RYVYL Inc. - Annual Report: 2019 (Form 10-K)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019

Commission File Number: 001-34294

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (619) 631-8261

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined by Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☐  No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐  No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒  No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒  No ☐

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ☐

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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The aggregate market value of the 21,216,372 voting common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of June 28, 2019 was $2,758,128 based on the closing price of $0.13 per share of the registrant’s common stock as quoted on the OTC Pink Current Information marketplace on that date.

As of May 10, 2020, there were 175,921,933 shares of registrant's common stock outstanding.

Documents Incorporated by Reference: None.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On March 25, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an order and guidance (collectively, the “Order”) providing regulatory relief to public companies whose operations may be affected by the novel coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”). The Order provided public companies with a 45-day extension to file certain disclosure reports, including their Annual Report on 10-K (“Annual Report”), that would otherwise have been due between March 1, 2020 and July 1, 2020.

Due to its operations being impacted by COVID-19, GreenBox POS (the “Company”) was unable to meet its filing deadline with respect to its Annual Report and on April 10, 2020 submitted a Current Report on Form 8-K in reliance upon the Order.

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), starting from early March 2020, the Company’s employees and external auditors have been asked to work remotely. As a result, the Company’s books and records have not been easily accessible and communication among internal financial staff and external auditors has been challenging, resulting in delay in preparation and completion of its consolidated financial statements. Based on the foregoing, on April 10, 2020, the Company filed a Current Report on Form 8-K to avail itself of a 45-day extension to file this Form 10-K relying on the exemptions provided by the SEC Order. This Form 10-K is being filed in reliance on the SEC Order.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. These statements are often identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “would” or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions or variations. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified herein and in our other SEC filings. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements. 

In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the terms “the Company,” “we,” “our”, “us” and “PubCo” refer to GreenBox POS.

PART I

Item 1 – Business

Organization

On January 4, 2020, PrivCo and GreenBox POS, a Nevada corporation (“PubCo”) entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”), to memorialize a verbal agreement (the “Verbal Agreement”) entered into on April 12, 2018, by and between PubCo and PrivCo.

On April 12, 2018, pursuant to the Verbal Agreement, PubCo acquired PrivCo’s blockchain gateway and payment system business, point of sale system business, delivery business and kiosk business, bank and merchant accounts, as well as all intellectual property related thereto (the “GreenBox Business”). As consideration for the GreenBox Business, on April 12, 2018, PubCo assumed PrivCo’s liabilities that had been incurred in the normal course of the GreenBox Business (the “GreenBox Acquisition”).

For accounting and reporting purposes, PubCo deemed the GreenBox Acquisition a “Reverse Acquisition” with PrivCo designated the “accounting acquirer” and PubCo designated the “accounting acquiree.”

On May 3, 2018, PubCo formally changed its name to GreenBox POS LLC, then subsequently changed its name to GreenBox POS on December 13, 2018. Prior to the name changes, PubCo was known as ASAP Expo, Inc (“ASAP”). ASAP was incorporated April 10, 2007 under the laws of the State of Nevada (collectively, “PubCo”).

Our primary office is in San Diego, California. Our website is www.greenboxpos.com.

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references to “the Company,” “we,” “our”, “us” and “PubCo” refer to GreenBox POS.

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references to “PrivCo” or the “Private Company” refer to GreenBox POS LLC, a limited liability company, formed in the state of Washington.

Significant Transactions

On March 23, 2018, the then controlling shareholder and then sole officer and sole director of PubCo, Frank Yuan, along with his wife, Vicky PMW Yuan (collectively, the “Yuans”), entered into a Purchase Agreement with PrivCo (the “Yuan SPA”).

Pursuant to the Yuan SPA, the Yuans agreed to sell 144,445,000 restricted shares of PubCo’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), to PrivCo for a consideration of $500,000: $250,000 in cash, paid at closing, and $250,000 in restricted shares of Common Stock (the “Shares Due”) to be issued within 30 days of the close of the Yuan SPA.

On or about March 29, 2018, Frank Yuan converted a portion of a line of credit that he had previously issued to PubCo, in exchange for 144,445,000 restricted shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 90% of PubCo’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (the “Control Block”). Subsequently, on or about June 8, 2018, PrivCo paid the Shares Due, by transferring 609,756 restricted shares of Common Stock from the Control Block to the Yuan’s designees, Frank Yuan and his son, Jerome Yuan.

Pursuant to the Yuan SPA, on April 12, 2018, Frank Yuan caused the Control Block to be transferred to PrivCo.

