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SEC comment letters, last 20 years

1 review of BTBT's filings by SEC staff

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latest letter Aug 2, 2017
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Form F-1

2017-08-02 to 2018-01-29 · 82 questions · 4 letters from the SEC, 1 from the company
No closing letter
ChinaResults discussion (MD&A)RevenueKey metricsRisk factorsReserves and insuranceAcquisitionsLiquidity and cashCritical estimatesLegal and contingencies
SEC letter of Aug 2, 2017 ↗ no reply letter on EDGAR (the company may have answered in an amended filing)
General
SEC asked (1)
Please supplementally provide us with copies of all written communications, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that you, or anyone authorized to do so on your behalf, present to potential investors in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Securities Act, whether or not they retain copies of the communications.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Prospectus Cover Page
SEC asked (2)
Please identify the lead underwriter in your next amendment and disclose the material terms of your offering, including the nature of your underwriting arrangement, the obligation to return subscriptions by a certain date if you do not receive the minimum amount of subscriptions, and the placement of investor funds in escrow in the interim. Please refer to Item 501(b)(8) of Regulation S-K for guidance.
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Further, please revise the Prospectus Summary, Use of Proceeds, Capitalization, Dilution, Risks Related to Our Ordinary Shares and This Offering, and Liquidity and Capital Resources sections of your prospectus consistent with the fact that only the minimum number of your securities may be sold in your offering.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Prospectus Summary, page 1
SEC asked (3)
Please disclose the key aspects of your offering and your business, such as:  You offer short-term loans for periods of 30, 60, or 90 days;  Your lending activities are highly concentrated in a small number of borrowers, disclosing representative historical statistics;  Whether new regulatory restrictions beginning August 17, 2017 appear likely to impact your business operations, materially describing such
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restrictions;  You were one of approximately 2,448 online consumer finance marketplaces operating in China as of December 2016 and whether you expect competition to increase;  Whether and to what extent you have an obligation to repay lenders if a borrower defaults on its loan;  Loans you facilitate may only be 70% collateralized; and  You do not currently have a risk reserve fund. Please also make corresponding revisions throughout your prospectus. For guidance, please refer to Item 3 of Form F-1 and Instruction to Item 503(a) of Regulation S-K.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Prospectus Summary, page 1
SEC asked (4)
We note your disclosure on page 2 that “no loans facilitated through [y]our platform had defaulted” as of March 31, 2017. Please disclose:  The proportion of loans where borrowers were late on their payments, if any.
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 The number of borrowers who take out multiple loans, the average number of loans per borrower, and any associated limitations on the repayment of existing loans by securing additional loans on your platform. Finally, in light of your 0% default rate, please disclose throughout your prospectus that neither your collateralization standards nor default collection efforts have been tested in practice.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Business, page 1
SEC asked (5)
Please revise to disclose if you provide any compensation or benefit to individuals or entities such as lending institutions that refer borrowers to your platform.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Business, page 1
SEC asked (6)
Please revise to disclose if you have any formal or informal agreements with individuals or entities such as lending institutions to refer borrowers to your platform.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Corporate History and Structure, page 2
SEC asked (7)
Please revise to consistently present the name of your legal entities and subsidiaries. For example, in the diagram on page 3 you refer to Point Cattle Holdings Limited and Point Cattle Group Company Limited as your wholly owned subsidiaries while on page F-6 you appear to refer to the same entities as Golden Bull Holdings Limited and Golden Bull Group Company Limited.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Corporate History and Structure, page 2
SEC asked (8)
Please revise the diagram on page 3 as follows:  Indicate which entities are inside China and which entities are outside China.  Add a footnote to disclose that the connections between Shanghai Fuyu Information and Technology Co., Ltd. and your two VIEs are not ownership interests but rather are a series of contractual arrangements.
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 Disclose the ownership interests of your two VIEs, consistent with the remainder of your presentation.  Disclose the individuals or entities with the remaining 10.8% equity interests in Shanghai Dianniu Internet Finance Information Service Co., Ltd.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Corporate History and Structure, page 2
SEC asked (9)
Please disclose whether you anticipate being a “controlled company,” as defined in NASDAQ Rule 5615(c)(1), following the completion of the offering and revise your disclosure as necessary.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Variable Interest Entity Arrangements, page 4
SEC asked (10)
In the discussion of each VIE agreement for Shanghai Dianniu and Shanghai Baoxun, please ensure you disclose all material terms to ensure investors clearly understand each agreement. Additionally, please ensure that your disclosure of each agreement is consistent with the agreement and is consistent throughout your filing.
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We note for instance on page 4 you disclose the annual consulting service fee is 89.2% of Dianniu’s operating revenue while on page F-6 you disclose the service fee is 89.2% of net profit. Additionally, we note on page F-6 you disclose that Shanghai Fuyu Information and Technology Co., Ltd has the obligation to absorb all of Shanghai Dianniu’s losses while on page F-16 you disclose Shanghai Fuyu Information and Technology Co., Ltd is obligated to absorb 89.17% of Shanghai Dianniu’s losses.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Variable Interest Entity Arrangements, page 4
SEC asked (11)
Please disclose whether you believe the provision of internet financing services falls within the restricted category or the prohibited category under the Guidance Catalog of Industries for Foreign Investment, and briefly describe the consequences of being in such category.
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Please also disclose Bauxun’s current or anticipated industry categorization and whether foreign investment in this industry is currently encouraged, restricted, prohibited, or not listed. Finally, as applicable, please disclose your expectations for the future classifications of these industries or the re-classification of either VIE to a different industry.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risk Factors, page 10
SEC asked (12)
Please revise to provide a risk factor that, as a result of your election to use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section 102(b)(1), your financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates.
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Please include a similar statement in your critical accounting policy disclosures in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risks Related to Our Business · The laws and regulations governing the peer-to-peer lending service industry…, page 12
SEC asked (13)
Please disclose what proportion of your revenue was attributable to loans to borrowers for more than RMB 200,000 as of December 31, 2016, and in the subsequent periods. Please also disclose:  Whether this pending restriction also applies to small business loans;  Whether there is a penalty associated with an individual borrowing more than RMB 1 million from all platforms combined and to whom such a penalty would
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be assessed; and  Whether and how you will determine if borrowers have obtained loans through other lending platforms. Despite our marketing efforts, we may not be able to promote and maintain our brand in an effective and cost-efficient way and our business and results of operations may be harmed accordingly, page 16

