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SHF HOLDINGS, INC.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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OTHER INFORMATION
Unless the context otherwise indicates, when used in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, the terms “SHF Holdings,” “Safe Harbor,” “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” and similar terms refer to the Company, a Delaware corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, SHF, LLC and SHFxAbaca, LLC.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Various of the statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (the “Form 10-Q”), including information incorporated herein by reference to other documents, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and subject to the protections of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions and future performance and condition, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause the actual results, performance, achievements, or financial condition of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance, achievements, or financial condition expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. You should not expect us to update any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements should be read together with the discussion of the Company’s risks and uncertainties included under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on April 10, 2025.
All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements through our use of words such as “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “seek,” “should,” “indicate,” “would,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “consider,” “expect,” “estimate,” “continue,” “plan,” “point to,” “project,” “could,” “intend,” “target” and other similar words and expressions of the future. These forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation:
| ● | Our profitability is subject to interest rate risk; | |
| ● | Volatility and uncertainty in the financial markets and banking industry may adversely impact our clients and our ability to obtain additional financial institution clients; | |
| ● | Liquidity risks could affect our operations and jeopardize our financial condition and certain funding sources could increase our interest rate expense including our ability to operate as a going concern and also remaining in compliance with debt covenants; | |
| ● | The industry in which our clients operate is considered federally illegal, which may pose risk if actions were taken against those customers or our Company; | |
| ● | Our strategic plan and growth strategy may not be achieved as quickly or as fully as we seek; | |
| ● | Our success depends on our ability to compete effectively in highly competitive markets; | |
| ● | Potential gaps in our risk management policies may leave us exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risk, which could negatively affect our business; | |
| ● | We have identified and we may identify additional deficiencies in our internal controls, which may have an impact on our business operations; | |
| ● | Technological changes affect our business including potentially impacting the revenue stream of traditional products and services, and we may have fewer resources than many competitors to invest in technological improvements; | |
| ● | Our information systems may experience interruptions and security breaches, and are exposed to cybersecurity threats; | |
| ● | Many of our major systems depend on and are operated by third-party vendors, and any systems failures or interruptions could adversely affect our operations and the services we provide to our customers; | |
| ● | Any failure to protect the confidentiality of customer information could adversely affect our reputation and subject us to financial sanctions and other costs that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations; | |
| ● | Future acquisitions and expansion activities may disrupt our business, dilute shareholder value and adversely affect our operating results; | |
| ● | We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our operation needs, including our debt obligations; | |
| ● | We may incur a substantial level of debt that could materially adversely affect our ability to generate sufficient cash to fulfill our obligations; | |
| ● | Our business may be adversely affected by economic conditions in general and by conditions in the financial markets; | |
| ● | We are subject to extensive regulation that could limit or restrict our activities and adversely affect our earnings; | |
| ● | Litigation and regulatory investigations are increasingly common in our businesses and may result in significant financial losses and/or harm to our reputation; | |
| ● | Liquidity risks arising from the uncertainty surrounding cash flows, including the potential impact on our ability to continue operations as a going concern. | |
| ● | We are subject to capital adequacy and liquidity standards, and if we fail to meet these standards, whether due to losses, growth opportunities or an inability to raise additional capital or otherwise, our financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected; | |
| ● | Certain of our existing shareholders could exert significant control over the Company; | |
| ● | If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, the price of our Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), and trading volume could decline; | |
| ● | We have the ability to issue additional equity securities, which would lead to dilution of our issued and outstanding Common Stock; | |
| ● | We are an “emerging growth company,” and, as a result of the reduced disclosure and governance requirements applicable to emerging growth companies, our Common Stock may be less attractive to investors; | |
| ● | We may be unable to attract and retain key people to support our business; | |
| ● | In certain circumstances, we assume the risk of fraud loss and negative balances for accounts maintained at our financial institution partners; | |
| ● | Severe weather, natural disasters, global pandemics, acts of war or terrorism, theft, civil unrest, government expropriation or other external events could have significant effects on our business; | |
| ● | The Company’s ability to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s (as defined below) listing requirements and maintain its listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market is uncertain and subject to various risks and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially; | |
| ● | Other factors and information in this Form 10-Q and other filings that we make with the SEC under the Exchange Act and Securities Act. |
The foregoing factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read together with the other cautionary statements included in this Form 10-Q. Because of these risks and other uncertainties, our actual future financial condition, results, performance or achievements, or industry results, may be materially different from the results indicated by the forward-looking statements in this Form 10-Q. In addition, our past results of operations are not necessarily indicative of our future results of operations. You should not rely on any forward-looking statements as predictions of future events.
All written or oral forward-looking statements that are made by us or are attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary note. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update, revise or correct any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
SHF Holdings, Inc.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| Current Assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accounts receivable – trade | ||||||||
| Accounts receivable – related party | ||||||||
| Prepaid expenses – current portion | ||||||||
| Accrued interest receivable | ||||||||
| Forward purchase receivable | ||||||||
| Short-term loans receivable, net | ||||||||
| Other current assets | ||||||||
| Total Current Assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| Long-term loans receivable, net | ||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | ||||||||
| Operating lease right-to-use asset | ||||||||
| Prepaid expenses – long term position | ||||||||
| Security deposit | ||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | ||||||||
| Current Liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accounts payable-related party | ||||||||
| Accrued expenses | ||||||||
| Contract liabilities | ||||||||
| Operating lease liability – current | ||||||||
| Senior secured promissory note – current portion | ||||||||
| Deferred consideration | ||||||||
| Forward purchase derivative liability | ||||||||
| Other current liabilities | ||||||||
| Total Current Liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Warrant liabilities | ||||||||
| Senior secured promissory note—long term portion | ||||||||
| Operating lease liability – long term | ||||||||
| Total Liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Commitment and Contingencies (Note 12) | ||||||||
| Stockholders’ Deficit | ||||||||
| Convertible preferred stock, $par value, shares authorized, and shares issued and outstanding on March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively | ||||||||
| Class A Common Stock, $par value, shares authorized, and issued and outstanding on March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively | ||||||||
| Additional paid in capital | ||||||||
| Accumulated deficit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Total Stockholders’ Deficit | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Deficit | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
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SHF Holdings, Inc.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
| For the three months ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Revenue | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating Expenses | ||||||||
| Compensation and employee benefits | $ | $ | ||||||
| General and administrative expenses | ||||||||
| Professional services | ||||||||
| Rent expense | ||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for credit losses | ( | ) | ||||||
| Total operating expenses | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating (loss)/income | ( | ) | ||||||
| Other (income)/expenses | ||||||||
| Change in the fair value of deferred consideration | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Interest expense | ||||||||
| Change in fair value of warrant liabilities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Total other (income)/expenses | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Net (loss)/income before income tax | ( | ) | ||||||
| Income tax benefit | $ | $ | ||||||
| Net (loss)/income | ( | ) | ||||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding, basic | ||||||||
| Basic net (loss)/income per share | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding, diluted | ||||||||
| Diluted (loss)/income per share | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
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SHF Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Deficit
(Unaudited)
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2025
| Preferred Stock | Class A Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | Total Shareholders’ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Deficit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stock compensation expense | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restricted stock units (net of tax) | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reclassification of Forward purchase receivable | - |
| - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024
| Preferred Stock | Class A Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | Total Shareholders’ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Deficit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, December 31, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Conversion of PIPE shares | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restricted stock units (net of tax) | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock compensation expense | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, March 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
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SHF Holdings, Inc.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
For the three months ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Net (loss)/income | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net (loss)/income to net cash provided by/ (used in) operating activities: | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization expense | ||||||||
| Stock compensation expense | ||||||||
Amortization of marketing costs settled with common stock | ||||||||
| Amortization of deferred origination fees | ( | ) | ||||||
| Provision (benefit) for credit losses | ( | ) | ||||||
| Income tax benefit | ( | ) | ||||||
| Change in the fair value of deferred consideration | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Change in fair value of warrant | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Right-to-use asset (net) | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accounts receivable – trade | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accounts receivable – related party | ||||||||
| Prepaid expenses | ||||||||
| Accrued interest receivable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Other current assets | ||||||||
| Other current liabilities | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accounts payable – related party | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accrued expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Contract liabilities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net deferred indemnified loan origination fees | ||||||||
| Security deposit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | ( | ) | ||||||
| CASH FLOWS PROVIDED BY INVESTING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Net proceeds from loan repayment | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by investing activities | ||||||||
| CASH FLOWS USED IN FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Repayment of senior secured promissory note | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents | ( | ) | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents – beginning of period | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents – end of period | $ | $ | ||||||
| Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information | ||||||||
| Interest paid | $ | $ | ||||||
| Reclassification of forward purchase receivable | ||||||||
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
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SHF Holdings, Inc.
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Organization and Business Operations
Business Description
The Company is based in Golden, Colorado and specializes in providing financial solutions designed to facilitate compliant banking service on behalf of the financial institutions involved in the cannabis industry that partner with us.
The Company facilitates a range of financial services through its financial institution customers using a proprietary technology platform for deposit and ongoing deposit activity compliance with banking regulations and regulators. These include access to business checking and savings accounts, cash management, commercial lending, courier services, remote deposit services, ACH payments, and wire payments. These services enable cannabis businesses to manage their finances effectively. The Company generates revenue from fee income, investment income, loan interest income and by offering compliance services to certain financial institutions serving the cannabis industry.
Note 2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Significant Accounting Policies
The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and results of operations included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC.
Refer to Note 2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for a description of the Company’s significant accounting policies. The Company has included disclosures below regarding basis of presentation and other accounting policies that (i) are required to be disclosed quarterly, (ii) have material changes or (iii) the Company views as critical as of the date of this report.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP” or “GAAP”) for interim financial information and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all normal and recurring adjustments necessary to state fairly the consolidated financial condition, results of operations, statements of shareholders’ deficit, and cash flows of the Company for the interim periods presented. Except as otherwise disclosed, all such adjustments consist only of those of a normal recurring nature. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2025, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the current year ending December 31, 2025 or other interim periods.
The condensed unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of SHF Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries where the Company has controlling financial interests. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.
Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC and the instructions to Form 10-Q.
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Reverse Stock Split
As previously disclosed in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, the Company effected a
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Material estimates that are particularly subject to change in the near term include the determination of the allowance for credit losses, indemnification liabilities, useful lives of intangibles and the fair value of financial instruments. Actual results could differ from the estimates.
Liquidity and Going Concern
Liquidity refers to our ability to meet anticipated cash and cash equivalents demands, including servicing debt, funding operations, maintaining assets, and covering other routine business expenses. Our primary cash outflows include interest repayments, operating costs, and general business expenditures. As of March 31, 2025, the Company does not have significant capital investment commitments.
Under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements—Going Concern, the Company is responsible for evaluating whether conditions or events raise substantial doubt about its ability to meet future financial obligations within one year of the financial statement issuance date. This evaluation involves two steps: (1) assessing whether conditions or events raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, and (2) if substantial doubt is raised, evaluating whether the Company has plans to mitigate that doubt. Disclosures are required if substantial doubt exists or if the Company’s plans alleviate the substantial doubt. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
At March 31, 2025, the Company reported
cash and cash equivalents of $
In the first quarter of 2025, the Company experienced
a $
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As a result, the Company may need to raise additional debt or equity financing to resolve these challenges. In the event of a default on the Amended PCCU debt, and if the Company is unable to cure the default within the 30-day grace period, the provisions of the debt agreement would allow PCCU to subjectively accelerate the debt and elect to exercise its security interest in all of the Company’s assets. While it is highly likely that the Company’s services would continue in such circumstances, a default would significantly impact the Company’s valuation.