On April 12, 2018, all business being conducted at that time by PubCo (the “ASAP Business”) was transferred from PubCo to ASAP Property Holdings Inc., a company owned and operated by Frank Yuan (“Holdings”). In consideration for the ASAP Business, Holdings assumed all liabilities related to the ASAP Business. On April 12, 2018, following the consummation of the Yuan SPA and the transfer of the ASAP Business to Holdings, Ben Errez (“Errez”) and Fredi Nisan (“Nisan”) became the sole acting officers and sole acting directors of PubCo.

On May 3, 2018, Frank Yuan formally resigned, and Errez and Nisan were formally appointed the sole officers and sole directors of PubCo.

On April 12, 2018, pursuant to the Verbal Agreement, PubCo acquired the GreenBox Business and assumed PrivCo’s liabilities per the terms of the Agreement. The value of the assets acquired on April 12, 2018 was $843,694, which excluded the Control Shares, which remain a PrivCo asset. The value of PrivCo’s assumed liabilities on April 12 was $589,078. The difference between assets and liabilities was $254,616, which PubCo booked as a “Gain on Bargain Purchase.” However, because we are using Reverse Acquisition accounting, PubCo subsequently recorded the gain as Paid in Capital.

From April 12, 2018 through January 4, 2020 (the “In Between Period”), because there was ambiguity regarding the validity of the Verbal Agreement, PubCo filed required quarterly and annual reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission as if there had not been a Reverse Acquisition. During the In Between Period, PrivCo continued to operate as if it still owned the GreenBox Business, which included maintaining records of GreenBox Business financial transactions on PrivCo’s accounting software, and entering into contracts and agreements as PrivCo, while PubCo paid all expenses, including expenses related to PrivCo contracts entered into prior to and after April 12, 2018, as well as expenses incurred as a result of litigation resulting from disagreements between PrivCo and other parties. During the In Between Period, PubCo represented itself in press releases, as being the owner/operator of the GreenBox Business. Additionally, from April 12, 2018 through approximately December 31, 2018, PubCo and PrivCo shared control of PrivCo’s bank accounts, and on or about January 1, 2019, PubCo assumed control of PrivCo’s bank accounts.

By virtue of the payment of PrivCo’s litigation expenses by PubCo, by virtue of PubCo representing itself in press releases, as being the owner/operator of the GreenBox Business, and by virtue of the shared control of PrivCo’s bank accounts starting on April 12, 2018, both PubCo and PrivCo concluded that the Verbal Agreement was valid and the GreenBox Business Acquisition took place on April 12, 2018.

Reverse Acquisition Reporting Requirements

In accordance with SEC Financial Reporting Manual, Topic 12 - Reverse Acquisitions and Reverse Recapitalizations, Section 12200 - Reporting Issues, Sub-section 12210.2 - Reverse Acquisition with a domestic registrant that is not a shell company, PubCo is required to file two years of audited Financials for PrivCo. However, since PrivCo was formed in August 2017, only the period from August 2017 through December 31, 2018 was audited. PubCo is also required to file on a combined basis with PrivCo starting with PubCo’s 10-Q filing for the period ending June 30, 2018.

Given these considerations, PubCo:

Our Business

GreenBox POS is a tech company formed with the intent of developing, marketing and selling innovative blockchain-based payment solutions, which we believe will cause favorable disruption in the payment solutions marketplace. Our core focus is to develop and monetize disruptive blockchain-based applications, integrated within an end-to-end suite of financial products, capable of supporting a multitude of industries. Our proprietary, blockchain-based ecosystem is designed to facilitate, record and store a virtually limitless volume of tokenized assets, representing cash or data, on a secured, immutable blockchain-based ledger.

We’ve been awarded five provisional patents for our technology, each directly related to our core business focus. Subsequently, we filed non-provisional patent application 16/212,627 on December 6, 2018, under which we claimed the benefit of the five provisional patents.

In March 2018, we formally announced DEL, PAY, QuickCard, POS and Loopz to an international audience, during a presentation at the Israel International Innovation Expo, in Tijuana, Mexico.

In March 2018, our QuickCard Payment System was comprised of PAY, proprietary kiosks and e-wallet management.

In June 2018, we commenced a soft launch of our system, onboarded our initial customers and began generating revenue.

In July 2018, we introduced TrustGateway, a new fraud prevention component for our QuickCard payment system.

Throughout the remainder of 2018, we continued to build, expand and improve our system, which allowed for an escalation in merchants using our system, as well as increasing revenues.

On or about October 4, 2018, we entered into a lease agreement with Hyundai Rio Vista, Inc. for our current office space at 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92108.

In March and April of 2020, we added new features to our ecosystem, including RTP (Real Time Payments), same day ACH capabilities, and SEPA payments options.

In December 2019, the company received PCI (Payment Card Industry) Level 1 certificate for its technology, its security, privacy, reliability and other aspects of its payment infrastructure.

In March of 2020, we added two platforms to our technology spectrum: we are now able to complete payouts in crypto currency, and we are also able to process same day international FOREX transactions.

