专注于尼日利亚市场的支付平台 Opay Ltd. 正寻求通过首次公开募股（IPO）筹集最多 3.36 亿美元。
Ltd., a Nigeria-focused payments platform, is seeking to raise up to $336 million in an initial public offering.
根据该公司周五向美国证券交易委员会（SEC）提交的文件，Opay 计划发行 1600 万份美国存托凭证（ADR），拟定发行价区间为每份 19 美元至 21 美元。每份 ADR 相当于 10 股 Opay 普通股。
The company plans to market 16 million American depositary receipts for $19 to $21 each, according to its filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Each ADR is equivalent to 10 ordinary Opay shares.
文件显示，包括 Redwheel、Coronation Investment Management International Pty 和 Sundt AS 在内的投资者已同意在 IPO 发行价下，合计认购最多 2.7 亿美元的 ADR。
Investors including Redwheel, Coronation Investment Management International Pty and Sundt AS agreed to buy as much as $270 million of ADRs in aggregate at the IPO price, the filing shows.
与此同时，文件显示，Standard Bank Group Ltd.（标准银行集团）已同意通过私募方式认购 Opay 普通股。认购对价将依据一个公式确定，相当于 2 亿美元或基于 Opay 发行完成后流通股比例、或标准银行监管资本等潜在指标计算出的金额两者中的较低者。
Concurrently, Standard Bank Group Ltd. has agreed to buy Opay ordinary shares in a private placement, the filing shows. The consideration for the shares is subject to a formula equivalent to the lesser of $200 million or potential metrics including a percentage of Opay’s shares outstanding on completion of the offering, or of Standard Bank’s regulatory capital.
按发行价区间中点计算，根据文件中列示的流通普通股数量，Opay 的市值可能超过 40 亿美元。
At the midpoint of the price range, Opay could have a market value of more than $4 billion based on the outstanding ordinary shares listed in the filing.
根据文件披露，截至 6 月 30 日止的六个月内，Opay 实现营收 4.671 亿美元，净利润 6100 万美元；而去年同期营收为 1.975 亿美元，净亏损 590 万美元。
Opay had net income of $61 million on revenue of $467.1 million for the six months ended June 30, compared with a net loss of $5.9 million on revenue of $197.5 million in the corresponding period a year earlier, according to the filing.
该公司正逐渐成为非洲最有价值的金融科技公司之一，也是尼日利亚快速增长的数字支付领域的主导者。
The company is emerging as one of Africa’s most valuable fintech companies and a dominant player in Nigeria’s fast-growing digital payments sector.
文件显示，Opay 由中国企业家周亚辉（James Zhou）创立，他是公司的非执行董事长，也是 IPO 前持股 21% 的最大股东。该公司曾于 2021 年完成一轮 4 亿美元融资，估值达 20 亿美元，该轮融资由软银愿景基金 2 领投，红杉中国和美团旗下的龙珠资本跟投。
Opay was founded by Chinese tycoon James Zhou, who is the company’s non-executive chairman and largest shareholder with a 21% stake prior to the IPO, the filing shows. The company raised $400 million in 2021 at a valuation of $2 billion, in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from Sequoia Capital China and Long-Z Capital, the venture arm of Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan.
周亚辉是中国科技公司昆仑万维科技股份有限公司的亿万富翁创始人，该公司拥有Opera网页浏览器公司，并曾在美国监管压力下出售了约会应用Grindr。
Zhou is the billionaire founder of Chinese technology company Kunlun Tech Co., which owns the Opera web browser company and had sold dating app Grindr under US regulatory pressure.
尼日利亚作为非洲人口最多的国家，已成为Flutterwave、Moniepoint和Interswitch等金融科技独角兽成长的沃土。对移动金融服务不断增长的需求帮助推动了投资者对Airtel Africa Plc十月在伦敦证券交易所上市的兴趣，为其部分支持者筹集了约5.29亿英镑（7.08亿美元）。
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has become a place for fintech unicorns including Flutterwave, Moniepoint and Interswitch to grow. Rising demand for mobile financial services helped drive interest in Airtel Africa Plc’s October listing on the London Stock Exchange, raising roughly £529 million ($708 million) for some of its backers.
Opay的IPO将为该大陆风投支持的科技行业提供一个估值基准，自疫情后私人资本市场放缓以来，该行业一直在融资和交易活动低迷中挣扎。
Opay’s IPO will provide a valuation benchmark for the continent’s venture-backed technology sector, which has struggled with fundraising and muted deal activity since the post-pandemic slowdown in private capital markets.
此次发行由花旗集团、德意志银行、标准银行和中国国际金融股份有限公司牵头。该公司预计其美国存托凭证（ADR）将在纽约证券交易所以代码OPAY交易。
The offering is being led by Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Standard Bank and China International Capital Corp. The company expects its ADRs to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker OPAY.