As of March 31, 2025, our cash and
cash equivalents amounted to $
In addition, on April 7, 2025, the Company was notified
by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that it no longer meets the continued listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital
Market due to a stockholders’ equity deficit of $
Management’s Plan Related to Going Concern
The Company has implemented several initiatives, to address these concerns, including implementing strategic partnerships to broaden its revenue base by providing additional financial services to cannabis operators, renegotiating its senior secured loan with PCCU, offering stock-based compensation in lieu of cash payments to attract and retain talent, and restructuring the Board of Directors’ compensation to better align with stock-based incentives. Additionally, the Company is actively engaged in discussions with various parties, including potential investors, lenders, and strategic partners, to explore financing options or other strategic transactions. While we are working diligently to secure additional financing, there can be no assurance that these efforts will be successful or that any financing will be obtained on terms favorable to us or at all. If we are unable to secure sufficient capital, we may need to curtail certain operations or pursue other strategic alternatives. We continue to closely monitor our cash flow on weekly basis and liquidity position and are taking steps to preserve cash. Management remains focused on executing our business plan while addressing these liquidity challenges in a timely manner.
PCCU is the holder of the Senior Secured Promissory Note, as disclosed in Note 9 of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. As the holder of this note, PCCU has a security interest in all of the Company’s assets. In the event of default, which may reasonably occur due to the liquidity challenges described herein, PCCU may exercise its rights under this security interest.
CRB deposits are maintained with the Company’s contracted financial institutions; accordingly, the Company’s liquidity issues do not affect the security of these deposits. Furthermore, we do not anticipate any significant impact on the services provided to our CRB clients. The only foreseeable change would be a potential shift in the ownership of the Company’s underlying business operations.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business, and do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classification of liabilities that may result should the Company not continue as a going concern as a result of this uncertainty.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand, amounts due from financial institutions, and investments with maturities of three months or less.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations upon adoption.
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Adopted Standards
Income Taxes
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740). This ASU requires public business entities to disclose in their annual rate reconciliation table additional categories of information about income taxes paid, including certain disclosures that would be disaggregated by jurisdiction and other categories. This ASU is effective for fiscal years after December 15, 2024. Early adoption would be permitted. The Company has prospectively adopted this standard as of January 1, 2025, and the ASU has not had a material impact on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
In March 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-02, Codification Improvements: Amendments to Remove References to the Concepts Statements. Since the Concept Statements are not considered authoritative and do not establish GAAP, the ASU eliminates references to these statements from the codification. The amendments are effective for public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and for all other entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, with early adoption permitted. The Company has prospectively adopted this standard as of January 1, 2025, and the ASU has not had a material impact on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Standards Pending to be Adopted
ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, was issued in November 2024 and requires public business entities to disaggregate certain income statement expense captions in the footnotes of the financial statements. Specifically, entities must provide disclosures that separately present expenses related to purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depletion (including depreciation, depletion, and amortization for oil and gas producing activities). While this ASU does not change the presentation of expense captions on the face of the statement of operations, it requires detailed disclosures in the notes to the financial statements. The amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company will adopt this ASU prospectively and does not anticipate a material impact on its financial reporting as a result of adopting this ASU.
In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). FASB is issued this update to clarify the effective date of Accounting Standards Update No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The amendment in this update applies to all public business entities but only potentially affects non-calendar year-end entities. The amendment in this update amends the effective date of Update 2024-03 to clarify that all public business entities are required to adopt the guidance in annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption of update is permitted. The Company will adopt this ASU prospectively and does not anticipate a material impact on its financial reporting as a result of adopting this ASU.
The Company will continue to monitor the development of these standards and intends to adopt them in accordance with their respective effective dates. Additional disclosures will be provided in future filings as the Company finalizes its assessment of these standards’ impacts.
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Note 3. Deferred consideration
On November 11, 2022, the Company entered into the
first Amendment to the Merger Agreement with Rockview Digital Solutions, Inc. (“Abaca”) and other parties. The Merger Agreement
included a $
A Second Amendment to the Merger Agreement, dated
October 26, 2023, introduced deferred stock consideration of shares of Class A Common Stock at a recalculated value of $
per share. No changes were made to the cash payments. Additionally, a third-anniversary consideration of $
The adjustments and changes to deferred consideration have been valued and recorded according to ASC 815 in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
The change in the amount of deferred consideration from January 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, is as follows:
Cash Consideration | Third Anniversary Consideration Payment | |||||||
| January 1, 2024 | $ | $ | ||||||
| Add: Fair value adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||
| December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | ||||||
| Add: Fair value adjustment | ( | ) | ||||||
| March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | ||||||
On October 17, 2024, the Company caused a Complaint
to be filed in the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, captioned SHF Holdings, Inc. v. Daniel Roda, Gregory
W. Ellis, and James R. Carroll, Case No. 2024CV33187 (Denver County District Court). On November 21, 2024, in connection with the
Company’s request, the Company caused the $
On November 20, 2024, the Company deposited $
On January 16, 2025, the Company filed a motion to dismiss all counterclaims filed against the Company.
On April 18, 2025, the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado (i) dismissed Gregory W. Ellis as a counter-plaintiff and third-party plaintiff because Mr. Ellis lacked standing to bring any claim, and (ii) denied a third-party’s request to intervene in the litigation. The remainder of the case will proceed to the discovery phase of litigation.
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Note 4. Goodwill and Finite-lived Intangible Assets
Goodwill
The Company’s goodwill was derived from the Abaca Merger, where the purchase price exceeded the fair value of the net identifiable assets acquired. Goodwill is tested for impairment at least annually, or more frequently if a triggering event occurs.
On December 31, 2024, the Company performed its annual
goodwill impairment test in accordance with ASC 350. The assessment determined that the fair value of the asset group was below its carrying
amount, leading to a full goodwill impairment charge of $
The Company recorded a full impairment of goodwill for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. As a result, no impairment charges have been recognized for the reporting three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.
Finite-lived intangible assets
The Company reviews its finite-lived intangible assets for impairment at least annually on December 31 unless any events or circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of the finite-lived intangible assets is less than its carrying value.
In accordance with the Company’s established
policy, an annual impairment review of finite-lived intangible assets was conducted on December 31, 2024. The recoverability test compared
the sum of estimated undiscounted future cash flows of the asset group to its carrying amount. As the undiscounted cash flows were determined
to be lower than the carrying amount, the Company performed a fair value assessment using a Discounted Cash Flow analysis. The results
indicated that the fair value of the asset group was below its carrying amount, leading to full impairment charges of $
As of March 31, 2024, the Company did not perform an interim impairment assessment of its assets, as no triggering events were identified. Accordingly, no additional impairment charges were recognized during the reporting period.
For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recognized amortization expenses of $
The Company recorded a full impairment of market-related intangible assets, customer relationships, and developed technology for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. As a result, no amortization or impairment charges have been recognized for the reporting three months ended March 31, 2025.
Note 5. Loans Receivable
Commercial real estate loans receivable, net consist of the following:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Commercial real estate loans receivable, gross | $ | $ | ||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | ||||||||
| Commercial real estate loans receivable, net | ||||||||
| Current portion | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Noncurrent portion | $ | $ | ||||||
Allowance for Credit Losses
The allowance for credit losses is maintained at a level believed to be sufficient to provide for estimated credit losses based on evaluating known and inherent risks in the loan portfolio. The Company’s estimated the allowance for credit losses on the reporting date in accordance with the credit loss policy described in Note 2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
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The allowance for credit losses consists of the following activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
| Three months ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | ||||||||
| Beginning balance | $ | $ | ||||||
| Charge-offs | ||||||||
| Recoveries | ||||||||
| Benefits | ( | ) | ||||||
| Ending balance | $ | $ | ||||||
| Loans receivable: | ||||||||
| Individually evaluated for impairment | $ | $ | ||||||
| Collectively evaluated for impairment | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses: | ||||||||
| Individually evaluated for impairment | $ | $ | ||||||
| Collectively evaluated for impairment | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, no loans were past due, or classified as non-accrual or considered impaired. Additionally, no loans were modified during the three months ended March 31, 2025, or 2024.
Credit Quality of Loans:
As part of the on-going monitoring of the credit quality of the Company’s loan portfolio, management tracks credit quality indicators based on the loan payment status on monthly basis. The Company continuously evaluates the credit quality of each loan by assessing the risk factors and assigning a risk rating based on a variety of factors. Risk factors include property type, geographic and local market dynamics, physical condition, projected cash flow, loan structure and exit plan, loan-to-value ratio, fixed charge coverage ratio, project sponsorship, and other factors deemed necessary. Based on a 10-point scale, the Company’s loans are rated “0” through “10,” from less risk to greater risk, which ratings are defined as follows:
| Risk rating |
Category | Description | ||
| 0 | Risk Free | Free of repayment risk. The loan is fully guaranteed by the full faith and backing of the US Government or entirely secured by cash controlled by SHF. | ||
| 1 | Highest Quality | High caliber loan with the lowest risk of default. Significant excess cash flow after debt service and moderate to low leverage. | ||
| 2 | Excellent | High quality loan that carry’s a low risk of default. Strong cash flow and relatively few negative individual risk factors. | ||
| 3 | Good | Loans with lower-than-average level of risk. Excess cash flow and other factors contributing to the overall low level of risk in the loan. | ||
| 4 | Average | Risk factors may be mixed with some negative and some positive aspects, but the overall rating will indicate an average level of risk. | ||
| 5 | Fair | Loans in this category have the maximum level of risk that can be accepted while still recommending a new loan for origination. The loan risk factors may contain multiple negative factors, but they are generally outweighed by the positive aspects of the loan. | ||
| 6 | Watch List | There is a temporary and curable condition resulting in a lower risk rating. | ||
| 7 | Special Mention | There is a potential weakness that may result in the deterioration of the prospect of repayment that are not temporary and may require additional collection or workout efforts. | ||
| 8 | Substandard | Loans in this category are inadequately protected by the current net worth and paying capacity of the obligors or of the collateral pledged and have well-defined weaknesses that jeopardize the liquidation of the debt with distinct possibility of loss. SHF may be required to advance additional funds to manage the loan. Escalated collection activities such as foreclosure have been scheduled with anticipated losses up to 20% of the outstanding balance. | ||
| 9 | Doubtful | Collection or liquidation in full highly questionable and improbable. Escalated collection activities such as foreclosure have commenced with anticipated losses from 20% to 50% of the outstanding balance. | ||
| 10 | Loss | Uncollectable loans. A complete write-off is imminent although a partial recovery may be affected in the future. |
The carrying value of the Company’s loan, excluding the CECL reserve and based on the risk rating, is as follows:
| Risk rating | March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||
| 6 | $ | $ | ||||||
| Grand total | $ | $ | ||||||
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Note 6. Indemnification Liability
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had no indemnified loans outstanding.
