ValueMax Group

Singapore · Pawnbroking, moneylending & gold

SGX: T6I · Information cut-off 20 August 2026

1 · What the company actually is

ValueMax runs 50 pawnshop-and-retail outlets in Singapore, a property-backed moneylending book, and a gold wholesale operation — plus 32 Malaysian outlets through a 37%-owned Bursa-listed associate (Well Chip) and, since April 2026, 11 Jakarta outlets through a 40% associate. Founded as a single pawnshop in 1988 by Yeah Hiang Nam; listed October 2013; still 81.53% family-held. (R)

Three revenue lines, and they are genuinely different businesses:

• Pawnbroking (S$60.8m of FY2025 revenue). Collateralised consumer credit against gold. Interest runs 1.0–1.5% in month one and 1.5%/month for the following seven; unredeemed pledges may be repossessed after eight months. The statutory maximum under the Pawnbrokers Act 2015 is a flat 1.5% per month — verified against the Ministry of Law's Registry of Pawnbrokers. (The widely-repeated "1.5% first month, then 1.0%" describes the pre-2015 regime and is wrong for the current Act.) The book is therefore priced at its regulatory ceiling from month two onward: pricing is not a lever. Growth must come from ticket size or unit count. (R)
• Moneylending (S$67.3m). Secured loans at 6.4–36.0% p.a. and unsecured at 7.9–47.0%, mostly property-backed, to borrowers outside bank appetite. Nineteen per cent of group trade receivables sit with ten debtors in this segment. (R)
• Retail and trading (S$425.0m). Jewellery through the outlets plus a wholesale arm that buys scrap gold — including forfeited pledges from its own and third-party pawnshops — and sells fine bars to factories and traders. (R)

The industry is licence-capped, and the licence list is countable. The Registry of Pawnbrokers shows 244 licensed pawnshops as at 1 August 2026 (242 in Aug 2024, 241 in Sep 2025 — counted from the primary lists). ValueMax's 50 outlets are 20.5% of all licences — and it has added none in Singapore for two full years. In a capped market, unit growth means buying somebody else's licence, which is what the company does (five-plus acquisitions since 2022). (R)

The strategy showed up in the segment note years before any chairman's statement. Moneylending was first split out in FY2015 with S$40.9m of assets; by FY2025 it was S$824.2m — roughly half the group. Revenue round-tripped S$353m → S$209m → S$553m over thirteen years while gross profit rose every single year: the top line is gold-wholesale volume and is the least informative line in the accounts. (R)

2 · Segment economics — the capital picture inverts the margin picture

The name on the door produces the smallest profit share. The pawnshop chain earns 23% of segment profit; retail & trading — the segment a margin-only reader dismisses at 10.8% — earns 41% of the profit on 9.5% of the assets and a 52% return on net capital employed. Moneylending is the mirror image: half the balance sheet for a third of the profit. The low-margin business is the capital-efficient one; the high-margin business is the balance-sheet hog.

Pawn yield stability is statute, not skill. Yield on average pawn segment assets ran 13.0–14.9% across FY2021–25 because the book is written at the 1.5%/month cap from month two. The segment's net interest margin swung 11.9% → 10.4% → 12.0% across the same years — the whole swing is the funding side.

Retail's FY2025 profit contains a mark. S$10.0m of FY2025 pre-tax profit — 8.1% of group PBT — is the fair-value uplift on commodity inventories credited to cost of sales under the broker-trader exemption: a rising gold price flows straight into profit whether or not anything was sold. In 1H2026 that line reversed to a S$1.5m charge. Comparisons of FY2025's 10.8% retail margin to any forward period must strip it. (R)

3 · Track record and the quality of the earnings

The cash-flow question, answered with thirteen years of arithmetic. Reported operating cash flow has been negative in ten of thirteen listed years — cumulatively −S$722m — which is regularly read as a red flag. Cumulate the pre-growth figure instead (operating cash before working capital, after interest and tax paid): +S$496.8m against cumulative PATMI of +S$466.4m — 107% conversion, re-keyed from every audited cash-flow statement since listing. The earnings are cash; the cash is re-lent. (D)

Two circulating claims, tested against that arithmetic:

• "The dividend is financed by creditors." Cumulative cash dividends of S$111.6m are 22.5% of cumulative pre-growth operating cash — covered several times over. The defensible statement is narrower: because the book absorbs everything, each dollar paid out raises the external funding requirement by a dollar. (D)
• "Negative operating cash flow proves the earnings aren't real." No — but the reverse claim needs care too: pre-growth operating cash starts from accrual profit, and the principal roll-forward that would prove cash collection cannot be built, because originations and collections are not disclosed. That absence is itself a finding. (D/O)

Other one-off and cash-perimeter content, stated plainly. FY2024 PBT included a S$10.1m non-cash gain on Well Chip's listing dilution (10.4% of that year's PBT); FY2025 included the S$10.0m inventory mark. In 1H2026 the group recognised S$6.268m of equity-accounted associate profit but received only S$0.150m of associate dividends. The model therefore separates associate accrual profit from upstream cash. Well Chip's 2026 rights undertaking was given by VYN, not disclosed as an automatic ValueMax cash call. (R/D)

4 · Funding — the balance sheet that has to be rolled

Total borrowings were S$886.3m at FY2025 and S$1,046.5m at 30 June 2026, against S$18.8m of cash. 92.6% of the FY2025 stack matured inside twelve months: S$685.9m of current bank loans, S$124.7m of three-to-six-month commercial paper across five series, overdrafts and gold borrowings. Every floating borrowing reprices within six months. (R)

The static asset-liability buffer is positive but thin. On FY2025 contractual maturity, one-year financial assets of S$924.4m stood against one-year liabilities of S$857.7m — 1.08x coverage, down from 1.18x. That is more informative than cash alone for a lender, but it is unstressed and does not show whether property-loan collections arrive before monthly debt maturities. At 30 June 2026, 92.1% of S$1.046bn borrowings were current and cash covered only 1.95% of current debt. (R/D)

What is not disclosed matters as much as what is. The public 5 June 2026 Information Memorandum and final Series 003 terms establish the legal covenant framework, but undrawn committed facilities, lender concentration, collateral allocation and a month-by-month maturity ladder remain undisclosed. At 30 June, 92.1% of borrowings were current, 84.2% were secured and cash covered only 1.95% of current debt. Corporate guarantees rose 25.5% to S$748.5m at FY2025. (R/D)

A stable ratio and a growing roll are different things. Gearing at 30 June 2026 was 1.62x, inside the 1.24x–1.68x range the company has run since FY2019, while total borrowings rose from S$886.3m at FY2025 to S$1,046.5m. The ratio holds because equity grows alongside the book, so it says nothing about the absolute sum that has to be refinanced each year — and that sum is the larger number. A capital ratio is not a cash calendar, and the second cannot be built from public filings while committed facilities and instrument-level maturities stay undisclosed. Whether book growth can be funded without new capital is a forward question: this page deliberately excludes forecasts, scenarios and projected funding needs, and the forward view sits behind the rated view 🔒 (author-only). (R/D)

Dilution has been the quiet tax. Shares outstanding have gone 533.5m → 947.1m since listing (+78%) while PATMI rose 10.9x. Holders have done very well; they have also been asked for money three times. (R)

The listed note adds a market indicator, with quotation limits. The S$80m 4.00% notes were issued on 10 July 2026, after the 30 June balance-sheet date, and improve tenor only at the margin. They are direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and unsecured obligations of the listed parent; approximately 21.56% was allocated to interested persons. Bondsupermart displayed a 100.50 ask and 3.814% ask yield-to-worst at 15:59 Singapore time on 18 August 2026. This is a dated indicative platform observation, not a current executable quote or a fair-value conclusion; price side, timestamp, accrued interest and yield convention matter. (R/E)

Filed MTN covenants and legal triggers

The terms also contain a S$5m aggregate cross-default threshold and a noteholder put if the named family ownership falls below 51%. The negative pledge has ordinary-course working-capital and refinancing exceptions; it is not a blanket ban on further security. (R)

Two exhibits that stood here — a chart of projected revenue and PATMI, and a chart of forward residual funding needs — have been withdrawn. This page deliberately excludes forecasts and scenarios; both sit behind the rated view 🔒 (author-only).

5 · Five years of cash — what feeds the book

S$’000, from the consolidated statements of cash flows in the FY2021, FY2022, FY2023 and FY2025 annual reports. Gross borrowing traffic is the drawings and repayments added together, not netted, because the size of the roll is the point.

