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OVANTI LIMITED — Capital/Financing Update 2021
Feb 17, 2021
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Capital/Financing Update
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IOUPAY LIMITED (ASX: IOU) (ACN 091 192 871) Suite 305, Level 3, 35 Lime Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: (02) 8296 0000 Website: www.iou-pay.com
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18 February 2021
ASX Announcements Office
IOU Anchors Expansion with $50 million Placement
HIGHLIGHTS:
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IOU completes significant placement of $50 million within 48 hours – the largest single raising in the Company’s history
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Strong demand from both new and existing institutional investors significantly exceeded available capacity
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Proceeds to be used for growth initiatives including digital payments and to accelerate new business development opportunities in the BNPL sector in South East Asia, along with working capital purposes
IOUpay Limited (ASX Code: IOU) ( Company ) is pleased to advise that it has successfully secured binding commitments for $50,000,000 using its placement capacity pursuant to ASX Listing Rules 7.1 and 7.1A.
Placement
Clee Capital Pty Ltd (ABN 637 619 937) ( Lead Manager ) was appointed to act as the Company's corporate advisor and lead manager in connection with the placement.
Pursuant to the placement, 100,000,000 shares were offered to investors at an offer price of 50 cents per share. The pricing represents a 15.06% premium to the 15 day volume weighted average price ("VWAP") of the Company's shares on ASX prior to the date of the placement. The price of $0.50 represented a 28.57% discount to the closing price of $0.70 on 15 February 2021.
The Company will issue 65,000,000 shares to investors pursuant to its 15% placement capacity under ASX Listing Rule 7.1 and 35,000,000 shares to investors pursuant to its 10% additional placement capacity pursuant to ASX Listing Rule 7.1A.
The placement received strong investor demand far exceeding the placement limit agreed by the Company. The Company secured strong support from new and existing sophisticated, local and international institutional investors which involved syndication through other brokers and leading market participants that represent new investor interest in the Company.
In relation to the completion of the placement, IOU Chairman Aaron Lee noted:
“The Company is delighted to see the market respond so strongly to our plans to accelerate our market position as a leading operator in the digital payments and BNPL sectors in South East Asia. This capital raising represents another important milestone in our roadmap to expand our existing and new product offerings and accelerate the growth potential of that expansion. We welcome all new shareholders and thank our existing shareholders for their continued support for this exciting new next chapter of IOU which combined with existing cash reserves provides us with a strong capital platform to execute our market validated business plan."
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Application of Funds
The Company will be applying the proceeds from the placement towards funding existing operations including digital payments and BNPL inventories, new BNPL product development, expansion of the Company’s Malaysian operations, expansion in South East Asia, administrative and other costs, consistent with application of funds and expenditures outlined in the Company’s previous announcements including the Operational Update announced on 15 December last year and the Quarterly Report and Business Activity Update announced on 31 January this year
Settlement and Finalisation of placement
The Company expects completion of the commitments received for the Placement to lead to the following settlement and share issuance timetable:
| Timetable Event | Indicative Timetable |
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| EFT Funds Due by Committed Participants | 18 February 2021 |
| Settlement Date with IOU | 22 February 2021 |
| Allotment Date | 23 February 2021 |
| Date Shares First Commence Trade on ASX | 24 February 2021 |
The Company will advise if there are any changes to the above anticipated timetable.
The release of this announcement was authorised unanimously by the Board of Directors.
Yours faithfully,
IOUpay Limited
Jarrod White Company Secretary
Media Enquiries:
Melissa Hamilton Media & Capital Partners [email protected]
About IOUpay (ASX:IOU):
IOUpay Limited (ASX:IOU) provides fintech and digital commerce software solutions and services that enable its institutional customers to securely authenticate end-user customers and process banking, purchase and payment transactions.
The Company’s core technology platform enables large customer communities to connect to end user customers using any mobile device and integrate mobile technology throughout their existing business and customer product offerings. The Company’s business divisions consist of Mobile Banking, Digital Payments and Digital Services which service leading domestic and international banks in Malaysia and large telco’s and corporates in Malaysia & Indonesia. IOUpay also works with telecommunication network providers to provided mobile OTT (over-the-top) services that leverage their subscriber base to build active communities.
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