As discussed in Note 8 to the
unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, and pursuant to the PCCU CAA (as defined below), PCCU used to fund loans
through a third-party vendor. SHF earned the associated interest and paid PCCU a loan hosting fee at an annual rate of
As per the Amended PCCU CAA (as defined below), effective
December 31, 2024, the Company no longer serves as a guarantor of credit losses to PCCU, accordingly reduced the indemnity liability on
loans funded by PCCU to $
The provision for credit losses (benefit) on the statements of operations consists of the following activity for the years ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial real estate loans | Indemnity liability | Total | Commercial real estate loans | Indemnity liability | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
| Credit loss (benefit) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
Note 7. Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment consist of the following:
March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Equipment | $ | $ | ||||||
| Software | ||||||||
| Improvements | ||||||||
| Office furniture | ||||||||
| Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Property and equipment, net | $ | $ | ||||||
Depreciation and amortization
expense was $
Note 8. Related Party Transactions
PCCU is considered a related party as it holds a significant ownership interest in the Company, is our most significant financial institution customer, serves as the Company’s sole lending financial institution, is the counterparty to the PCCU Note, and is where we maintain the majority of our deposits. The agreements between PCCU and the Company are as follows:
Commercial Alliance Agreement (the “PCC CAA”)
On March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into a PCCU CAA, which was subsequently amended and restated on December 31, 2024. This agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of lending and account-related services, governing the relationship between the Company and PCCU. The PCCU CAA outlined the application, underwriting, loan approval, and foreclosure processes for loans issued by PCCU to CRBs (as defined below), as well as the loan servicing and monitoring responsibilities of both parties.
In particular, the PCCU CAA provided procedures to be followed upon the default of a loan to ensure that neither the Company nor PCCU would take title to or possession of cannabis-related assets, including real property that may have served as collateral for loans funded by PCCU pursuant to the agreement.
Under the PCCU CAA, PCCU had the right to receive
monthly fees for managing loans. For SHF-serviced loans (CRB loans provided by PCCU but primarily handled by SHF), a yearly fee of
Additionally, until December 31, 2024 the Company was obligated under the PCCU CAA to indemnify PCCU from certain default-related loan losses, as fully defined in the agreement.
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The Amended PCCU CAA extends the term through December 31, 2028, with automatic renewals every two years unless terminated with 12 months’ notice.
The key modifications under the Amended PCCU CAA include several significant changes:
| ● | The indemnification obligations have been eliminated, meaning the Company is no longer required to indemnify PCCU for any loan-related losses under either the original or future agreements. | |
| ● | The prior fee structure has been replaced by an asset hosting fee structure. Previously, the Company paid various fees to PCCU, including per-account servicing, investment hosting, and loan servicing fees. Under the new structure, the Company will pay a fixed asset hosting fee calculated as | |
| ● | Provides the Company with all investment income earned on CRB funds invested on its behalf by PCCU, effectively eliminating the investment hosting fees that were previously payable. | |
| ● | The Company’s interest income on all loans with PCCU are now calculated using a loan yield allocation formula that incorporates the Constant Maturity US Treasury Rate from Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ data service, along with a proprietary risk rating formula to determine the fee split between the Company and PCCU. Before the amendment, the Company received the entire interest income from the loan and was responsible for paying loan servicing fees of 0.25% of the loan balance. The amendment removes the loan servicing fees and indemnification liability, while introducing the interest income split between the Company and PCCU. | |
| ● | There are penalties charged to the Company if it fails to maintain the agreed Loan-to-Share (LTS) Ratio. . |
The schedule below illustrates the ratio of CRB-related loans funded by PCCU to the corresponding lending limits under the Amended PCCU CAA.:
March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| CRB related deposits | $ | $ | ||||||
| Capacity at 60% | ||||||||
| PCCU net worth | ||||||||
| Capacity at 1.3125 | ||||||||
| Limiting capacity | ||||||||
| PCCU loans funded | ||||||||
| Amounts available under lines of credit | ||||||||
| Incremental capacity | $ | $ | ||||||
As of March 31, 2025, the Company implemented an
improvement to its reporting of business metrics. CRB related deposits historically was computed as of the date reported. As of
March 31, 2025, CRB related deposits are being computed using a 30day average. As of December 31, 2024, the incremental capacity if
reported using the 30 day average of CRB related deposits of $
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, and
2024, the Company recognized revenue of $
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The outstanding balances associated with the PCCU disclosed in the balance sheet are as follows:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Accounts receivable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accounts payable | ||||||||
| Senior Secured Promissory Note (Refer to Note 9 to the financial statements below) | ||||||||
Of the $
Note 9. Senior Secured Promissory Note
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Senior Secured Promissory Note (current) | $ | $ | ||||||
| Senior Secured Promissory Note (long term) | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
On March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into
definitive transaction documents to settle and restructure the deferred obligation following the Business Combination under which the
Company has issued the five-year Senior Secured Promissory Note (the “PCCU Note”) in the principal amount of $
The PCCU Note amount was to be paid in
On January 29, 2025, the Company and PCCU agreed to
a Letter Agreement to defer principal payments on the PCCU Note for February and March 2025, with interest payments continuing. On March
1, 2025, the Company entered into the Amended PCCU Note, replacing the original note dated March 29, 2023 and the letter agreement. The
Amended PCCU Note has a principal balance of $
The repayment schedule for the outstanding principal balance as on March 31, 2025, is as follows:
| Year | ||||
| 2026 | $ | |||
| 2027 | ||||
| 2028 | ||||
| 2029 | ||||
| 2030 | ||||
| Grand total | $ | |||
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Note 10. Leases
The Company has a non-cancellable operating
lease for facility space, which qualifies for capitalization under FASB ASC 842, Leases. The lease has a remaining term of
approximately 24 months and includes an option to extend for up to ten additional years; however, the extension option is not
recognized as part of the right-of-use asset as it is not reasonably certain to be exercised. The Company has elected not to
capitalize leases with terms of one year or less. As of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, the net right-of-use asset recorded under
the operating lease was $
The Company analyzes contracts above certain thresholds to identify leases and lease components. Lease and non-lease components are not separated for facility space leases. The Company uses its contractual borrowing rate to determine lease discount rates when an implicit rate is not available. Total lease cost for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, included in Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, is detailed in the table below:
Three months ended March 31, 2025 | Three months ended March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Short-term lease cost | $ | $ | ||||||
| Total Lease Cost | $ | $ | ||||||
March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| ROU asset that are related to lease properties are presented as follows: | ||||||||
| Beginning balance | $ | $ | ||||||
| Additions to right-of-use asset | ||||||||
| Amortization charge for the year | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Lease modifications | ||||||||
| Ending balance | $ | $ | ||||||
| Further information related to leases is as follows: | ||||||||
| Weighted-average remaining lease term | ||||||||
| Weighted-average discount rate | % | % |
Future minimum lease payments as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 are as follows:
| Year | ||||||||
| 2025 | $ | $ | ||||||
| 2026 | ||||||||
| 2027 | ||||||||
| 2028 | ||||||||
| 2029 | ||||||||
| Total future minimum lease payments | $ | $ | ||||||
| Less: Imputed interest | ||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Less: Current portion | ||||||||
| Non-current portion of lease liability | $ | $ | ||||||
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Note 11. Revenue
Disaggregated revenue
Revenue by type are as follows:
| Three months ended March 31 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Account fee income | $ | $ | ||||||
| Loan interest income | ||||||||
| Investment income | ||||||||
| Safe Harbor Program income | ||||||||
| Total Revenue | $ | $ | ||||||
Account fee income is generated from businesses maintaining accounts with the Company’s financial institution partners and includes deposit account fees, account activity fees, and onboarding income. These fees are recognized periodically in accordance with the fee schedule established with financial institution partners. The Company also earns income from outsourced support services provided to financial institutions offering banking solutions to the cannabis industry, with revenue recognized based on usage as specified in the agreements.
Loan interest income includes interest earned on both direct loans and loans under the PCCU CAA, which were indemnified until December 31, 2024. Following the elimination of the indemnification liability upon the execution of the amended PCCU CAA on December 31, 2024, the indemnified status was removed. Under the Amended PCCU CAA, the Company’s interest income on all loans with PCCU has been calculated using a loan yield allocation formula that incorporates the Constant Maturity US Treasury Rate from Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ data service, along with a proprietary risk rating formula to determine the fee split between the Company and PCCU.
Investment income is derived from interest earned on the daily deposit balances of cannabis businesses held with the Company’s financial institution partners and is recognized monthly based on the average net daily deposit balance.
The Safe Harbor Program provides financial institutions with a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to implement and utilize the documented process for managing compliance requirements.
Revenue from account fee income, loan interest income, investment income and Safe Harbor Program income is recognized over time. Payments for all revenue streams, except for Safe Harbor Program income, are collected on a monthly basis. Under the Safe Harbor Program, any difference between amounts collected and revenue recognized as of the reporting date is recorded as contract assets and contract liabilities. Refunds are applicable only to account fees collected from customers and are granted as part of the ongoing business relationship with the customer.
During the three months ended March 31, 2025,
PCCU’s contributions to the Company’s revenues included $
Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies
Contractual Commitments
In connection with the issuance of Class A Common Stock to Abaca shareholders, the Company commits to registering the stock upon the exercise of Abaca Warrants if required by law or regulation to ensure the shares can be sold without restrictive legends, known as the “Warrant Registration Requirement”. Should this requirement arise, the Company is obliged to file a registration statement with the SEC within 45 calendar days of notification of the Warrant Registration Requirement. The failure to file within this timeframe constitutes an event of default. Moreover, the Company is dedicated to making the registration statement effective as promptly as possible and maintaining its effectiveness, along with a current prospectus, until the Warrants expire according to this Agreement’s terms. In the event a registration statement triggered by a Warrant Registration Requirement is not declared effective by the SEC within one year from its filing date, Warrant holders are entitled to exercise their Warrants on a cashless basis from the 366th day post-filing until the statement becomes effective.
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NASDAQ Listing Compliance
On April 7, 2025, the Company received a notice from
Nasdaq indicating that it no longer meets the continued listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Market. Specifically, the Company’s
stockholders’ equity as of December 31, 2024 was a deficit of $
The Company has been granted 45 calendar days, until May 22, 2025, to submit a plan to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements. If the plan is accepted, Nasdaq may grant an extension of up to 180 calendar days from the date of this letter for the Company to meet the continued listing standards. The Company intends to timely submit a Compliance Plan to Nasdaq to regain compliance with the Shareholders’ Equity Requirement. There can be no assurance that Nasdaq will accept the Company’s plan or that the Company will be able to regain compliance with Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) or maintain compliance with any other Nasdaq requirement in the future.
Legal and Related Matters
The Company is involved in, or has been involved in, arbitrations or various other legal proceedings that arise from the normal course of its business. The ultimate outcome of any litigation is uncertain, and either unfavorable or favorable outcomes could have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, balance sheets and cash flows due to defense costs, and divert management resources. The Company cannot predict the timing or outcome of these claims and other proceedings. With respect to the cases, described below, we evaluate the associated developments on a regular basis and accrue a liability when we believe a loss is probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated.
Abaca legal case in Denver
On October 17, 2024, the Company caused a Complaint to be filed in the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, captioned SHF Holdings, Inc. v. Daniel Roda, Gregory W. Ellis, and James R. Carroll, Case No. 2024CV33187 (Denver County District Court). On November 21, 2024, in connection with the Company’s request, the Company caused the Merger Payment to be deposited into the Denver County District Court’s registry so that it can be distributed in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement. The Merger Payment has already been accounted for in the working capital deficit disclosed in the Liquidity and Going Concern section. On December 19, 2024, Daniel Roda, Gregory W. Ellis, and James R. Carroll caused an answer and counterclaim to be filed in response to the Company Complaint. For additional details, please refer to the section titled “Abaca legal case in Denver” in the Recent Updates of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, NOTE 3 – DEFERRED COMPENSATION to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q and the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 18, 2024 and December 19, 2024.
Given the uncertainty of legal proceedings, the Company will continue to monitor the litigation and assess any potential financial impact in accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies. At this time, no loss contingency has been recorded, as the potential impact cannot be reasonably estimated.