Q1/20 signified the return of operations in full scale for the Company. In Q4/2019, the Company invested in research and development, improving its acquiring platform and enabling safer, faster and significantly more scalable services. These technology improvements allow for major new capabilities, including Real Time Payments (RTP), a very sought-after payment feature. This change also reduces the Company COGS. Although the Company saw a decrease in operations in Q4/2019, the improved platform is expected to perform better than its predecessor platform and increase total volumes while increasing profit margins and operating sustainability. The Company returned to ramping up commercial large-scale operations, on-boarding large number of clients, and increasing the Company operational bandwidth to accommodate the needs of its clients. To date in 2020, we continue to execute on these management directives.

Management is focused on the following KPI (Key Performance Indices):

[Table 1]

In order to process the targeted ATPV goal, $1B, the Company must be able to process close to $90M/month, or $3M/day, in a consistent fashion. The Company needed to invest further in its core technologies to reach this capacity, a task now completed. The Company now has the required bandwidth and technical capabilities to achieve this goal. The Company projects it will process transactions in volumes greater than $1M/day within Q2/2020 and will ramp up the targeted Average Daily Volumes in Q4/2020. We believe the current operational bandwidth for the Company is virtually unlimited.

[Table 2]

Based on the above and the current traction in Q2/20, the Company is comfortable projecting approximately $12-14M EBITDA in FY20. 

The Company owns all the IP rights for operations in its space: tokenizer, gateway, ledger manager and blockchain substrate. Other, supporting patents, such as fraud proofing, on-boarding accelerators, and an all new blockchain implementation, are pending.

With the visibility into the Company’s operation management has at the end of Q1/2020 the Company plans on uplisting to a senior exchange by Q1 of FY21 and does not plan on an artificial stock price increase, such as a reverse split. The current plan is to grow the company organically to the size and value required by the exchange.

The ATPV, Profitability and other major KPIs remain sensitive to regulatory changes global and national economic trends. These will impact and influence the Company’s product line, its potential mergers and acquisitions targets, its joint ventures and the Company’s technology emphasis.

Item 1A – Risk Factors

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”) and are not required to provide the information under this item.

Item 1B – Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable.

Item 2 – Properties

We do not own any real estate or other physical properties material to our operations. We operate from leased space. Our executive offices are located within the Rio Vista Tower, at 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92108, and our telephone number is (619) 631-8261. 

In October 2017, we secured our first office in San Diego, California. During the first six months of 2018, we entered into additional, separate lease agreements for additional offices in San Diego. In October 2018, we executed a lease agreement with Hyundai Rio Vista, Inc. within the Rio Vista Tower, which we moved into on or about December 1, 2018. Our lease agreement with Hyundai Rio Vista is through January 15, 2022, with monthly rent starting at $10,648 and increasing to $11,636 over the period of the lease.

On or about February 20, 2018, we secured a virtual Canadian office, located at 885 West Georgia Street Suite 1500, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3E8, under an Office Agreement with Regus Canada. Subsequently, on or around May 3, 2018 we added a physical office at the same location, on a month-to-month basis. We vacated the office in or about July 2019.

Monthly lease rates during 2019 are shown in the table below:

(1) The Company leases residential space to house visiting consultants and prospective employees.

Item 3 – Legal Proceedings

Item 4 – Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

PART II

Item 5 – Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our common stock is currently quoted for trading on OTC Markets, OTC Pink Sheets tier, under the symbol “GRBX.”

Holders

As of May 6, 2020, there were 181,330,260 shares of common stock outstanding held by approximately 163 holders of record (not including an indeterminate number of beneficial holders of stock held in street name). 

Warrants

There were no warrants issued nor outstanding as of December 31, 2019.

Dividends

There have been no cash dividends declared on our common stock, and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Dividends are declared at the sole discretion of our Board of Directors.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

The Company has never had an equity compensation plan.

Recent Issuance of Unregistered Securities

During the year ended December 31, 2019, we issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act. Except where noted, all the securities discussed in this Item 5 were issued in reliance on the exemption under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

The following three share transactions summarized below, totaling 1,085,000 shares, were each inadvertently transferred from PrivCo’s Control Block rather than PubCo issuing new shares. Subsequently, on or about August 14, 2019, PubCo issued 1,085,000 shares to PrivCo, as reimbursement of the shares inadvertently transferred by PrivCo.

Item 6 – Selected Financial Data 

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”) and are not required to provide the information under this item.

Item 7 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations includes a number of forward-looking statements that reflect Management's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. You can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “may” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate” and “continue,” or similar words. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of us and members of its management team as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risk and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements.

Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by us in this report and in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Important factors currently known to us could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the future operating results over time. We believe that its assumptions are based upon reasonable data derived from and known about our business and operations and the business and operations of the Company. No assurances are made that actual results of operations or the results of our future activities will not differ materially from its assumptions. Factors that could cause differences include, but are not limited to, expected market demand for the Company's services, fluctuations in pricing for materials, and competition.

Organization

GreenBox POS (the “Company” or “PubCo”) was formerly known as ASAP Expo, Inc (“ASAP”), which was incorporated on April 10, 2007 under the laws of the State of Nevada.

On April 12, 2018, pursuant to the Verbal Agreement, PubCo acquired PrivCo’s blockchain gateway and payment system business, point of sale system business, delivery business and kiosk business, bank and merchant accounts, as well as all intellectual property related thereto (the “GreenBox Business”). As consideration for the GreenBox Business, on April 12, 2018, PubCo assumed PrivCo’s liabilities that had been incurred in the normal course of the GreenBox Business (the “GreenBox Acquisition”).

 On January 4, 2020, PrivCo and GreenBox POS, a Nevada corporation (“PubCo”) entered into the Agreement to memorialize the Verbal Agreement with PrivCo which was formed on August 10, 2017 (the seller).

For accounting and reporting purposes, PubCo deemed the GreenBox Acquisition a “Reverse Acquisition” with PrivCo designated the “accounting acquirer” and PubCo designated the “accounting acquiree.”

New Name

On May 3, 2018, PubCo formally changed its name to GreenBox POS LLC, then subsequently changed its name to GreenBox POS on December 13, 2018.

 RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following results are for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.

Revenue

For the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recognized revenue of $10,002,857and $910,808, respectively. Throughout 2018, we conducted numerous tests of our products and services, and began to sign up our initial customers. After a soft launch of the GreenBox Network during the last few days of June 2018, when we began processing transactions, we processed approximately $5,100,000 in completed transactions on behalf of merchants. We believe this accomplishment to be indicative of the validity of our proprietary blockchain-based systems, which are the foundation of the GreenBox Network, and indicative of our future potential.

Cost of Goods Sold

Our Cost of Goods Sold (“COGS”) for payment processing consists of various processing fees paid to Gateways, as well as commission payments to the Independent Sales Organizations (“ISO”) responsible for establishing and maintaining merchant relationships, from which the processing transactions ensue. For the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, our COGS associated with payment processing was $11,091,140 and $670,539, respectively, which included the absorption by us, of chargebacks, which was limited to 2018, as a promotional tool. As regards Licensing Revenue, we do not incur any direct costs of services or products, thus we did not record COGS for Licensing Revenue.

Operating Expenses

Overall, operating expenses increased during 2019 as the Company ramped up operations. For the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, our general and administrative expense was $10,188,241 and $1,951,724, respectively; our legal and professional expenses, most of which were outsourced, were $1,026,556 and $767,869, respectively; and our R&D expense was $1,255,296 and $376,871, respectively. We incurred $5,665,031 of cash due from gateway reserve expense for the year ended December 31, 2019 and none in the prior year.

Non-Operating Expenses

For the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recorded non-operating expenses of $1,849,768 and $181,821, respectively, of which $604,504 and $106,821, respectively, were for interest, $634,766 represented derivative expense for the year ended December 31, 2019. We also recorded $75,000 as asset impairment for the year ended December 31, 2019.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Our working capital for the periods presented is summarized as follows:

Cash Requirements

We incurred a working capital deficit of $4,429,424 as of December 31, 2019. For December 31, 2018, our working capital was $874,980. Based on our revenues, operational expenses, cash on hand and future operational needs, we will need to continue procuring capital from external sources, which may include equity, debt or hybrid financing, in order to fund operations.

Cash Flow

The following table shows cash flows for the periods presented:

Operating Activities – For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, net cash provided by (used in) operating activities was $(165,556) and $(1,601,851), respectively, was primarily due to net loss and timing of settlement of assets and liabilities.

Investing Activities – For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, net cash used in investing activities was $(49,795) and $(31,254), respectively, primarily due to cash used for purchases of property and equipment.

Financing Activities – For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, net provided by financing activities was $684,671 and $1,834,730, respectively, primarily due to borrowings and repayments of convertible debt and proceeds from issuances of common stock.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make judgments, assumptions and estimates that affect the amounts reported in the our financial statements and the accompanying notes. The amounts of assets and liabilities reported on our balance sheet and the amounts of revenues and expenses reported for each of our fiscal periods are affected by estimates and assumptions, which are used for, but not limited to, the accounting for revenue recognition, stock based compensation and the valuation of deferred taxes. Actual results could differ from these estimates. The following critical accounting policies are significantly affected by judgments, assumptions and estimates used in the preparation of the financial statements:

Revenue Recognition

Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers outlines the basic criteria that must be met to recognize revenue and provide guidance for presentation of revenue and for disclosure related to revenue recognition policies in financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Management believes the Company’s revenue recognition policies conform to ASC 606.