The negative operating line is the loan book, not the business. Operating cash flow before working capital rose in every one of the five years without exception — S$62.4m, S$73.6m, S$100.5m, S$121.7m, S$145.1m, cumulatively S$503.3m. Over the same five years trade and other receivables absorbed S$815.8m. That single line is 1.6 times everything the operations generated before it, and it is the whole of the difference between a business that produces cash and a statement that reports it consuming cash. FY2023 is the one positive year and it is the year the receivable barely grew: S$31.8m against S$140.9m and S$252.1m either side of it.

A billion-dollar book is run on a cash balance that has never exceeded S$18.0m. Year-end cash was S$14.5m, S$6.3m, S$10.7m, S$8.0m and S$18.0m. Against that, FY2025 alone drew S$732.1m of borrowings and repaid S$530.8m — S$1.263bn of gross traffic through the financing section, roughly seventy times the cash balance it ends with, and 2.3 times the year’s S$553.1m of revenue. The roll has grown in every year, from S$257.1m in FY2021. This is what section 4 means by a balance sheet that has to be rolled, expressed as the volume actually rolled rather than as a maturity profile.

Interest paid peaked in FY2023 and has fallen every year since, while the book kept growing. S$8.5m, S$16.6m, S$34.1m, S$30.7m, S$29.1m. The peak is FY2023, the year the receivable stopped growing; the two years of fastest book growth since have carried a falling interest bill. That is a rate story rather than a leverage story, and it is worth reading beside the FY2025 finance cost of S$29.6m and the blended funding cost the funding section reports.

Shareholders have funded this book alongside lenders, and that channel has just closed. Equity raised runs S$41.9m in FY2021, nil, S$23.4m, S$23.2m and S$25.9m — S$114.4m over five years, against S$82.3m of ordinary dividends paid out across the same period. The company told SGX that the FY2025 warrant proceeds fund loan-book growth specifically, and warrant conversion supplied 27.7% of the growth in equity attributable to owners that year. But the programme is essentially exhausted: 856,448 warrants were outstanding at 30 June 2026 against 947.0m shares in issue — under a tenth of one per cent — at an exercise price of S$0.36 and expiring 14 September 2026. What was a recurring funding channel through FY2025 stops being one from FY2026, and the research pack also records that public shareholders did not take up their rights entitlements, so each raise concentrated the register. (Warrant figures from the research pack, claims CL-237, CL-279 and CL-299, not from the cash flow statements above.)

6 · Management and governance — both readings, dated

Succession is executed, and the delivery ledger reads well. Yeah Chia Kai became CEO in January 2022; the founder remains Executive Chairman; a daughter runs retail. Outlet targets have been met almost every year since listing; the Malaysian strategy delivered a Bursa listing; every prior MTN series matured on schedule. The quiet drift: the prospectus committed to a 50% payout for FY2013–15, and the payout has run 25–35% since — time-limited commitment, unannounced drift. (R)

The February 2026 block trade is the most important governance datum, and it reads both ways. On 26 February 2026 — three days after the FY2025 results print and the all-time high of S$1.34 — the chairman and his wife sold 34.8m shares at S$1.16 (S$40.4m) to four institutions, cutting family interest to 81.53% with a 90-day moratorium. Bull reading: it institutionalised the register and directly enabled iEdge NEXT 50 inclusion a month later — value-accretive, non-dilutive. Bear reading: the best-informed holders monetised S$40m at 1.8x book near the top of a gold cycle, and the shares now trade 16% below the placement price. Both are true; no motive is attributed. The discriminating future observation: whether the family buys below S$1.00 — the chairman added ~S$0.55m in the April 2025 dip, so the family demonstrably trades its own stock with a view. (R/D/O)

Related parties are small but moving fast. Purchases from director-related companies +126% to S$5.74m in FY2025; family members hold the company's commercial paper; key management remuneration +40.3% against PBT +26.2%. Every RPT line sits below the S$17.8m threshold that would trigger Audit Committee pre-approval — which is why the trend, not the level, is the watch item. (R)

The language delta worth taking literally. After four years of boilerplate, the 1H2026 outlook added a phrase never used before: "increased competition" — in the same half that MoneyMax's pawn book out-grew ValueMax's. (R)

7 · What five years of AGM minutes add

ValueMax holds no earnings calls, so the AGM minutes are the only forum where management answers unscripted questions. Minutes for 2021–2026 were retrieved and read; every item below is the company's own recorded answer. (R)