Subsequent to the close of the quarter, the Company
made an offer to settle an employment related legal matter for $
Basic net income per common share is calculated by dividing the net income attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period, without consideration for potentially dilutive securities. Diluted net income per share is computed by dividing the net income attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares and potentially dilutive securities outstanding for the period. For the Company’s diluted earnings per share calculation, the Company uses the “if-converted” method for preferred stock and convertible debt and the “treasury stock” method for Warrants and Options.
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| For the three months ended March 31 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| Net (loss)/profit | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding – basic | ||||||||
| Basic net (loss)/earnings per share | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Weighted average shares outstanding – diluted | ||||||||
| Diluted net (loss)/earnings per share | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| Three months ended | ||||||||
| Weighted average shares calculation – basic | March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | ||||||
| Company public shares | ||||||||
| Company initial stockholders | ||||||||
| PCCU stockholders | ||||||||
| Issuance of Equity for Marketing Services | ||||||||
| Shares issued for Abaca acquisition | ||||||||
| Restricted stock units issued | ||||||||
| Conversion of Preferred stock | ||||||||
| Grand total | ||||||||
| Three months ended | ||||||||
| Weighted average shares calculation - diluted | March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | ||||||
| Shares used in computation of basic earnings per share | ||||||||
| Shares to be issued to Abaca shareholders | ||||||||
| Share based payments | ||||||||
| Conversion of preferred stock | ||||||||
| Grand total | ||||||||
| Three months ended | ||||||||
March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Shares to be issued to Abaca shareholders | ||||||||
| Share based payments | ||||||||
| Conversion of preferred stock | ||||||||
| Warrants | ||||||||
| Share-based payments | ||||||||
| Grand total | ||||||||
The holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, and the Company shall pay, dividends on shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-Class-A-Common-Stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the Class A Common Stock when, as and if such dividends are paid on shares of the Class A Common Stock. No other dividends shall be paid on shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.
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Note 14. Forward Purchase Agreement
On June 16, 2022, the Company entered into a Forward
Purchase Agreement (“FPA”) with Midtown East Management NL, LLC (“Midtown East”), which subsequently assigned
obligations to purchase shares of Class A Common Stock each to Verdun Investments LLC (“Verdun”) and Vellar Opportunity
Fund SPV LLC – Series 1 (“Vellar”) through assignment and novation agreements. The collective acquisition involved
million shares of Class A Common Stock, with Midtown East, Verdun, and Vellar waiving their redemption rights. The Company incurred costs
totaling $
At the maturity of the FPA, on September 28, 2025, the parties will receive the value of their shares multiplied by the Forward Price. The Forward Price is the Redemption Price, as defined in Section 9.2(a) of the Counterparty’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, filed by the Counterparty with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 21, 2021. The FPA holders will also receive an additional amount in cash or shares, at the Company’s discretion.
An early termination clause allows for the shares to be sold on the open market, with any proceeds exceeding the Reset Price retained by the sellers. The Reset Price is initially the Redemption Price. The Reset Price shall be adjusted on the first Scheduled Trading Day of each month, commencing on the first calendar month following the closing of the Business Combination, to be the lowest of (a) the then-current Reset Price, (b) $, and (c) the VWAP Price of the last ten (10) Scheduled Trading Days of the prior calendar month, but not lower than $. However, if the Counterparty offers and sells Shares in a follow-on offering or series of related offerings at a price lower than, or upon any conversion or exchange price of currently outstanding or future issuances of any securities convertible or exchangeable for Shares being equal to a price lower than, the then-current Reset Price (the “Offering Price”), the Reset Price shall be further reduced to equal the Offering Price.
Following a price reset in 2022 to $per
share, the FPA receivable was reduced from $
The reconciliation statement of the Class A Common Stock held by the parties is as follows:
| Vellar | Midtown East | Verdun | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
Amount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As on December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: Shares sold during the three months ended March 31, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Less: Reclassification to additional paid-in capital during the three months ended March 31, 2025 |
( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( |
) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note 15. Warrant Liabilities
Public and Private Placement Warrants
As of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, the Company
has
The public and private placement warrants may only be exercised for a whole number of Class A Common Stock.
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No warrant will be exercisable for cash or on a cashless basis, and the Company will not be obligated to issue any shares to holders seeking to exercise their warrants, unless the issuance of the shares upon such exercise is registered or qualified under the securities laws of the state of the exercising holder, or an exemption from registration is available.
Redemption of warrants become effective when the price per share of Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $. Once the warrants become redeemable, the Company may redeem the warrants:
| ● | in whole and not in part; |
| ● | at a price of $ |
| ● | upon not less than 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption to each warrant holder; and |
| ● | if, and only if, the reported last sale price of the Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $ per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like and certain issuances of Class A Common Stock and equity-linked securities) for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period commencing no earlier than the date the warrants become exercisable and ending on the third business day before the date on which the Company sends the notice of redemption to the warrant holders. |
If and when the warrants become redeemable by the Company, the Company may exercise its redemption rights; this is also the case if the Company is unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws.
If the Company calls the warrants for redemption, management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement. The exercise price and number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the warrants will not be adjusted for issuance of Class A Common Stock at a price below its exercise price. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the warrants.
The private placement warrants are identical to the public warrants, except that the private placement warrants and the Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the private placement warrants were not transferable, assignable or saleable, subject to certain limited exceptions. Additionally, the private placement warrants are exercisable on a cashless basis and non-redeemable so long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees. If the private placement warrants are held by someone other than the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, the private placement warrants will be redeemable by the Company and exercisable by such holders on the same basis as the public warrants.
PIPE Warrants
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company
had
The PIPE Warrants have an adjusted exercise price
of $
Abaca Warrants
As of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, the Company
had issued
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The
Note 16. Financial Instruments
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. The fair value hierarchy ranks the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
| ○ | Level 1 – Observable, unadjusted quoted prices in active markets | |
| ○ | Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability | |
| ○ | Level 3 – Unobservable inputs with little or no market activity that require the Company to use reasonable inputs and assumptions |
The Company uses fair value measurements to record adjustments to certain financial assets and liabilities on a recurring basis. The Company may be required to record certain assets at fair value on a nonrecurring basis in specific circumstances, such as evidence of impairment. Methodologies used to determine fair value might be highly subjective and judgmental in nature; therefore, valuations may not be precise. If the Company determines that a valuation technique change is necessary, the change is assumed to have occurred at the end of the respective reporting period.
Assets and Liabilities Reported at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
Public Warrants:
Public warrants are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company obtains exchange traded price, of Level 1 inputs, based on observable data to value these warrants.
Private Placement Warrants:
Private Placement Warrants are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis based upon an internal Company assessed value of these derivatives with Level 3 inputs, which are derived from the Black-Scholes model.
PIPE Warrants:
PIPE Warrants are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis based upon an internal Company assessed value of these derivatives with Level 3 inputs, which are derived from the Black-Scholes model.
Abaca Warrants:
Abaca Warrants are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company assessed the value of these derivatives with Level 3 inputs. Level 3 inputs, based on unobservable data derived from the Black-Scholes model.
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Third Anniversary Payment Consideration:
Third anniversary payment consideration are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company values these derivatives based on third party reports for Level 3 inputs. Level 3 inputs are based on unobservable data period. The Company values these derivatives based on third party reports for Level 3 inputs. Level 3 inputs are based on unobservable data derived from the Monte Carlo Simulation model.
Forward Purchase Option Derivatives:
Forward purchase option derivatives are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. In 2022, the Company values these derivatives based on third party reports for Level 3 inputs. Since 2022, no significant risk factors such as volatility, expected term, reset price, or any other changes have been observed to impact the values of forward purchase option derivatives. As a result, the Company has maintained the same value for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
The following tables summarize financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis, by the level of valuation inputs in the fair value hierarchy on March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Fair Value | Quoted Prices in Active Markets (Level 1) | Significant Other Unobservable Inputs (Level 3) | Total Fair Value | Quoted Prices in Active Markets (Level 1) | Significant Other (Level 3) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PIPE warrants | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Public warrants | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Private placement warrants | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abaca warrant | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Forward purchase derivative liability | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Third anniversary payment consideration | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis
Assets that are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis primarily comprises of property, plant and equipment, right-to-use asset, finite lived intangible assets and goodwill. The Company does not record these at fair value on a recurring basis, however, the carrying value of the assets may be reduced to fair value when the Company determines that impairment has occurred.
There were no assets or liabilities recorded at fair value on a nonrecurring basis for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company uses various methodologies and assumptions to estimate the fair value of certain financial instruments. With the exceptions of loans receivable, warrants and forward purchase option derivatives, the Company considers the carrying amounts of its financial instruments (cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable) in the balance sheet to approximate fair value because of the short-term or highly liquid nature of these financial instruments.
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The following tables present the carrying amounts and fair values of financial instruments, by the level of valuation inputs in the fair value hierarchy, as of the dates indicated:
| As on March 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Carrying amount | Fair value | Fair value measurement using | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Loans | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred consideration | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior Secured Promissory note | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public warrants | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| PIPE Warrants | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Third anniversary payment consideration | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Forward purchase derivative | ||||||||||||||||||||
| As on December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Carrying amount | Fair value | Fair value measurement using | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
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| Liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Third anniversary payment consideration | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Forward purchase derivative | ||||||||||||||||||||
The change in the assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis for which the Company has utilized Level 3 inputs to determine fair value are presented in the following table:
| For the three months ended March 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| PIPE Warrants | Abaca Warrant | Private Placement Warrants | Third anniversary payment consideration | Forward Purchase Derivative | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance at the beginning of the period | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Fair value adjustment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
| Balance at the end of the period | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
| For the Year ended December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| PIPE Warrants | Abaca Warrant | Private Placement Warrants | Third anniversary payment consideration | Forward Purchase Derivative | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance at the beginning of the period | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Fair value adjustment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||
| Balance at the end of the period | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
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As of March 31, 2025 and on December 31, 2024, the valuation of private placement warrants, PIPE warrants, and Abaca warrants was carried out using the Black-Scholes model, while the fair value of the Abaca third anniversary payment consideration was determined using the Black Scholes Merton Option pricing model. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, these warrants were valued using Level 3 inputs.
As of March 31, 2025, the Company evaluated the fair value of its FPA derivative using a Monte Carlo Simulation within a risk-neutral framework, a method derived from the Income Approach, based on calculations from December 31, 2022. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, and the year ended December 31, 2024, there were no significant changes in risk factors, such as volatility, expected term, and reset price, that would impact the valuation of the FPA derivative. The Company will continue to monitor the fair value of the forward option derivative each reporting period, with any necessary adjustments recorded in the Statements of Operations.
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, and March 31, 2024, there were no changes in the classification of financial instruments within Level 2 and Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
The following table provides quantitative information regarding Level 3 fair value measurements inputs as it relates to the private placement warrants, public warrants, third anniversary payment consideration and Abaca warrants as of their measurement dates:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PIPE Warrants | Private Warrants | Third Anniversary Payment Consideration | Abaca Warrants | PIPE Warrants | Private Warrants | Third Anniversary Payment Consideration | Abaca Warrants | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exercise price | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Share Price | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expected term (years) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Volatility | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Risk-free rate | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following table provides quantitative information regarding Level 3 fair value measurements inputs as it relates to the forward purchase derivatives as of their measurement dates on March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Reset Price | $ | $ | ||||||
| Expected term (years) | ||||||||
| Additional Maturity Consideration per share | $ | $ | ||||||
| Volatility | % | % | ||||||
| Risk-free rate | % | % | ||||||
| Risk-adjusted discount rate | % | % | ||||||
Note 17. Tax
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company
recorded income tax expense of $ for continuing operations. The effective tax rate of
The Company recognizes income tax benefits from uncertain tax positions where the realization of the ultimate benefit is uncertain. As of both December 31, 2024 and March 31, 2025, the Company has no unrecognized income tax benefits.