The Company recognizes revenue when 1) it is realized or realizable and earned, 2) there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, 3) delivery and performance has occurred, 4) there is a fixed or determinable sales price, and 5) collection is reasonably assured.

The Company generates revenue from payment processing services, licensing fees and equipment sales.

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC 740, “Income Taxes.” Under ASC 740, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Management provides a valuation allowance for significant deferred tax assets when it is more likely than not that such asset will not be recovered.

Item 7A – Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Not applicable.

Item 8 – Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

The consolidated financial statements required by this item begin on page F-1 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are incorporated herein by reference.  

Item 9 – Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosures

None.

Item 9A – Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.

Based on management's evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President concluded that, as a result of the material weaknesses described below, as of December 31, 2019, our disclosure controls and procedures are not designed at a reasonable assurance level and are ineffective to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The material weaknesses, which relate to internal control over financial reporting, that were identified are: 

Management believes that the hiring of additional personnel who have the technical expertise and knowledge with the non-routine or technical issues we have encountered in the past will result in both proper recording of these transactions and a much more knowledgeable finance department as a whole. Due to the fact that our accounting staff consists of a Principal Financial Officer, a bookkeeper and external accounting consultants, additional personnel will also ensure the proper segregation of duties and provide more checks and balances within the department. Additional personnel will also provide the cross training needed to support us if personnel turnover issues within the department occur. We believe this will eliminate or greatly decrease any control and procedure issues we may encounter in the future.

We will continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal controls over financial reporting on an ongoing basis and are committed to taking further action and implementing additional enhancements or improvements, as necessary and as funds allow.

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rule 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act that occurred during the year ended December 31, 2018 that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Our Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2019 for the reasons discussed above.

Item 9B – Other Information

None.

PART III

Item 10 – Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

The names of our executive officers and directors and their age, title, and biography as of May ___, 2020, are set forth below:

Ben Errez, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive Vice President, Principal Financial Officer

Ben Errez’s (“Errez”) past positions have included positions at large companies like Microsoft and Intel. He has brought this expertise to the Company to lead the Company into the forefront of the blockchain-based financial software, services and hardware market.

Errez was one of the early managers of Microsoft in 1991. From 1991 to 2004, he served as Software Development Lead for the Microsoft International Product Group. He led the International Microsoft Office Components team (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in design, engineering, development and successful deployment. He also served as Executive Representative of Microsoft Office and was a founding member of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Forum, both within the company, and internationally. Errez co-authored the first Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Paper on Reliability. At Microsoft, Mr. Errez was responsible for the development of the first Microsoft software translation Software Development Kit (“SDK”) in Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Simplified Chinese, as well as the development of the first bidirectional extensions to Rich Text Format (“RTF”) file format, all bidirectional extensions in text converters for Microsoft Office, and contributed to the development of the international extensions to the Unicode standard to include bidirectional requirements under the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”).

In 2004, Errez transitioned into the world of consulting, forming the start-up IHC Capital, where he held the position of Principal Consultant from founding to the present date, through which he advises clients in the South Pacific region with market capitalizations ranging from $50M to $150M on matters such as commerce, security, reliability and privacy.

In 2017, immediately before partnering with Fredi Nisan to launch the GreenBox Business, Errez was asked to take over the Microsoft Alumni Network for the Southern California region as a regional director. Errez has been a principal of the GreenBox Business since its inception in 2017.

Fredi Nisan, Director, Chief Executive Officer

Fredi Nisan (“Nisan”)’s career in tech began during his years of service in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he served as IT Manager for all of Israel’s Northern Bases. After serving in the military, Nisan opened and operated a computer hardware store before becoming the Inventory Operations Manager for Zicon Israel in 2005, a hardware and software producer. At Zicon, he supervised inventory operations, worked on quality controls for motherboards and chips, and educated customers on software and hardware product functionality. Subsequently, Nisan moved to the United States, where he worked for One Coach, in San Diego, CA, as a business coach. One Coach specializes in customized growth solutions for small business owners, including the latest strategies for sales, internet marketing, branding and ROI. Nisan was consistently ranked as the top salesperson for small business coaching while working with One Coach.

In 2010, Nisan launched Brava POS, where he served as President until 2015. Brava POS provided point of sale (“POS”) systems for specialty retail companies. Nisan developed software to provide clients with solutions for issues ranging from inventory management to payroll to processing high volume transactions in the form of a cloud-based POS system. This system had the capability to manage multiple stores with centralized inventory and process sales without an internet connection, and offered a secure login for each employee, as well as including advanced inventory management and reporting, plus powerful functionality for its end users.

