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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-005524 to Currenc Group Inc. (CURR)

Currenc Group Inc.
Date: May 24, 2023 · CIK: 0001862935 · Accession: 0000000000-23-005524

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United States securities and exchange commission logo May 24, 2023 Alexander Edgarov Chief Executive Officer InFinT Acquisition Corp 32 Broadway, Suite 401 New York, New York 10004 Re:InFinT Acquisition Corp Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4 Filed April 18, 2023 File No. 333-267662 Dear Alexander Edgarov: 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 March 22, 2023 letter. Amendment No. 3 to Form S-4 filed April 18, 2023 Summary Selected Historical, Unaudited Historical and Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Statement of Operations, page 21 1.Pro forma condensed statements of comprehensive income should be filed for only the most recent fiscal year. Please revise or advise. Refer to Rule 11-02(c)(2)(i) of Regulation S-X. Divestitures, page 97 2.We note your response to comment 2 and your explanation that the structure of the transaction is to insure that New Seamless will not be under common control with the

FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 2 FirstName LastName Alexander Edgarov InFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 2 Divestiture Entities. Given that it appears that Mr. Kong will own a majority of outstanding shares for New Seamless as well as the Divestiture Entities, as well as Section 7.20 of the Business Combination Agreement which states that following the Divestitures, the Divestiture Entities will no longer be affiliates, please disclose the potential risk, if any, that New Seamless and the Divestiture Entities are affiliates, and the impact to the transaction and future business of the combined company if such entities are affiliates. Background of the Business Combination, page 105 3.We note your response to comment 4. However, it appears that the materials and analyses prepared by ARC and JonesTrading were used by management to determine the valuation of Seamless, and the Board determined that the valuation analysis conducted by management with the input of ARC and JonesTrading, supported the valuation. Based on the current disclosure, it does not appear that management relied on other sources, reports or analyses to determine the valuation aside from those provided by ARC and JonesTrading. Given this, please tell us why you believe that such materials were not materially related to the transaction. In the alternative, please file the materials as exhibits to the registration statement, and file consents from ARC and JonesTrading. Refer to Item 21(c) of Form S-4 and Rule 436 of the Securities Act. 4.We note your response to comment 16 that the company reviewed all "material agreements" between Ripple and Seamless. Please revise to clarify, if true, that management reviewed all material agreements relating to Seamless' relationship with Ripple, including agreements between Ripple and Tranglo. Please revise to identify the specific agreements reviewed, which terms in particular the management team considered, and how these agreements impacted management's evaluation of the relationship with Ripple. Please also revise your disclosure, in an appropriate place in the prospectus, to describe each of these agreements. Your disclosure should include all material terms of such agreements. Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, page 143 5.Reference is made to Note 2(dd) on page F-35 and your disclosure that shares granted under the 2022 Incentive Plan will vest upon a de SPAC merger. Please tell us how you reflect vesting in the pro forma financial information. Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet, page 147 6.Reference is made to the first bullet on page 146 where you disclose that Scenario 2 gives effect to the maximum amount of redemptions that would enable you to have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets after the Business Combination is consummated. Scenario 2 is currently showing net tangible asset (deficit) of ($3,932,009). Please revise or advise.

FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 3 FirstName LastName Alexander Edgarov InFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 3 Seamless' Business, page 172 7.We note your revisions in response to comment 5. Reference is made to the first paragraph on page 172. Please revise to clarify who the "remittance agent" is in transactions you are involved in. 8.We note your revisions in response to comment 5. Reference is made to page 184. Please tell us the sender's obligations in Ripple's ODL including to whom the sender's obligation is to. 9.We note your revisions in response to comment 5. In step 4 of the Fund Flow on page 184, please clarify the rights and obligations of the XRP wallet accounts on the crypto exchanges. Please tell us who controls the XRP immediately prior to the transfer (draw down) on the crypto exchanges and clarify your role in the XRP exchange transaction. In this regard, tell us if you are the buying or borrowing XRP from the ODL RP or Ripple and then liquidating for cash or are you introducing the ODL RP to a market maker that is the counter party to the purchase of XRP. Please tell us how you account for the formation and subsequent activity in the Slippage Pool mentioned in step 5 on page 184, including deposits, draw downs and selling of XRP. Explain who controls the Slippage Pool and Ripple and Tranglo's rights and obligations throughout the process. Finally, clarify if Tranglo is responsible for repayment of draw downs needed and used. 10.We note your revisions in response to comment 5. In step 7 of the Fund Flow on page 184, please explain why Tranglo has the obligation of USD100K to the ODL RP when Tranglo has already credited USD100K to the Money Pool of the ODL RP. Licenses, page 189 11.We note your revised disclosure and written response to comment 7. We reissue our comment in part. Please revise your disclosure to address how you are in compliance with applicable cryptocurrency regulations in jurisdictions outside of Singapore. In this regard, if you believe you are not required to comply with any cryptocurrency regulations in jurisdictions outside of Singapore, please state this affirmatively. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of Seamless Year Ended December 31, 2022 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2021 and Year Ended December 31, 2020, page 225 12.Please revise to discuss the "Finance costs, net" line item in your Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Liquidity and Capital Resources Contractual Obligations, page 231 13.Please revise the table to include estimated interest expense.

FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 4 FirstName LastName Alexander Edgarov InFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 4 Note 2(b) - Going concern, page F-27 14.Reference is made to your disclosure of anticipated 2023 EBITDA. Non-GAAP financial measures are not allowed to be presented or disclosed on the face of a registrant's financial statements or in the accompanying notes. Please remove the non-GAAP measure(s). Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(ii)(C) of Regulation S-K. Note 2(t) Cost of Revenue, page F-32 15.You disclose that cost of revenue includes amortization of intangible assets. Please tell us the nature and amount of intangible asset amortization included in cost of revenue for the periods presented. In this regard, you disclose in Notes 6 and 7 that depreciation and amortization is included in the general and administrative expenses line item. Please revise your disclosures for consistency. Also note that depreciation and amortization should not be positioned in the income statement in a manner which results in reporting a figure for income before depreciation. Refer to SAB Topic 11:B. Note 2(dd) - Share-based compensation, page F-35 16.Regarding the 2022 shares granted, please disclose a description of the method used to estimate fair value, the grant date fair value and unrecognized compensation expense as of December 31, 2022. Refer to ASC 718-10-50. Note 2 (hh) Recent Accounting Pronouncements, page F-36 17.We note your disclosure that the guidance in ASU 2020-06 was effective for you for the year ended December 31, 2022 and did not have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements, therefore no cumulative effect on accumulated deficit was recorded. We also note you recorded $3.4 million in amortization of debt discounts for the year ended December 31, 2022. Please tell us how you determined the adoption of the guidance in ASU 2020-06 did not have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements. 13. Convertible bonds, page F-43 18.Please tell us how you accounted for the issuance of $10,000,000 Convertible Bond D and the replacement of Convertible Bonds B and C referencing authoritative literature that supports your accounting treatment. Reconcile the change in total principal balance from $21,000,000 as of December 31, 2021 to $10,000,000 as of December 31, 2022 using disclosure in your financial statements and related notes. Finally, disclose any discount recorded when issuing Convertible Bond D. Note 17 Segments, page F-47 19.We note your responses to comments 8 and 11, your response to comment 34 from our letter dated February 6, 2023 and your disclosure in Note 2(z) on page F-34 that each

FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 5 FirstName LastName Alexander Edgarov InFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 5 subsidiary is an operating segment and operating segments have been aggregated. Based on the financial information presented in your Management's Discussion and Analysis it appears your subsidiaries have different economic characteristics. Please explain why your subsidiaries meet the aggregation criteria in ASC 280-10-50-11 and 12. In addition, reference is made to your discussion of EBIT or EBITDA by subsidiary on page 228 in Management's Discussion and Analysis. Please tell us your segment measure of profitability. Refer to ASC 280-10-50-22 through 31 for disclosures related to the segment measure of profit or loss. Finally, please tell us your consideration of providing results of operations discussion of your reportable segments in Management's Discussion and Analysis. Note 20. Related Party Transactions, page F-50 20.Please tell us why you removed your disclosure of the Pay-Out Support Agreement between Ripple Services, Inc. and Tranglo in response to our prior comment 32 in our letter dated February 6, 2023. Additionally, please tell us your consideration of disclosing the total dollar value of the ODL RP transactions related to the XRP that was drawn down in the prefunding arrangements for the years presented and the amount the ODL RP owes Ripple as of December 31, 2022 and 2021. Refer to SAB Topic 5:T and the disclosures in ASC 850-10-50 and Rule 4-08(k) of Regulation S-X considering Ripple’s 40 percent ownership of Tranglo. General 21.We note your response to comment 12. We continue to see that in the filed version of Exhibit 10.16, there is a black box for a portion of schedule 1. To the extent you are redacting terms of the agreement, please refile the exhibit with the key information redacted (as opposed to an entire section of the schedule blacked out), and mark the exhibit index and the redacted exhibit as specified in Item 601(b)(10)(iv).