• The rights-issue question was asked directly (2025) and not ruled out. The CFO's answer — a rights issue was done in 2023, and any future fundraising would consider the optimal capital structure at the time — is a non-denial on the exact question the funding arithmetic raises.
• The clean credit record does not resolve the larger lending book. Asked what caused the credit-loss provision, the CFO located it "mainly [in] the auto financing segment, which constitutes a very small percentage of the group's business." The decade of sub-0.5% aggregate credit costs is therefore not enough to establish the current condition of the much larger moneylending portfolio, which includes property-backed and other loans. No ageing, stage or NPL disclosure exists; Fitch's upgrade condition naming an 8.0% impaired-loan threshold is the only public reference point.
• Management's gold-decline defence checks out — for the part of the business that is no longer the main part. Loans are granted at a discount to collateral; the book has no vintage concentration; and the group stayed profitable through 2013's >30% gold fall. All three verified. But pawnbroking was 77% of segment profit in FY2013; retail & trading — the gold-linked segment — is 41% today. The precedent protects yesterday's mix.
• Only the pawn book is rate-fixed. Moneylending agreements normally reprice with bank rates (2024 AGM) — so the cap-vs-floating-cost squeeze applies to roughly a quarter of assets, not half. (Recorded as a correction to this research's own earlier framing.)
• A volume KPI hiding in a S$2 fee. The MinLaw-permitted S$2/transaction admin fee implies ~787k and ~838k fee-bearing transactions in FY2024–25 — +6.5%, against pawn interest income +24.3%. Growth came from ticket size, not customers — and ticket size is the gold price wearing a different label. Independently, industry data shows pledges +8% with average loan per pledge +19.6% — two unrelated origins, same split. (D)
• The Louis Vuitton settlement carried an undisclosed condition. The SGX announcement said the matter settled without admission of liability, immaterial. The 2026 AGM minutes add an undertaking not to sell LV items going forward — financially trivial, structurally a permanent product restriction on a resale business, and a precedent now available to any other brand.

8 · The peer decomposition — same assets, different balance sheets

All three listed Singapore pawnbroking groups filed 1H2026 results for the same six months. On primary filings, recomputed:

Read the three highlighted rows as one multiplication. Return on assets times the asset multiplier is return on equity, exactly: 7.54% × 2.66 = 20.03% for ValueMax, 7.74% × 4.53 = 35.06% for MoneyMax, 6.05% × 4.76 = 28.83% for Aspial. The ROE gap between ValueMax and MoneyMax is 1,503 basis points. It does not split additively — return on equity is the product of the two columns, so the 19-basis-point difference in asset returns is amplified by MoneyMax’s leverage before it reaches the ROE line. Decomposed properly, 88 basis points of the gap come from asset productivity and 1,415 from the leverage difference: MoneyMax carries 4.53 times its equity in assets against ValueMax’s 2.66. The book multiples do not line up behind either column, which is itself worth noticing. ValueMax is cheapest on book and lowest on leverage, but Aspial carries the most leverage of the three at 4.76× and trades at the middle multiple, while MoneyMax carries less leverage and the highest. So the multiple is not a simple restatement of the balance sheet either — it is the one number here the filings do not determine. What stays true is that a comparison starting from ROE or P/B without decomposing is comparing balance-sheet choices rather than businesses. What is no longer true is the stronger claim this page made until 24 August 2026 — that the two earn the same return on assets. MoneyMax earns more. (D)

The convention decides the ranking, and the discarded one was the only one that favoured ValueMax. Attributable profit over period-end assets — the basis this table used until 24 August 2026 — gives ValueMax 7.11% against MoneyMax 7.09%, a lead of 1.8 basis points. The other three pairings all reverse it: total profit over average assets, 7.66% against 8.16%; total over period-end, 7.22% against 7.48%; attributable over average, 7.54% against 7.74%. The discarded basis was also the weakest of the four, pairing a numerator that excludes minority profit with a denominator holding all of the assets minorities fund, and charging a full half-year’s profit against a balance sheet that only existed at the end of the half — which flatters whichever company grew slower. MoneyMax’s assets grew 19.9% in these six months and ValueMax’s 12.9%. (D)

