SEC Comment Letter for OLB GROUP, INC. (OLB) (CIK 0001314196) (OLB) — Jan 2, 2020
OLB GROUP, INC. (OLB) (CIK 0001314196)
Date: Jan. 2, 2020 · CIK: 0001314196 · Accession: 0000000000-20-000032
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January 2, 2020
Ronny Yakov
Chief Executive Officer
The OLB Group, Inc.
200 Park Avenue
Suite 1700
New York, NY 10166
Re:The OLB Group, Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed December 19, 2019
File No. 333-232368
Dear Mr. Yakov:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our [Month day, year] letter.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Summary of financial and other data, page 9
1.Revise here to include predecessor summary financial statement information for fiscal
2017 and from January 1, 2018 through April 30, 2018.
2.On page 57 you include quantified information in footnote (1) regarding the Transaction
Volume and Transaction Count for fiscal 2018 and the nine months ended September 30,
2018 related related to the predecessor entity. Please revise here to include similar
footnote disclosures related to such metrics. Also, tell us whether the Merchant totals
were adjusted to include predecessor information, and if so, revise to include a quantified
discussion of such amounts.
FirstName LastNameRonny Yakov
Comapany NameThe OLB Group, Inc.
January 2, 2020 Page 2
FirstName LastName
Ronny Yakov
The OLB Group, Inc.
January 2, 2020
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Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 61
3.You state that your current available cash resources, excluding the proceeds of this
offering, will allow you to continue your operations until December 2020. Please revise
to clarify whether your available cash resources includes the additional financial
assistance promised by Mr. Herzog. If so, discuss how your liquidity might be impacted
should Mr. Herzog fail to satisfy the commitment. To the extent Mr. Herzog's funding is
not part of the capital resources referenced in your disclosures, please clarify the source of
such resources.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, page
F-9
4.We note that you added a footnote to the consolidated statement of operations for the year
ended December 31, 2018 in response to prior comment 6. Please include a similar
footnote to the consolidated statement of cash flows for the same period.
Exhibits
5.Please revise to ensure that the consent of your independent registered public accounting
firm refers to the correct opinion date. In this regard, the consent in Exhibit 23.2 refers to
the report dated April 13, 2018 when the opinion is also dated December 18, 2019 as it
relates to Note 1A.
You may contact Eiko Yaoita Pyles, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3587 or
Kathleen Collins, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3499 if you have questions regarding
comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Jeff Kauten, Attorney-
Adviser, at (202) 551-3447 or, in his absence, Jan Woo, Legal Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3453
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Technology
cc: Barry I. Grossman