, and enhance user understanding of the loans we make available and as our customer base grows, provide other financial services.
Competition
Our primary target customers are small businesses and individuals in Asia and Europe. The lending industry in these markets is rapidly changing and highly innovative. We expect competition within our industry will continue to be intense as existing and new competitors introduce new products or enhance existing products. Our principal competitors are other digital asset-backed lending companies, decentralized finance companies, credit services organizations, online lenders, credit card companies, and other financial institutions that offer similar financial products and services, including loans on an unsecured as well as a secured basis.
An additional significant source of competition are companies, including those located outside the United States, that are subject to significantly less stringent regulatory and compliance requirements in their local jurisdictions. Their business models rely on being unregulated or only regulated in a small number of lower compliance jurisdictions, while also offering their products in highly regulated jurisdictions, including the United States, without necessarily complying with the relevant regulatory requirements in such jurisdictions.
Due to our commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, we have not been able to offer some popular products and services that our unregulated or less regulated competitors offer, which may adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We also expect to expend significant managerial, operational, and compliance costs to meet the legal and regulatory requirements applicable to us in the United States and other jurisdictions in which we operate and expect to continue to incur significant costs to comply with these requirements before we could grow our business, which these unregulated or less regulated competitors have not had to incur.
Further, as digital assets become more widely adopted, more traditional financial institutions may begin to directly compete with our platform. Certain of our current and potential competitors, particularly more traditional financial institutions or non-digital asset lenders entering or that may enter our market, have more extensive customer bases and broader customer relationships than we have and have longer operating histories and greater name recognition than we have. They also have significantly more financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we have, and are able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion, sale and support of their products and services. Competing services that have partnered with or are tied to established banks and other financial institutions, may offer greater liquidity and create greater consumer confidence in the safety and efficiency of their services than we do. We expect that there will be continued mergers and acquisitions by or among these companies, which will lead to even larger competitors with more resources. We also expect to continue to see new entrants to our field, which offer competitive products and services.
Regulations That Affect Our Business
We currently make loans only outside of the United States. In general, local regulations are designed to protect consumers and the public, while providing standard guidelines for business operations. Laws and regulations typically impose restrictions and requirements, such as governing interest rates and fees, maximum loan amounts, loan extensions and refinancings, payment schedules (including maximum and minimum loan durations), disclosures, security for loans and payment mechanisms, licensing, and in certain jurisdictions certain reporting requirements. For more information regarding the regulations applicable to our business and the risks to which they subject us, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” below.
In addition, regulation of the blockchain and digital assets is under active consideration by the United States through various federal agencies, including the SEC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as well as in other countries. State government regulations may also apply. Furthermore, it is expected that regulations will increase, although we cannot anticipate how and when. As the regulatory and legal environment evolves, we may become subject to new laws and regulation by the SEC and other agencies.
The legal environment is constantly changing as new laws and regulations are introduced and adopted, and existing laws and regulations are repealed, amended, modified and reinterpreted. Regulatory authorities at various levels of government and voters have enacted, and will likely continue to propose, new laws and regulations impacting our industry. Due to the evolving nature of laws and regulations, further rulemaking could result in new or expanded regulations, particularly at the state level, that may adversely impact current product offerings or alter the economic performance of our existing products and services. We cannot provide any assurances that additional federal, state, provincial or local statutes or regulations will not be enacted in the future in any of the jurisdictions in which we operate. It is possible that future changes to statutes or regulations will have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Further, as our business evolves and we make loans or provide services to businesses and individuals in more countries, we will become subject to the applicable laws and regulations in such countries and their political territories.
Technology & Technology Suppliers
Our Platform is being developed internally and by third parties directed by us. Our Platform will be hosted in third party data centers on virtual cloud-based infrastructure. These providers include Google Cloud Computing and AWS. These data centers use a mixture of biometric access controls, redundant power, environmental controls and secure internet connection points to ensure uptime and data security. We rely on our data center and service providers to maintain peak operating conditions in their businesses and to quickly address issues related to their service as they arise.
Crypto Wallet Providers
We are using a crypto custody service provided by Aegis Trust Company, a South Dakota public trust company, to hold the digital assets as collateral. We rely on our custody service provider to maintain and secure its crypto wallet service for our operations and to provide its services in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Intellectual Property
Our Platform and other technologies incorporate proprietary intellectual properties developed and owned by us or licensed to us on an exclusive basis. Protecting our rights to our intellectual property enhances our ability to offer distinct and competitive products and services to our customers. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark and trade secret law protections in the United States, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our intellectual property rights. Our patent strategy includes identifying our key business goals, enhancing our research and product development, and growing and defending our market share.
Employees
As of March 04, 2024, we have engaged two consultants for administrative work.
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