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RNS Number : 9841L

Equals Group PLC

18 May 2022

18 May 2022

Equals Group plc

('Equals' or the 'Company')

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Equals (AIM:EQLS), a leading fintech payments group focused on the SME marketplace, announces that it was today notified that Richard Cooper, Chief Financial Officer , purchased 33,334 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') on 18 May 2022 at a price of 86.75 pence per share.

In addition, Richard Cooper has exercised and retained 666,666 vested options at a price of 29 pence per Ordinary Share under the 2020 Long Term Incentive Plan, having subscribed GBP193,333.14 for these Ordinary Shares.

Subsequent to this purchase and exercise of share options, Richard Cooper now holds 850,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.47% of the Company's issued share capital.

Application has been made for the 666,666 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ('Admission'). Admission is expected to occur at 8:00am on 24 May 2022.

Following Admission, the Company will have 180,712,473 ordinary shares of 1p each in issue admitted to trading on AIM. The Company holds no shares in Treasury. Accordingly, the above figure may be used as the denominator for the calculations by which shareholders will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The following disclosures are made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014.

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                          Richard Cooper 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status               Chief Financial Officer 
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 b)   Initial notification          Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)   Name                     Equals Group plc 
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 b)   LEI                      213800CPI5S2GYB3RI27 
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 4    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
       (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
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 a)   Description              Ordinary Shares of GBP0.01 each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument       ISIN: GB00BLS0XX25 
       Identification 
       code 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of the            Acquisition of 33,334 ordinary shares 
       transaction 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s) and              Price    No. of shares 
       volume(s)                 86.75p   33,334 
                                         -------------- 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information               n/a - single transaction 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the              18 May 2022 
       transaction 
     -----------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of the             London Stock Exchange, AIM 
       transaction 
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      Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
  1    / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                  Richard Cooper 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
      Reason for the notification 
  2 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status       Chief Financial Officer 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial               Initial 
       notification 
       /Amendment 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
  3    auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                  Equals Group plc 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                   213800CPI5S2GYB3RI27 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
      Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated 
  4    for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Description 
       of the financial       Ordinary shares of 1p each 
       instrument, 
       type of                ISIN: GB00BLS0XX25 
       instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of             Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares 
       the transaction 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                Price(s)         Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)                29 pence    666,666 
                                               ---------- 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information            N/A - single transaction 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of               18 May 2022 
       the transactions 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of              Outside a trading venue 
       the transactions 
     --------------------  --------------------------------------------- 
 

- Ends -

For more information, please contact:

 
 Equals Group plc 
 Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO                Tel: +44 (0) 20 7778 
  Richard Cooper, CFO                                     9308 
                                             www.equalsplc.com 
 Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor 
  / Broker) 
 Max Hartley / Georgina McCooke           Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 
  Alex Aylen (Sales)                                      8150 
 Buchanan (Financial Communications) 
 Henry Harrison-Topham / Steph Whitmore   Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 
  / Toto Berger                                           5000 
  equals@buchanan.uk.com                   www.buchanan.uk.com 
 

Notes to Editors:

Equals Group is a technology-led international payments group augmented by highly personalised service for the payment needs of SMEs whether these be FX, card payments or via Faster Payments. Founded in 2007, the Group listed on AIM in 2014 and currently employs around 265 staff across sites in London and Chester. For more information, please visit www.equalsplc.com .

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