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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July , 2025

Registration No. 333-

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Currenc Group Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Cayman Islands   98-1602649

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

410 North Bridge Road,

Spaces City Hall,

Singapore 188726

Singapore

(Address of Principal Executive Offices and Zip Code)

 

Currenc Group Inc. 2024 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

 

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10168

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

(800) 221-0102

(Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

Copies to:

Jonathan A. Ain

Alexander E. Shiekman

Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C.

500 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10110

(212) 986-6000

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer Accelerated filer
       
Non-accelerated filer Smaller reporting company
       
    Emerging growth company

 

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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-8 is being filed on behalf of Currenc Group Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company” or “Currenc”), for the purpose of registering an aggregate of 4,636,091 ordinary shares par value $0.0001 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”), reserved for issuance pursuant to awards that may be granted under the Currenc Group Inc. 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2024 Plan”).

 

On August 30, 2024, INFINT Acquisition Corporation (“INFINT”) completed a business combination (the “Business Combination”) with Seamless Group Inc., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Seamless”), as a result of which FINTECH Merger Sub Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company and a wholly owned subsidiary of INFINT (“Merger Sub”) merged with and into Seamless, with Seamless surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of INFINT, and INFINT changed its name to “Currenc Group Inc.” In connection with the Business Combination, the Company’s shareholders approved, among other things, the adoption of the 2024 Plan. The 2024 Plan became effective on August 30, 2024 and was assumed by the Company upon completion of the Business Combination.

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

Item 1. Plan Information.*

 

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

 

* Information required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing information specified in this Part I of Form S-8 will be separately provided to the participants covered by the 2024 Plan, as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

 

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) are incorporated by reference herein:

 

(a) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Commission on April 14, 2025 (the “Form 10-K”);

 

(b) The Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2025, filed with the Commission on May 20, 2025;

 

(c) The Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the Commission on January 2, 2025, April 11, 2025, April 16, 2025, June 20, 2025, June 25, 2025, and June 30, 2025;

 

(d) The Registrant’s Current Report on Form 6-K as filed with the Commission on July 7, 2024; and
   
(e) The description of the Registrant’s securities contained in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-41079), filed by the Registrant with the Commission under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on August 30, 2024, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

 

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and certain Current Reports on Forms 8-K or 6-K furnished by the Registrant to the Commission (which indicate that they are incorporated herein by reference) subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered hereby have been sold or deregistering all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents, reports and definitive proxy or information statements, or portions thereof, which are furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

 

 

 

 

Any statement contained herein or in any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so modified or superseded.

 

Item 4. Description of Securities.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

 

Not applicable.

 

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. The Registrant’s fifth amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, as amended from time to time (the “Charter”), provides that every director and officer of the Company (which for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include auditors of the Company), together with every former director and former officer of the Company (each an “Indemnified Person”) shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against any liability, action, proceeding, claim, demand, costs, damages or expenses, including legal expenses, whatsoever which they or any of them may incur as a result of any act or failure to act in carrying out their functions other than such liability (if any) that they may incur by reason of their own actual fraud or wilful default. No Indemnified Person shall be liable to the Company for any loss or damage incurred by the Company as a result (whether direct or indirect) of the carrying out of their functions unless that liability arises through the actual fraud or wilful default of such Indemnified Person. No person shall be found to have committed actual fraud or wilful default unless or until a court of competent jurisdiction shall have made a finding to that effect. This standard of conduct is generally the same as permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law for a Delaware corporation.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to the Registrant’s directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant under the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

 

Not applicable.

 

 

 

 

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

        Incorporation by Reference   Filed or
Exhibit
No.
  Description   Form   File No.   Exhibit
Reference
  Filing Date  
Furnished
Herewith
                         
4.1   Fifth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Association of Currenc Group Inc.   8-K   001-41079   3.1   09/06/2024    
                         
4.2   Specimen Certificate for Ordinary Shares   8-K   001-410791   3.2   09/06/2024    
                         
5.1   Opinion of Ogier (Cayman) LLP regarding the validity of the Ordinary Shares being registered                   Filed
                         
10.1   Currenc Group Inc. 2024 Equity Incentive Plan   8-K   001-410791   10.1   09/06/2024    
                         
23.1   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm                   Filed
                         
23.2   Consent of Ogier (included in Exhibit 5.1)                   Filed
                         
24.1   Power of Attorney (included on the signature page of this report)                   Filed
                         
107   Calculation of Filing Fee Table                   Filed

 

Item 9. Undertakings.

 

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

 

(i) to include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

 

(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Filing Fee Table” table in the effective registration statement.

 

(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

 

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if registration statement is on Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement; and

 

 

 

 

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Singapore, on July 18, 2025.

 

CURRENC GROUP INC.  
     
By:

/s/ Ronnie Ka Wah Hui

 
Name: Ronnie Ka Wah Hui  
Title: Chief Executive Officer  

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Ronnie Ka Wah Hui and each of them, individually, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead in any and all capacities, in connection with this registration statement, including to sign in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, this registration statement and any and all amendments thereto, including post-effective amendments, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

SIGNATURE   TITLE   DATE
     

/s/ Ronnie Ka Wah Hui

Ronnie Ka Wah Hui

 

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

  July 18, 2025
     

/s/ Wan Lung Eng

Wan Lung Eng

 

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

  July 18, 2025
     

/s/ Alexander King Ong Kong

Alexander King Ong Kong

  Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors   July 18, 2025
     

/s/ Eng Ho Ng

Eng Ho Ng

  Director   July 18, 2025
     

/s/ Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen

  Director   July 18, 2025
     

/s/ Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein

  Director   July 18, 2025

 

 

 

 

Signature of Authorized Representative in the United States

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of Currenc Group Inc., has signed this Registration Statement on July 18, 2025.

 

Authorized United States Representative  
     
COGENCY GLOBAL INC.  
     
/s/ Collen A. De Vries  
Name: Collen A. De Vries  
Title: Senior Vice President on behalf of Cogency Global Inc.