Corporate-backed digital banking platform operator Nu Holdings priced its offering at the top of its range in New York, representing the first Brazil-originated flotation in three months.

Nu Holdings, the Brazil-based owner of neobank Nubank that counts internet company Tencent and conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway as investors, secured $2.6bn today in an initial public offering priced at the top of its range.

The company issued 289 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange at $9 apiece, with Berkshire acquiring 10% of them, a source privy to the matter told Bloomberg. It is also issuing depositary receipts on São Paulo’s B3 stock exchange in a concurrent offering.

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.