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Bank Loans
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Bank Loans [Abstract]  
Bank Loans

Note 14 — Bank Loans

 

Outstanding balance of banking facilities consisted of the following:

 

Bank name  Maturity
date
  Interest
rate
   Collateral/Guarantee  March 31,
2026
   March 31,
2025
 
                   
United Overseas Bank Limited (“UOB”)  July 2025
(Repaid in
July 2025)
   2.5%  Personal Guarantee by Choo See Wee, the Chairman of the Company, and GCL BVI.  $
-
   $209,633 
Green Link Digital Bank Pte. Ltd.  December 2027   7.35%  Guaranteed by GCL Global Holdings Ltd. and GCL Global SG
Collateral by fixed deposit in bank
   1,686,555    
-
 
Citi Bank  October 2025 to December 2025 (Repaid in December 2025)   3.40%-6.14%  Personal Guarantee by Choo See Wee, the Chairman of the Company. Collateral by fixed deposit in bank   
-
    2,738,728 
HSBC Bank  April 2026 to
June 2026
   2.78%-5.54%  Personal Guarantee by Choo See Wee, the Chairman of the Company. Collateral by fixed deposit in bank   7,566,619    6,015,053 
HSBC Bank (1)  May 2030   3.74%-4.25%  Personal Guarantee by GCL Global Holdings Ltd. Collateral by fixed deposit in bank   36,822,683    
-
 
HSBC Bank  April 2026 to
May 2026
   4.22%  Guaranteed by Ban Leong   426,091    
-
 
HSBC Loan (2)  February 2027   6.33%  Personal Guarantee by Choo See Wee, the Chairman of the Company.   1,375,000    2,875,000 
HSBC Bank  April 2026 to
May 2026
   2.80%-2.86%  None   6,055,822    
-
 
DBS Bank Ltd  May 2027   6.88%  Personal Guarantee by Choo See Wee, the Chairman of the Company, and Tan Jian Hao, the CEO of Titan Digital   47,860    82,810 
Total             $53,980,630   $11,921,224 
Bank Loans, current             $21,715,464   $10,500,085 
Bank Loans, non-current             $32,265,166   $1,421,139 

 

(1) Acquisition of Ban Leong (see Note 4) was financed through a secured term loan facility with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (“HSBC”) and the Company’s cash on hand. The HSBC term loan facility is secured by all assets of GCL Global SG, has a tenure of five years, bears a floating interest rate ranging from 3.74% to 4.25%, and requires quarterly repayments, with the final installment due in May 2030. In addition, the Company incurred aggregate structuring fees of $593,297, which the Company determined to be debt issuance costs to be recorded as a reduction of the loan balance. These costs are amortized over the term of the loan facility using the effective interest method. As of March 31, 2026, the unamortized debt issuance costs related to the HSBC term loan facility amounted to $461,826.
(2) From April 2024 to the date of the issuance of these consolidated financial statements, the Company obtained long term bank loans from HSBC Bank for an aggregate total of approximately $2.7 million to be due starting from February 2027. These bank loans bear interest rates per annum of 6.33%

The interest expense pertained to above banking facilities for the years ended March 31, 2026, 2025 and 2024 were $1,988,260, $518,770 and $460,628, respectively. The weighted-average interest rate pertaining to above-mentioned bank loans, current were 4.1%, 6.2% and 7.1% for the years ended March 31, 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively.