27 March 2024
Boku, Inc.
("Boku" or the
"Company")
TRANSACTION IN OWN
SHARES
Boku (AIM: BOKU),
a leading provider of mobile payment
solutions, announces that on 26 March 2024 it purchased, through Peel
Hunt LLP, 500,000 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company
("Common Shares") on the London Stock Exchange (the "Repurchased
Shares"), pursuant to the share buyback programme (the "Buyback
Programme") that was announced on 8 June 2023. The Repurchased
Shares will be held in treasury.
Date of purchase
|
26 March 2024
|
Aggregate number of shares
purchased
|
500,000
|
Highest price paid per share
(pence)
|
183
|
Lowest price paid per share
(pence)
|
183
|
Volume weighted average price paid
per share (pence)
|
183
|
Total Voting Rights
Following the purchase, the
Company's total issued share capital consists of 301,096,914 Common
Shares, of which 554,774 Common Shares are held in treasury under
Diagonal Nominees Ltd. Therefore, the total number of voting rights
is 300,542,140. Shareholders may use this figure as the denominator
for the calculations by which they can 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.
Schedule of purchases
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b)
of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) as
incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018, the schedule below contains detailed
information about the purchases made by Peel Hunt LLP on behalf of
the Company as part of the Company's Buyback Programme.
Individual Transactions (26 March
2024)
Number of shares
|
Transaction Price
(pence per share)
|
Time of Transaction
|
Transaction reference
number
|
Execution venue
|
500,000
|
183
|
AIMX
|
08:24:00
|
00160056390TRLO0
|
For
further enquiries:
Boku
Stuart Neal, Chief Executive
Officer
Keith Butcher, Chief Financial
Officer
|
+44 (0)20 3934 6630
|
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Advisor & Joint
Broker)
Edward Knight / Nick Prowting
/ Cameron
MacRitchie
|
+44 (0)20 7597 5970
|
Peel Hunt LLP (Joint Broker)
Paul Gillam / Adam
Telling
|
+44 (0)20 7418 8900
|
IFC
Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR)
Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring /
Florence Chandler
|
+44 (0)20 3934 6630
|
Note to
Editors:
Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) is a leading global
provider of mobile payment solutions. Boku's mobile-first payments
network, including mobile wallets, direct carrier billing, and
account to account/real-time payments schemes, reaching over 7.5
billion mobile payment accounts through a single
integration.
Customers that trust Boku to simplify sign-up,
acquire new paying users and prevent fraud include global leaders
such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony,
Spotify and Tencent.
Boku Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is
headquartered in London, UK, with offices in the US, India, Brazil,
China, Estonia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore,
Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam.
To learn more about Boku Inc., please visit:
https://www.boku.com