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risks Related to Our Business · The laws and regulations governing the peer-to-peer lending service industry…, page 12
SEC asked (14)
Please revise to clarify where in your financial statements you present the $1.6 million in marketing and advertising expenses incurred during 2016. We note on page F-3 that selling expenses totaled $826,038 for 2016.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risks Related to Doing Business in China, page 27
SEC asked (15)
Please add a risk factor that U.S. regulators’ ability to conduct investigations and inspections within China is limited. Failure to make adequate contributions to various employee benefit plans as required by PRC regulations may subject us to penalties, page 34
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risks Related to Doing Business in China, page 27
SEC asked (16)
Please clarify whether you are or expect to be subject to penalties because you have not made adequate employee benefit payments and, if applicable, please disclose the amount of the penalties.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Use of Proceeds, page 44
SEC asked (17)
Please estimate your use of proceeds for each principal use identified. For guidance, please refer to Item 4.a of Form F-1 and Item 3.C.1 of Form 20-F. In addition, please disclose your estimate of the amount of such proceeds that would be available for such uses immediately following the completion of your offering to the extent Chinese law imposes restrictions that would materially impact the amount of such
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proceeds actually available to you at such time.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page
SEC asked (18)
We note disclosure of customer concentration in the notes to your financial statements on page F-20 and in your risk factor on page 13. Please ensure you identify, quantify and analyze known trends, demands, commitments, events and uncertainties related to customers, investors or referring entities, whether affiliated or unaffiliated, that are reasonably likely to have a material impact on your financial results on
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business. Refer to Item 303 of Regulation S-K for guidance.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page
SEC asked (19)
Please revise to clarify how the P2P measures, described on page 12 and scheduled to be effective August 17, 2017, which cap the maximum loan balance for a borrower to RMB 200,000 are reasonably likely to impact your financial results and business given your disclosure of customer concentration.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 54
SEC asked (20)
Given your limited operating history and the rapid growth during that period, in order to clearly show relevant trends please revise to disclose key operating metrics in a tabular format for each quarter during the reporting periods presented.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 54
SEC asked (21)
Please revise to disclose key operating metrics related to your investors including, but not limited to:  The reinvestment rate of existing investors;  The number of new investors that made an investment during the quarter; and  The total number of investors that made an investment during the quarter.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 54
SEC asked (22)
Please revise to disclose key operating metrics related to your borrowers including, but not limited to:  The re-borrowing rate of existing borrowers;  The number of new borrowers that borrowed money during the quarter; and  The total number of borrowers that borrowed money during the quarter. Please disclose this information separately for individual and small business borrowers.
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Also discuss relevant differences between individual and small business borrowers from a financial or strategic perspective.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 54
SEC asked (23)
Please revise to disclose the delinquency percentage for loans outstanding on your marketplace at each quarter end.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 54
SEC asked (24)
Please revise to disclose your average customer acquisition costs for each quarter and discuss and analyze trends in your average customer acquisition costs.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Revenue recognition, page 64
SEC asked (25)
Please provide us an accounting analysis related to your recognition of management fees at the time of loan issuance as compared to over the life of the loan. Please identify the accounting guidance you considered in making your determination and explain to us how you determined that all the relevant services have been rendered.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Revenue recognition, page 64
SEC asked (26)
Please revise to quantify the amount of licensing fees recognized as income for each period presented and to additional information related to the generation of licensing fees. For example, explain the role of an agent including why a borrower will use an agent, explain what credentialed information is, typical terms of a licensing period, etc.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Revenue recognition, page 64
SEC asked (27)
Please provide us an accounting analysis related to your recognition of servicing expense as a reduction of revenue as compared an operating expense. Please identify the specific accounting guidance you considered in making your determination.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business, page 69
SEC asked (28)
On page 11 you refer to your inability to collect payments from borrowers as a risk. Please revise here and throughout your filing as appropriate to clarify and expand on your role in collecting payments from borrowers and how this process impacts your financial results and business.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business, page 69
SEC asked (29)
On page 18 your disclose that because you do not have a risk reserve fund in the event of loan defaults you would not have funds readily available to repay lenders. Please revise here and throughout your filing as appropriate to clarify in what circumstances you would repay lenders in the event of loan defaults.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business, page 69
SEC asked (30)
Please revise to disclose which party manages the collateral repossession process when a borrower defaults on their loan and discuss any fees or costs associated with this process.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business, page 69
SEC asked (31)
Please revise to provide additional details regarding your investor incentive program including, but not limited to:  Clarifying what the consumptive loan program is as compared to other loan programs;  Detailing more clearly the criteria for an investor to get paid an incentive including why the number of first time borrowers is an important factor;  Clarifying how the amount of an incentive is determined, how
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it is earned, when it is paid, and if it is paid at one time or over a specified period;  Clarifying if the incentive is paid in cash or as a credit to be used to invest in a future loan; and  Clarifying how you determine if an incentive results in negative revenue for a marketplace investor and quantifying the negative amount for each period presented.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Overview, page 69
SEC asked (32)
We note that you restrict access to your platform to “qualified borrowers.” Please describe the necessary qualifications or characteristics your borrowers must possess and explain your reference to “prime borrowers” on the following page. If you target specific borrower demographics, please disclose such demographics.
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Please also disclose if and how your credit assessment distinguishes between individual and small business borrowers.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Strategy, page 69
SEC asked (33)
Please describe your plan of operation for the remainder of the fiscal year and for the first six months of fiscal year ending December 31, 2018. For guidance, please refer to Item 4 of Form F-1, Instruction 2 to Item 4.B of Form 20-F and Item 101(a)(2) of Regulation S- K.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Platform, page 70
SEC asked (34)
Please disclose how you currently market your platform to borrowers and investors. In addition, please disclose how you plan to use proceeds from this offering to expand your marketing efforts.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Benefits to Investors, page 70
SEC asked (35)
We note your third bullet addresses investor returns “after fees.” Please tell us and revise to clarify if you, or your third party service provider, charge any fees to investors.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Benefits to Borrowers · Transparent Marketplace, page 70
SEC asked (36)
We note you disclosure related to servicing fees and late payment penalties. Please revise to provide additional information regarding these fees and penalties, including but  Disclosing the amount charged for each period presented; and  Clarifying which entity retains these amounts and if you retain them, the related accounting policies, and where these amounts are presented in your financial statements.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Services, page 71
SEC asked (37)
Please disclose the average loan amounts for both your personal and small business loans as well as any minimum or maximum loan requirements.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Services, page 71
SEC asked (38)
Please disclose how many loans facilitated on your platform have third party guarantees, the nature of the third parties providing these guarantees, and the terms on which they do so.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Services, page 71
SEC asked (39)
We note that your platform’s loans had an 8% average interest rate in 2016, which you consider comparable to bank loan interest rates in China. Please also disclose the range of and average interest rates, including your transaction and management fees, and evaluate the comparability of loans on your platform to bank loans after fees.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Services, page 71
SEC asked (40)
Regarding your use of automobiles to secure loans, please disclose:  Whether the automobiles used as security are subject to other liens or security interests or are owned outright, and whether any actions must be taken to perfect a security interest in the automobiles;  Whether you receive or pay fees in your partnership with the third party garages; and  The activities of your employees who are located in
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garages “for the purpose of administering the automobiles used as collateral for the loans we facilitate.”

