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TickerIPSI
SectorInformation Technology Services
Mkt cap$2M
EV / EBITDA0.6×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1591913

Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc.

IPSIHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Software & IT.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
RevenueN/A
EBITDA$17M
Enterprise value$10M
EV / RevenueN/A
EV / EBITDA0.6×
P/EN/A
Cash$30K
Total debt$150K
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

0/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $2M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

0/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 76 8-Ks

Target Probability

14/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 3 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 3 activism filings

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 3 activism filings
  • Latest activism 5.2y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

40/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 207d stale
  • 3 activism filings

Restatement Risk

12/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 non-reliance 8-K
  • 2 auditor changes
  • 13 NT late filings
  • Latest event 5.9y ago; heavily discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 76 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $10M
  • 10-Q 207d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $2M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Technology Acquisition
    33%
  • Platform
    33%
  • Geographic Expansion
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_acquisition
  • platform
  • geographic_expansion
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

Under the terms of the Frictionless SPA, we were granted irrevocable rights to (i) participate up to fifty percent (50%) in future financings of Frictionless and (ii) acquire up to an additional 41% of the outstanding common stock of Frictionless at a purchase price of $300,000 for each 1% acquired.

10-KFY2022

There have been no material reclassifications, mergers, consolidations or purchases or sales of any significant amount of assets not in the ordinary course of business since the date of incorporation.

10-KFY2015

We invested $500,000 in the common stock of Frictionless which has been contracted to develop our payment platform for the Mexican and other markets.

10-KFY2021

Pursuant to a Stock Purchase Agreement dated June 22, 2021 (the “Frictionless SPA”) , we acquired a 10% common stock interest in Frictionless.

10-KFY2022

The Company acquired a 10% strategic interest in Frictionless on June 22, 2021.

10-KFY2021
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

Software & IT

Market spend (2023–2025)
$217.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$197.1B
Recent vs prior
+10%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

0.6×EV / EBITDA

IPSI trades at a -13.8-turn discount to the Software & IT peer median of 14.3×.

EV / Revenue
N/A
Net debt / EBITDA
0.0×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
14.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.4×10.7×0.2×$64.1B$27.7B
15.5×9.8×0.0×$318.3B$75.4B
14.3×4.4×0.6×$41.5B$12.1B
11.0×3.7×-0.1×$6.4B$1.7B
7.6×2.8×0.1×$21.1B$10M
Innovative Payment Solutions, Inc.IPSI
0.6×N/A0.0×N/AN/A

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Buyer landscape.

Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.

Likely buyers

No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.

Likely sellers / divestiture partners

No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)132026-03-31
  • 10-Q (quarterly)412025-11-14
  • 8-K (event)762026-04-01
  • Proxy / DEF 14A32023-11-06
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)32021-03-19

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2016-11-03

    1 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2016-12-13

    2 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2020-06-29

    13 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2021-03-19

    3 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.