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Note 18. 401(k) Plan
The Company offers to all employees a tax-qualified
retirement contribution plan, with the Company’s
Note 19. Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity
On January 28, 2025, the Board of Directors of the
Company approved a reverse stock split of the Company’s Common Stock at a ratio of
Preferred Stock
The Company is authorized to issue shares
of preferred stock, with a par value of $per share, with such designation rights and preferences as may be determined from time
to time by the Company’s Board of Directors. As of March 31, 2025, there were shares of Class A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding,
and there were shares of Class A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding on December 31, 2024. The holders of preferred stock shall
be entitled to receive, and the Company shall pay, dividends on shares of preferred stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-Class-A-Common-Stock
basis) to and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the Class A Common Stock when, as and if such dividends are paid
on shares of the Class A Common Stock. No other dividends shall be paid on the preferred stock. The terms of the preferred stock provide
for an initial conversion price of $
Common Stock
The Company is authorized to issue up to shares of Class A Common Stock, with a par value of $ per share. Holders of the Company’s Class A Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, there were and shares of Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding, respectively. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, Class A Common Stock are held by the purchasers under Forward Purchase Agreement dated June 16, 2022, by and among the Company and such purchasers.
2022 Equity Incentive Plan
Share-based compensation expense recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 totaled $ and $, respectively.
The 2022 Equity Incentive Plan was approved by the Company’s stockholders on June 28, 2022. The 2022 Plan permits the grant of incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, stock bonus awards, and performance compensation awards. The Company has not issued stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, stock bonus awards, or performance compensation awards in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024. As of March 31, 2025, a total of shares of common stock were authorized for issuance under the Company’s equity incentive plan, of which shares remained available for future issuance.
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Stock Options
Stock options are awarded to encourage ownership of the Company’s Class A Common Stock by employees and to provide increased incentive for employees to render services and to exert maximum effort for the success of the Company. The Company’s incentive stock options generally permit net-share settlement upon exercise. The option exercise price, vesting schedule and exercise period are determined for each grant by the administrator (person appointed by board to administer the stock plans) of the applicable plan. The Company’s stock options generally have a -year contractual term.
| Dividend yield | % | |||
| Risk-free interest rate | to | % | ||
| Expected volatility (weighted-average and range, if applicable) | % | |||
| Expected term | to years | |||
The expected term of the options granted is calculated based on the simplified method by taking average of contractual term and vesting period the awards. The shares and the redeemable warrants of the Company were listed on the stock exchange for a limited period of the time and the share price has also dropped significantly from the date of listing. Based on these factors Management has considered the expected volatility at % for the current period. The risk-free interest rate used is the current yield on U.S. Treasury notes with a term equal to the expected term of the options at the grant date. The expected dividend yield is based on annualized dividends on the underlying share during the expected term of the option.
| Stock Option | No. of Stock Option | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value Per Stock Option | Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (in Years) | |||||||||
| January 1, 2025 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | ||||||||||||
| Exercised | - | |||||||||||
| Expired | - | |||||||||||
| Cancelled / Forfeited | ( | ) | ) | - | ||||||||
| March 31, 2025 | $ | |||||||||||
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A summary of the Company’s stock option activities and related information for the year ended December 31, 2024 is as follows:
| Stock Option | No. of Stock Option | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value Per Stock Option | Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (in Years) | |||||||||
| January 1, 2024 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | - | |||||||||||
| Exercised | ||||||||||||
| Expired | - | |||||||||||
| Cancelled / Forfeited | ( | ) | ) | - | ||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | $ | |||||||||||
| Exercise price options outstanding | March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||
| $8.00 | ||||||||
| $9.68 | ||||||||
| $31.20 | ||||||||
| $51.60 | ||||||||
| $80.00 | ||||||||
| $133.40 | ||||||||
| Total | ||||||||
As of March 31, 2025, there was $ of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to stock options. This unrecognized compensation expense is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately one years based on vesting under the award service conditions.
Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”)
| Restricted Stock Units | No. of RSU | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value | Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (in Years) | |||||||||
| January 1, 2025 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | - | |||||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| Expired | ||||||||||||
| Cancelled / Forfeited | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| March 31, 2025 | $ | |||||||||||
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A summary of the Company’s RSU activities and related information for the year ended December 31, 2024 is as follows:
| Restricted Stock Units | No. of RSU | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value | Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Life (in Years) | |||||||||
| January 1, 2024 | $ | |||||||||||
| Granted | - | |||||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| Expired | ||||||||||||
| Cancelled / Forfeited | ( | ) | - | |||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | $ | |||||||||||
The following RSU were outstanding at their respective vest price:
| Vest price RSU outstanding | March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||
| $26.20 | ||||||||
| Total | ||||||||
As of March 31, 2025, there was $ of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to RSU. This unrecognized compensation expense is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately nine months based on vesting under the award service conditions.
Note 20. Subsequent Events
The Company has evaluated events and transactions subsequent to March 31, 2025 through the date the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements were issued. Except as disclosed in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements previously and items below, there are no other events to report:
On April 28, 2025, James H. Dennedy, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, informed the Company of his intention to resign from his position, effective June 6, 2025. Mr. Dennedy will remain with the Company until the Resignation Date to assist with the transition of his responsibilities. The Company plans to conduct an executive search for a new Chief Financial Officer. In the interim, the Board of Directors has appointed Terrance Mendez, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as interim Chief Financial Officer, effective as of the Resignation Date.
On May 2, 2025, Karl Racine informed the Company of his decision to resign from his role as a director and as a member of the Board of Directors’ Nomination and Governance Committee, effective immediately. Mr. Racine’s resignation was due to personal reasons and was not a result of any disagreement with the Company concerning its operations, policies, or practices.
On May 2, 2025, the Board of Directors appointed Francis A. Braun III as a Class I director. Mr. Braun will receive compensation for his Board and committee service in accordance with the Company’s outside director compensation program, prorated for any partial years of service. Also, effective from May 21, 2025, Mr. Braun will begin serving as the audit committee chair.
On May 15, 2025, Jennifer Meyers notified the Company of her decision to resign from her position as a director of the Company effective immediately. Ms. Meyers’ resignation from the Company was for personal reasons and is not a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the operations, policies or practices of the Company.
On May 15, 2025, Douglas Fagan notified the Company of his decision to resign from his position as a director of the Company effective immediately. Mr. Fagan’s resignation from the Company was for personal reasons and is not a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the operations, policies or practices of the Company.
On May 16, 2025, Jonathan Summers informed the Company of his decision to not stand for re-election as a director of the Company. As a result, Mr. Summers’ term as an independent director will end at the next Annual Meeting of the Company’s stockholders. Mr. Summers’ decision to not stand for re-election was for personal reasons and is not a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the operations, policies or practices of the Company.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
References in this section to “we,” “us,” “our,” “SHF” or the “Company” refer to SHF Holdings, Inc. References to “management” refer to our officers and board of managers. The following discussion and analysis of our financial performance and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes to those financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q This discussion contains forward-looking statements based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Our actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by any forward-looking statements.
Overview
Founded in 2015 by Partner Colorado Credit Union (“PCCU”) (please see “Business Reorganization” below for a description of SHF’s organization), SHF’s mission is to provide access to reliable and compliant financial services for the legal cannabis industry. Through that mission and as an early leader with over ten years of experience, SHF is a leading provider of access to reliable and compliance driven banking, lending and other financial services to financial institutions desiring to provide those services to the cannabis industry.
Through our proprietary platform and on a multi-state level, SHF provides access to the following banking related services through PCCU and other financial institutions:
| ● | Business checking and savings accounts; | |
| ● | Cash management accounts; | |
| ● | Savings and investment options; | |
| ● | Commercial lending; | |
| ● | Courier services (via third-party relationships); | |
| ● | Remote deposit services; | |
| ● | Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments and origination; and | |
| ● | Wire payments. |
Our services allow Cannabis Related Businesses (herein referred to as “CRBs”) to obtain services from financial institutions that allow them to run their business more efficiently and effectively with improved financial insight into their business and access to resources to help them grow. Due to limited availability of payment and other banking solutions for the cannabis industry, most businesses transact with high volumes of cash. Our fintech platform benefits CRBs and financial institutions by providing CRBs with access to financial institutions and financial institutions access to increased deposits with the comfort of knowing that those deposits have been compliantly monitored and validated. By facilitating the daily deposits of cash receipts between CRBs and financial institutions, the risks associated with high cash on hand are mitigated, creating a safer atmosphere for the CRB’s employees and the financial institutions at which the deposit accounts are held. Because the Company is not a financial institution, it does not hold customer deposits. All deposit accounts are held by the Company’s financial institution clients and all transmissions of funds to and from deposit accounts are handled directly by the financial institutions. In an industry with limited capital and financing options, we offer access to loan options at what we believe to be competitive rates, often with less punitive terms than the current industry average. Our financial institution clients offer loan options including senior secured debt and operating lines of debt. Collateral types include real estate, equipment, and other business assets. We also provide access to lending options for ancillary service providers serving the cannabis industry as these businesses also can have difficulty finding reliable financial services.
To ensure access to consistent and dependable banking access to CRBs, we provide our compliance, validation and monitoring services to financial institutions in a compliance driven environment ensuring strict adherence to the Bank Secrecy Act/FinCEN guidance and related anti money laundering provisions. Since inception, the Company has assisted in the processing of approximately $25.6 billion in cannabis related depository funds. Through its relationship with its financial institution clients, the Company has successfully navigated over 16 state and federal banking exams.
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In strategically selected geographic areas, the Company has licensed its proprietary software and Safe Harbor Program (the “Program”) to other financial institutions to provide compliance-related services to CRBs. As part of the Program, we provide the following to financial institutions interested in licensing the Program to assist in compliant cannabis banking:
| ● | Initial customer due diligence – Know Your Customer; | |
| ● | Customer application management; | |
| ● | Program management support; | |
| ● | Compliance monitoring; and | |
| ● | Regulatory exam assistance. |
Components of our Results of Operations
Revenue
The Company generates interest and fee income through providing a variety of services to our financial institutions to facilitate its banking services to CRBs including, among other things, Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory compliance and reporting, onboarding, responding to account inquiries, responding to customer service inquiries relating to CRB deposit accounts held at financial institution clients, and sourcing and originating loans. In addition, the Company provides these similar services and outsourced support to other financial institutions providing banking to the cannabis industry.
Operating Expenses
Operating expenses consist of compensation and benefits, professional services, rent expense, credit loss (benefit) expense and other general and administrative expenses.
Compensation and benefits consist of employee wages and associated benefits while professional services consist of legal, general consulting and accounting fees.
The Company reports provisions for credit losses on internally funded and indemnified loans. Prior to December 31, 2024, the Company indemnified PCCU against losses on sourced loans. With effect from the Amended PCCU CAA, the indemnification obligation ceased on December 31, 2024.
Other general and administrative expenses consist of various miscellaneous items including account hosting fees, insurance expense, advertising and marketing, travel meals and entertainment and other office and operating expense.
