This year in retrospect and our 2022 plans

Dear clients and friends of ScribeStar,

As we approach the Holiday Season, we wanted to wish you and your families all the best! Despite the global challenges this year brought, we hope it was still a good one.

We take this opportunity to reflect on 2021 and share with you the exciting plans we have for next year.

 

2021 beats 2020 by 30%!

We will close this year with 30% more deals on the platform. We could not be happier! Huge thank you to all our clients and issuers!✅ 87 deals on the system

✅ 1500 users in total

✅ £8.6bn capital raised by our issuers

✅ 14 deals in the pipeline as we enter 2022

See all our publicly announced transactions here https://transactions.scribestar.com/

Joined UK Tech Nation and Barclays Eagle Labs

In addition to being part of the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services and CMS equIP, this year we have joined Barclays Eagle Labs and UK Tech Nation FinTech 4.0 cohort. We are very proud to be part of each of these communities! ScribeStar operates at the intersection of capital markets, financial services, law, and regulatory compliance. With these supporting structures we make sure no stone is left unturned when serving our clients and developing our technology.

New features on ScribeStar

We never stop developing and innovating. Some of the features we’ve added in 2021 include;✅ New user interface and dashboard

✅ Regulatory reviews of listings directly on the system

✅ New definitions and data “blobs” manager

✅ New template manager and content sharing

✅ Layered approvals in the verification process

✅ Screen capture and annotation for verification

Plans for next year!

Too many to list, so please keep track of us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/scribestar (just kidding, just trying to get you to follow us if you already aren’t)

Grow, Innovate, Integrate!

Bring issuers closer to exchanges

Our targets for next year in terms of deal numbers are even more ambitions than this year. We will be working more closely with regulators and exchanges – something we have been preparing for throughout the year. It will allow us to offer our clients an even easier and speedier way to issue their securities, and also help the expansion of our services to the post listing environment.

In 2022 we will be supporting issuers with their ongoing reporting obligations, including regulatory news items and annual reports. Issuers kept asking us to give them a single tool to manage the whole lifecycle of their securities – well, it’s here now J!

ESG reporting

We will be rolling out our ESG reporting solution allowing issuers to use their ScribeStar environment to collaborate, produce, externally assure, and publish their sustainability reports in line with best practices and standards.

Our support for green and sustainable securities

All through 2022 ScribeStar will support the drive towards more environmentally and socially conscious public markets with special green pricing for our services for all transactions that clearly support the transition to a more sustainable economy.

These can be green and sustainable bonds, primary and secondary issues of shares by companies that bring forward sustainable technology and innovation (e.g. renewable energy, battery production, clean transport, sustainable agriculture, green buildings…), and any other investment vehicles or structured products with robust ESG integration. Expect a separate announcement on this in the coming weeks!

Want to share your ideas, wishes, or any other feedback, please reach out!

Self-uploaded Templates

Are documents uploaded by Super Users themselves via ScribeStar’s document upload feature. It’s easy to do, but some users like us to do it for them – in that case we’ll charge you the cost of “additional” templates beyond those

Regular Users

Regular Users will be the team members from your own or other organisations such as juniors in your team, the PR Firm and its clients, accountants and so on.

RNS Templates

RNS templates are forms prescribed by the FCA to be used for ongoing reporting by public companies. On ScribeStar these are pre-formatted and ready for LSE’s RNS Submit upload

Downloads

Means producing offline versions of documents and RNS Submit ready bundles. ScribeStar lets you download Word, PDF, HTML, XML and JSON versions of documents, as well as .csv files of pre-tagged data and information.

Self-uploaded Templates

Are documents uploaded by Super Users themselves via ScribeStar’s document upload feature. It’s easy to do, but some folks like us to do it for themin that case we’ll charge you the cost of “additional” templates beyond those included in your package

Custom Small Template

These are bespoke templates created for you. Tell us what you want or give us a previous document you want us to use for this purpose. Learn more under FAQ!!

Custom Large Templates

Bespoke for you and created in the same way as small ones. The only difference is the extensiveness of the document. Learn more under FAQ!!

Additional Small Template

Any small template you ask us to upload, beyond the ones already included in your package. If you upload it yourself, it will cost you 6 times less versus asking us to do it for you.

Additional Large Template

Any large template you ask us to upload, beyond the ones already included on your package. If you upload it yourself, it will cost you 6 times less versus asking us to do it for you.

Super Users

Super Users manage other users, control the project, the document and the reporting process. Typically, this would be the General Counsel, Company Secretary, CFO, Account Manager at the PR Firm and so on.