Financial Instruments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

42.	Financial instruments

Financial instruments by category

	December 31, 2024		December 31, 2023
Financial assets
Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss	$	1,000	$	995,101
Financial assets at amortized cost (Note)		65,007,331		48,839,518
	$	65,008,331	$	49,834,619

	December 31, 2024		December 31, 2023
Financial liabilities
Financial liabilities at amortized cost (Note)	$	50,272,275	$	42,216,345
Warrant liabilities		20,082,272		6,221,482
Convertible preference share liabilities		-		7,767,238
	$	70,354,547	$	56,205,065

Note: Financial assets at amortized cost include cash and cash equivalents, restricted deposits, accounts receivable, net, other receivables, net and guarantee deposits paid.

Financial liabilities at amortized cost include short-term borrowings, notes and accounts payable, other payables, guarantee deposits received and long-term borrowings (including current portion).

Financial risk management policies

The Group’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market risk (including foreign exchange risk and interest rate risk), credit risk and liquidity risk. The Group’s overall risk management program focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to minimize potential adverse effects on the Group’s financial condition and financial performance.

ii)

Risk management is carried out by a central treasury department (Group treasury) under policies approved by the Board of Directors. Group treasury identifies and evaluates financial risks in close cooperation with the Group’s operating units. The Board provides written principles for overall risk management, as well as written policies covering specific areas and matters, such as foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, use of non-derivative financial instruments, and investment of excess liquidity.

Significant financial risks and degrees of financial risks

Market risk

Foreign exchange risk

The Group’s businesses involve some non-functional currency operations (the Company’s and certain subsidiaries’ functional currency: USD; other certain subsidiaries’ functional currency: NTD, Egyptian pounds (“EGP”), GBP, INR. A significant portion of the Group’s future revenues is from the Egypt Contract, denominated in EGP. The fluctuation in exchange rate from EGP to U.S. dollars impacts the Group’s cash inflows when converting the EGP to U.S. dollars. Any significant revaluation of the EGP may have a material adverse effect on the Group’s revenues and financial condition, and the value of, and any dividends payable on our shares in U.S. dollar.

The information on assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies whose values would be materially affected by the exchange rate fluctuations is as follows:

	December 31, 2024
	Foreign currency amount (in thousands)		Exchange rate		Book value (USD)
(Foreign currency: functional currency)
Financial assets
Monetary items
NTD:USD	$	516,275		0.030	$	15,732,406
EGP:USD		2,594,496		0.020		50,852,122
GBP:USD		21,733		1.260		27,383,676
Financial liabilities
Monetary items
NTD:USD		496,173		0.030		15,119,853
EGP:USD		89,942		0.020		1,762,866
GBP:USD		60,172		1.260		75,816,160

	December 31, 2023
	Foreign currency amount (in thousands)		Exchange rate		Book value (USD)
(Foreign currency: functional currency)
Financial assets
Monetary items
NTD:USD	$	516,510		0.033	$	16,844,446
EGP:USD		600,433		0.055		33,285,236
Financial liabilities
Monetary items
NTD:USD		614,748		0.033		20,048,202
EGP:USD		432,966		0.033		14,158,000
GBP:USD		12,619		1.270		16,025,800

The total exchange gain or (loss) (including realized and unrealized) arising from significant foreign exchange variation on the monetary items held by the Group for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 amounting to ($27,799,084), $78,178 and $1,079,191, respectively.

Analysis of foreign currency market risk arising from significant foreign exchange variation:

	Year ended December 31, 2024
	Sensitivity analysis
	Degree of variation			Effect on profit or loss (USD)
(Foreign currency: functional currency)
Financial assets
Monetary items
NTD:USD		1	%	$	157,324
EGP:USD		1	%		508,521
GBP:USD		1	%		273,837
Financial liabilities
Monetary items
NTD:USD		1	%		151,199
EGP:USD		1	%		17,629
GBP:USD		1	%		758,162

	Year ended December 31, 2023
	Sensitivity analysis
	Degree of variation			Effect on profit or loss (USD)
(Foreign currency: functional currency)
Financial assets
Monetary items
NTD:USD		1	%	$	168,444
EGP:USD		1	%		332,852
Financial liabilities
Monetary items
NTD:USD		1	%		200,482
EGP:USD		1	%		141,580
GBP:USD		1	%		160,258

Price risk

As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Group is not exposed to material price risk of equity instrument.

Cash flow and interest rate risk

The Group held short-term borrowings with variable rates (excluding loan from shareholders with fixed interest rate), of which short-term effective rate would change with market interest rate, and then affect the future cash flow. Every 1% increase in the market interest rate would result to an increase of $150,735, $134,491 and $99,943 in the cash outflow for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

ii)

Credit risk

Credit risk refers to the risk of financial loss to the Group arising from default by the clients or counterparties of financial instruments on the contract obligations. The main factor is that counterparties could not repay in full the accounts receivable based on the agreed terms.

The Group manages its credit risk taking into consideration the entire Group’s concern. For banks and financial institutions, only independently rated parties with at least BBB+ credit rating determined by Standard & Poor’s are accepted. According to the Group’s credit policy, each local entity in the Group is responsible for managing and analyzing the credit risk for each of their new clients before standard payment and delivery terms and conditions are offered. Internal risk control assesses the credit quality of the customers, taking into account their financial position, past experience and other factors. Individual risk limits are set based on internal or external ratings in accordance with limits set by the Board of Directors. The utilization of credit limits is regularly monitored.

