MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report No. :

324295

Report Date :

29.05.2015

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

BBPOS LTD.

 

 

Registered Office :

Suite 1602, 16/F., Tower 2, Nina Tower, 8 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, New Territories

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

23.12.2008

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

50136421

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Designer and Trader of All kinds of POS terminal and payment solutions

 

 

No of Employees :

20

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

 

Status :

Satisfactory

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – December 31, 2014

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(30.09.2014)

Current Rating

(31.12.2014)

Hong Kong

A1

A1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low Risk

 

A2

Moderate Low Risk

 

B1

Moderate Risk

B2

Moderate High Risk

 

C1

High Risk

C2

Very High Risk

D

 


 

HONG KONG ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of re-exports, is about four times GDP. Hong Kong has no tariffs on imported goods, and it levies excise duties on only four commodities, whether imported or produced locally: hard alcohol, tobacco, hydrocarbon oil, and methyl alcohol. There are no quotas or dumping laws. Hong Kong's open economy left it exposed to the global economic slowdown that began in 2008. Although increasing integration with China, through trade, tourism, and financial links, helped it to make an initial recovery more quickly than many observers anticipated, its continued reliance on foreign trade and investment leaves it vulnerable to renewed global financial market volatility or a slowdown in the global economy. The Hong Kong government is promoting the Special Administrative Region (SAR) as the site for Chinese renminbi (RMB) internationalization. Hong Kong residents are allowed to establish RMB-denominated savings accounts; RMB-denominated corporate and Chinese government bonds have been issued in Hong Kong; and RMB trade settlement is allowed. The territory far exceeded the RMB conversion quota set by Beijing for trade settlements in 2010 due to the growth of earnings from exports to the mainland. RMB deposits grew to roughly 12% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2013. The government is pursuing efforts to introduce additional use of RMB in Hong Kong financial markets and is seeking to expand the RMB quota. The mainland has long been Hong Kong's largest trading partner, accounting for about half of Hong Kong's total trade by value. Hong Kong's natural resources are limited, and food and raw materials must be imported. As a result of China's easing of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged from 4.5 million in 2001 to 40.7 million in 2013, outnumbering visitors from all other countries combined. Hong Kong has also established itself as the premier stock market for Chinese firms seeking to list abroad. In 2012 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 48.5% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 56.9% of the Exchange's market capitalization. During the past decade, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has grown rapidly. Credit expansion and tight housing supply conditions have caused Hong Kong property prices to rise rapidly; consumer prices increased by more than 4% in 2013. Lower and middle income segments of the population are increasingly unable to afford adequate housing. Hong Kong continues to link its currency closely to the US dollar, maintaining an arrangement established in 1983. In 2013, Hong Kong and China signed new agreements under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, adopted in 2003 to forge closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland. The new measures, effective from January 2014, cover services and trade facilitation, and will improve access to the mainland's service sector for Hong Kong-based companies. As of year-end 2014, the Democracy protests that began in late September probably will have some adverse effects on economic growth, particularly retail sales.

 

Source : CIA

 


Company name & address

 

BBPOS  LTD.

 

ADDRESS:       Suite 1602, 16/F., Tower 2, Nina Tower, 8 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            852-3158 2585

 

FAX:                 852-3158 2586

 

E-MAIL:            mail@bbpos.com

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Chan Wing Cheong

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:                        23rd December, 2008.

 

Organization:                             Private Limited Company.

 

Issued Share Capital:                 HK$11,632,150.00

 

Business Category:                   Electronic Product Designer and Trader.

 

Employees:                              20.

 

Main Dealing Banker:                 The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Banking Relation:                      Satisfactory.

 


Company name

 

BBPOS  LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Suite 1602, 16/F., Tower 2, Nina Tower, 8 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 

China Factory:-

Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China.

 

Regional Offices:-

United States (San Francisco & Miami), United Kingdom (London), Singapore, China (Shanghai).

 

Associated Company:

BBPOS Corp., United States.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER 

 

50136421

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER 

 

1296567

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Mr. Chan Wing Cheong

Chief Technical Officer:  Mr. Lo Chi Wah, Ben

 

 

ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

 

 HK$11,632,150.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

 

(As per registry dated 23-12-2014)

Name

No. of shares

CHAN Wing Cheong

750

Michael Prados Hollinger

5,500

LO Chi Wah

32,750

Michael Cooperstone

200

Geka Industrial (HK) Ltd., Hong Kong.

150

Bruce Munro

100

Bruce Munro Real Estate Inc.

4900 Cote Saint Luc Road, Apt 611, Montreal Quebec, H3W 2H3.

100

Brand Appeal Inc.

44 Edgewood Dollard Des Ormcaux, Quebec, Canada H9A 3K6.

80

iGotcha WiFi Media Inc.

4000 St-Ambroise, Suite 295, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4C 2C7.

50

Jeffrey Budning

50

Gerald Bernstein

30

Joann Casseres

30

ArGil Property Tax Services Paralegal Professional Corporation

367 Rimrock Road, Toronto, ON, Canada, M2J 3C6.

30

Richard Ullman

20

Irene Kron

20

9133-5117 Quebec Inc.

6528 Chemin Aldrin, Cote St Luc, Quebec, Canada, H4W 3B9.

20

Pearl Nutkevitch

20

Etan Jagermann

20

Bruce Isenberg

10

Carl Kleinberg

10

Michael Frank

10

Anthony Lewis

10

Andrew Skinner

10

Janice HO

10

Joan Zafran

10

Earl Azimov

10

 

‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑

 

40,000

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DIRECTOR    

 

(As per registry dated 23-12-2014)

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

CHAN Wing Cheong

Flat B, 4/F., 31 Chi Kiang Street, Tokwawan, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

SECRETARY

 

(As per registry dated 23-12-2014)

Name

Address

Co. No.

ABS Ltd.

Unit 1603, 16/F., Fortress Tower, 250 King’s Road, North Point, Hong Kong.

1056017

 

 

HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 23rd December, 2008 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

 

Formerly the subject was located at ‘Unit 812, 8/F., Grand City Plaza,

1-17 Sai Lau Kok Road, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong’, moved to the present address in August 2014.

Apart from these, neither material change nor amendment has been ever traced and noted.

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Electronic Product Designer and Trader.

 

Lines:                           All kinds of POS terminal and payment solutions, etc.

 

Employees:                  20.

 

Commodities Imported:Europe, US, etc.

 

Markets:                        Hong Kong, other Asian countries, Europe, North America, etc.

 

Terms/Sales:                 As per contracted.

 

Terms/Buying:  Various terms.

 

 

BUSINESS PARTNERS

 

THALES (France)

ANYWHERE COMMERCE (Canada)

mSwipe (India)

Etisalat (UAE)

 

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Issued Share Capital:                 HK$11,632,150.00

 

Profit or Loss:                           Making a small profit every year.

 

Condition:                                 Keeping in a satisfactory manner.

 

Facilities:                                  Making rather active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                                  Met trade commitments as required.

 

Commercial Morality:                 Satisfactory.

 

Banker:                                     The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.

 

Standing:                                  Normal.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Having issued 1,000 ordinary shares of HK$1.00 each, BBPOS Ltd. [BBPOS] formerly was jointly owned by Mr. Chan Wing Cheong, holding 75.0% interests; Mr. Michael Prados Hollinger, holding 12.5%; Mr. Eric L. Weller, also 12.5%.

 

Since January 2014, its issued share capital has been increased from HK$1,000.00 to HK$11,632,150.00.  BBPOS is now jointly owned by a group of Hong Kong and Canadian merchants of which Mr. Lo Chi Wah, Ben is the majority shareholder holding about 82% interest.  The Executive Director is Mr. Chan Wing Cheong.  He is a Hong Kong merchant.  He is also the only director of the subject.

 

BBPOS is a payment technology company dealing as a mobile Point of Sale (POS) solution provider.  It is engaged in the design, engineer, develop, manufacture and sale of end-to-end Mobile POS solutions to all sectors including Mobile Merchant, Retail, Hospitality, Delivery, Transport and Government.  Its products, software and solutions are used by consumers and merchants in the globe to facilitate mCommerce payments.  Its one-stop-shop service provides various services from design and manufacturing to software, transaction processing and packaging, ensuring its customers receive the high quality, fully certified solution to take their business further.

 

BBPOS is the inventor and the first producer of Audio Jack-based mPOS terminals.  With a family of products supported by a portfolio of perpetually licensed, pending and issued patents, BBPOS is the world leader, measured in production volume, of mPOS devices.

 

In recent years, BBPOS has applied various patents for its products of which the issued patents include:-

 

Debit or credit card data transaction methods and devices (14/04/2011);

Debit and credit card transaction device (27/10/2011);

Power management circuitry in peripheral accessories of audio devices (22/11/2012);

System for controlling audio frequencies of electronic appliances and a method of the same (16/01/2014);

Detecting the ground and microphone input contacts in an audio plug (16/01/2014);

Mounting a magnetic card reader head onto a card reader (23/01/2014);

Pin entry on mobile devices (12/06/2014);

Magnetic stripe reader with card swipe information feedback (07/08/2014);

A secure display module (14/08/2014);

Secure pairing of blue-tooth devices (02/10/2014).

 

All the manufacturing activities are carried out in China where it has a factory in Dongguan City in Guangdong Province.  BBPOS was awarded ISO9001: 2008 certification by SGS.  Major markets include Hong Kong, China, North America, and Europe.  It is now expanding to South East Asia, Central and South America, etc.

 

The principal shareholder, Mr. Lo Chi Wah, Ben is also the Chief Technical Officer of BBPOS.  Ben is responsible for the design and production of current and emerging POS hardware and software at BBPOS.  Ben has been pushing the boundaries of POS innovation since the first Mobile POS device in China back in 2000.  Committed to broadening the application of and accessibility to new transaction technologies, he has authored a number of patents and notable publications in the mobile payment space.

 

BBPOS now has business partners and clients located at different parts of the world including the United States, Canada and China.  It is expanding its business to countries in South East Asia, Central and South America, etc.  Business is rather active.

 

As the history of BBPOS is over six years and five months in Hong Kong, on the whole, consider it good for normal business engagements.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs. 63.90

UK Pound

1

Rs. 98.16

Euro

1

Rs. 69.73

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Analysis Done by :

DIV

 

 

Report Prepared by :

DPT

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

                                       New Business

 

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                  Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                   Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

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