{"id":991972,"date":"2026-02-14T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991972"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:46:51","slug":"softbanks-paypay-moves-closer-to-public-markets-with-us-ipo-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/softbanks-paypay-moves-closer-to-public-markets-with-us-ipo-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank&#8217;s PayPay moves closer to public markets with US IPO filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayPay publicly filed its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering on Thursday, as the SoftBank-backed Japanese payments app moves ahead with its highly anticipated stock market flotation after a U.S. government shutdown-driven delay. <\/p>\n<p>The move sets the stage for the \u200cfirst U.S. \u2060listing of \u2060a SoftBank-majority investment since the blockbuster IPO of chip designer Arm Holdings in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>PayPay&#8217;s stock market flotation was initially expected in December, but the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown delayed the regulatory review and pushed back the planned listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPay publicly filed its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering on Thursday, as the SoftBank-backed Japanese payments app moves ahead with its highly anticipated stock market flotation after a U.S. government shutdown-driven delay. The move sets the stage for the \u200cfirst U.S. \u2060listing of \u2060a SoftBank-majority investment since the blockbuster IPO of chip designer Arm Holdings in 2023. PayPay&#8217;s stock market flotation was initially expected in December, but the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown delayed the regulatory review and pushed back the planned listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}