Gmo Payment Gateway, Inc.TSE: 3769

Notice of the FY2025 (32nd) Annual Meeting of Shareholders

· Issued by GMO Payment Gateway, Inc.

Note: This document has been translated from a part of the Japanese original for reference purposes only. In the event of any discrepancy between this translated document and the Japanese original, the original shall prevail. The Company assumes no responsibility for this translation or for direct, indirect or any other forms of damages arising from the translation.

Stock code: 3769

November 28, 2025 Start date of electronic provision measures: November 22, 2025

To Our Shareholders

Issei Ainoura

President & Chief Executive Officer GMO Payment Gateway, Inc.

1-2-3 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Notice of the FY2025 (32nd) Annual Meeting of Shareholders

We would like to express our sincere appreciation for your continued support and patronage.

You are hereby notified that the FY2025 (32nd) Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") of GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (the "Company") will be held as described below.

The Company has taken measures for electronic provision for the Meeting and posted the materials for the Meeting on the website below.

The Company's website: https://www.gmo-pg.com/ir/stock-shareholder/

In addition to the above, the materials for the Meeting are also posted on the following websites. Net de Shoshu: https://s.srdb.jp/3769/

Tokyo Stock Exchange's website: https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/JJK020010Action.do?Show=Show

*Please enter and search for "GMO Payment Gateway" in "Issue name" or our stock code "3769" in "Code," select "Basic information" and "Documents for public inspection/PR information," and check the information listed there.

Date and time: 10:00 a.m., Sunday, December 14, 2025 (log-in starts at 9:30 a.m.) Alternative date and time: 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 15, 2025 (log-in starts at 9:30 a.m.) Method: Virtual-Only Shareholders' Meeting

This Meeting will be held as a meeting of shareholders with no fixed venue. The method of communication used to send and receive information on the proceedings of this Meeting shall be via the Internet. Please refer to "How to log in to the Virtual-Only Shareholders' Meeting" (available in Japanese only) for instructions on how to attend the meeting via the Internet.

Agenda: Matters to be reported:
  1. Report on the business report and the consolidated financial statements for FY2025 (from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025), and the results of the audit of the consolidated financial statements by the accounting auditors and the Audit and Supervisory Committee.

  2. Report on the non-consolidated financial statements for FY2025 (from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025).

Matters to be resolved:

Proposal 1: Appropriation of surplus

Proposal 2: Partial amendments to the Articles of Incorporation

Proposal 3: Election of nine (9) directors (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members)

Proposal 4: Election of four (4) directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

Proposal 5: Determination of amount and content of performance-based stock compensation for directors, etc. (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members)

Reference Materials for the Meeting of Shareholders Proposals and References Proposal 1: Appropriation of surplus

The Company places management priority on sustainably securing the necessary retained earnings for the purpose of future business expansion and for strengthening the organization, as well as to sustain a stable level of shareholder returns.

In consideration of the business performance during the fiscal year under review and future business expansion and other factors, the end-of-term dividend for FY2025 is proposed as follows.

  1. Type of dividend property Cash

  2. Matters concerning allocation of dividend property to shareholders and the total amount thereof

    ¥144 per share of common stock of the Company Total amount: ¥11,023,484,112

  3. Effective date of dividends from surplus December 16, 2025

Proposal 2: Partial amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
  1. Reasons for the amendments

    GMO Internet Group continues to operate based on the principles of the GMOism. By continuing to uphold and practice the GMOism, we aim to create new Internet culture and industries, bring "smiles" and "inspiration" to our customers, contribute to society and people's lives, and realize the vision of "Internet for Everyone." To clarify our corporate philosophy, we have incorporated the GMOism, which forms the foundation of GMO Internet Group, into the Articles of Incorporation.

    Note: GMOism is the collective name for GMO Internet Group's unchanging goals, including "Venture Spirit Declaration."

  2. Details of amendments

Details of amendments are as follows. These amendments to the Articles of Incorporation will take effect at the conclusion of this Meeting of Shareholders.

(Underlined portions are amended.)

Current articles of incorporation

Proposed amendments

Article 1

Omitted

Article 1

(no changes)

Article 2 (Founding spirit of GMO Internet Group)

As a member of the GMO Internet Group, the Company upholds the "Venture Spirit Declaration," which is the founding spirit of the Group, with the goal to contribute to the society and its people. To achieve this, the Company focuses its management resources on providing Internet "platform," and as one of the "leading comprehensive Internet service groups in Japan," offers enriching and exciting Internet related services and creates new Internet cultures and industries, while moving customers and making them smile.

Article 2 (GMOism)

As a member of the GMO Internet Group, the Company upholds the "Venture Spirit Declaration" which embodies the entrepreneurial spirit since the founding of the Group and which forms the bedrock of GMOism. To achieve this, the Company focuses its management resources on providing Internet "platform," and as one of the "leading comprehensive Internet service groups in Japan," offers enriching and exciting Internet related services and creates new Internet cultures and industries, while moving customers and making them smile.

Article 3 to Article 35

Omitted

Article 3 to Article 35

(no changes)

Proposal 3: Election of nine (9) directors (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members)

The terms of office of all the eleven (11) directors (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) will expire at the conclusion of this Meeting of Shareholders. Accordingly, to enhance the efficiency of the management structure, the Company proposes to reduce the number of directors (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) by two (2) and to elect nine (9) directors (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members).

The Audit and Supervisory Committee votes in favor of the proposal because the reasons for selecting each of the candidates for the position of director (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) are appropriate.

The candidates for the positions of director (excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) are as follows:

No.

Name

Position

Responsibilities

Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors (Fiscal year 2025)

1

Reappoint-ment

Issei Ainoura

President & Chief Executive Officer

-

16/17 meetings (94%)

2

Reappoint-ment

Masatoshi Kumagai

Chairman & Director

-

15/17 meetings (88%)

3

Reappoint-ment

Ryu Muramatsu

Director, Executive Vice President

General Manager of Corporate Value Creation Strategy Division

17/17 meetings (100%)

4

Reappoint-ment

Masashi Yasuda

Director

-

17/17 meetings (100%)

5

Reappoint-ment

Hirofumi Yamashita

Director

-

16/17 meetings (94%)

6

Reappoint-ment

Noriko Inagaki

Director

-

17/17 meetings (100%)

7

Reappoint-ment

Yuki Kawasaki

Director

-

17/17 meetings (100%)

8

Reappoint-ment

Takashi Shimahara

Director

-

17/17 meetings (100%)

9

Reappoint-ment External Independent

Fumio Kai

Director

-

15/17 meetings (88%)

Note: In addition to the above number of meetings of the Board of Directors, there was one written resolution that is deemed to have been approved by the Board of Directors pursuant to Article 370 of the Companies Act and Article 22 of the Company's Articles of Incorporation.

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