The two retail arms are different businesses wearing one segment name. ValueMax's retail line generates 18% more revenue than MoneyMax's on the same segment assets — and 27% less profit (margin 7.9% vs 12.9%). The names explain it: MoneyMax reports "retail and trading of gold and luxury items"; ValueMax's line is dominated by wholesale gold to ten counterparties. A gold wholesaler and a luxury reseller — and wholesale margin is precisely what compresses when the gold price stops rising. It also makes the LV undertaking cheap for ValueMax and expensive for a peer. (R/D)

The competitive fact: MoneyMax's consolidated pledge book is 75% larger, at an almost identical yield (14.0% vs 14.2% — two companies writing at the same statutory ceiling), and MoneyMax is the one adding stores (26 year-to-date against ValueMax's two-year-static 50). (R)

9 · What drives the earnings

1. Gold — one factor wearing three costumes. The company's disclosed direct sensitivity is trivial: 5% on the price moves PBT by ~S$1.0m (the inventory and gold-loan mark only). The real transmission is (a) the trading margin — one point of retail segment margin ≈ S$5.7m of PBT, six times the disclosed figure; (b) pledge quanta and hence book growth; (c) redemption-vs-forfeiture behaviour, which sets the internal inventory pipeline. In a reversal all three move together — the offset (forfeitures feed retail with cheap stock) is real but weaker, because inventory acquired into a falling market is worth less on sale. Anyone sizing gold risk off the note-32 disclosure alone under-sizes it by roughly an order of magnitude. Company-disclosed context: gold peaked ~US$5,300/oz in March 2026 and stood ~US$4,100 in early August — the tailwind has stopped. (R/D)
2. Funding cost against a capped asset yield. Blended cost of funds: 2.28% (FY2021) → 5.66% (FY2023) → 3.76% (FY2025). The company's own sensitivity: S$4.43m of PBT per 50bp on FY2025 balances. Because the pawn book cannot reprice above 1.5%/month, hiking cycles squeeze and cutting cycles expand — the single cleanest explanation of the FY2022–23 margin history. (R)
3. Book growth, and its funding shadow. Receivables +25.3% in FY2025, +15.0% in 1H2026 alone. Five points of annual book growth ≈ S$9.5m of PBT — and ≈ S$70m of incremental funding. The growth and the funding requirement are the same number seen from two sides. (D)
4. Credit cost normalisation. FY2025 ECL charge: 0.33% of the closing book; below 0.5% for a decade — but see §6 on which book generated the losses. Every 25bp on the book ≈ S$3.8m of PBT. (R/D)
5. Competitive position in a licence-capped market. Watch the outlet count against the MinLaw licence list, and pawn interest income against MoneyMax's on aligned six-month windows. (R)

10 · Defensiveness, by shock type

• Recession / credit stress: counter-cyclical. Pawn demand rises when credit tightens. COVID is the cleanest read: FY2020 PBT rose 29% and operating cash flow was positive. (R)
• Rate shock: exposed but demonstrated. FY2022–23 multiplied the funding cost 2.5x and quadrupled finance costs; group PBT still grew 7.5% and 18.9%. (R)
• Gold reversal: the exposure. The FY2013–15 analogue: revenue fell 24%, pawn segment profit fell, gross profit still rose every year — genuinely reassuring, but the gold-linked profit share is far larger now than then. (R)
• Singapore property downturn: untested. The moneylending book was S$41m in FY2015 and is S$824m now. There is no listed-history observation of this book under stress. (R)

11 · Growth attribution — what propelled FY2020→FY2025

12 · Red-flags scorecard

Search reports over the FY2013–25 annual reports, 1H2022–1H2026 interims, both Fitch reports, the 12-month announcement tape and press through 20 August 2026 — verdicts describe what was found, not what exists.

13 · The watch-list — dated, gradable, falsifiable

Seven questions, each answerable by a specific future disclosure:

1. Does the FY2026 audited cash-flow note reconcile the S$101.1m payables line — and to what? (FY2026 AR, ~Mar–Apr 2027)
2. Where does FY2026 gross debt/equity print against the 1.62x reported at 30 June 2026, with the payout maintained — and are committed undrawn facilities disclosed alongside it? (FY2026 results, ~24 Feb 2027)
3. Does the ECL charge stay under 0.5% as moneylending receivables continue to grow? (Half-yearly)
4. Does the Singapore outlet count move off 50 — and at what disclosed price per licence? (Announcement tape)
5. Does the inter-segment pledge flow re-accelerate? (Segment note, half-yearly)
6. Does the family buy back below S$1.00, having sold at S$1.16? (Director interest notices)
7. When a verifiable secondary quote is available, what yield and spread do the S$80m 4.00% 2029 notes imply? (Periodic market check; no executable quote verified at this cut-off)

13 · The share price and what came with its moves

Over the window ValueMax returned +244.8% on a dividend-adjusted basis; the Straits Times Index returned +71.9% and the median of the 2 listed comparisons +445.1%.

