Boku Inc Director/PDMR Shareholding (6475X)

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RNS Number : 6475X

Boku Inc

30 April 2019

30 April 2019

Boku, Inc.

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

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company announces that Mike Cahill, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, yesterday notified the Company that he sold a total of 100,000 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") at an average price of 130 pence per share on 29 April 2019.

Following this notification, Mr Cahill has a beneficial holding of 162,172 Common Shares (which represents 0.07% of the issued share capital of the Company).

 
 1.    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
        / person closely associated 
 a.    Name                              Mike Cahill 
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 2.    Reason for the notification 
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 a.    Position/status                   COO / PDMR 
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 b.    Initial notification              Initial notification 
        /Amendment 
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 3.    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
        auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a.    Name                              Boku, Inc. 
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 b.    LEI                               549300Y4P2ZPFKCZ0C60 
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 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 
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 a.    Description                       Common Shares of $0.0001 each 
        of the financial 
        instrument,                       USU7744C1063 
        type of instrument 
        Identification 
        code 
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 b.    Nature of the                     Sale of Common Shares 
        transaction 
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 c.    Price(s) and                       Price(s)   Volume(s) 
        volume(s)                            130p      75,000 
                                                     ---------- 
                                             130p      25,000 
                                                     ---------- 
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            Aggregated 
             information 
              *    Aggregated volume       100,000 
 
 
 d.           *    Price                   130.0p 
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 e.    Date of the                       29 April 2019 
        transaction 
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 f.    Place of the                      London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM 
        transaction 
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Enquiries:

 
 Boku, Inc. 
  Jon Prideaux, Chief Executive Officer             [phone] 
  Stuart Neal, Chief Financial Officer               6630 
  Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker)       [phone] 
   Edward Knight / Peter Stewart / Nick Prowting      8900 
  IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR) 
   Tim Metcalfe / Heather Armstrong / Florence       [phone] 
   Chandler                                           6630 
 

Notes to Editors

Incorporated in 2008, Boku is the world's leading independent carrier commerce company. Boku's platform, which is linked to billing, identity and sales systems of more than 170 mobile network operators, simplifies transacting on mobile devices.

Boku's payment products enable 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. Its identity products are used to verify user details. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Square, Sony and Western Union use Boku to simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users as a convenient and secure payment method and prevent fraud.

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