22.We note that you did not file any agreement(s) relating to Ripple's purchase of a 40% interest in Tranglo. Please provide us with your analysis as to why you are not required to file any such agreement(s). With a view toward disclosure, we note that your revised disclosure on page 103 now states in response to comment 3, "as part of their due diligence review process, INFINT’s management team reviewed material agreements between Ripple and Seamless." Please advise us whether INFINT's management team also reviewed any agreement(s) relating to Ripple's purchase a 40% interest in Tranglo. If so, please revise your disclosure to indicate which agreements were reviewed and what, specifically, was considered by management as part of the review.

FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 6 FirstName LastName Alexander Edgarov InFinT Acquisition Corp May 24, 2023 Page 6 You may contact Tony Watson at 202-551-3318 or Adam Phippen at 202-551-3336 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Scott Anderegg at 202-551-3342 or Erin Jaskot at 202-551-3442 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
May 24, 2023
Alexander Edgarov
Chief Executive Officer
InFinT Acquisition Corp
32 Broadway, Suite 401
New York, New York 10004
Re:InFinT Acquisition Corp
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed April 18, 2023
File No. 333-267662
Dear Alexander Edgarov:
            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 March 22, 2023 letter.
Amendment No. 3 to Form S-4 filed April 18, 2023
Summary
Selected Historical, Unaudited Historical and Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Statement of
Operations, page 21
1.Pro forma condensed statements of comprehensive income should be filed for only the
most recent fiscal year.  Please revise or advise.  Refer to Rule 11-02(c)(2)(i) of
Regulation S-X.
Divestitures, page 97
2.We note your response to comment 2 and your explanation that the structure of the
transaction is to insure that New Seamless will not be under common control with the

 FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov
 Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp
 May 24, 2023 Page 2
 FirstName LastName
Alexander Edgarov
InFinT Acquisition Corp
May 24, 2023
Page 2
Divestiture Entities.  Given that it appears that Mr. Kong will own a majority of
outstanding shares for New Seamless as well as the Divestiture Entities, as well as Section
7.20 of the Business Combination Agreement which states that following the Divestitures,
the Divestiture Entities will no longer be affiliates, please disclose the potential risk, if
any, that New Seamless and the Divestiture Entities are affiliates, and the impact to the
transaction and future business of the combined company if such entities are affiliates.
Background of the Business Combination, page 105
3.We note your response to comment 4.  However, it appears that the materials and analyses
prepared by ARC and JonesTrading were used by management to determine the valuation
of Seamless, and the Board determined that the valuation analysis conducted by
management with the input of ARC and JonesTrading, supported the valuation.  Based on
the current disclosure, it does not appear that management relied on other sources, reports
or analyses to determine the valuation aside from those provided by ARC and
JonesTrading.  Given this, please tell us why you believe that such materials were not
materially related to the transaction.  In the alternative, please file the materials as exhibits
to the registration statement, and file consents from ARC and JonesTrading.  Refer to Item
21(c) of Form S-4 and Rule 436 of the Securities Act.
4.We note your response to comment 16 that the company reviewed all "material
agreements" between Ripple and Seamless.  Please revise to clarify, if true, that
management reviewed all material agreements relating to Seamless' relationship with
Ripple, including agreements between Ripple and Tranglo.  Please revise to identify the
specific agreements reviewed, which terms in particular the management team considered,
and how these agreements impacted management's evaluation of the relationship with
Ripple.  Please also revise your disclosure, in an appropriate place in the prospectus, to
describe each of these agreements. Your disclosure should include all material terms of
such agreements.
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, page 143
5.Reference is made to Note 2(dd) on page F-35 and your disclosure that shares granted
under the 2022 Incentive Plan will vest upon a de SPAC merger.  Please tell us how you
reflect vesting in the pro forma financial information.
Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet, page 147
6.Reference is made to the first bullet on page 146 where you disclose that Scenario 2 gives
effect to the maximum amount of redemptions that would enable you to have at least
$5,000,001 of net tangible assets after the Business Combination is consummated.
Scenario 2 is currently showing net tangible asset (deficit) of ($3,932,009).  Please revise
or advise.

 FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov
 Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp
 May 24, 2023 Page 3
 FirstName LastName
Alexander Edgarov
InFinT Acquisition Corp
May 24, 2023
Page 3
Seamless' Business, page 172
7.We note your revisions in response to comment 5.  Reference is made to the first
paragraph on page 172.  Please revise to clarify who the "remittance agent" is in
transactions you are involved in.
8.We note your revisions in response to comment 5.  Reference is made to page 184.  Please
tell us the sender's obligations in Ripple's ODL including to whom the sender's obligation
is to.
9.We note your revisions in response to comment 5.  In step 4 of the Fund Flow on page
184, please clarify the rights and obligations of the XRP wallet accounts on the crypto
exchanges.  Please tell us who controls the XRP immediately prior to the transfer (draw
down) on the crypto exchanges and clarify your role in the XRP exchange transaction.  In
this regard, tell us if you are the buying or borrowing XRP from the ODL RP or Ripple
and then liquidating for cash or are you introducing the ODL RP to a market maker that is
the counter party to the purchase of XRP.  Please tell us how you account for the
formation and subsequent activity in the Slippage Pool mentioned in step 5 on page 184,
including deposits, draw downs and selling of XRP.  Explain who controls the Slippage
Pool and Ripple and Tranglo's rights and obligations throughout the process.  Finally,
clarify if Tranglo is responsible for repayment of draw downs needed and used.
10.We note your revisions in response to comment 5.  In step 7 of the Fund Flow on page
184, please explain why Tranglo has the obligation of USD100K to the ODL RP when
Tranglo has already credited USD100K to the Money Pool of the ODL RP.
Licenses, page 189
11.We note your revised disclosure and written response to comment 7.  We reissue our
comment in part.  Please revise your disclosure to address how you are in compliance with
applicable cryptocurrency regulations in jurisdictions outside of Singapore.  In this regard,
if you believe you are not required to comply with any cryptocurrency regulations in
jurisdictions outside of Singapore, please state this affirmatively.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of
Seamless
Year Ended December 31, 2022 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2021 and Year Ended
December 31, 2020, page 225
12.Please revise to discuss the "Finance costs, net" line item in your Consolidated Statements
of Operations and Comprehensive Loss.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Contractual Obligations, page 231
13.Please revise the table to include estimated interest expense.

 FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov
 Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp
 May 24, 2023 Page 4
 FirstName LastName
Alexander Edgarov
InFinT Acquisition Corp
May 24, 2023
Page 4
Note 2(b) - Going concern, page F-27
14.Reference is made to your disclosure of anticipated 2023 EBITDA.  Non-GAAP financial
measures are not allowed to be presented or disclosed on the face of a registrant's financial
statements or in the accompanying notes.  Please remove the non-GAAP measure(s).
Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(ii)(C) of Regulation S-K.
Note 2(t) Cost of Revenue, page F-32
15.You disclose that cost of revenue includes amortization of intangible assets.  Please tell us
the nature and amount of intangible asset amortization included in cost of revenue for the
periods presented.  In this regard, you disclose in Notes 6 and 7 that depreciation and
amortization is included in the general and administrative expenses line item.  Please
revise your disclosures for consistency.  Also note that depreciation and amortization
should not be positioned in the income statement in a manner which results in reporting a
figure for income before depreciation.  Refer to SAB Topic 11:B.
Note 2(dd) - Share-based compensation, page F-35
16.Regarding the 2022 shares granted, please disclose a description of the method used to
estimate fair value, the grant date fair value and unrecognized compensation expense as of
December 31, 2022.  Refer to ASC 718-10-50.
Note 2 (hh) Recent Accounting Pronouncements, page F-36
17.We note your disclosure that the guidance in ASU 2020-06 was effective for you for the
year ended December 31, 2022 and did not have a material effect on the consolidated
financial statements, therefore no cumulative effect on accumulated deficit was recorded.
We also note you recorded $3.4 million in amortization of debt discounts for the year
ended December 31, 2022.  Please tell us how you determined the adoption of the
guidance in ASU 2020-06 did not have a material effect on the consolidated financial
statements.
13. Convertible bonds, page F-43
18.Please tell us how you accounted for the issuance of $10,000,000 Convertible Bond D and
the replacement of Convertible Bonds B and C referencing authoritative literature that
supports your accounting treatment.  Reconcile the change in total principal balance from
$21,000,000 as of December 31, 2021 to $10,000,000 as of December 31, 2022 using
disclosure in your financial statements and related notes.  Finally, disclose any discount
recorded when issuing Convertible Bond D.
Note 17 Segments, page F-47
19.We note your responses to comments 8 and 11, your response to comment 34 from our
letter dated February 6, 2023 and your disclosure in Note 2(z) on page F-34 that each

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Alexander Edgarov
InFinT Acquisition Corp
May 24, 2023
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subsidiary is an operating segment and operating segments have been aggregated.  Based
on the financial information presented in your Management's Discussion and Analysis it
appears your subsidiaries have different economic characteristics.  Please explain why
your subsidiaries meet the aggregation criteria in ASC 280-10-50-11 and 12.  In addition,
reference is made to your discussion of EBIT or EBITDA by subsidiary on page 228 in
Management's Discussion and Analysis.  Please tell us your segment measure of
profitability.  Refer to ASC 280-10-50-22 through 31 for disclosures related to the
segment measure of profit or loss.  Finally, please tell us your consideration of providing
results of operations discussion of your reportable segments in Management's Discussion
and Analysis.
Note 20. Related Party Transactions, page F-50
20.Please tell us why you removed your disclosure of the Pay-Out Support Agreement
between Ripple Services, Inc. and Tranglo in response to our prior comment 32 in our
letter dated February 6, 2023.  Additionally, please tell us your consideration of
disclosing the total dollar value of the ODL RP transactions related to the XRP that was
drawn down in the prefunding arrangements for the years presented and the amount the
ODL RP owes Ripple as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.  Refer to SAB Topic 5:T and
the disclosures in ASC 850-10-50 and Rule 4-08(k) of Regulation S-X considering
Ripple’s 40 percent ownership of Tranglo.
General
21.We note your response to comment 12.  We continue to see that in the filed version of
Exhibit 10.16, there is a black box for a portion of schedule 1.  To the extent you are
redacting terms of the agreement, please refile the exhibit with the key information
redacted (as opposed to an entire section of the schedule blacked out), and mark the
exhibit index and the redacted exhibit as specified in Item 601(b)(10)(iv).

22.We note that you did not file any agreement(s) relating to Ripple's purchase of a 40%
interest in Tranglo.  Please provide us with your analysis as to why you are not required to
file any such agreement(s).  With a view toward disclosure, we note that your revised
disclosure on page 103 now states in response to comment 3, "as part of their due
diligence review process, INFINT’s management team reviewed material agreements
between Ripple and Seamless."  Please advise us whether INFINT's management team
also reviewed any agreement(s) relating to Ripple's purchase a 40% interest in Tranglo. If
so, please revise your disclosure to indicate which agreements were reviewed and what,
specifically, was considered by management as part of the review.

 FirstName LastNameAlexander Edgarov
 Comapany NameInFinT Acquisition Corp
 May 24, 2023 Page 6
 FirstName LastName
Alexander Edgarov
InFinT Acquisition Corp
May 24, 2023
Page 6
            You may contact Tony Watson at 202-551-3318 or Adam Phippen at 202-551-3336 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters.  Please
contact Scott Anderegg at 202-551-3342 or Erin Jaskot at 202-551-3442 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services