In 2016, Nisan founded Firmness, LLC. Through Firmness, Nisan created “QuickCitizen,” a software program that simplifies the onboarding process for new clients of law firms specializing in immigration issues. The QuickCitizen software significantly reduced law firm’s onboarding processing time from more than three hours to approximately fifteen minutes. Nisan has been a principal of the GreenBox Business since its August 2017 inception. In January 2018, Firmness sold QuickCitizen to GreenBox (See QuickCitizen Acquisition, included in Item 13 - Certain Relationships and Related Transactions below).

Employment Agreements

The Company has not entered into employment agreements or other compensation agreements with its executive officers. The Company’s agreement with existing employees are all “at will” agreements.

Family Relationships

The Company employs two of our CEO’s brothers, Dan and Liron Nusonivich, who are paid approximately $96,000 and $92,000 per year, respectively. There are no family relationships between any of other directors or executive officers and any other employees or directors or executive officers. The Company made charitable donations to a 501(c)(3) no-profit organizations in which Nate Errez, the son of Ben Errez, is a member, and may be seen as the primary beneficiary of the donations.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, requires our Directors and executive officers and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file various reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning their holdings of, and transactions in, securities we issued. Each such person is required to provide us with copies of the reports filed. Our two executive officers and directors have not yet filed any Forms 3, 4 or 5.

Code of Ethics

We have not previously adopted a Code of Ethics due to the small number of officers and employees and the size of our operations. It is anticipated that during 2020 we will adopt a Code of Ethics that applies to the Company’s directors and executive officers serving in any capacity, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions.

Board Composition, Committees, and Independence

We are not required to have any independent members of the Board of Directors. As we do not have any board committees nor any “independent directors,” the board carries out all functions that might otherwise be delegated to board committees. of committees, and such has been made pursuant to the committee independence standards.

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

Our two executive officers and directors have not been involved in any of the following events during the past ten years:

Item 11 – Executive Compensation

The following table summarizes information concerning the compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to, our Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and our two most highly compensated executive officers other than the Principal Executive Officer during fiscal years 2019 and 2018 (collectively, the “Named Executive Officers”)

Summary Compensation Table

   *Both Errez and Nisan were paid as consultants in 2018 and as employees in 2019.

Option/Stock Appreciation Grants in Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2019

The Company has never had an equity compensation plan.

Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End Table

The Company has no outstanding equity awards as of December 31, 2019.

Employment/Consulting Contracts, Termination of Employment, Change-in-Control Arrangements

The Company has not entered into employment agreements or other compensation agreements with its executive officers. All employee contracts are “at will.”

Director Compensation

Our two current directors are executive officers and majority shareholders through their shared majority ownership of PrivCo, which held approximately 85% of our issued and outstanding shares as of December 31, 2019. During 2019, we did not separately compensate our directors for their service on the Board of Directors.

Item 12 – Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder

The following table sets forth certain information, based on the 181,330,260 shares of our common stock outstanding as of May 5, 2020 date hereof with respect to the holdings of: (1) each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock; (2) each of our directors, nominees for director and named executive officers; and (3) all directors and executive officers as a group. To the best of our knowledge, each of the persons named in the table below as beneficially owning the shares set forth therein has sole voting power and sole investment power with respect to such shares, unless otherwise indicated. Unless otherwise specified, the address of each of the persons set forth below is in care of the Company, at 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, Suite 102, San Diego, California.

⁽¹⁾ GreenBox POS LLC (“PrivCo”) holds 141,735,244 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock. PrivCo is managed by its two managing members, Ben Errez and Fredi Nisan, both of whom serve as our sole officers and directors. Errez and Nisan have equal ownership of PrivCo.

⁽²⁾ A corporate investor, RB Capital Partners (“RB Cap”), has a disputed claim to approximately six million shares, and possibly more, currently held by PrivCo. The numbers in the table above assume RB Cap will not receive any of PrivCo’s shares. It is possible that the dispute will be settled, in part, by PubCo issuing six million new shares to RB Cap, however, as of February 3, 2020 a settlement between the parties has not been finalized. In a matter related to the RB Capital claim, the GreenBox Parties are negotiating a return of a previous transfer of 440,476 shares by PrivCo to a third party. Likewise, these shares are excluded from the table (see Section C. Legal Matters under Note 11 – Subsequent Events).

⁽³⁾ Ben Errez is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Vice President of the Company. Through his shared majority ownership of PrivCo, Errez owns 70,867,622 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock. As one of two managing members of PrivCo, Errez has influence over PrivCo’s entire holding of 141,735,244 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock.

⁽⁴⁾ Fredi Nisan is a Director serving on our Board of Directors and is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Through his shared majority ownership of PrivCo, Nisan owns 70,867,622 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock. As one of two managing members of PrivCo, Nisan has influence over PrivCo’s entire holding of 141,735,244 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock. Additionally, relatives of Nisan, who may be influenced by Nisan, hold 270,000 shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock.

