Worldpay hires Lazard for likely floatation - Sky News

(Reuters) - Payment processing company Worldpay has hired investment bank Lazard as an adviser to prepare for a floatation in London, Sky News reported on Tuesday. The Listing could value the London-based company at as much as 6 billion pounds ($9.40 billion), Sky News said. A Worldpay spokesman confirmed the company is in conversations with Lazard but declined further comment. A floatation is the likeliest route for Worldpay which was bought by Advent International and Bain Capital from Royal Bank of Scotland for about 2 billion pounds ($3.13 billion)in 2010, Sky said on their website. Worldpay processes 26 million transactions daily and its half-yearly underlying revenue of 1.73 billion pounds ($2.71 billion) was up 6.1 percent in the period ended June, 2014, according to the company website. Lazard could not be reached for a comment outside regular business hours. ($1 = 0.6383 pounds) (Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; editing by Andrew Hay)