The Payments Group Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA: The Payments Group Holding receives final approval from the MFSA for the acquisition of The Payments Group

EQS-Ad-hoc: The Payments Group Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): Mergers & Acquisitions The Payments Group Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA: The Payments Group Holding receives final approval from the MFSA for the acquisition of The Payments Group 26-Sep-2025 / 16:37 CET/CEST Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, transmitted by EQS News - a service of EQS Group. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. +++ Ad-hoc Announcement +++

The Payments Group Holding receives final approval from the MFSA
for the acquisition of The Payments Group
 

• Closing expected in the upcoming months
• Negotiations with investors to fund the cash tranche have already begun

 

Frankfurt/Main, 26 September 2025 –The Payments Group Holding (PGH), a holding company based in Frankfurt am Main that was founded in 2012 and renamed in August 2024, has received final written approval from Malta's financial supervisory authority, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), to acquire the licensed e-money institution Calida Financial Ltd. This clears the way for the acquisition of The Payments Group (TPG), a group of four cooperating, specialized fintech and paytech companies incl. Calida Financial Ltd. operating under this name.

The management expects the closing in the upcoming months with the acquisition of 72.9% respectively 75% stake in the target companies. The closing is thus solely in the hands of PGH for the first time. It requires the funding of the cash tranche to be paid by PGH as part of the compensation for the acquisition through a one-time placement of treasury shares. This is to take place outside the capital market with investors specializing in the online payment sector. PGH has already entered into negotiations with interested, financially strong investors.