🎉 USA🇺🇸: in its IPO, Japanese payment system PayPay🇯🇵 raised 880 million USD

🎉 USA🇺🇸: in its IPO, Japanese payment system PayPay🇯🇵 raised 880 million USD

This represents a strong outcome, although below earlier expectations: it was previously reported that the IPO could raise up to 1.1 billion USD. Shares were sold by both the company and its main shareholder — the investment arm of SoftBank.

💎 Profile: PayPay was established in 2018 as a joint venture with Indian payment system Paytm🇮🇳. It quickly surpassed competitors in Japan in terms of user base through aggressive marketing, substantial subsidies and backing from SoftBank. By the end of 2025, PayPay had more than 72 million users, compared to Japan’s population of approximately 123 million. In February, PayPay announced a partnership with Visa.

💎 A total of 55 million shares were offered at 16 USD each, below the initial price range of 17–20 USD. Each American depositary receipt (ADR) represents one PayPay share. Based on the IPO price, the company’s valuationstands at approximately 10.7 billion USD.

💎 PayPay’s IPO became the largest U.S. listing by a Japanese company in the past decade, according to Bloomberg. In 2016, messaging service Line raised 1.3 billion USD when listing in Tokyo and New York.

💎 The shares are now trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker PAYP.

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