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Platform and the Transaction Process, page 71
SEC asked (41)
We note your statement that “[you] believe that [y]our platform enables . . . a credit assessment that more accurately determines an applicant’s creditworthiness. Please revise your disclosure to provide your basis for this belief, as well as to identify the alternative assessments models to which you are comparing your model.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Stage 3: Credit Assessment and Decision-Making, page 72
SEC asked (42)
Please expand your description of your credit assessment process to describe in more detail the steps you take to reach a decision on whether to extend credit.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Stage 3: Credit Assessment and Decision-Making, page 72
SEC asked (43)
Please disclose the percentage of applicants submitting complete applications received credit approval in fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and the subsequent periods.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Stage 4: Approval, Listing and Funding, page 72
SEC asked (44)
Please revise to clarify how you collect your fees. For example, clarify whether the third party service provider takes the fees from investor deposits and transfer them to you and then transfers the remaining loan amount, net of your fees, to the borrower.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Management · Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers, page 89
SEC asked (45)
We note that you must contribute “certain percentages” of your employees’ salary for certain benefits under PRC law. Please disclose the aggregate amount contributed for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, if material.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Principal Shareholders, page 91
SEC asked (46)
Please tell us why Qian Lai Qian Wang is not included in this table in light of your disclosure on page 92.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Financial Statements · Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, page F-3
SEC asked (47)
Please separately present each material class of operating revenue from services in accordance with Rule 5-03 of Regulation S-X.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Note 1 – Nature of business and organization · Contractual Arrangements, page F-6
SEC asked (48)
Please revise to provide a separate heading and discussion of the Business Cooperation Agreement.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Note 2 – Summary of significant accounting policies, page F-9
SEC asked (49)
Please revise to disclose how you account for and where you present the costs related to verification and credit assessment and the decision-making processes as discussed on page 72. Please tell us the cost of these activities during 2016.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Recently issued accounting pronouncements, page F-13
SEC asked (50)
We note from your disclosure on page 5 that you qualify as an emerging growth company and that you have elected to use the extended transition period to delay adoption of new or revised accounting pronouncements (i.e. to comply with new or amended accounting pronouncements in the same manner as a private company).
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Please expand your disclosure to specify the dates on which adoption is required and the date on which you plan to adopt the recently issued accounting standards, assuming you still remain an emerging growth company at that date. Please refer to question 14 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act Frequently Asked Questions document available on our website: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/cfjjobsactfaq-title-i-general.htm.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Note 9 – Concentration of risk · Credit risk, page F-19
SEC asked (51)
Please revise to separately quantify, for each period presented, the amount of cash and cash equivalents deposited with a bank and the amount deposited with a third party platform fund account.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Customer concentration risk, page F-20
SEC asked (52)
We note your disclosure on page 2 that you currently facilitate loans exclusively to borrowers that provide an automobile as security to lenders. Given the significant amount of transaction and management fees earned from a limited number of borrowers during each of the reporting periods presented, please revise your MD&A to provide an enhanced discussion of the transactions entered into with these borrowers that
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resulted in these fees. This discussion should include for instance, a quantification of the total amount of loans facilitated during each period, the amount and percentage of transaction and management fees earned on these loans, and how the requirement to provide adequate collateral as security to lenders was met.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Customer concentration risk, page F-20
SEC asked (53)
We also note that your disclosure of customer concentration risk includes concentration only as it relates to borrowers. Given that your platform connects investors with borrowers, please tell us how you determined that investors are also not your customers. Please also revise to disclose any concentrations of loans funded by investors during each of the reported periods.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Note 11 – Commitments and contingencies · Contingencies, page F-20
SEC asked (54)
Specifically related to your disclosure on page 34 that you have not made adequate employee benefit payments and may be required to make up the contributions as well as to pay late fees and fines and in general related to any other potential regulatory or other significant loss contingencies, in accordance with ASC 450-20-50, please revise to disclose:  The amount or range of reasonably possible losses in addition
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to amounts accrued, or  That reasonably possible losses cannot be estimated, or  That any reasonably possible losses in addition to amounts accrued is not material to your financial statements.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Part II – Information Not Required in Prospectus · Index to Exhibits
SEC asked (55)
Please provide fair and accurate translations of all of your attached agreements pursuant to Securities Act Rule 403(c). In this regard we note that not all parties are identified in your material contracts.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Part II – Information Not Required in Prospectus · Index to Exhibits
SEC asked (56)
Please include the final and complete version of your material VIE contracts including appendices. We note many terms and parties are blank in the agreements. Additionally, we note the appendix of the Technical Consultation and Service Agreement includes information on the service fees and is not included.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

