Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. Announces Pricing of Public Offering
03 August 2005 - 12:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Net 1
UEPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: UEPS; formerly OTCBB: NOUT)
("Net1" or the "Company") announced today that, on August 2, 2005,
it priced the public offering of 10,258,625 shares of its common
stock at $22.00 per share. Net1 applied for and was granted listing
on The Nasdaq National Market, and its common stock will begin
trading on Nasdaq today under the symbol "UEPS". The shares are
being offered by existing Net1 shareholders. Net1 has granted the
underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 1,538,794
shares of Net1's common stock to cover over-allotments, if any,
which the underwriters may exercise within 30 days of the date of
the final prospectus. The offering is being made through an
underwriting syndicate led by Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan acting as
joint book-running managers. Robert W. Baird & Co., Jefferies
& Company, Inc. and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC are acting as
representatives. A registration statement relating to these
securities has been declared effective by the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The offering is being made only by means of a
prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus relating to this
offering may be obtained from Morgan Stanley by emailing or
contacting the prospectus department at Morgan Stanley & Co.
Inc., 1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, telephone (212) 761-6775
or from JPMorgan by emailing or contacting the prospectus
department at JPMorgan Prospectus Department, One Chase Manhattan
Plaza, New York, NY 10081, telephone (212) 552-5164. About Net1
(http://www.net1ueps.com/) Net1 provides its universal electronic
payment system, or UEPS, as an alternative payment system for the
unbanked and under-banked populations of developing economies. The
Company believes that it is the first company worldwide to
implement a system that can enable the estimated four billion
people who generally have limited or no access to a bank account to
enter affordably into electronic transactions with each other,
government agencies, employers, merchants and other financial
service providers. To accomplish this, the Company has developed
and deployed the UEPS. This system uses secure smart cards that
operate in real-time but offline, unlike traditional payment
systems offered by major banking institutions that require
immediate access through a communications network to a centralized
computer. This offline capability means that users of Net1's system
can enter into transactions at any time with other card holders in
even the most remote areas so long as a portable offline smart card
reader is available. In addition to payments and purchases, Net1's
system can be used for banking, health care management,
international money transfers, voting and identification. This
announcement may contain forward-looking statements pursuant to the
"safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. These forward looking statements involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
the Company's actual results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements to be materially different from any future results,
levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed, implied
or inferred by these forward-looking statements, such as product
demand, market and customer acceptance, the effect of economic
conditions, competition, pricing, development difficulties, foreign
currency risks, costs of capital, the ability to consummate and
integrate acquisitions, and other risks detailed in the Company's
SEC filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise any of
these statements to reflect future circumstances or the occurrence
of unanticipated events. Contact: Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
William Espley Net1 Investor Relations (604) 484-8750 or Toll Free:
(866) 412-NET1 (6381) http://www.net1ueps.com/ DATASOURCE: Net 1
UEPS Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: William Espley, Net1 Investor
Relations, Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc., +1-604-484-8750 or
1-866-412-NET1(6381) Web site: http://www.net1ueps.com/
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