Director/PDMR Shareholding

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	[phone]
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Advisor & Joint Broker) Nick Prowting / Kamalini Hull / James Smith	[phone]
Headland Consultancy (Financial PR & IR) Matt Denham / Henry Wallers / Georgina Powley	[phone]

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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