SEC letter of Sep 22, 2017 ↗ no reply letter on EDGAR (the company may have answered in an amended filing)
Prospectus Summary · Our Business, page 1
SEC asked (1)
We note your revised disclosure on page 2 that you began restructuring your loan funding structure but that you “believe that not all of the loans [you] facilitated were within the limitations set forth in the P2P Measures.” Please revise your disclosure to quantify or otherwise describe the potential magnitude of the non-compliance.
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If you are uncertain as to the scope of the non-compliance, please disclose that and specify the matters as to which the uncertainty exists. In addition, please disclose your expectations for compliance with the P2P Measures pursuant to your new loan structure. Finally, please make corresponding revisions to your risk factor on page 15 and in your MD&A and Business sections.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Prospectus Summary · Our Business, page 1
SEC asked (2)
We note your revisions in response to comment 4, including your disclosure in the penultimate paragraph on page 2 that platform borrowers must either repay their loans in full or put up additional collateral. Please tell us whether you also allow borrowers to repay their existing loans with new loans facilitated on your platform. If so, please disclose the number and percentage of borrowers that do so.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Corporate History and Structure, page 4
SEC asked (3)
We note your revisions in response to comment 8. Please revise the diagram to disclose Mr. Liu’s ownership interest in Dianniu.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Corporate History and Structure, page 4
SEC asked (4)
We note your revised disclosure on page 46 in response to comment 9. Please disclose that Messrs. Zeng and Liu will continue to have substantial influence on any matters requiring a shareholder vote by virtue of their significant ownership of your ordinary shares and that their interests may conflict with those of other shareholders.
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Please also disclose the impact that your voting procedures outlined on page 105 will have on shareholders unable to attend a meeting of shareholders in person.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Risks Related to Our Business · The laws and regulations governing the peer-to-peer lending service industry in China…, page
SEC asked (5)
We note your revisions in response to comment 13. Please disclose the number and percentage of your borrowers in violation of the P2P Measure as of the end of your most recently completed fiscal year and quarter and further disclose the percentage of your revenue attributable to these borrowers. Please also disclose, if true, that a RMB 30,000 penalty would be charged for each violation.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Use of Proceeds, page 44
SEC asked (6)
We note your revisions in response to comment 17 as well as your risk factor beginning on page 35 regarding uncertainty over the amount of proceeds which would be immediately available to you following this offering under Chinese law.
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Please disclose whether these proceeds will be available for the uses you identify immediately following the completion of your offering and, if applicable, estimate the amount of such proceeds that you expect will be available to you immediately following the completion of your offering.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 60
SEC asked (7)
We note your response to comment 23 in our letter dated August 2, 2017. To the extent you have delinquent loans outstanding on your market place at a period end, please disclose the delinquency percentage.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 60
SEC asked (8)
We note your response to comment 24 in our letter dated August 2, 2017. Please revise to disclose your average borrower acquisition costs for each quarter and include a discussion and analysis of trends. Additionally, to the extent practicable, please calculate and present your borrower acquisition costs and your lender acquisition costs using the marketing costs attributable to on each group (i.e.
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borrower or lender) individually.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Key Operating Metrics, page 60
SEC asked (9)
We note your response to comment 18 in our letter dated August 2, 2017. We also note disclosure on page 62 that the number of borrowers increased in large part because you changed your business model to loan directly to individual and small company borrowers rather than to the referrals from lending or guarantee institutions because of the P2P Measures.
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We further note disclosure in other parts of your filing related to your change in loan structure (note 2 on page 61, page 2, etc.). Please revise your disclosure throughout your filing related to the change in loan structure to more clearly and consistently explain how your loans were previously structured including more clearly identifying the parties involved and discuss the timing of when you changed your loan structure.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Results of Operations – Operating Expenses, page 65
SEC asked (10)
Please revise to disclose, in a tabular format for each period presented, each material type of expense that is included in selling expenses or general and administrative expenses. Additionally, please revise to include an enhanced discussion and analysis of any trends related to such expenses.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Major Borrowers, page 67
SEC asked (11)
We note your response to comment 52 in our letter dated August 2, 2017. Please tell us if automobiles serve as collateral for the loans to the major borrowers. If they do not, please revise to disclose the facts and circumstances related to the collateral securing these loans.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Revenue recognition, page 72
SEC asked (12)
We note your response to comment 25 in our letter dated August 2, 2017. You disclose that management fees are to compensate you for maintaining borrowers’ account portfolios. Please provide us additional information regarding the activities you perform to maintain borrowers and lenders’ account portfolios. Specifically tell us if you perform these services over the life of the loan.
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If you do, please tell us how you considered whether you should recognize management fees over the life of the loan.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business · Our Platform, page 80
SEC asked (13)
We note your revisions in response to comment 32. Please revise your disclosure to clarify what you consider to be a “good” credit score or report. Please also disclose the features that make jobs “high risk” or not, in your evaluation.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Business · Our Platform, page 80
SEC asked (14)
Please disclose that there is no minimum loan amount consistent with your response to comment 37.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Our Platform and the Transaction Process · Stage 3: Credit Assessment and Decision-Making, page 82
SEC asked (15)
We note your revisions in response to comment 42. Please disclose the credit assessment steps you take in determining that a borrower is qualified. For example, please disclose how and when a borrower is initially qualified, and clarify the types of qualifying or disqualifying features arising during the course of your review of the borrower’s credit and loan history.
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Please also explain how your determination of a guarantor’s ability to guarantee a loan influences your credit assessment of whether a borrower is qualified.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Employees, page 84
SEC asked (16)
Considering your response to comment 54 in our letter dated August 2, 2017, please revise this section to clarify if you have made adequate employee benefit payments.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

