Director/PDMR Shareholding

29 March 2016

Earthport plc

("Earthport", the "Company" or the "Group")

Director / PDMR Shareholding

Earthport plc (AIM: EPO.L) today announces that John B. McCoy (Non-Executive Director) bought in the open market 500,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the capital of the company on Thursday, 24th March 2016. 

Following this, Mr McCoy's aggregate interest in Earthport totals to 1,050,000 ordinary shares, representing 0.22 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

For further information, please contact:

Earthport plc 020 7220 9700

Hank Uberoi, Chief Executive Officer

Simon Adamiyatt, Chief Financial Officer

Panmure Gordon (Nomad and Joint Broker) 020 7886 2500

Fred Walsh / Charles Leigh-Pemberton/ Duncan Monteith

N+1 Singer (Joint Broker) 020 7496 3000

Shaun Dobson / James White

Shore Capital (Joint Broker) 020 7408 4090

Bidhi Bhoma / Toby Gibbs

Newgate Communications 020 7653 9848

Bob Huxford / Helena Bogle

About Earthport:

Earthport plc is a financial services organisation providing cross-border payments services to banks, e-commerce providers, money transfer companies and payment administrators. Earthport is headquartered in London with regional offices in New York, Miami, Dubai and Singapore.

One of the FinTech50 2015 - judged to be the game-changers transforming the future of finance - Earthport is also the winner of the Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards 2015 Technology company of the year award and FStech/Retail Systems' B2B Payments Innovation of the Year (2014).

Earthport provides the industry with access to a global payment network through a single contract, a single technical integration, and a single service relationship. Worldwide, more than 50 banks are connected into Earthport's network for the efficient clearing of low value payments. Through a single relationship, clients benefit from sophisticated validation, message transformation and compliance services, efficiently serving their customers with more innovative payment products.

Earthport is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange.

Earthport plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Service Regulations 2009 for the provision of payment services.

Find out more at www.earthport.com 

and on Twitter @Earthport, LinkedIn, Youtube, Slideshare and Google+.