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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 FEBRUARY 2022 18 COMMERCIAL Love thy neighbour this Valentine's – help send been the horse home! A campaign launched by Re- home a Horse Malta (RAHM) on crowdfunding platform Zaar needs donations to send an ex-racehorse to his forever home in the UK.The campaign – which closes on Valentine's Day – aims to cover the costs of rehoming Ben, a French ex-racing trotter, overseas. Animal-obsessed friends Ms Coppini and Ms Cachia Arnett launched RAHM seven years ago as the first rehoming and overseas-rehoming initiative for rescue horses in Malta, which they run voluntarily be- tween their busy family lives and full-time jobs. The cause centres around saving healthy horses from being put down unnecessarily by finding peo- ple interested in adopting and rehoming them. Since RAHM has no capi- tal or paid-member scheme, the high costs of rehoming a horse tend to fall to past horse owners, foreign adoptees, or outside sponsors. Likewise, horses in Malta are often put up for adoption shortly after rehoming local- ly, so RAHM tries to engage adoptees from abroad with horse facilities more suitable for the long-term housing of retired horses like Ben. Once the Help send Ben to the UK! crowdfunding cam- paign reaches its €1000 goal, the funds will go directly to- wards transport companies based in Malta and the UK who will oversee Ben's jour- ney. Travel costs include over- night stabling in France or Belgium, since both horses and drivers must legally stop and rest for a stipulated time- frame, while the funds will al- so cover vet bills, vaccinations and the paperwork and pro- cessing costs of permanent travel and Brexit protocols. Visitors are invited to donate to the Help send Ben to the UK! crowdfunding campaign on Zaar at www.zaar.com. mt. More information is also available on the Rehome A Horse Malta Facebook group. Hili Finance Company plc launches five-year €50 million bond issue HILI Finance Company plc, a subsidiary of Hili Ventures Ltd, has launched a five-year €50 million bond issue with an annual interest rate of 4%. The unsecured bonds, at a nominal value of €100 per bond issued at par, are open to subscription to all Hili Ventures group securities holders, namely holders of listed securities of 1923 Investments plc, Harvest Tech- nology plc, Hili Properties plc, Premier Capital plc, and Hili Finance Company plc. The minimum subscription amount is €5,000 and in multiples of €100 thereafter. The proceeds from the bond issue will be on-lent to the bond guarantor, Hili Finance Company's par- ent Hili Ventures, to repay intercompany loans and part-repay a major acquisition finalized in 2020, while the rest of the proceeds will be used for general corpo- rate funding purposes. More information about Hili Finance Company plc's bond issue is available from the Prospectus dated Jan- uary 27, 2022, which is downloadable at www.hilifi- nance.com. Application forms will be made available to pre- ferred applicants on February 14. Subscriptions close on March 4, or earlier if the bond issue is over-sub- scribed. Interest on the bonds commences on March 11 and refunds of any unallocated monies will be made by March 18. The bonds are expected to be admitted to the Malta Stock Exchange on March 21. Trading is expected to commence on March 22. Hili Finance Company plc will announce the basis of acceptance of applications and the allocation policy to be adopted by not later than March 11, 2022.