19 Nov 2013 18:45

QIWI to pay 9M dividends totaling $16.678 mln

MOSCOW. Nov 19 (Interfax) - The board of directors at QIWI, after the determination of the company's financial results for last quarter, has approved the payment of interim dividends for January-September at $0.32 per share, for an overall $16.678 million, a company statement says.

The payout is scheduled for December 3. Holders of the company's ADR will receive dividends soon after that date, the statement says.

QIWI decided not to pay dividends for 2012. It does not plan to do so in the foreseeable future, the prospectus for the company's IPO says.

QIWI's Q3 2013 net revenue jumped 49% year-on-year to 1.622 billion rubles and its net profits 56% to 605 million rubles.