Moneybookers on sale
Marzo 9th, 2009 by admin
Investcorp, owner of Moneybookers, the fastest growing Online Payments provider in Europe, has announced that the payment method has been put up for sale. The private equity group, has appointed JPMorgan to handle the selling process. To this point, Moneybookers has shown a 150% increase in comparison to December 2007 levels. This means more than 10,000 users a day signed up.
Moneybookers has lately signed a number of deals to expand its service, including contracts with Thomas Cook, MTV, Ebay and Facebook, which allows customers to make charity donations through this popular networking website. Despite its heavy presence across Europe, the UK is still Moneybookers largest single market.
Prices of next to 400 million Euros or 359 million Pounds have been discussed with potential buyers. Moneybookers made 34 million Euros in incomes in 2008 and earnings of 18.7million. The payment systems was bought on March 2007 by Investcorp for 105 million Euros. The new sale comes in a time where the crisis on the market took Investcorp to its first ever loss for the first half of this financial year.
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