Boku Inc - Director/PDMR Shareholding

Boku

19/03/2026 16:04

RNS Number : 3729X

Boku Inc

19 March 2026

 

19 March 2026

 

Boku, Inc.

("Boku" or the "Company")

 

Vesting of Restricted Stock Units, PDMR Dealings and Total Voting Rights

 

The Company announces that 4,442,003 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") held in treasury are being utilised to satisfy vested Performance Restricted Stock Units ("PRSUs") and Restricted Stock Units ("RSUs") over the Common Shares awarded to certain employees, including the PDMRs listed in the table below. This vesting triggered immediate tax liabilities that were satisfied by partial sales of Common Shares on 19 March 2026.

 

Stuart Neal, CEO, vested 210,000 RSUs and, on 19 March 2026, sold 99,330 of the resultant Common Shares at a price of 168 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities and dealing costs from the vesting. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Neal's holding in the Company increased by 110,670 Common Shares to 819,195 Common Shares, representing 0.27 % of the issued share capital of Company.

 

Jon Prideaux, Non-Executive Director, vested 210,000 PRSUs and, on 19 March 2026, sold 99,330 Common Shares at a price of 168 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities and dealing costs from the vesting. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Prideaux's holding in the Company increased by 110,670 Common Shares to 2,129,314 Common Shares, representing 0.70% of the issued share capital of Company.

 

Adam Lee, PDMR, vested 175,000 RSUs and 175,000 PRSUs and, on 19 March 2026, sold 350,000 Common Shares at a price of 168 pence per share, to meet the tax liabilities and dealing costs from the vesting and for personal reasons. There is no change in Mr. Lee's holding in the Company as a result of these transactions.

 

Name
Role
Initial Shareholding
Net Shares Acquired
Resultant Shareholding
% of issued share capital
Stuart Neal
CEO
708,525
110,670
819,195
0.27%
Jon Prideaux
NED
2,018,644*
110,670
2,129,314
0.70%
Adam Lee
PDMR
1,298,703
Nil
1,298,703
0.43%

*includes 18,644 shares held by family members

 

Total Voting Rights

Following these transactions and following completion of all sales and subsequent transfers, in conformity with Rule 5.6.1 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, the Company's total issued share capital consists of 303,710,292 Common Shares of which 6,065,888 Common Shares will be held in treasury under Diagonal Nominees Ltd. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Boku will be 297,644,404.

The above figure of 297,644,404 shares will be able to 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 Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.   

 

1.
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.
Name
(i) Stuart Neal
(ii) Jon Prideaux
(iii) Adam Lee
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
(i) Chief Executive Officer
(ii) Non-Executive Director
(iii) Chief Product Officer
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
Acquisition of Common Shares following vesting of restricted stock units (RSU's) and performance related restricted stock units (PRSU's) under the 2017 Equity Incentive Plans
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price
Volume
(i) Nil
210,000 (RSU's)
(ii) Nil
210,000 (PRSU's)
(iii) Nil
175,000 (RSU's) + 175,000 (PRSU's)
d.
Aggregated information
Aggregated volume
Price
N/A - transactions as above in (c)
e.
Date of the transaction
19 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
Outside of a trading venue


 

 

1.
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.
Name
(iv) Stuart Neal
(v) Jon Prideaux
(vi) Adam Lee
2.
Reason for the notification
a.
Position/status
(iv) Chief Executive Officer
(v) Non-Executive Director
(vi) Chief Product Officer
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
Sale of sufficient Common Shares to meet tax liabilities as a condition of the vesting restricted stock units and for personal reasons
c.
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price
Volume
(iv) 168p
99,330
(v) 168p
99,330
(vi) 168p
350,000
d.
Aggregated information
Aggregated volume
Price
N/A - transactions as above in (c)
e.
Date of the transaction
19 March 2026
f.
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM


 

For further enquiries:

 

Boku
Stuart Neal, Chief Executive Officer
Rob Whittick, Chief Financial Officer
+44 (0)20 3805 4822
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Advisor & Joint Broker)
Nick Prowting/Kamalini Hull / James Smith
+44 (0)20 7597 5970
Headland Consultancy (Financial PR & IR)
Matt Denham / Henry Wallers / Georgina Powley
+44 (0)20 3805 4822

Note to Editors:

 

Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) is a global network of Local Payment Methods (LPMs). Through a single integration, Boku provides its merchants with access to a comprehensive network of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB), Digital Wallets and Account-to-Account (A2A) real-time payment schemes, reaching over 7 billion consumer payment accounts worldwide. Boku also enables merchants to distribute their services via its Bundling product and provides additional value-added services, including currency conversion and cross-border funds settlement, facilitating international expansion.

 

Boku's merchants include the world's largest technology, media and entertainment companies, who trust the Group to simplify their integration to hundreds of LPMs, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud.

 

Boku Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in the US, India, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam. 

 

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

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