Consolidates Bango’s position as a leading independent payments platform for the world’s largest merchants and operators
Extends partnerships with Amazon and
In addition, Bango has signed a long-term platform deal with NTT DOCOMO (the “Platform Agreement”) to provide payment services in
DOCOMO Digital provides payment services to app stores and digital merchants worldwide, in the fastest growing payments segment[1]. The Acquisition significantly accelerates the Bango strategy for growth by:
- Expanding Bango global partnerships with major customers, doubling the number of
Google Play and Amazon routes - Adding new telco partners including Telefónica, América Móvil and
Deutsche Telecom and extending Bango relationships with Vodafone,Singtel , Softbank and Airtel India - Consolidating Bango’s position as a leading payments platform for global merchants including Netflix, Britbox and Youtube and bringing new merchants including Tidal, Discovery, Paramount+ and Jetstar
- Expanding Bango’s footprint in carrier billing for physical goods, adding Shopify to the Bango Ecosystem
- Enabling merchants to benefit from additional Bango Audience insights and data analytics that operators can choose to activate.
By expanding the Bango Payments ecosystem to more merchants and more telcos, Bango brings new users and more transactions to the Bango Platform. This increases the pool of payment data available to create insights that help Bango customers focus their online marketing, accelerating their revenue growth. This, in turn, drives more end user spend, fueling the growth of Bango and everyone connected to the Platform.
NTT DOCOMO’s carrier billing services for app stores and merchants will migrate to the Bango Platform. This Platform Agreement is in addition to the existing Amazon physical goods carrier billing agreement between NTT DOCOMO and Bango.
The gross consideration for the Acquisition is €4M, funded using existing Bango cash. At completion, DOCOMO Digital had a cash balance of €3.1M.
Bango expects to fund the integration of the Acquisition, including the migration of customers to the Bango Platform, from operating activities and existing cash. In addition, a recent contract provides Bango with significant working capital over the next 12-18 months, before normalizing over the life of the contract. The Acquisition is expected to be earnings accretive in the first full year (FY2023) and materially earnings accretive once the integration has been fully completed.
Bango strategic partner and shareholder, NHN Corporation, has stated its intention to offer Bango a
Bango CEO,
NTT DOCOMO General Manager of
Commenting on the Acquisition, the Right Honorable
Financial highlights of the Acquisition:
- Brings an additional
$3.5B per year of End User Spend onto the Bango Platform - Revenue contribution from the Acquisition is expected to be
$5M in FY2022 and$16M in FY2023 - Routes migrated from DOCOMO Digital to the Bango Platform will operate at Bango’s typical >95% platform gross margin
- Inherited costs and realignment of all sales and marketing activity to the Bango brand is expected to reduce Bango Adjusted EBITDA[2] by
$4M in FY2022 before making a positive Adjusted EBITDA contribution in FY2023. As a result of substantial cost synergies, the Acquisition is expected to contribute over$10M in Adjusted EBITDA in FY2024 - DOCOMO Digital brings a cash balance of €3.1M
- Restructuring costs, transaction costs, asset write-offs and provisions are estimated to impact Bango’s net profitability by
$30M -$35M in FY2022 - In the year ending
31 March 2022 , DOCOMO Digital had a loss before tax of €1.3M and Net Assets of €10.7M
Highlights of the Platform Agreement
- Multi-year agreement to use the Bango Platform for payment processing
- Forms a material portion of the incremental revenue contribution from the Acquisition
- Bango will grow employee presence in
Japan to support NTT DOCOMO - Accelerates Bango’s growth in one of the largest alternative payments markets in the world
Integration:
- The combined business will operate under the Bango brand
- All sales, marketing and product development effort is directed to the continued growth of business through the Bango Platform
- The Bango Board remains unchanged following the Acquisition
- Legacy DOCOMO Digital systems will be phased out over an estimated 20-25 months, as routes are migrated to the Bango Platform without interrupting service for customers and partners
- Bango expect to realize annualized synergy savings of
$21M by the end of FY2023
Bango Executive Chair,
Bango will host a presentation and Q&A session on the
Notes
[1] Alternative payment methods, including carrier billing and mobile wallets, are growing the fastest of any payment method[4]. >80% of people own a smart phone globally[5] vs c. 20% of people who have a credit card[6]. For merchants, alternative payments open access to millions more consumers worldwide. As a result of this Acquisition, Bango merchants will now have access to 1.9B more users via the Bango Platform and telcos will have more goods and services to offer their customers.
[2] Adjusted EBITDA is earnings before exceptional items, interest, tax, depreciation, amortization and share based payment charge.
[3] NHN Corporation (“NHN”) is a related party of Bango as a result of its 13.75% shareholding. The NHN Loan, should it be accepted, following negotiation, would likely be a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 13 of the AIM Rules for Companies. Before proceeding with the NHN Loan, the independent directors of Bango would be required, after consulting with the company's nominated adviser, Liberum, to state whether, in their opinion, the transaction is fair and reasonable in so far as its shareholders are concerned.
[4] https://bit.ly/3clwJz0
[5] https://bit.ly/3Tk0aCo
[6] https://bit.ly/3pOsRK8
Bango was advised on the Acquisition by
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by Bango to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as amended by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain. The person responsible for making this announcement on behalf of Bango is Paul Larbey, Chief Executive Officer.
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About Bango
The world's largest online merchants, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, use Bango technology to acquire more paying users.
Bango has developed unique purchase behavior technology that enables millions more users to buy the products and services they want, using innovative methods of payment including carrier billing, digital wallets and subscription bundling. Bango harnesses this purchase activity into valuable marketing segments, called Bango Audiences. Merchants use these audiences to target their marketing at paying customers based on their purchase behavior. Better targeting increases spend through the Bango payments business, in turn generating more data insights, creating a powerful virtuous circle that drives continuous growth. Everyone connected to the Bango Platform thrives as the virtuous circle grows.
Bango, the technology behind every payment choice. For more information, visit www.bangoinvestor.com
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