Trading Update

18 July 2019

Boku, Inc.

("Boku" or the "Company" and, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")

Trading Update for the six months ended 30 June 2019

Continuing growth in Total Payment Volume and Monthly Active Users driving Payments business, strong start to Mobile Identity with plenty more to come.

Boku (AIM: BOKU), the world's leading independent carrier commerce company, is pleased to provide the following unaudited trading update for the six months ended 30 June 2019.

* Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted for IPO costs, stock option expenses, Forex gains/losses and Exceptional items
** TPV is the US$ value of transactions processed by the Boku platform

Jon Prideaux, Boku's CEO, commented: "I am delighted with our first half results which show Boku maturing into a multi-product company, without missing a step in our Payments business.

"With Monthly Active Users continuing to grow strongly, we are proving once again the value that Boku brings to our global digital clients.  Of course, the law of large numbers dictates that Payments volumes will not continue to grow at such high percentages indefinitely, but with our significant scale driving operational gearing, the incremental revenues we generate from Payments will continue to drop straight through to EBITDA, affording us the opportunity to make ongoing investments in future growth.

"Our first such investment, Boku Identity, is off to a flying start and yet we have barely begun to realise the full potential of this new venture.  Having acquired Danal Inc, now fully integrated as Boku Identity, at the beginning of the year, the first half of 2019 has been focused on setting ourselves up for sustainable global expansion in what is a new and emerging market. We expect this progress on Identity to continue and accelerate in the second half.

"Identity is not the only innovation we are pursuing.  Our recently announced partnership with Grab in South East Asia demonstrates that there is plenty of potential to grow our Payments business through partnerships with mobile wallets and other alternative payment methods.

"I am hugely excited by the pipeline of opportunities that we have created in both Payments and Identity and I look forward to providing further updates as the year progresses.

"We maintain our full year guidance for revenues and adjusted EBITDA, with the normal seasonal bias and further scale up in identity revenues expected in H2 2019."

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Notes to Editors

Incorporated in 2008, Boku is the world's leading independent carrier commerce company. Boku's Platform, which is linked to billing, identity and sales systems of more than 170 mobile network operators, simplifies transacting on mobile devices. 

Boku's Payment products enable mobile phone users, of which there are more than five billion worldwide, to buy goods and services and charge them to their mobile phone bill or pre-pay balance. Its Identity Products are used to verify user details. Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Square, Sony and Western Union use Boku to simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud.