27 March 2024

Boku, Inc.

("Boku" or the "Company")

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

The Company announces that, on 26 March 2024, 3,953,094 common shares of $0.0001 each in the Company ("Common Shares") which were held in treasury have been utilised to satisfy 3,630,385 vested restricted stock units ("RSUs") and 322,709 exercised options over the Common Shares awarded to certain employees, including the PDMRs listed below. This RSU vesting and exercise of certain options triggered immediate tax liabilities that were satisfied by partial sales of the resultant Common Shares on 26 March 2024.

Details of the PDMR dealings are as follows and summarised in the table below:

·    Stuart Neal, CEO, vested 66,000 RSUs and, on 26 March 2024, sold 31,175 of the resultant Common Shares at a price of 183 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities from the vesting and dealing expenses. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Neal's holding in the Company increased by 34,825 Common Shares to 634,825 Common Shares, representing 0.21% of the issued share capital of Company.

·    Keith Butcher, CFO, vested 275,000 RSUs and, on 26 March 2024, sold 335,000 Common Shares at a price of 183 pence per Common Share to meet the tax liabilities from the vesting, dealing expenses and for personal reasons. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Butcher's holding in the Company decreased by 60,000 Common Shares to 672,860 Common Shares, representing 0.22% of the issued share capital of the Company.

·    Jon Prideaux, Non-Executive Director, vested 300,000 RSUs and, on 26 March 2024, sold 141,554 of the resultant Common Shares at a price of 183 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities from the vesting and dealing expenses. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Prideaux's holding in the Company increased by 158,446 Common Shares to 3,501,549 Common Shares, representing 1.16% of the issued share capital of Company.

·    Mark Stannard, PDMR, vested 250,000 RSUs and, on 26 March 2024, exercised a total of 100,000 options over Common Shares at 86 pence per Common Share under the Company's 2017 Equity Incentive Plan. On 26 March 2024, Mr. Stannard sold 218,088 Common Shares at a price of 183 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities from the vesting, exercise, dealing expenses and for personal reasons. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Stannard's holding in the Company increased by 131,912 Common Shares to 502,321 Common Shares, representing 0.17% of the issued share capital of Company.

·    Adam Lee, PDMR, vested 250,000 RSUs and, on 26 March 2024, sold 500,000 Common Shares at a price of 183 pence per share to meet the tax liabilities from the vesting, dealing expenses and for personal reasons. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Lee's holding in the Company decreased by 250,000 Common Shares to 1,298,703 Common Shares, representing 0.43% of the issued share capital of Company.

As separately announced today, on 26 March 2024 Boku purchased 500,000 Common Shares in the Company pursuant to its share buyback programme, which will be held in treasury.

Total Voting Rights

Following these transactions, 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 301,096,914 Common Shares, of which 554,774 Common Shares are held in treasury under Diagonal Nominees Ltd. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Boku is 300,542,140.

The above figure of 300,542,140 shares may 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.   

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Note to Editors:

Boku Inc. (AIM: BOKU) is a leading global provider of mobile payment solutions. Boku's mobile-first payments network, including mobile wallets, direct carrier billing, and account to account/real-time payments schemes, reaching over 7.5 billion mobile payment accounts through a single integration.

Customers that trust Boku to simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud include global leaders such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify and Tencent.

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

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