Olumide Bolumole, Head, Listings Business Division, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Tinuade Awe, Executive Director, Regulation, NSE; Kobby Bentsi-Enchill, Executive Director, Stanbic Capital; John Maguire, Group Chief Financial Officer, Interswitch; Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Mitchell Elegbe, Chief Executive Officer, Interswitch; Taiwo Okeowo, Deputy Managing Director, FBNQuest Merchant Bank; Chinomso Nwachukwu, Group Chief Financial Controller, Interswitch; Bola Adeeko, Head, Shared Services Division, NSE; and Jude Chiemeka, Head, Trading Services Division, NSE during the Listing of Interswitch Limited’s N23billion Bond at the Exchange on Friday, 31 January 2020
January 31, 2020/NSE
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) is pleased to announce the listing of Interswitch Limited’s N23billion Bond on Friday, 31 January 2020. The Callable Senior Unsecured Bond, with a tenor of seven years, at a fixed rate of 15 percent, is part of a N30 billion Debt Issuance Programme issued through a Special Purpose Vehicle – Interswitch Africa One Plc.
Interswitch Limited is a leading technology-driven company with a focus on the digitisation of payments in Nigeria and other African countries.
Commenting on the listing, the Chief Executive Officer of the NSE, Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON, congratulated the management of Interswitch Limited and the professional parties to the issue for a successful debt capital raise and the subsequent listing of the bond on The Exchange. “We are pleased to be a partner to Interswitch Limited in its quest to expand its footprints by raising fresh capital. We see a win for Interswitch as a win for Nigeria. As a sustainable Exchange and a premiere listing destination, we are committed to supporting our issuers with tailored financing options that will place them in a vantage position to compete in the regional and global markets.”
The Group Managing Director/Founder Interswitch Limited, Mr. Mitchell Elegbe, “We are delighted with the outcome of our capital raising efforts. We have evolved over the past 17 years into a technology unicorn focused on providing digital solutions to customers in Nigeria and across Africa. We, therefore, see this listing as a first step in a new phase of our journey and we are determined to keep going.” He went on to thank The Exchange for its support in achieving this feat.
Parties to this transaction are FBNQuest Merchant Bank and Stanbic IBTC Capital acted as Lead Financial Advisors/Issuing Houses and ABSA Capital Markets Nigeria, FCMB Capital Markets, Quantum Zenith Capital & Investments and Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria.
