{"id":46110,"date":"2025-11-21T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/?post_type=zinas&#038;p=46110"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:09:53","slug":"indexo-voluntary-share-buyback-offer-for-delfingroup-and-new-share-issue","status":"publish","type":"zinas","link":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/zinas\/indexo-voluntary-share-buyback-offer-for-delfingroup-and-new-share-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"INDEXO voluntary share buyback offer for DelfinGroup and new share issue to begin on November 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today, November 21, the Bank of Latvia has approved the prospectus for the voluntary share buyback offer by IPAS INDEXO, the parent company of the INDEXO financial services group,&nbsp;to&nbsp;AS&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders. The offer period will start on Monday, November 24, and will run until December 8.&nbsp;At the same time, from November 24 to December 5, subscriptions for IPAS INDEXO\u2019s new share issue will take place. INDEXO plans to&nbsp;raise&nbsp;up to \u20ac7.5 million, with the new shares priced at \u20ac10.15 each. The new capital will be used to implement the&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;share buyback offer and further develop INDEXO Bank, including increasing lending volumes.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;voluntary share buyback transaction,&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders will be&nbsp;offered&nbsp;to exchange 7.3 AS&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares for one IPAS INDEXO share. Alternatively,&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders will have the option to sell their&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares at a price of \u20ac1.30 per share, subject to the terms&nbsp;and conditions&nbsp;of the prospectus. A third option is to keep their existing&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares and continue&nbsp;participating&nbsp;in&nbsp;DelfinGroup\u2019s&nbsp;growth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThrough the share exchange and acquisition between INDEXO and&nbsp;DelfinGroup, we aim to create a leading local financial services group that will&nbsp;provide&nbsp;a wide range of modern and cost-effective services to Latvian residents\u2014from pension management to&nbsp;various types&nbsp;of lending. Importantly, all companies involved in the transaction\u2014INDEXO pension management, INDEXO Bank, and&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;consumer lending\u2014are already growing rapidly on their own, and combining forces will create additional synergies for product portfolios, distribution channels, and financing further growth, which in turn will increase the new group\u2019s value for all shareholders,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>says Henrik Karmo, Chairman of the&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Board&nbsp;of IPAS INDEXO and one of INDEXO\u2019s founders.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INDEXO has already received commitments from major&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders to exchange a total of around 62% of&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares for INDEXO shares, providing confidence that the transaction will be successfully completed. After the voluntary share buyback offer, a mandatory buyback offer will follow, and INDEXO has already secured financing for the share buyback transactions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the first voluntary share buyback transaction of this scale in the Latvian capital market, and we are proud to be approaching its implementation. As part of the transaction, I have personally committed to&nbsp;exchange&nbsp;my 75,000&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares for INDEXO shares. I encourage other&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders to do the same and&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in the future growth of the INDEXO group. There is already significant investor interest in INDEXO\u2019s new share issue, with subscription intentions received for 52% of the new issue volume. This share issue is planned as one of the last capital-raising rounds for INDEXO\u2019s development. Any future rounds, if needed, will be aimed at accelerating further profitable growth,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>says Valdis Siksnis,&nbsp;Chairman&nbsp;of the Management Board of INDEXO Bank and one of INDEXO\u2019s founders.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 25, at 10:00 (in Latvian) and at 14:00 (in English), online webinars will be held where INDEXO will present its Q3 2025 results, the offer to&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;and INDEXO shareholders, and details about the new INDEXO share issue. Representatives of both INDEXO and&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;management will&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in the webinars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The prospectus for the voluntary share buyback offer is published on INDEXO\u2019s website (www.indexo.lv\/investoriem) and attached to this announcement.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To issue the shares that IPAS INDEXO offers in exchange for&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shares, an Exemption Document from the obligation to publish a prospectus has been prepared, describing the planned transaction and its impact. The Exemption Document is published on INDEXO\u2019s website (www.indexo.lv\/investoriem) and attached to this announcement.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The public share issue prospectus of IPAS INDEXO (consisting of the Securities Description and Summary, as well as&nbsp;Second&nbsp;Supplement to the Universal Registration Document) is published on INDEXO\u2019s website (www.indexo.lv\/investoriem) and attached to this announcement.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, November 21, the Bank of Latvia has approved the prospectus for the voluntary share buyback offer by IPAS INDEXO, the parent company of the INDEXO financial services group,&nbsp;to&nbsp;AS&nbsp;DelfinGroup&nbsp;shareholders. The offer period will start on Monday, November 24, and will run until December 8.&nbsp;At the same time, from November 24 to December 5, subscriptions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-46110","zinas","type-zinas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zinas\/46110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zinas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zinas"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indexo.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}