There are no arrangements, known to the Company, including any pledge by any person of securities of the Company, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of the Company.

Item 13 – Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence

QuickCitizen Acquisition

On or about January 18, 2018, we purchased QuickCitizen, a client interfacing charge card platform, from Firmness, LLC (“Firmness”), an affiliated company, which was 50% owned by Fredi Nisan our CEO and co-owner of PrivCo, our controlling shareholder, for $75,000. Nisan believed there to be great long-term value in his involvement with GreenBox, therefore, Nisan and Firmness’s other owner, Marlena Chang Sharvit, agreed that Nisan would forgo any compensation contemplated or realized by the transaction, and that Sharvit would receive the entire consideration paid to Firmness.

America 2030 Capital Limited and Bentley Rothschild Capital Limited

On or about July 30, 2018, Nisan and Errez, the sole officers and directors of PubCo, and the majority owners of PrivCo, each entered into a separate Master Loan Agreement (each an "MLA"): Errez with America 2030 Capital Limited (“America 2030”) and Nisan with Bentley Rothschild Capital Limited ("Bentley"), a company affiliated with America 2030, both located in Nevis, West Indies. Each MLA was for a $5,700,000 loan, at 5.85% interest, maturing in ten years.

Per the MLA’s terms, Nisan and Errez caused PrivCo to transfer 1,600,000 PubCo shares, valued at $2,144,000 at close of trading on the day of issuance, as "Transferred Collateral" from the Control Block (not a new issuance by PubCo) to Bentley (although both contracts acknowledge receipt of 1.6 million shares, there was only was transference of 1.6 million shares). The transfer occurred on or about August 1, 2018. To date, there has been no funding under either of the MLAs.

Subsequently, both Nisan and Errez received constitutive notice, regarding arbitration of an alleged breach of their respective MLAs (see Item 3 – Legal Proceedings above).

Charitable Contributions

During 2018, PrivCo made $13,355 in charitable donations to organizations in which Nate Errez (“Nate”) is a member, including sponsorship of the San Diego Kayak Team (a 501(c)(3) no-profit organization). Nate, the son of Ben Errez, is a competitive athlete and races Surf Skis for the US National Team.

Brothers

We hired Dan Nusinovich on or about February 19, 2018 as our Development and Testing Manager. Dan is the brother of Fredi Nisan, our CEO and Director. Subsequently, we entered into a Referral Commission Agreement with Dan in November 2018, which expired November 2019, under which Dan is to receive 10% for new business resulting from his direct introductions. To date, no new business has been generated by Dan, thus Dan has not been paid under the Referral Agreement. On or about June 18, 2019, the Company issued 160,000 restricted shares to Dan, who was one of nine employees to receive a performance bonus in stock on this day. The shares were fully vested upon issuance and worth $16,000 at closing, on the day of issuance. We pay Dan approximately $96,000 per year.

We hired Liron Nusinovich on or about July 16, 2018 as our Risk Analyst. Liron is the brother of Fredi Nisan, our CEO and Director. On or about June 18, 2019, the Company issued 110,000 restricted shares to Liron, who was one of nine employees to receive a performance bonus in stock on this day. The shares were fully vested upon issuance and worth $11,000 at closing, on the day of issuance. We pay Liron approximately $92,000 per year.

Pop N Pay, LLC

In addition to his employment with the Company, Dan Nusinovich owns 100% of Pop N Pay, LLC (“PNP”), a Delaware registered limited liability company, that he formed August 20, 2018.

During the late summer of 2018, when both market opportunity and demand necessitated opening additional bank accounts to support our payment processing products and services, we turned to PNP to open new accounts, as a trustee, on our behalf. For his assistance, Dan, through his ownership of PNP, received approximately $3,000 (in addition to Dan’s salary) in early 2019, for services rendered in the fourth quarter of 2018.

Inadvertent Share Transfers

On or about December 27, 2018 and January 4, 2019, 1,085,000 shares, worth approximately $325,500 as of the close of trading on the days of issuance, were inadvertently transferred from PrivCo instead of being issued by the Company. Subsequently, on or about August 14, 2019, the Company issued 1,085,000 shares to PrivCo, as repayment of the shares that had been previously inadvertently transferred.

Item 14 – Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The aggregate fees billed for the two most recently completed fiscal periods ended December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 for professional services rendered by our independent registered public accounting firm auditors for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements, quarterly reviews of our interim consolidated financial statements and services normally provided by independent accountants in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for these fiscal periods were as follows:

In the above table, Audit Fees are fees billed by our company’s external auditor for services provided in auditing our company’s annual financial statements for the subject year. “Tax fees” are fees billed for professional services rendered for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. The audit fees include review of our interim financial statements and year-end audit. The aggregate fees billed collectively by BF Borgers CPA PC (“Borgers”), for professional services rendered for the audit of our amended annual financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2018, including review of our interim amended financial statements.

