Regulatory News

Director/PDMR Shareholding

27 September 2019

Equals, the e-banking and payments group, today announces that John Pearson, Non-Executive Chairman, has purchased 27,500 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company at a price of 90p per share. Following this purchase, John has a total shareholding in the Group of 27,500 ordinary shares.

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 John Pearson
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status Non-Executive Chairman
b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Equals Group plc
b) LEI 213800CPI5S2GYB3RI27
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
a) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary shares of 1p each
ISIN: GB00BLS0XX25
b) Nature of the transaction Purchase of ordinary shares
c) Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
90p per share 27,500
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e) Date of the transactions 27 September 2019
f) Place of the transactions London Stock Exchange - AIM

 

Contact:

Equals Group plc
Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO
+44 (0) 20 7778 9308

Cenkos Securities plc
Max Hartley/Callum Davidson
Nick Searle

+44 (0) 20 7397 8900
Canaccord Genuity
Bobbie Hilliam / David Tyrrell
Alex Aylen
+44 (0)20 7523 8150
Yellow Jersey
Charles Goodwin
Joe Burgess
Annabel Atkins
+44 (0) 7747 788 221
+44 (0) 7946 424 651

 

About Equals

Equals is a leading challenger brand in banking and payments that disintermediates the incumbent banks with a superior user experience and low-cost operating model. Our business enables personal and business customers to make easy, low-cost payments both domestically and in a broad range of currencies and across a range of products all via one integrated system. The Equals platform facilitates payments either direct to Bank Accounts or at 35 million merchants and over 1 million ATM's in a broad range of countries globally via Mobile apps, the Internet, SMS, wire transfer and MasterCard/VISA debit cards.

Equals provides money movement services to both personal and business customers through four channels: Currency Cards, Physical Currency, International Payments and Bank Accounts. The Currency Card and Physical Currency offerings facilitate multiple overseas payments at points of sale and ATM's whereas the International Payments channel supports wire transfer foreign exchange transactions direct to Bank Accounts. For Corporates, Equals has a market-leading business-expenses solution based around its corporate platform and prepaid card. This service can yield significant savings on a Corporate's expenses and procurement both domestically and overseas, through better controls and improved transparency. The platform also streamlines the downstream administrative processes and integrates into accounting software, thus saving costs. Equals offers retail and business bank accounts with all the functionality you would expect from a bank, namely faster payments, BACs, direct debits, international payments and a debit card.