Last checked at 31 Jan 2019 17:53
31 January 2019
Boku, Inc.
("Boku" or the "Company")
Issuance of shares following Completion of Acquisition of Danal, Inc
and Total Voting Rights
Boku, the world's leading independent direct carrier billing company announces, further to the announcement on 2 January 2019 in relation to the completion of the Acquisition of Danal, Inc. ("Danal"), that 19,067,509 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") have been issued to Danal shareholders who have validly returned their acceptance. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission to trading on AIM and these Common Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued Common Shares, are expected to be admitted to trading on or around 6th February 2019 ("Admission").
Following Admission, the total number of Common Shares in issue will be 243,050,744. The Company holds no shares in treasury. As such, the total number of voting rights in Boku is 243,050,744.
The above figure of 243,050,744 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Enquiries:
Boku, Inc. Jon Prideaux, Chief Executive Officer Stuart Neal, Chief Financial Officer
| +44 (0)20 3934 6630 |
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Edward Knight / Nick Prowting
| +44 (0)20 7418 8900 |
IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR) Tim Metcalfe / Heather Armstrong / Florence Chandler | +44 (0)20 3934 6630 |
Notes to Editors
Incorporated in 2008, Boku is the leading independent direct carrier billing company in the world. Boku's technology enables mobile phone users, of which there are more than five billion worldwide, to buy goods and services and charge them to their mobile phone bill or pre-pay balance.
Boku's platform connects its customers, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify and Sony, with billing, identity and sales systems of mobile network operators. The Group's technology makes a consumer's mobile phone number a convenient and secure payment method, providing an alternative to credit and debit cards. By using Boku, merchants take people with mobile phones and make them paying users.