10:47 AM EDT, 03/13/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with a comment from PayPay ( PAYP ) and the stock move in the second and last paragraphs.)

PayPay ( PAYP ) , a SoftBank-backed company, is open to a dual listing with presence on Tokyo's bourse, its chief executive officer, Ichiro Nakayama, was cited as saying in multiple media reports.

"While we do not rule out the possibility of a dual listing in the future, there are no specific plans or decisions at this time," a PayPay ( PAYP ) spokesperson told MT Newswires in an e-mailed comment on Friday.

The comment follows the digital payments company's $880 million trading debut in New York on Thursday, after it priced its initial public offering of 55 million American Depositary Shares at $16 each.

The ADSs of PayPay ( PAYP ), Japan's dominant payments app, rose 17% in Friday trading

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