SEC letter of Nov 9, 2017 ↗ no reply letter on EDGAR (the company may have answered in an amended filing)
General
SEC asked (1)
We note your disclosure that you attract borrowers primarily through lending and guarantee companies (page 64), that you have been dependent on a limited number of lending and guarantee companies (page 83), and that lending and guarantee companies are under no contractual obligation to continue partnering with you.
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Please revise to disclose the approximate number of lending and guarantee companies you partner with and disclose any concentrations in the volume of business transacted with a particular lending or guarantee company. Refer to ASC 275-10-50 for guidance.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Prospectus Summary, page 1
SEC asked (2)
We note your new risk factor on page 47 regarding the substantial influence possessed by Messrs. Zeng and Liu. Please disclose this risk in your prospectus summary, too, or tell us why you believe such disclosure is unnecessary. Please refer to Item 3 to Form F-1, Item 503 of Regulation S-K, and Instruction to Paragraph 503(a) thereunder.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

The Offering, page 10
SEC asked (3)
We note the revised terms of your underwriting agreement. Please disclose whether the estimates of your offering proceeds assume placement discounts and commissions of 8%, 4%, or some combination thereof. Please make corresponding revisions to your Use of Proceeds section.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Use of Proceeds, page 49
SEC asked (4)
We note your revisions in response to comment 6 as well as your disclosure on the cover page that you “will not be able to use such proceeds in China, however, until we complete certain remittance procedures in China.” Please disclose the amount of your proceeds, if any, that you believe you will be able to remit to China immediately following the completion of the offering.
Rest of the question

