Beeks Trading : FY22 Investor presentation

FY22 Investor presentation

October 2022

Gordon McArthur CEO

Fraser McDonald CFO

The information contained in this document (the "Presentation") has been prepared by Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc (the "Company").

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Cloud computing services for financial markets

• We consider Beeks to be one of the largest pure play cloud providers in capital markets
• Financial services organisations historically slow to adopt the cloud - now gaining traction
• We have been selected by some of the forerunners
• They need: low latency and security - at scale

What:	Compute. Connectivity. Analytics.
How:	Public. Private. Proximity.
For:	Banks. Exchanges. Brokers. Traders.
To run:	Low latency Multicast trading Environments.

Our opportunity

• 5,000 financial services organisations
• 60 major global stock exchanges

Our advantage

Fast, secure, global network

FY22

Delivering Record Results

+57% +40% +52%

£18.3m £19.3m £6.3m

Revenue ACMRREBITDA

• Successful launch of Proximity Cloud and Exchange Cloud, securing multiple contracts and considerably expanding our market reach and sales pipeline

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Global infrastructure

Based in the UK with a growing network of key global financial data centres

Coming soon: further services in Toronto and, in partnership with IPC, Mexico with European expansion planned in Spain and the Nordic region.

Beeks can support 400+ cross connects in the major

international finance hubs across 200+ trading venues

Coming soon

Equinix

Other

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Why its needed

Security

• Shared infrastructure causes problems with security, data access and data sovereignty
• We can replace shared infrastructure through a dedicated, client- owned environment

Business demands

• Things can change in the financial sector very quickly
• Our customers need optimised systems that flex under load and market demand

Location

• Financial organisations wish to deploy quickly in new trading regions globally
• They also have their own data centres where they wish to have control of their infrastructure

Integration		Engineering support	Cost
∕ Integrating low latency,	∕	We believe security	∕ Monthly subscription
virtual compute with		protocols and	model means that
analytics and execution		performance analytics	organisations can get
engines is complex and		are the most important	up and running with a
painful		thing for IT to think about	comparatively low OPEX
∕ Beeks also solves supply	∕	Organisations need a	spend
chain problem by taking		dedicated security	∕ We know how to get the
responsibility for the		team monitoring 24/7	technology off the
sourcing, support and		against cyber-attacks,	ground cost effectively
component replacement		Denial of Service and
through our regional		any incidents and events
supply chain hubs and		on the periphery of the
Service Level Agreements		network.

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