Wise Uses Nasdaq Listing to Chase Bigger US Market

Wise debuted its U.S. listing on Nasdaq Monday (May 11), while maintaining a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

The company’s shares were set to begin trading at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, Wise said in a Monday press release.

Wise enables the movement and management of money, offering Wise Account and Wise Business products that allow people and businesses to hold more than 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad, according to the release.

The company announced in June 2025 that it planned to move its primary listing from the LSE to a stock exchange in the U.S. while maintaining a secondary listing on the LSE.

Wise also announced on Monday the introduction of OwnWise, a program that provides customer loyalty benefits to eligible customers who also hold Wise shares.

Wise’s leadership team will host a presentation Tuesday (May 12) in which they will release preliminary estimates of select unaudited U.S. GAAP financial data and select operating metrics for the financial year ended March 31. These were previously released to the LSE on April 13.

The data includes year-over-year increases of 31% in cross-border volume, to $243 billion; 40% in customer holdings, to $39 billion; 22% in transaction volume, to $1.9 billion; and 19% in net revenue, to $2.5 billion, per the release.

Wise Co-founder and CEO Kristo Käärmann said in the release that the company was founded 15 years ago to make moving and managing money around the world as fast, simple and cost-effective as sending an email.

“We believe our U.S. listing will help us accelerate our mission, helping to bring more of Wise to everyone in the U.S., as customers and as owners,” Käärmann said.

Wise Chair David Wells said the company already serves millions of American consumers and businesses through Wise Account, Wise Business and Wise Platform, and knows there are tens of millions more who could use its services.

“A listing in the U.S. not only gives us better access to the world’s deepest and most liquid capital market, it also more closely aligns Wise with the major growth potential for us in the U.S. — the biggest market opportunity for our products in the world today,” Wells said.

Wise said in April that it launched a Current Account that challenges Great Britain’s retail banking industry by enabling customers to manage their daily financial needs in a single current account, rather than needing one for home and one for abroad.