If the proceeds you are able to remit to China immediately following your offering are materially less than your minimum offering amount, please disclose whether you still “expect to allocate amounts in approximately the same percentages” as outlined.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Description of Share Capital · Ordinary shares, page 110
SEC asked (5)
We note your revisions in response to comment 4 as well as your disclosure on page 5 that you are exempt from the proxy rules as a foreign private issuer. Please disclose whether you are required under Cayman Islands law to provide shareholders with a proxy statement designating a proxy at your meeting or if shareholders are personally responsible for designating an individual to serve as their proxy and attend the
Rest of the question

meeting in person on their behalf, in accordance with paragraphs 57 through 60 of your Articles of Association, attached as Exhibit 3.3. In addition, regarding the percentage of paid-up capital required to demand a poll vote, please clarify for us whether it is 15%, as your revised disclosure on page 110 indicates, or 10%, as paragraph 40 of your Articles of Association indicate, and revise your disclosure as necessary.

BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

Warrants, page 112
SEC asked (6)
Please disclose the terms of the warrants issued to your underwriters and being registered in this offering.
BTBT answered

No reply letter found.

General
SEC asked (1)
We note your new disclosure beginning on page 93 of your prospectus regarding the recent changes and measures issued by the PRC in 2017 regarding the online P2P lending business. Please revise your prospectus throughout, including the Summary section, to explain in more detail how these recent measures will affect your business and the risks associated with its potential impact and uncertainty.
Rest of the question

In addition, please clarify whether you intend to make modifications to your business model as a result of the new measures.

BTBT answered
Golden Bull Limited, a Cayman Islands company (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”), hereby transmits its responses to the oral comments received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on January 24, 2018, regarding Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed with the Commission on January 12, 2018 (the “Registration Statement”). As discussed with the Staff, we are submitting this letter with proposed changes to the Registration Statement reflecting our responses to the oral comments. The proposed changes are underlined in the Registration Statement and attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Rest of the letter

We thank the Staff in advance for its consideration of the Registration Statement. Should you have any questions regarding the foregoing, please contact David Selengut, Esq. or Ari Edelman of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP at (212) 370-1300.

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Description of Share Capital · Ordinary Shares, page 110
SEC asked (2)
We note your response to comment 5 and that your Exhibit Index suggests your most recent amended and restated memorandum and articles of association are still to be filed. Please disclose whether or not your organizational documents will require you to provide shareholders with a proxy form when sending out notices of general meetings and, if not, whether or not you will follow the “standard practice” of doing so.
BTBT answered

See the reply above.

Underwriting · Underwriter’s Warrant, page 129
SEC asked (3)
We note your revisions in response to comment 6 and the Form of Underwriter’s Warrant now attached as Exhibit 4.1. Please disclose the material terms of these warrants, including that they are transferable after a period of 180 days following the effective date of the registration statement, and clarify the period during which they are exercisable as we note apparently conflicting disclosure here and in footnote (3)
Rest of the question

to the fee table of your registration statement. Please make corresponding revisions and/or cross-reference from your description of warrants on page 114. Please refer to Item 4(a) of Form F-1 and Item 9.A.7.(a) of Part I of Form 20-F for guidance.

BTBT answered

See the reply above.

Financial Statements, page F-1
SEC asked (4)
Please revise to provide updated audited financial statements in your next amendment or tell us why you believe updated audited financial statements are not required. Refer to Item 4(a) of Form F-1 and Part I, Item 8.A.4 of Form 20-F.
BTBT answered

See the reply above.

Other letters

Letters without questions

UPLOAD and CORRESP
8 other letters: notices that a filing will not be reviewed, requests to declare a registration effective, and the like

From the SEC's correspondence on EDGAR: staff letters (form UPLOAD) and company letters (form CORRESP), 70 letters filed since 2017-08-02. Questions and answers are matched by their numbers; topics come from words in each question. The reports are compared word for word (same form, before the first SEC letter against the first report after the company's reply). No AI.

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