Director Shareholding

RNS Number : 2507I

Boku Inc

31 March 2020

 

31 March 2020

Boku, Inc.

("Boku" or the "Company" and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

Director Shareholding

The Company announces that Keith Butcher, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, today notified the Company that he purchased a total of 115,000 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") at an average price of 78.559 pence per Common Share. Further details of this purchase are disclosed in the table below.

Following this notification, Mr Butcher has a beneficial holding of 265,474 Common Shares (which represents 0.103% of the issued share capital of the Company).

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Keith Butcher
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief Financial Officer / PDMR
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Boku, Inc.
b.	LEI	549300Y4P2ZPFKCZ0C60
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a.	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Common Shares of $0.0001 each USU7744C1063
b.	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of Common Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 67p 10,000 77p 10,000 77.13p 5,000 76p 13,550 80p 45,000 82p 31,450
d.	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Price	115,000 78.559p
e.	Date of the transaction	30 March 2020
f.	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM

Enquiries:

Boku, Inc. Jon Prideaux, Chief Executive Officer Keith Butcher, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Edward Knight / Nick Prowting / Christopher Golden	[phone]
IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR) Tim Metcalfe / Graham Herring / Florence Chandler	[phone]

Notes to Editors

Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) is one of the world's leading providers of carrier commerce and mobile identity solutions. Boku's technology platform, which is linked to more than 190 mobile network operators worldwide, verifies user identity, executes payments, and provisions new services, simplifying daily mobile interactions between consumers and digital organizations.

Boku's technology platform is used in over 59 countries with over 815 million verified transactions in 2019, contributing $5 billion to the digital economy. Businesses that currently employ Boku's platform to simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud include global leaders such as Apple, Discover, Experian, Facebook, Fiserv, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Sony, Spotify, Uber and Western Union.

Boku Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in various locations globally including in the US, Mumbai, Munich, Beijing, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.

To learn more about Boku Inc., please visit:  https://www.boku.com

 

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