Sea plans IPO for financial services arm Monee, memo says


A lanyard showing logos of Southeast Asian e-commerce and gaming group Sea Ltd is pictured at their office in Singapore, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su

SINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - ⁠Singapore-headquartered tech conglomerate Sea Limited is ⁠planning a public listing for its ‌financial services arm Monee and will also launch an AI enterprise platform business, according to an internal ​memo sent on Tuesday.

Founder Forrest ⁠Lee, in a ⁠memo to employees that was reviewed by Reuters, ⁠said ‌he believed going public would give its financial payments and ⁠services businessthe "resources and the room to go ​further and ‌faster than it can today”.

The business ⁠operates in ​Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Brazil and offers mobile wallets, ⁠payments processing, credit, and banking ​services.

Sea did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The memo said the tech group ⁠would also launch an AI-first enterprise platform named Sea Cloud.

In the memo, which was sent on the ninth anniversary of the ​group’s public listing in ⁠New York, Lee said the quarterly revenue ​for the group had grown ‌more than 80 times ​over that period to $7.8 billion.

(Reporting by Fanny Potkin; Editing by Martin Petty)

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