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3. Eucaps tackles 2 problems:
1. An exit venue, because SMEs (and other
companies) have trouble finding investors to sell
shares to as long as investors cannot easily recoup
their investment through an exit
1. An online broker dedicated to SME venues, becuase
the existing SME listing venues (where SMEs can
become publicly traded) are fragmented and not
served by many brokers
shares to as long as investors cannot easily recoup
An online broker dedicated to SME venues, becuase

5. Eucaps TradePost™ can be seen as an aggregator
that offers investors free and easy access to all
national SME markets in Europe (via existing
participants on the different underlying markets).
This online broker solution is solving the
fragmentation that the existence of many different
markets brings.

7. Eucaps SMEX™ is Eucaps’ own exchange. A pan-
European exchange dedicated to the listing and trading
of European SME stocks and bonds. SMEX™ caters to
securities-issuing SMEs from all over Europe, and will
equally be available to buyers and sellers that use
Eucaps’ online broker as well as buyers and sellers that
use a traditional broker or bank.
Eucaps SMEX™ will offer a number of advantages to
SMEs compared to other venues.

8. Dr. Kristof De. Kristof De