MUMBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Netherlands-based PayU plans to ask for regulatory approval in February for an preliminary public providing price at the very least $500 million in India, three folks with direct data stated.
PayU, owned by South African conglomerate Prosus (PRX.AS), is a cost gateway that additionally affords different companies together with buy-now-pay-later, and competes with the likes of Tiger International-backed Razorpay and Walmart-owned PhonePe.
PayU has appointed Goldman Sachs (GS.N), Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and Financial institution of America (BAC.N) as advisors for the IPO, which it plans to record by the tip of 2024, the sources stated, declining to be named because the discussions are confidential.
It additionally plans to rent at the very least one Indian funding financial institution for the deal, the sources added.
PayU, Goldman and Financial institution of America declined to remark, whereas Morgan Stanley didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The IPO may worth PayU at between $5 billion and $7 billion, the sources stated.
With smartphone use booming, hundreds of thousands of Indians use digital cost companies every day, and the market is about to greater than triple to $10 trillion in 2026 from $3 trillion in 2022, in accordance with a report by Boston Consulting Group and PhonePe.
PayU in June stated its India income grew 31% to $399 million pushed by progress in “enterprise and small and medium-sized companies”. Final week, it promoted its India CEO Anirban Mukherjee to world chief government.
PayU’s IPO could possibly be one among India’s greatest fintech listings lately.
Softbank-backed Paytm (PAYT.NS), which affords digital cost and different lending companies, raised $2.5 billion in a 2021 IPO, however noticed its shares nosedive quickly after amid valuation considerations.
Many Indian tech corporations which have been eyeing inventory market debuts have lately confronted scrutiny from bankers and traders, who’ve forged doubts about their sky-high valuations. A funding crunch has additionally hit many smaller startups in latest months.
Reporting by M. Sriram; Enhancing by Aditya Kalra and Miral Fahmy
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