Huddlestock delivers growth and is well prepared for the future after solid increase in revenues, client acquisitions and successful closure of three acquisitions

1.6.2023 08:41:44 CEST | Huddlestock Fintech AS | Additional regulated
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Huddlestock delivers growth and is well prepared for the future after solid
increase in revenues, client acquisitions and successful closure of three
acquisitions in the first quarter of 2023.

Stavanger, Norway, 1st June 2023

Huddlestock Fintech AS, a provider of innovative technology solutions to the
capital market and wealth managers providing a "Investment as a Solutions",
today released its Unaudited Financial Report for the first quarter 2023 and
also holds it Capital Markets Day in Stavanger. 

For the first quarter, Huddlestock group delivers consolidated revenues of NOK
16.6 million against NOK 9.1 million in Q1 2022. This is a year over year growth
of 183%. Consolidated Group EBITDA in first quarter was NOK -2.4 million 2023.
Huddlestock group Proforma (Proforma numbers includes Tracs, Dtech, Bricknode as
of January 2023) revenues of NOK 25.3 million against NOK 9.1 million in Q1
2022. This is a year over year growth of 278%. Proforma Group EBITDA in first
quarter was NOK -6.0 million 2023. Furthermore, the company has increased its
Annual Recurring Revenue to NOK 9.5 million in the first quarter 2023. On a 12
month forward rolling basis this becomes annualised to NOK 38 million.

"The first quarter of 2023 was yet another excellent quarter for Huddlestock. We
continue to enjoy solid demand from our customers and several clients have
signed up. The acquisitions we have made has also transformed the company to
become a complete "Investment as a Service" provider, leading the way in Europe.
We have also achieved increased revenues from all divisions, and we have managed
to gain many new clients, products and of course several new competent and
motivated colleagues," says John E. Skajem, CEO Huddlestock Fintech.

The Huddlestock team continue stay focused on delivering a first-class product
to the clients in the relentless pursuit of create a European leading
"Investment as a Service" company. Since the beginning of 2023 the management
team has been focusing on building a strong organization who work together as a
team in achieving the established common goals. This is a task which is high and
will remain a focus area for the years to come.

For the products and services, the company continues to invest, innovate,
develop, and enhance the various platforms in order to strengthen our product
offering to our client base. 

During the month of March 2023, the company received the ownership approval for
the acquisition of Trac Services AS. The transaction was signed in the middle of
2022 and the closing of the transaction has been subject to approval from the
Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) in Norway due to the change in
ownership control in Trac Services AS. Following such approval received from
Finanstilsynet on 27th February 2023, the transaction was completed shortly
thereafter. Such closing was carried out as a share exchange following which the
sellers of Trac Services AS and Tracs Technology AS became owners of 12,732,819
shares of Huddlestock issued by Huddlestock based on a registered proxy.

"Huddlestock is really excited about the closing of the Tracs transactions and
the team is already fully integrated into the Huddlestock Group. The acquisition
gives Huddlestock the necessary license upgrade that the company have been
targeted and inclusion of the first-class operational services which the
professional staff is diligently providing to all their clients every day. In
addition, Huddlestock gets a suite of complementary wealth management products,
and will see an increase in the annual recurring revenues of an estimated NOK
9.5 million per year. Trac Services will shortly change name to Huddlestock
Securities AS, while Tracs Technology AS will be merged into Huddlestock
Technologies", says John E. Skajem, CEO of Huddlestock Fintech 

In March 2023, Huddlestock completed another transaction with the acquisition of
Dtech AS. Dtech is a Norwegian software company with robust and easy to use
solutions for portfolio management and fund trading technology for the pension
market and pension providers. Dtech was established in 2019 and generates today
revenues through a SaaS model to the leading Norwegian challenger in the pension
market, Duvi Pensjon. Duvi Pensjon, a challenger in the Norwegian pension
market, is focusing on SMEs and has more than 6,000 corporate customers serving
more than 75,000 individual pension accounts.

"Through the acquisition of Dtech, Huddlestock is adding a pension vertical in a
new market with a strong growth outlook. Huddlestock and Dtech is a very good
match, as Dtech can expand its customer offering with Huddlestock technology
like trading, asset management, custody back-office, and settlement services to
its client base. Furthermore, we see opportunities to expand the pension
products together with Dtech to the rest of the Nordics as well as to the German
market," says John E. Skajem, CEO of Huddlestock Fintech

After the close of the quarter, Huddlestock acquire all operational assets of
the Swedish fintech company Bricknode Holding AB, a B2B-focused SaaS company
providing scalable, cloud-based software comprising the complete infrastructure
of a financial service operation. The structure of the agreement implies that
Huddlestock has acquired the three operational subsidiaries of Bricknode, namely
Bricknode Software AB, Bricknode Platform AB, and Bricknode Ltd

The agreement offers strong business logic as the two companies' product and
technology platforms are highly complementary. The combination is expected to
generate significant cost synergies and an accelerated revenue growth from both
upselling opportunities amongst the combined customer base and an expanded
target market with the complete end-to-end solution. The cost savings have been
identified as an approximate NOK 10 million effect, implemented over the next 12
months. For the revenue side it has been identified approximately NOK 20-30
million in increased customer revenues through the delivery of an improved
onboarding process and a significantly shortened time to market approach.
Another synergy is all the competent professional colleagues which will be
complementing each other, working side by side in new strong teams.

