Regulator orders Kakao Pay to update $1.4bn IPO documents

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Regulator orders Kakao Pay to update $1.4bn IPO documents

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South Korea’s Kakao Pay is revising the prospectus for its up to W1.63tr ($1.42bn) listing after the country’s securities regulator requested it to add more information to the documents, in the latest sign of an increasingly heavy-handed approach to the IPO market.

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