The Group adopts the following assumption under IFRS 9 to assess whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk on that instrument since initial recognition: If the domestic and foreign contract payments were past due over 180 days based on the terms, there has been a significant increase in credit risk on that instrument since initial recognition.

The Group adopts the assumption under IFRS 9, that is, the default occurs when the contract payments are past due over one year. Longer payment terms are given to customers and default barely occurred even though the contract payments are past due within one year in the past because of the industry characteristics of the Group and positive long-term relationship with customers. Therefore, a more lagging default criterion is appropriate to determine the risk of default occurring.

The Group classifies customer’s accounts receivable and contract assets in accordance with customer types. The Group applies the modified approach using the provision matrix and loss rate methodology to estimate expected credit loss.

The Group used the forecastability to adjust historical and timely information to assess the default possibility of accounts receivable. On December 31, 2024 and 2023, the provision matrix are as follows:

	Not past due			Up to 180 days past due			Up to 365 days past due			Over 365 days past due			Total
At December 31, 2024
Expected loss rate		0.03	%		0.08%~91.71	%		72.68%~100	%		100	%
Total book value	$	514,854		$	25,252,572		$	4,290		$	7,364,002		$	33,135,718
Loss allowance		170			97,099			4,290			7,364,002			7,465,561

	Not past due			Up to 180 days past due			Up to 365 days past due			Over 365 days past due			Total
At December 31, 2023
Expected loss rate		0.03%~100	%		0.15%~100	%		1.4%~100	%		100	%
Total book value	$	3,937,838		$	4,770,297		$	3,100,633		$	2,754,385		$	14,563,153
Loss allowance		2,489,636			4,770,297			3,100,633			2,754,385			13,114,951

Movements in relation to the Group applying the modified approach to provide ECLs for contract assets, accounts and other receivable are as follows:

	2024
	Accounts receivable			Other receivables
At January 1	$	13,114,951		$	521,852
Provision for ECLs		897,170			-
Write off of ECLs		(6,084,336	)		-
Currency translation adjustments		(462,224	)		-
At December 31	$	7,465,561		$	521,852

	2023
	Accounts receivable		Other receivables
At January 1	$	1,481,779	$	-
Provision for ECLs		11,633,172		521,852
At December 31	$	13,114,951	$	521,852

The Group’s credit risk exposure in relation to unbilled receivables under IFRS 9 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 are $34,306,195 and $34,213,379, respectively.

The Group held cash and cash equivalents and restricted deposits of $37,472,301 and $46,777,772 with banks as at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which are considered to have low credit risk as those banks are the large and renowned financial institutions. The balances are measured on 12-months expected credit losses and subject to immaterial credit loss.

10.

The significant changes in the carrying amounts of accounts receivable contributed to the increase in the allowance for expected credit loss during 2023 due to the increases in credit-impaired balances for long credit term customers located in the South Asia resulted in increases in credit loss in 2023 of approximately $7.6 million.

11.

Other receivables and guarantee deposits of $2,386,725 and $613,544 as at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, are considered to have low credit risk. The other receivables and other non-current assets are measured on 12-months expected credit losses and subject to material credit loss. As of December 31, 2024, the majority amount of other receivables were not received and provided for.

iii)

Liquidity risk

Cash flow forecasting is performed in the operating entities of the Group and aggregated by Group treasury. Group treasury monitors rolling forecasts of the Group’s liquidity requirements to ensure it has sufficient cash to meet operational needs while maintaining sufficient headroom on its undrawn committed borrowing facilities at all times so that the Group does not breach borrowing limits or covenants on any of its borrowing facilities. Such forecasting takes into consideration the Group’s debt financing plans, covenant compliance, compliance with internal balance sheet ratio targets.

A significant portion of the Group’s future revenues is from the Egypt Contract, which is denominated in EGP. Fluctuations in the exchange rate between EGP to U.S. dollars may affect the Group’s cash inflows when converting the EGP to pay U.S. dollar-denominated expenses. The Group remains committed to closely managing this exposure to ensure that currency fluctuations do not materially impact its operations or financial condition.

Please refer to Note 16 for undrawn borrowing facilities as at December 31, 2024 and 2023.

The table below analyzes the Group’s non-derivative financial liabilities into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period at the balance sheet date to the contractual maturity date for non-derivative financial liabilities. The amounts disclosed in the table are the contractual undiscounted cash flows.

Non-derivative financial liabilities:

December 31, 2024	Less than 1 year		Over 1 year
Lease liabilities	$	210,448	$	579,699
Long-term borrowings (including current portion)		1,972,371		4,372,188

December 31, 2023	Less than 1 year		Over 1 year
Lease liabilities	$	30,327	$	23,011
Long-term borrowings (including current portion)		1,817,873		6,822,438

Except for the above, the Group’s non-derivative financial liabilities are due less than 1 year.

The Group does not expect the timing of occurrence of the cash flows estimated through the maturity date analysis will be significantly earlier, nor expect the actual cash flow amount will be significantly different.