"The successful acquisitions during Q1 2023 not only demonstrates how
Huddlestock combine M&A activities with organic growth as an important part of
our strategy, but it also demonstrates the company's ability and commitment to
reach our strategic plan", says John E. Skajem, CEO Huddlestock Group.

In May Huddlestock signed the first Family Office to use the company´s Portfolio
Management System and reporting platform. The company is with this new client,
extending our client potential to also cover Family Offices, which will be
attractive for years to come. In choosing the digital PMS and reporting
platform, the Family Office will be able to have a complete system for entering,
monitoring, and reporting all their investments into one digital system. The
platform allows for all investment products to be entered whether it is listed
on a regular stock exchange or if it is an "over the counter" investment.
Huddlestock Securities will administer the services and assist the client with
required support. The client will initially operate the technical platform
themselves with the administration of user groups, set up of ISIN numbers,
define investment objectives, input investment transactions, and create
customized and required reports. The system is a cloud-based SaaS solution with
a 2-factor authentication for secure access.

Also, in May did the company sign up another asset management firm in Sweden
which selected Bricknode, a Huddlestock group company, for investment management
system and managed services. The Swedish asset management firm has selected its
cloud investment management system and managed services to power its operations.
The asset manager is a licensed securities firm providing tailored investments
and portfolio management to private and institutional investors. Bricknode
Broker provides extensive investment management operations support including
onboarding, client management, order execution and settlement, reconciliation
management, corporate actions management and regulatory compliance. The asset
manager has also opted to use Bricknode and Huddlestock's managed services,
where administration of the platform is outsourced to Bricknode and
Huddlestock's team of experts.

Huddlestock announced that Garantum Wealth Management AS has selected
Huddlestock Securities (Tracs Services) for storage of financial instruments in
a nominee depot, management of shareholder registers as well as customer- and
tax reporting. Garantum Wealth Management AS is an affiliated agent for Garantum
Fondkommission AB and offers order mediation and provides investment advice.

"With our latest acquisitions of Tracs, Dtech and Bricknode, we have
significantly increased our product which will meet the growing demand from
existing and new clients. With our ecosystem-philosophy as an important
foundation also going forward, we have increased the speed of building an
organisation delivering profitable growth, creating sustainable and recurring
shareholder value," says Øyvind Hovland, Chairman of Huddlestock Fintech. 

The presentation will be held at 12.00 in English at the headquarter in
Stavanger, Kanalsletta 2. A webcast will be recorded and made available for
replay at huddlestock.com - https://www.huddlestock.com/news-releases/

To participate, use this link.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jep3AncnR1-rFf0PMweRXA

Please find enclosed the Q1 presentation material. For questions, please
contact: 

John E. Skajem, Chief Executive Officer, [phone], [e-mail] 

Leif Arnold Thomas, Chief Corporate Development & IR, + 47 982 15 520 
[e-mail]

This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU
Market Abuse Regulation and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant
to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

To see all press and investor releases please have a look in the investor
relations section of our corporate website 
www.huddlestock.com/investor-relations -
http://www.huddlestock.com/investor-relations

DISCLOSURE REGULATION

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

CONTACTS

 * John E. Skajem, Chief Executive Officer, Huddlestock Fintech, [phone],
   [e-mail] 
 * Leif Arnold Thomas, Chief Corporate Development, Huddlestock Fintech -
   Corporate Development, [phone], [e-mail] 

ABOUT HUDDLESTOCK FINTECH AS

Huddlestock Fintech is an innovative technology software provider with a leading
expert professional services business. We deliver innovative and sustainable
technology solutions to the capital markets, treasury and wealth management
industries. 

Through its technology offering, Huddlestock offers an innovative, compliant,
and data-centric WealthTech SaaS, accelerating the digital transformation, and
trends of hyper-personalization and on-demand banking within the wealth
management industry. Huddlestock's SaaS empowers the embedding of low-cost,
efficient white-label trading and investment services, underpinning
Huddlestock's mission of delivering financial inclusion by democratizing access
to capital markets.

Through its world-class expert professional services business, Huddlestock
delivers strategic technology solutions and process automation for the financial
services industry. This range of services has propelled Huddlestock into
becoming the preferred supplier of financial consultancy services and technology
solutions in the Nordic region. Huddlestock Fintech AS was listed on Euronext
Growth Market 26th November 2020, as Norway's first fintech company to be
publicly traded. 

For more information, please visit www.huddlestock.com -
http://www.huddlestock.com/



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