Visa hopes to raise $10 bn in IPO

NEW
YORK: Visa, the greatest United States recognition card network, said in a regulating filing on
Friday that it trusts to raise $10 billion in an initial populace offering. Visa said it bes after to deposit
a part of the company's return from the initial public offering into an escrow business relationship to pay
settlements or judgements related to litigation
settlements. On Wednesday, Visa
disclosed that it will pay American Express Co. up to $2.07 billion to settle down a
lawsuit alleging the company illegally stifled competition. Under the plan, Visa
said its member Banks will absorb the costs of the
settlement. Despite a turbulent
week on Wall Street, which ended with major driblet on Friday, Visa's initial public offering is hotly
anticipated by investors. Visa is following in the footfalls of rival
MasterCard, which have more than than quadrupled since the company went public in May
at $39 a share. As Wall Street
struggles, MasterCard and Visa have got secured the enviable function of processing the
world's recognition card payments but taking on none of the debt. The hazard is instead
held by the 25,000 Banks in more than than 200 states that issue the
cards. On October 31, MasterCard
Inc reported that third-quarter profit jumped 63 per cent, far exceeding Wall
Street's outlooks and drive shares to an all-time
high. Visa posted nett income of
$771 million on operating gross of $3.73 billion for the nine calendar months ended
June 30, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission
filing. Visa did not disclose
the figure or expected terms scope of the shares it bes after to offer. The company
noted that the sum offering terms was estimated solely to cipher its
registration fee and may
change. Visa also did not
indicate whether any shareholders will sell shares in the IPO. The company
listed JPMorgan Pursuit as its biggest stockholder, with 23.3 percentage of its Class
B shares. According to the filing, Depository Financial Institution of United States Corp. have 11.5 percentage of
Visa's Class Type Type B stock and National City Corp. have 8 percentage of Class B
shares. JP Lewis Henry Morgan Securities,
Goldman Sachs, Banc of United States Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, HSBC
Securities, Merrill Lynch, UBS Securities and Wachovia Capital Markets are
serving as the IPO's lead
underwriters. Visa made the
disclosure in an S-1 filing with the SEC. Previously, Visa released the
restructuring stairway it would take to set up for its initial public offering in S-4
filings. The San
Francisco-based company did not place a projected stock exchange or stock
symbol in the filing.