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Sources & corrections

Where the primary sources are filed. SGX issuer page for T6I — announcements, financial statements, annual reports · ValueMax investor relations · Registry of Pawnbrokers, Ministry of Law. Exchange portals re-file and purge documents over time; the text above cites each document by name and date so it can be found again. Tables on this page as data: JSON · CSV — the page’s own as-filed and recomputed tables, cell for cell, with their section and caption.

Correction, 24 August 2026 — the peer decomposition. This table gave return on assets as attributable profit over period-end total assets: ValueMax 7.11%, MoneyMax 7.09%, and the text read that the two earn the same return on assets to within two basis points and that the entire ROE gap is leverage. That is one of four ways to build the ratio and the only one that puts ValueMax ahead. On average balances and total profit MoneyMax leads by 50 basis points; on the attributable-over-average basis now shown, by 19. The table also carried two further inconsistencies: its ROE row used period-end book while the ROA row used period-end assets against an averaged alternative, and its liabilities-to-equity row computed Aspial on a different rule from the other two. All rows are now on one convention, the three ratio rows multiply together exactly, and the chart has been rebuilt to match. Aspial, which the research pack drops for want of a filing, is computed from its own 1H2026 results. The finding was raised by a parallel review session and independently re-derived here from the three companies’ filings before being applied.

ValueMax annual reports FY2013–FY2025 and half-year filings 1H2022–1H2026 (SGX); IPO prospectus (21 Oct 2013); 5 Jun 2026 MTN Information Memorandum and programme-amendment announcement; Series 003 pricing supplement, pricing, closing, listing and corrigendum announcements; AGM, SIAS and SGX-query materials; Fitch rating action commentaries (15 Jun, 10 Jul 2026); Well Chip 2Q2026 and rights materials; Ministry of Law Registry of Pawnbrokers list as at 1 Aug 2026; Pawnbrokers Act 2015; MoneyMax and Aspial Lifestyle 1H2026 filings; company announcements per the source manifest; and dated press for event confirmation. Gaps named: verified committed-undrawn facilities, lender concentration, instrument-level monthly maturities, loan-cohort collections, Stage/DPD/NPL/LTV and recovery data. Research process is AI-assisted and source-controlled; load-bearing figures were re-verified against retained primary filings.

Corrections log. 16 Sep 2026: the FY2021 net-debt cell in §3 read S$427.9m; on the row’s own basis (total borrowings of S$442.569m less cash and bank balances of S$14.601m, both from the FY2021 annual report) it is S$428.0m. A rounding slip in one cell; FY2022 to 1H2026 were re-derived from the filings and are unchanged. 27 Aug 2026: projected financials had been published on this page and have been withdrawn — a forward gearing path, forward residual funding needs, a chart of projected revenue and PATMI, a chart of forward funding gaps, and the restatements of those figures in the watch-list and in this log. This site publishes the evidence and keeps the forward view behind the authenticated rated view; the material is held there, and the two forecast chart files have been removed from this page’s public chart directory. No as-filed figure was changed and no reported analysis was removed. 20 Aug 2026: integrated the equity and credit work, replaced the unsupported prior leverage path with the live model formulas, updated the share denominator, separated associate accrual from upstream cash, added the filed MTN covenants and legal triggers, and made the S$101.124m CFO classification sensitivity exact. A third-party FY2025 cash figure of S$122.4m was rejected against the official S$22.419m. 18 Aug 2026: corrected the source inventory — the June Information Memorandum and July pricing supplement are publicly filed — and withdrew the description of the 2029 notes as carrying a continuously observable live price because no executable secondary quote was verified. 16 Aug 2026: an earlier draft apportioned MoneyMax's Singapore pawn revenue at ~S$48m using its Malaysian profit share; the primary filing discloses Malaysian revenue of 14.1%, the split cannot be derived from the disclosure, and the estimate was withdrawn — replaced by the whole-group comparison in §7.