24th Jan 2020 10:00
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO. 596/2014 ("MAR"). UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
24 January 2020
Finablr plc, "Finablr" or "the Company", the global platform for payments and foreign exchange solutions, announces that it received notification on 24 January 2020 that 392,220,890 shares, representing 56.03% of the Company, have been pledged by BRS Investment Holdings 1 Limited as a security for borrowings raised by BRS Ventures & Holdings Limited. Those borrowings date from 25 March 2016 and were used to refinance an acquisition facility borrowed by BRS Ventures & Holdings Limited in connection with the acquisition, by its subsidiary UTX Holdings Limited, of Travelex Holdings Limited on 29 January 2015. The original amount of the borrowing has been reduced by sums received by BRS Investment Holdings 1 Limited, BRS Investment Holdings 2 Limited and BRS Investment Holdings 3 Limited from the IPO of the Company on 20 May 2019 and other cashflows of entities belonging to the BRS Group.
The notification of dealing form of BRS Investment Holdings 1 Limited can be found below.
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Persons Discharging Manager Responsibilities (PDMR) and Closely Associated Person (CAP) Notification Form
PDMR Notification Form Page | ||||||||||
Mandatory fields are denoted by an * | ||||||||||
1 - Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / closely associated person
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Must complete either for a natural person or a legal person. If completing for a legal person, please include the legal form as provided for in the register where it is incorporated, if applicable. | ||||||||||
First Name(s) | Last Name(s) | |||||||||
Name of natural person * | ||||||||||
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Legal Person * | BRS Investment Holdings 1 Limited | |||||||||
2 - Reason for the notification
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Must complete either for a natural person or a legal person. If completing for a legal person, please include the legal form as provided for in the register where it is incorporated, if applicable. | ||||||||||
For persons discharging managerial responsibilities: the position occupied within the issuer, emission allowance market participant / auction platform / auctioneer / auction monitor should be indicated e.g. CEO, CFO. | ||||||||||
For persons closely associated with: ·; An indication that the notification concerns a closely associated person with a person discharging managerial responsibilities; ·; Name and position of - the relevant person discharging managerial responsibilities | ||||||||||
Position/status * | This notification concerns a person closely associated with Dr Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty and Binay Shetty, each of whom is a Director of Finablr plc (i.e. a PDMR) | |||||||||
Initial notification / Amendment * | This is an initial notification | |||||||||
In case of amendment, please enter the previous notification reference number and explain the error that this notification is amending. | ||||||||||
3 - Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Full name of the entity* | Finablr plc | |||||||||
Legal Entity Identifier code | 2138005C7F6N115PM802 | |||||||||
In accordance with ISO 1744 LEI code. | ||||||||||
4 - Details of the transaction(s)
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted. | ||||||||||
Add Transaction(s) | ||||||||||
Transaction(s) summary table
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AggregatedPrice
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AggregatedVolume |
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23 January 2020 |
Pledge of shares |
Nil |
392,220,890 |
392,220,890 | ||||||
Add Transaction(s)
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Mandatory fields are denoted by an * | |||||||||
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument *
| Ordinary shares of £0.01 each | ||||||||
Identification Code * |
| GB00BJ7HMW26 | |||||||
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Nature of transaction * |
| Pledge of shares for security. Voting rights in relation to the shares being pledged remain with BRS Investment Holdings 1 Limited. | |||||||
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Currency * |
| GBP |
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Prices(s) and volumes(s) * |
| 392,220,890 shares | |||||||
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Where more than one transaction of the same nature (purchases, sales, lendings, borrows, …) on the same financial instrument or emission allowance are executed on the same day and on the same place of transaction, prices and volumes of these transactions shall be reported in this field, in a two columns form as presented above, inserting as many lines as needed. |
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Using the data standards for price and quantity, including where applicable the price currency and the quantity currency, as defined under Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the reporting of transactions to competent authorities adopted under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014. | |||||||||
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Aggregated Information
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Date of Transaction *
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| 2020-01-23 | |||||||
Date of the particular day of execution of the notified transacton. Using the ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD; Date of trade in UTC time | |||||||||
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Place of transaction * Name and code to identify the MiFID trading venue, the systematic internaliser or the organised trading platform outside of the Union where the transaction was executed as defined under Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the reporting of transactions to competent authorities adopted under Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014, or if the transaction was not executed on any of the above mentioned venues, please mention 'outside a trading venue'.
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Enquiries
Finablr
Ryan Ayache, Head of Investor Relations +971 56 681 53 21
Faiz Akbar Habib, Head of Group Communications +971 52 623 11 13 / +44 7912 895375
Robert Moorhouse, Group Company Secretary +44 7825 213767
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