Discussion of our Results of Operations —March 31, 2025 Compared to March 31, 2024 (Three months ended)
Revenue
| Three months Ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change (%) | ||||||||||||
| Account fee income | $ | 1,072,465 | $ | 1,620,994 | $ | (548,529 | ) | (33.84 | )% | |||||||
| Safe Harbor Program income | 19,230 | 19,230 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| Investment income | 300,435 | 773,819 | (473,384 | ) | (61.18 | )% | ||||||||||
| Loan interest income | 540,222 | 1,636,756 | (1,096,534 | ) | (66.99 | )% | ||||||||||
| Total Revenue | $ | 1,932,352 | $ | 4,050,799 | $ | (2,118,447 | ) | (52.30 | )% | |||||||
Account fee income consists of deposit account fees, activity fees and onboarding income. We receive a flat fee and lower rates for ancillary accounts, which are accounts provided to businesses servicing the cannabis industry in general but do not manufacture, possess, distribute or transport cannabis. The decrease in account fee income was primarily attributable to the previously disclosed reduction in the average monthly ending deposit balance.
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The reconciliation of account fee income and account hosting fees are as follows:
Account fee income:
| Three months Ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change (%) | ||||||||||||
| PCCU | $ | 756,427 | $ | 1,183,415 | $ | (426,988 | ) | (36.08 | )% | |||||||
| Central Bank | - | 276,334 | (276,334 | ) | (100.00 | )% | ||||||||||
| Pacific Valley Bank | 20,394 | 7,598 | 12,796 | 168.41 | % | |||||||||||
| Five Star Bank | (16,389 | ) | 119,262 | (135,651 | ) | (113.74 | )% | |||||||||
| Others | 312,033 | 34,385 | 277,648 | 807.47 | % | |||||||||||
| Total account fee income | $ | 1,072,465 | $ | 1,620,994 | $ | (548,529 | ) | (33.84 | )% | |||||||
Account hosting fees:
| Three months Ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change (%) | ||||||||||||
| PCCU | $ | 303,512 | $ | 104,259 | $ | 199,253 | 191.11 | % | ||||||||
| Pacific Valley Bank | 7,618 | 1,280 | 6,338 | 495.16 | % | |||||||||||
| Five Star Bank | (2,795 | ) | 16,292 | (19,087 | ) | (117.16 | )% | |||||||||
| Total account hosting fees | $ | 308,335 | $ | 121,831 | $ | 186,504 | 153.08 | % | ||||||||
Account hosting fees increased in the first quarter of 2025 compared to 2024, primarily due to a change in the method used to calculate charges paid to PCCU for hosting CRB accounts. In 2024, PCCU charged a monthly per-account fee ranging from $25.32 to $27.85 for accounts hosted on their platform. In contrast, under the Amended CAA in 2025, the Company pays PCCU a fixed asset hosting fee calculated as 0.01 multiplied by the average daily balance of account relationships generated by the Company, divided by the number of days in the year, and then multiplied by the number of days in the applicable month.
The Company provides similar account services and outsourced support to other financial institutions that offer banking services to the cannabis industry. These services are provided under the Safe Harbor Master Program Agreement.
Investment income
Our financial institution pay us interest on daily account balances as per the rates outlined in the agreements. The decrease in investment income was primarily attributable to the reduction average daily deposit balances.
In 2024, under the terms of the PCCU CAA, the Company paid a hosting fee equal to 25% of the investment income generated from PCCU-related funds. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, PCCU’s contribution to investment income totaled $773,819, resulting in $160,101 in investment hosting fees. These fees were recorded under “General and Administrative Expenses” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
In contrast, under the Amended PCCU CAA effective on December 31, 2024, the Company is no longer required to pay hosting fees to PCCU. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, PCCU’s contribution to investment income was $292,436.
Loan interest income
Loan interest income includes interest earned from both direct loans and those issued under the PCCU CAA, which were indemnified by the Company through December 31, 2024. Upon the execution of the Amended PCCU CAA on December 31, 2024, the indemnification liability was eliminated, and the indemnified status of these loans was removed.
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The majority of the Company’s loan portfolio consists of CRB loans originated by PCCU and primarily serviced by SHF. Under the original PCCU CAA in 2024, the Company received 100% of the loan interest income associated with these loans and was obligated to pay PCCU a servicing fee equal to 0.25% of the outstanding loan balance.
Effective December 31, 2024, the Amended PCCU CAA eliminated the Company’s role as guarantor, thereby removing the 100% indemnity liability. Additionally, under the amended agreement, the method for calculating loan interest income was revised, and loan service fees were eliminated. The new loan yield allocation formula factors in the Constant Maturity U.S. Treasury Rate and a proprietary risk rating to determine the interest income split for each loan.
The reduction in loan interest income for the period is mainly attributed to the implementation of the new formula and the removal of the indemnification structure. According to the Amended CAA, the Company’s interest income on all loans with PCCU is now calculated using a loan yield allocation formula. This formula takes into account the Constant Maturity US Treasury Rate from Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ data service, along with a proprietary risk rating formula to determine the fee split between the Company and PCCU. Prior to the amendment, the Company retained the full interest income from the loans and was responsible for paying loan servicing fees of 0.25% of the loan balance. The amendment eliminates both the loan servicing fees and indemnification liability, while introducing the new interest income split between the Company and PCCU.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recognized $540,222 in loan interest income attributable to PCCU activities. In comparison, for the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recognized $1,636,756 in loan interest income from the same activities. Related expenses for the 2024 period included $35,901 in loan servicing fees, in accordance with the PCCU CAA, which were reported under ‘General and Administrative Expenses’ in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Operating expenses
| Three months Ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change (%) | ||||||||||||
| Compensation and employee benefits | $ | 1,342,261 | $ | 2,280,038 | $ | (937,777 | ) | (41.13) | % | |||||||
| General and administrative expenses | 990,826 | 984,220 | 6,606 | 0.67 | % | |||||||||||
| Professional services | 1,016,182 | 460,950 | 555,232 | 120.45 | % | |||||||||||
| Rent expense | 61,006 | 69,437 | (8,431 | ) | (12.14) | % | ||||||||||
| Credit loss (benefit) expense | - | (68,787 | ) | 68,787 | (100.00) | % | ||||||||||
| Total Operating Expenses | $ | 3,410,275 | $ | 3,725,858 | $ | (315,583 | ) | (8.47) | % | |||||||
In three months ended March 31, 2025, we reduced expenses by $315,583 which is a 8.47% reduction in expenses compared to three months ended March 31, 2024.
Compensation and employee benefits expenses decreased primarily due to previously reported reductions in work force and the related reduction in stock-based compensation of $432,885. Restructuring efforts are ongoing as we continue to optimize our talent portfolio.
General and administrative expenses include changes across various categories, both increases and decreases, as follows (i) A decrease of $160,101 in investment hosting fees due to the elimination of such fees under the Amended PCCU agreement; (ii) An increase of $199,253 in account hosting fees in accordance with the Amended PCCU; (iii) A decrease of $156,855 in amortization and depreciation expenses; and (iv) Advertising and marketing expenses increased by $100,831, primarily driven by the amortization of $100,000 in stock-based compensation issued to a vendor.
The increase in professional services expenses was mainly driven by higher legal fees associated with ongoing litigation, including a $300,000 accrual for the settlement of an employment related legal matter.
The indemnity liability was eliminated from the Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2024, due to the Amended PCCU CAA, which led to the complete reversal of the liability under the ‘credit loss (benefit) expense.’ Please refer to the “Amended and Restated CAA with PCCU” section in the Recent Updates of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
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Other (income) /expenses
| Three months ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change(%) | ||||||||||||
| Change in the fair value of deferred consideration | $ | (161,000 | ) | $ | (184,535 | ) | $ | 23,535 | (12.75 | )% | ||||||
| Interest expense | 112,786 | 154,172 | (41,386 | ) | (26.84 | )% | ||||||||||
| Change in fair value of warrant liabilities | (1,116,082 | ) | (1,255,487 | ) | 139,405 | (11.10 | )% | |||||||||
| $ | (1,164,296 | ) | $ | (1,285,850 | ) | $ | 121,554 | (9.45 | )% | |||||||
The deferred consideration from the Abaca acquisition is classified as a derivative liability under ASC 815 and recorded at fair value, with periodic adjustments. Its value fluctuates based on factors such as the Company’s stock price, market volatility, risk-free interest rates, and amendments to the agreement. For the three months ending March 31, 2025, the fair value of deferred consideration decreased by $161,000 from its balance as of December 31, 2024. This reduction was due to a decline in the fair value adjustment on the stock and cash consideration payable to the Abaca shareholders, which affected the fair value of the third anniversary payment.
Interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily relates to the Senior Secured Promissory Note. Compared to the prior period, interest expense decreased by $41,386, largely due to a reduction in the principal balance outstanding during each reporting period.
The Company has warrant liabilities related to Public, Private Placement, PIPE, and Abaca Warrants, which may be settled in cash or stock depending on conditions such as stock price or registration status. These warrants are accounted for as derivative liabilities due to their contingent nature. The liabilities are subject to adjustments based on terms and stock performance. The change in the fair value of warrant liabilities by $1,116,082 from December 31, 2024 was attributable to the decrease in the share price.
Income taxes
| Three months ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change ($) | Change (%) | ||||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit), net | $ | - | $ | 438,885 | $ | (438,885 | ) | (100.00 | )% | |||||||
| $ | - | $ | 438,885 | $ | (438,885 | ) | (100.00 | )% | ||||||||
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the provision for income taxes is $0, principally due to the recognition of a valuation allowance in the year ended December 31, 2024, as it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets cannot be realized.
Key Metrics
In addition to the measures presented in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, our management regularly monitors certain measures in the operation of our business. These key metrics are discussed below.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to financial measures presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), this document contains non-GAAP financial measures where management believes it to be helpful in understanding our results of operations or financial position. Where non-GAAP financial measures are used, the comparable GAAP financial measure, as well as the reconciliation to the comparable GAAP financial measure, can be found herein.
Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) and Adjusted EBITDA
To provide investors with additional information regarding our financial results, we have disclosed EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, both of which are non-GAAP financial measures that we calculate as net profit before taxes and depreciation and amortization expense in the case of EBITDA and further adjusted to exclude non-cash, unusual and/or infrequent costs in the case of Adjusted EBITDA. Below we have provided a reconciliation of net profit (the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure) to EBITDA and from EBITDA to Adjusted EBITDA.
We present EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA because these metrics are a key measure used by our management to evaluate our operating performance, generate future operating plans, and make strategic decisions regarding the allocation of investment capacity. Accordingly, we believe that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as an analytical tool, and it should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are as follows:
| ● | although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future, and both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect cash capital expenditure requirements for such replacements or for new capital expenditure requirements; | |
| ● | EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; and | |
| ● | EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect tax payments that may represent a reduction in cash available to us. |
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Because of these limitations, you should consider EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA alongside other financial performance measures, including net profit and our other GAAP results.