PART IV

Item 15 – Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

The following documents are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K: 

Our financial statements and the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm are included herein on page F-1.

The financial statement schedules are omitted as they are either not applicable or the information required is presented in the financial statements and notes thereto on page F-6.

 * In accordance with SEC Release 33-8238, Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 are being furnished and not filed.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

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Index to Financial Statements

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the shareholders and the board of directors of GreenBox POS

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of GreenBox POS as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Substantial Doubt about the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company’s significant operating losses raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

/S/ BF Borgers CPA PC

BF Borgers CPA PC

We have served as the Company's auditor since 2019

Lakewood, CO

May 15, 2020

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited financial statements. 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

December 31, 2019 and 2018

Organization

GreenBox POS (the “Company” or “PubCo”) is a tech company formed with the intent of developing, marketing and selling innovative blockchain-based payment solutions, which the Company believes will cause favorable disruption in the payment solutions marketplace. The Company’s core focus is to develop and monetize disruptive blockchain-based applications, integrated within an end-to-end suite of financial products, capable of supporting a multitude of industries. The Company’s proprietary, blockchain-based systems are designed to facilitate, record and store a virtually limitless volume of tokenized assets, representing cash or data, on a secured, immutable blockchain-based ledger.

The Company was formerly known as ASAP Expo, Inc (“ASAP”), which was incorporated April 10, 2007 under the laws of the State of Nevada. On January 4, 2020, PubCo and GreenBox POS LLC, a Washington limited liability company (“PrivCo”), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”), to memorialize a verbal agreement (the “Verbal Agreement”) entered into on April 12, 2018, by and among PubCo (the buyer) and PrivCo, which was formed on August 10, 2017 (the seller). On April 12, 2018, pursuant to the Verbal Agreement, PubCo acquired PrivCo’s blockchain gateway and payment system business, point of sale system business, delivery business and kiosk business, bank and merchant accounts, as well as all intellectual property related thereto (the “GreenBox Business”). As consideration for the GreenBox Business, on April 12, 2018, PubCo assumed PrivCo’s liabilities that had been incurred in the normal course of the GreenBox Business (the “GreenBox Acquisition”).

For accounting and reporting purposes, PubCo deemed the GreenBox Acquisition a “Reverse Acquisition” with PrivCo designated the “accounting acquirer” and PubCo designated the “accounting acquiree.”

Significant Transactions

On March 23, 2018, the then controlling shareholder and then sole officer and sole director of PubCo, Frank Yuan, along with his wife, Vicky PMW Yuan, entered into a Purchase Agreement with PrivCo (the “SPA”).

Pursuant to the SPA, Frank Yuan agreed to convert a portion of a line of credit that he had previously issued to PubCo, in exchange for 144,445,000 shares of PubCo’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Control Block”). The Yuans agreed to sell the Control Block to PrivCo for a consideration of $500,000: $250,000 in cash and $250,000 in PubCo shares to be issued within 30 days of the completion of the SPA (the “Shares Due”), which were subsequently paid by PrivCo.

On April 12, 2018, all business being conducted at that time by PubCo (the “ASAP Business”) was transferred from PubCo to ASAP Property Holdings Inc., a company owned and operated by Frank Yuan (“Holdings”). In consideration for the ASAP Business, Holdings assumed all liabilities related to the ASAP Business.

On April 12, 2018, following the SPA being entered into and the ASAP Business being transferred to Holdings, Errez and Nisan were the sole acting officers and sole acting directors of PubCo.

On April 12, 2018, pursuant to the Verbal Agreement, PubCo acquired PrivCo’s blockchain gateway and payment system business, point of sale system business, delivery business and kiosk business, and bank and merchant accounts, as well as all intellectual property related thereto (the “GreenBox Business”). As consideration for the GreenBox Business, on April 12, 2018 PubCo assumed nearly all PrivCo’s liabilities (the “Assumed Liabilities”) that had been incurred in the normal course of GreenBox Business (collectively, the “GreenBox Acquisition”).

The value of the GreenBox Business assets on April 12, 2018 was $843,694, which excluded the Control Shares, which remained with PrivCo. The value of the Assumed Liabilities on April 12 was $589,078, which excluded $185,000 of a $300,000 convertible promissory note issued by PrivCo to RB Capital Partners. The difference between assets and liabilities was $254,616, which PubCo booked as a “Gain on Bargain Purchase.” However, because we are using Reverse Acquisition accounting, we recorded the gain as Paid in Capital.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS