Regulatory News

Further to the announcement dated 16 August 2019, Equals Group PLC, the e-banking and international payments group, is pleased to confirm that the 12,727,000 Placing Shares were admitted to trading at 8.00 a.m today. Accordingly, as at today's date, the Company's issued share capital comprises 177,929,079 Ordinary Shares, each with voting rights.

As previously announced, the latest time and date for receipt of completed Application Forms and payment in full under the Open Offer or settlement of relevant CREST instruction (as appropriate) is 11.00 a.m. on 3 September 2019. The results of the Open Offer are expected to be announced on 4 September 2019.

Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement shall have the same meaning as set out in the announcement of the Placing and Open Offer dated 16 August 2019.

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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.