A reconciliation of net profit to non-GAAP EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is as follows:
| Three months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
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| Net (loss)/income | $ | (313,627 | ) | $ | 2,049,676 | |||
| Interest expense | 112,786 | 154,172 | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 1,441 | 195,709 | ||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | - | (438,885 | ) | |||||
| EBITDA | (199,400 | ) | 1,960,672 | |||||
| Other adjustments – | ||||||||
| Credit loss (benefit) expense | - | (68,787 | ) | |||||
| Change in the fair value of warrants and forward purchase derivatives | (1,116,082 | ) | (1,255,487 | ) | ||||
| Change in the fair value of deferred consideration | (161,000 | ) | (184,535 | ) | ||||
| Deferred loan origination fees and costs | - | 23,373 | ||||||
| Stock based compensation | 249,239 | 612,124 | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | (1,227,243 | ) | $ | 1,087,360 | |||
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, our adjusted EBITDA declined primarily due to a decrease in account loan interest income resulting from the revised calculation methodology under the Amended PCCU CAA, lower investment income driven by a reduction in the average daily deposit balance, and higher asset hosting fees and professional expenses. These factors contributing to our financial performance are further discussed in the “Discussion of our Results of Operations” section above. In 2024, the other adjustments include estimated future credit losses not yet realized, including amounts indemnified to PCCU for loans funded by them. The Company entered into the PCCU CAA with PCCU, under which it agreed to indemnify PCCU for claims related to CRB activities, including loan default-related losses for loans funded by PCCU. This agreement was subsequently amended and restated, effective December 31, 2024, to eliminate the Company’s indemnification liability. Deferred loan origination fees and costs represent the change in net deferred loan origination fees and costs. When included with a new loan origination, we receive an upfront loan origination fee in conjunction with new loans funded by our financial institution partners and incur costs associated with originating a specific loan. For accounting purposes, the cash received for loan origination fees and costs is initially deferred and recognized as interest income utilizing the interest method.
Other Metrics
For our business operations, we monitor the following key metrics.
Total account balances, number of accounts and average account balances
Our ability to originate loans for PCCU is dependent on the size of our managed deposit base and number of active accounts. In addition, fees are generated based on open accounts and account activity. We monitor account activity including deposits, withdrawals and ending account balance daily. Total account balances represent the balance of onboarded and monitored deposits on hand at financial institution clients at period end. Average account balance represents the total account balance divided by the number of accounts at the period end.
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Account fees per average active accounts managed
Currently a significant amount of our fees is generated from active accounts and account activity. As a result, we monitor account openings and closings on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. We strive to meet the appropriate balance between depository balances and fees and therefore review account fees per average number of active accounts managed.
| Three Months Ended March 31, | 2025 | 2024 | Change | Change (%) | ||||||||||||||
| Average monthly ending deposit balance | (1) | $ | 97,023,799 | 135,467,105 | (38,443,306 | ) | (28.38 | )% | ||||||||||
| Account fees | (2) | $ | 882,840 | 1,303,133 | (420,293 | ) | (32.25 | )% | ||||||||||
| Average active accounts | (3) | 782 | 744 | 38 | 5.11 | % | ||||||||||||
| Average account balance | (4) | $ | 124,071 | 181,998 | (57,927 | ) | (31.83 | )% | ||||||||||
| Average fees per account | (4) | $ | 1,129 | 1,751 | (622 | ) | (35.52 | )% | ||||||||||
| (1) | Represents the average of the ending account balances for each of the three months therein | |
| (2) | Reported account activity fee revenue | |
| (3) | Represents the average of ending active accounts for each of the three months therein | |
| (4) | Refer to the below section – Discussion of Results of our Operations for additional discussion of trends. |
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, there was an increase in the average number of accounts; however, the average monthly balance and fees declined due to a reduction in high value accounts compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The Company is focused on expanding its client base through various strategic partnerships, which is expected to drive growth in both account balances and fees in the upcoming quarters.
Financial Condition
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents totaled $931,397 and $2,324,647 as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
Cash flows
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company used $1,140,730 in cash for operating activities, compared to $1,475,123 generated during the same period in 2024. The decline in operating cash flow was primarily driven by a decrease in revenue and the payment of trade payables.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company generated $3,245 in cash from investing activities, compared to $3,014 during the same period in 2024. This change is attributed to the loan receivable repayment schedule serviced by the Company.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company used $255,765 in cash for financing activities, compared to $740,544 in the corresponding period of 2024. This decrease was primarily due to higher principal repayments on the senior secured promissory note in 2024. In the first quarter of 2025, the Company and PCCU entered into a Letter Agreement to defer principal payments on the PCCU Note for February and March 2025, while continuing interest payments. Subsequently, the Company executed the Amended PCCU Note, which replaced the original note dated March 29, 2023, and the Letter Agreement. The amended note includes a deferral of principal payments until February 5, 2027.
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Contract assets and liabilities
Deferred revenue is primarily related to contract liabilities associated with the Company agreements. As of March 31, 2025, SHF reported a contract asset and liability of $0 and $9,105 respectively and on December 31, 2024, SHF reported a contract asset and liability of $0 and $28,335, respectively.
Liquidity and going concern
Liquidity refers to our ability to meet anticipated cash and cash equivalents demands, including servicing debt, funding operations, maintaining assets, and covering other routine business expenses. Our primary cash outflows include debt principal and interest repayments, operating costs, and general business expenditures. The main source of our liquidity continues to be cash inflows generated from operational performance. As of March 31, 2025, the Company does not have significant capital investment commitments.
Under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements—Going Concern, the Company is responsible for evaluating whether conditions or events raise substantial doubt about its ability to meet future financial obligations within one year of the financial statement issuance date. This evaluation involves two steps: (1) assessing whether conditions or events raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, and (2) if substantial doubt is raised, evaluating whether the Company has plans to mitigate that doubt. Disclosures are required if substantial doubt exists or if the Company’s plans alleviate the substantial doubt. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
At March 31, 2025, the Company reported cash and cash equivalents of $931,397 and net working capital deficit of $6,723,895, compared to cash and cash equivalents of $2,324,647 and net working capital deficit of $983,833 as of December 31, 2024. The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern depends on its capacity to generate sufficient liquidity to meet financial obligations, including interest repayments under the senior secured note with PCCU (as defined below). The Company has an operating loss of $1,477,923 for the period ended March 31, 2025.
In the first quarter of 2025, the Company experienced a $315,583 decline in total operating expenses compared to the first quarter of 2024, driven by a significant reduction in compensation and employee benefits. However, this positive trend was more than offset by reductions in depository activity, loan interest income, and fee income, in addition to ongoing legal expenses related to shareholder and employee matters. These factors have negatively impacted the Company’s ability to effectively address the going concern uncertainties.
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As a result, the Company may need to raise additional debt or equity financing to resolve these challenges. In the event of a default on the Amended PCCU debt, and if the Company is unable to cure the default within the 30-day grace period, the provisions of the debt agreement would allow PCCU to subjectively accelerate the debt and elect to exercise its security interest in all of the Company’s assets. While it is highly likely that the Company’s services would continue in such circumstances, a default would significantly impact the Company’s valuation.
As of March 31, 2025, our cash and cash equivalents amounted to $931,397, which management does not believe is sufficient to fund our operations and meet our obligations as they come due over the next 12 months, as the current funds are projected to support operations only through September 30, 2025. Additionally, the reported working capital deficit, excluding adjustments for non-cash activities, along with the uncertainty surrounding cash flows from operations, raises substantial significant doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months from the issuance date of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company is currently developing plans to address its liquidity needs, the probability of success of such plans is uncertain. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
In addition, on April 7, 2025, the Company was notified by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that it no longer meets the continued listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Market due to a stockholders’ equity deficit of $12,288,014 as of December 31, 2024, which was below the required $2.5 million minimum stockholders’ equity. The Company has been granted 45 calendar days, until May 22, 2025, to submit a plan to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements. If the plan is accepted, Nasdaq may grant an extension of up to 180 calendar days from the date of this letter for the Company to meet the continued listing standards. The Company intends to timely submit a Compliance Plan to Nasdaq to regain compliance with the Shareholders’ Equity requirement. There can be no assurance that Nasdaq will accept the Company’s plan or that the Company will be able to regain compliance with Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) or maintain compliance with any other Nasdaq requirement in the future.
Management’s Plan Related to Going Concern
The Company has implemented several initiatives, to address these concerns, including implementing strategic partnerships to broaden its revenue base by providing additional financial services to cannabis operators, renegotiating its senior secured loan with PCCU, offering stock-based compensation in lieu of cash payments to attract and retain talent, and restructuring the Board of Directors’ compensation to better align with stock-based incentives. Additionally, the Company is actively engaged in discussions with various parties, including potential investors, lenders, and strategic partners, to explore financing options or other strategic transactions. While we are working diligently to secure additional financing, there can be no assurance that these efforts will be successful or that any financing will be obtained on terms favorable to us or at all. If we are unable to secure sufficient capital, we may need to curtail certain operations or pursue other strategic alternatives. We continue to closely monitor our cash flow on weekly basis and liquidity position and are taking steps to preserve cash. Management remains focused on executing our business plan while addressing these liquidity challenges in a timely manner.
PCCU is the holder of the Senior Secured Promissory Note, as disclosed in Note 9 of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. As the holder of this note, PCCU has a security interest in all of the Company’s assets. In the event of default, which may reasonably occur due to the liquidity challenges described herein, PCCU may exercise its rights under this security interest.
CRB deposits are maintained with the Company’s contracted financial institutions; accordingly, the Company’s liquidity issues do not affect the security of these deposits. Furthermore, we do not anticipate any significant impact on the services provided to our CRB clients. The only foreseeable change would be a potential shift in the ownership of the Company’s underlying business operations.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business, and do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or amounts and classification of liabilities that may result should the Company not continue as a going concern as a result of this uncertainty.
Litigation
On October 17, 2024, the Company caused a Complaint to be filed in the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, captioned SHF Holdings, Inc. v. Daniel Roda, Gregory W. Ellis, and James R. Carroll, Case No. 2024CV33187 (Denver County District Court). On November 21, 2024, in connection with the Company’s request, the Company caused the Merger Payment to be deposited into the Denver County District Court’s registry so that it can be distributed in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement. The Merger Payment has already been accounted for in the working capital deficit disclosed in the Liquidity and Going Concern section. On December 19, 2024, Daniel Roda, Gregory W. Ellis, and James R. Carroll caused an answer and counterclaim to be filed in response to the Company Complaint. For additional details, please refer to the section titled “Abaca legal case in Denver” in the Recent Updates of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 as well as the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 18, 2024 and December 19, 2024.
Critical Accounting Estimates
As of March 31, 2025, there were no significant changes in the application or the nature of accounting estimates that are considered critical in nature from those presented in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A.
Emerging Growth Company Status
The Company is an emerging growth company (“EGC”), as defined in the JOBS Act. Under the JOBS Act, EGCs can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards issued until such time as those standards apply to private companies. In electing this relief, the JOBS Act does not preclude an EGC from adopting a new or revised accounting standard earlier than the time that such standard applies to private companies. SHF has elected to use this relief and will do so until the earlier of the date that it (a) is no longer an emerging growth company or (b) affirmatively and irrevocably opts out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result of the elected JOBS Act relief, these combined and unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements may not be comparable to companies that do not elect JOBS Act relief or choose to early adopt different accounting pronouncements than SHF.
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Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
In connection with our management assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company has identified material weaknesses within our internal controls over financial reporting. Refer to Item 9A of this document for additional details.
Related Party Relationships
PCCU is considered a related party as it holds a significant ownership interest in the Company, is our most significant financial institution customer, serves as the Company’s sole lending financial institution, is the counterparty to the PCCU Note, and is where we maintain the majority of our deposits. The agreements between PCCU and the Company are as follows:
Commercial Alliance Agreement (the “PCC CAA”)
On March 29, 2023, the Company and PCCU entered into a PCCU CAA, which was subsequently amended and restated on December 31, 2024. This agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of lending and account-related services, governing the relationship between the Company and PCCU. The PCCU CAA outlined the application, underwriting, loan approval, and foreclosure processes for loans issued by PCCU to CRBs (as defined below), as well as the loan servicing and monitoring responsibilities of both parties.
