Financial Services
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Issuer Services
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Investor Services
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Share Registry Services
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Private Equity
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Investment Products
We facilitate debt and equity listings for issuers, enabling a favourable balance between flexibility and control to succeed in the financial markets.
Issuer Services
Debt and equity listings
Our comprehensive understanding of the listing requirements of the Integrated Exchange (i-Ex), and our extensive expertise in the debt and equities structuring environment means we are perfectly positioned to assist issuers with navigating the listing process with confidence.
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We have worked hard to cultivate the trust of our broad-based, historically disadvantaged investor-base. Listing on the i-Ex enables issuers to diversify its pool of potential investors, tapping into this previously excluded segment of the financial markets.
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As securities are traded on the i-Ex, the increased visibility can help generate interest in the issuer, leading to positive brand recognition, as investors associate the company with being a reputable, transparent and inclusive organisation. We have used this leverage to raise capital for issuers.
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Listing on the i-Ex requires issuers to comply with standard legislature, as well as the i-Ex’s listing requirements. We enhance issuers’ credibility by helping them navigate this regulatory landscape with confidence.
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By listing on the i-Ex the issuer company will enter a new phase of development, and be able to take advantage of potential growth opportunities that were previously out of reach.
Underlying technology
Our dedication to excellence extends beyond our unique issuer services - we will customise our software to ensure compliance with issuers' unique investor eligibility and trading criteria.
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We can integrate personalised investor eligibility checks into the software, ensuring that only qualified investors have access to trade specific securities. This feature allows control and maintenance at the desired level of exclusivity in the investor-base.
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Our software can be flexibly adapted to support unique trading rules and restrictions. Whether it's specific trading hours, price limits, or order types, we can configure the software to reflect issuers’ preferences accurately.
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Trust and security are paramount in the financial industry. Our exchange software can be enhanced to include robust compliance and security features, ensuring regulatory adherence and safeguarding both issuers and investors.
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Our software is designed with scalability and future-readiness in mind. As a company grows and market dynamics change, the listing platform will evolve and adapt to meet the expanding needs and industry developments.
Investor Services
We offer investor-focused education and assistance, and document administration to over 300,000 investors through our multilingual call centre facility.
User-friendly Trading Experience
Our suite of tailored investor services make us an extension of our issuer clients, seamlessly bridging the gap between them and their shareholders, and elevating the trading experience for inexperienced investors.
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Our call centre, walk-in centre and back-office facility provides established and reliable infrastructure and expertise ready to assist investors with care and empathy.
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We offer effective shareholder tracing services, carried out professionally and responsibly, assisting issuers in maintaining a useful evidential trail of tracing efforts.
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Our KYC and investor eligibility verification services ensure robust compliance while treating investors fairly.
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We make IPO onboarding a breeze for new issuers and lay the foundations for a prosperous investor experience in perpetuity.
Share Registry Services
We offer transfer secretarial services to listed and unlisted companies, while our team of data and investor relations specialists provides insights for effective decision-making and investor communication.
Transfer Secretarial
We offer core transfer secretarial services for listed and unlisted companies. Our proprietary software lets issuers customise processes, functionality, and reporting to fit their unique needs.
Registry Management
Maintaining share registers, recording nil holders, merging duplicate shareholder records, facilitating share rematerialisation and dematerialisation, arranging indemnity letters and certificate replacements for lost shares.
Document Storage
Maintaining a FICA-compliant electronic repository for shareholder documents, storing physical documentation off-site when necessary, and adhering to data protection regulations.
Corporate Actions
Communicating and supporting shareholders regarding complex transactions, and executing necessary actions on the share register based on Corporate Actions outcomes.
Off-Market Transfers
Managing off-market transfers of shares, including recording details, handling tax payments, and processing legal documents for registration and transfers from Deceased Estates.
Stakeholder Communication
Managing mailing lists for corporate communications, handling register-related correspondence and inquiries, communicating with CSDs, and promoting electronic shareholder communication.
Dividend Management
Automating dividend payments and unclaimed dividend management. Coordinating declaration, payment, and reconciliation of dividends. Processing Dividends Withholding Tax and submissions to SARS.
Reporting
Regular reporting and updates to issuers’ company secretaries, including electronic statistical and management reports on share transfers and movements.
Statutory Meetings
Managing statutory meetings, coordinating AGM and voting procedures, and assisting in presentations for large meetings reliant on share register management.
Register Analytics
Our register analytics team unlocks the potential of CSD-housed securities registers to provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
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Analysing shareholder movements, weekly, monthly and yearly.
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Peer comparison reporting
Performing comparisons of share registers with those of selected peers within or across sectors.
Market surveillance reporting
Analysing daily CSD trade data, including broker involvement.
Fund manager profile reporting
Preparing reports and visuals for investor roadshows and presentations.
BEE ownership reporting
Calculating effective BEE ownership and demonstrating scenario planning.
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Access to reports and institutional contacts via an online portal.
Investor Relations
Our investor relations team has experience in securities, equity research and legal, with recognised expertise in buy- and sell-side programmes, investor communications and integrated annual reporting.
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We are the only consultancy in South Africa to offer a full spectrum investor relations advisory and execution service, supported by our proprietary software.
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We work closely with our register analytics team to set effective investor targeting strategies, and provide management and logistical support for roadshows and site visits.
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We provide an array of media communication tools like profile building, crisis management, media roadshows, and traditional and social media audits, supported by our strong, established media network.
Private Equity
We work with issuers to deliver strategic investment opportunities to our broad-based, historically disadvantaged investors through permanent capital vehicles.
Inclusive investor network
We have nurtured strong relationships with our predominantly historically disadvantaged investor-base. Their trust in us drives their continual search for innovative investment prospects.
Enduring capital mechanisms
We are engaged in an ongoing quest to find sound private equity investment opportunities for our established investor-base, while ensuring these investments are safeguarded, shares are listed, and tradability is guaranteed.
Accessible finance expertise
Our extensive corporate finance and private equity experience uniquely positions us to offer fully vetted investment opportunities to our unique investor-base.
Investment Products
We are uniquely positioned to partner with institutions and bring innovative investment solutions to high-net worth individual, corporate and retail investors.
Innovative Partnerships
We seek to collaborate with partners where we can facilitate in bringing investment solutions – both debt and equity – to our collective investor-bases.
