Update on Loan Note Subscriptions

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21 November 2016

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")

Update on Loan Note Subscriptions

Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Generation ("NLG"), today provides an update on the Company's progress.

Loan note subscriptions

As announced on 3 October 2016, Arria has received agreement for subscriptions for approximately £2.7 million of unsecured convertible loan notes (the "Loan Notes"). As at the date of this announcement, the Company has received £1.1 million of the £2.7 million relating to the Loan Notes and expects to receive the balance of approximately £1.6 million by 15 December 2016, in accordance with the terms of the subscription agreements. It should be noted that, as the underlying Loan Note subscriptions are denominated in US dollars, the final amounts received from the subscribers may be impacted by foreign exchange differences.

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Arria NLG

Arria NLG's core product is known as the Arria NLG Platform, a form of artificial intelligence software, specialised in extracting information from complex data sources and communicating that information in natural language (i.e. as if written by a human). The scientific foundation for the Arria NLG Platform is based on more than 30 years of research and development by the Arria Data2Text Limited founders at the University of Aberdeen. For additional information, visit www.arria.com. Follow Arria NLG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.