In particular, the PCCU CAA provided procedures to be followed upon the default of a loan to ensure that neither the Company nor PCCU would take title to or possession of cannabis-related assets, including real property that may have served as collateral for loans funded by PCCU pursuant to the agreement.
Under the PCCU CAA, PCCU had the right to receive monthly fees for managing loans. For SHF-serviced loans (CRB loans provided by PCCU but primarily handled by SHF), a yearly fee of 0.25% of the remaining loan balance was applied. For loans both financed and serviced by PCCU, a yearly fee of 0.35% on the outstanding balance was charged. These fees were calculated based on the average daily balance of each loan for the preceding month.
Additionally, until December 31, 2024 the Company was obligated under the PCCU CAA to indemnify PCCU from certain default-related loan losses, as fully defined in the agreement.
Furthermore, the PCCU CAA outlined certain fees to be paid to the Company for specified account-related services, including cannabis-related income such as loan origination fees, interest income on CRB-related loans, participation fees, servicing fees, investment income, account activity fees, processing fees, and other revenue. These fees were set at $30.96 per account in 2022, $25.32-$27.85 per account in 2023, and $26.08-$28.69 in 2024.
Regarding CRB deposits held at PCCU, investment and interest income earned on these deposits (excluding interest income on loans funded by PCCU) was shared at a ratio of 25% to PCCU and 75% to the Company. Additionally, PCCU maintained its CRB-related deposits to total assets ratio at 60%, unless otherwise dictated by regulatory, regulator, or policy requirements. The initial term of the PCCU CAA was two years, with a one-year automatic renewal, unless either party provided a one hundred twenty-day written notice prior to the end of the term.
The Amended PCCU CAA extends the term through December 31, 2028, with automatic renewals every two years unless terminated with 12 months’ notice.
The key modifications under the Amended PCCU CAA include several significant changes:
| ● | The indemnification obligations have been eliminated, meaning the Company is no longer required to indemnify PCCU for any loan-related losses under either the original or future agreements. | |
| ● | The prior fee structure has been replaced by a more efficient asset hosting fee structure. Previously, the Company paid various fees to PCCU, including per-account servicing, investment hosting, and loan servicing fees. Under the new structure, the Company will pay a fixed asset hosting fee calculated as 0.01 multiplied by the average daily balance of account relationships generated by the Company, divided by the number of days in the year, and multiplied by the number of days in the applicable month. | |
| ● | Provides the Company with all investment income earned on CRB funds invested on its behalf by PCCU, effectively eliminating the investment hosting fees that were previously payable. | |
| ● | The Company’s interest income on all loans with PCCU are now calculated using a loan yield allocation formula that incorporates the Constant Maturity US Treasury Rate from Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ data service, along with a proprietary risk rating formula to determine the fee split between the Company and PCCU. Before the amendment, the Company received the entire interest income from the loan and was responsible for paying loan servicing fees of 0.25% of the loan balance. The amendment removes the loan servicing fees and indemnification liability, while introducing the interest income split between the Company and PCCU. | |
| ● | There are penalties charged to the Company if it fails to maintain the agreed Loan-to-Share (LTS) Ratio. If the LTS Maximum (60%) is exceeded for over 90 days, the asset hosting fee increases from 1.00% to 1.10% of the average daily balance (ADB) until compliance is restored. If the LTS Minimum (27.5%) is breached, the Company must pay a quarterly adjustment fee based on the shortfall. Additionally, if the LTS Ratio exceeds 100% for 90 days, the Company incurs an interest charge at the Federal Funds Rate + 120 bps, calculated daily and paid monthly. |
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The schedule below illustrates the ratio of CRB-related loans funded by PCCU to the corresponding lending limits under the Amended PCCU CAA.:
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||
| CRB related deposits | $ | 103,326,396 | $ | 116,064,487 | ||||
| Capacity at 60% | 61,995,838 | 69,638,692 | ||||||
| PCCU net worth | 63,661,697 | 82,400,677 | ||||||
| Capacity at 1.3125 | 81,369,537 | 108,150,889 | ||||||
| Limiting capacity | 61,995,838 | 69,638,692 | ||||||
| PCCU loans funded | 55,585,488 | 56,794,446 | ||||||
| Amounts available under lines of credit | 1,291,518 | 1,131,708 | ||||||
| Incremental capacity | $ | 5,118,832 | $ | 11,712,538 | ||||
As of March 31, 2025, the Company implemented an improvement to its reporting of business metrics. CRB related deposits historically was computed as of the date reported. As of March 31, 2025, CRB related deposits are being computed using a 30day average. As of December 31, 2024, the incremental capacity if reported using the 30day average of CRB related deposits would have reflected a shortfall of $663,713.
Item 3A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
The Company is a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and is not required to provide the information otherwise required with respect to market risk.
Item 4A. Controls and Procedures.
Management’s Report On Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2025 due to the material weaknesses described below. In light of these material weaknesses, we performed additional analysis as deemed necessary to ensure that our interim financial statements were prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Accordingly, management believes that the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly in all material respects our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.
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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon their evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, solely due to the below-mentioned material weaknesses, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 (e) and 15d-15 (e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective as of March 31, 2025.
Material Weaknesses
A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
We consider the following material weaknesses to be outstanding as of March 31, 2025:
Revenue Recognition: The Company has identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting related to the need to enhance the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over the review of revenue recognition from calculations that occur on a monthly basis between the Company and PCCU.
To remediate this material weakness, the Company is developing a tool aimed at improving oversight and accuracy in the revenue calculation process. The tool is currently in the testing phase, and management expects that, once fully implemented, it will enable the Company to establish more robust internal processes for revenue reconciliation with financial institution partners. Additionally, the tool will improve the Company’s ability to serve its customer base more effectively.
Accounting for Financial Instruments: Prior to the year ended 2024, the Company identified a material weakness in the effectiveness of management’s review controls related to the accounting, disclosure, and valuation of complex financial instruments. In 2023, the Company did not initially properly account for certain warrants and deferred consideration payable to the Abaca shareholders which was corrected before the filing of the financial statement. Remediation plans were put in place in 2024 over these financial instruments, and the Company subsequently accounted for these warrants and deferred consideration correctly under GAAP for all 2024 quarterly periods, including the year-end period ending December 31, 2024. Despite these efforts, on December 31, 2024 the Company did not appropriately apply the guidance under ASC 470, Debt, in connection with the reclassification of the Amended PCCU Note. The PCCU Note, which was amended on March 1, 2025, met the criteria for classification as a non-current liability under ASC 470, but was incorrectly presented as a current liability in the Company’s financial statements. This classification error resulted from the material weakness pertaining to these management review controls remaining ineffective as of year-end 2024.
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To remediate this material weakness, the Company has implemented a monthly process with enhanced management review controls to perform and review the accounting for financial instruments. The analysis and disclosures are assessed by senior management of the Company performing reviews of the documentation and disclosures at each of the reporting date
Going concern: As of December 31, 2024, the Company identified a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting related to its going concern assessment. Specifically, management reached an incorrect conclusion regarding the absence of substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, due to deficiencies in the application of ASC 205-40 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 59 (Topic 1.M). While the Company considered a number of positive indicators such as adjusted working capital, a three-year trend of the adjusted EBITDA, material reductions in non-rate expenses, the Amended PCCU Note, and the ability to renegotiate vendor arrangements management’s evaluation initially failed to be evaluated based on financial cash flow projections from the date the financial statements would be issued. As a result of these factors, the Company’s initial conclusion regarding its ability to continue as a going concern was not appropriately supported under GAAP. Ineffective management review constitutes a material weakness in the Company’s internal control over the going concern analysis.
To address this material weakness, the Company implemented a process whereby the going concern evaluation on each of the reporting date are thoroughly evaluated based on the relevant accounting literature. This process was followed for the three months ended March 31, 2025, strengthening the internal control environment and supporting compliance with GAAP. Management is currently evaluating the effectiveness of this enhanced review process over financial reporting. If it continues to prove effective in the upcoming quarters, the Company anticipates that this material weakness will be remediated within 2025.
Information technology: As of December 31, 2024, certain users with unnecessary privileged access were noted within the financially relevant systems resulting in segregation of duty risk. The Company’s controls over logical access, specifically user access reviews and privileged access to financially relevant systems and underlying accounting records were not effectively designed. Access logs from the Company’s business systems indicate that the certain users never inappropriately accessed these systems or posted any transactions resulting in inaccurate financial reporting. As of the filing, the unnecessary access has been removed and the Company is designing a remediation plan to mitigate this material weakness.
To address this material weakness, the Company conducted a review of privileged access for users of financially relevant systems and removed such unnecessary privileged access during the three months ended March 31, 2025. Additionally, the Company has implemented a process to review privileged access at each reporting period, which will strengthen the internal control environment around access to these systems. Management is currently assessing the effectiveness of this process in reviewing user access for each individual. If the process continues to be effective in the coming quarters, the Company expects to remediate this material weakness within 2025.
Forfeiture of stock compensation expense: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company initially reversed all previously recognized stock compensation expense under ASC 718 related to stock options that were fully vested at the time of the employee’s contract termination. The error in recording the forfeiture of stock options resulted from a material weakness in the management review process.
To remediate this material weakness, the Company has implemented a monthly process with enhanced management review controls to perform and review the accounting for stock compensation expense. The analysis and disclosures are assessed by senior management of the Company performing reviews of the documentation and disclosures at each of the reporting date.
Accounting for forward purchase receivables: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company initially did not reclassify the forward purchase receivables to additional paid-in capital after certain conditions preventing its classification as equity were overcome. Additionally, the Company lacked adequate documentation regarding the valuation of these receivables in accordance with the relevant accounting literature. This failure to reclass and the insufficient documentation resulted from a material weakness in the management review process.
To remediate this material weakness, the Company has implemented a monthly process with enhanced management review controls to perform and review the accounting for forward purchase receivables. The analysis and disclosures are assessed by senior management of the Company performing reviews of the documentation and disclosures at each of the reporting date.
Completion of remediation does not provide assurance that our remediation or other controls will continue to operate properly. A failure to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting could result in errors in its financial statements that could require the Company to restate past financial statements, cause the Company to fail to meet its reporting obligations and cause investors to lose confidence in the Company’s reported financial information, all of which could materially and adversely affect the Company.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other than as noted above in the March 31, 2025 material weaknesses, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during quarterly three months ended March 31, 2025 covered by this Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
The Company’s management has expended, and will continue to expend, a substantial amount of effort and resources for their mediation of the material weaknesses and improvement of our internal control over financial reporting. While we have processes to properly identify and evaluate the appropriate accounting technical pronouncements and other literature for all significant or unusual transactions, we have expanded and will continue to improve these processes to ensure that the nuances of such transactions are effectively evaluated in the context of the increasingly complex accounting standards.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be subject to various other legal proceedings and claims that are routine and incidental to our business. Although some of the legal proceedings set forth herein may result in adverse decisions or settlements, Management believes that the final disposition of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows. For additional information regarding certain legal proceedings, see “Abaca legal case in Denver” in NOTE 12 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
The Company is a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act and is not required to provide the information otherwise required by this Item 1A.
Item 2. Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, no director
or “officer” (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) of the Company
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Item 6. Exhibits
The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
| * | Filed herewith. |
| ** | Furnished herewith. |
| † | Certain of the exhibits and schedules to this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The Company agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of all omitted exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon its request. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ Terrance E. Mendez |
Chief Executive Officer |
May 20, 2025 | ||
| Terrance E. Mendez | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| /s/ James H. Dennedy |
Chief Financial Officer |
May 20, 2025 | ||
| James H. Dennedy | (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
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