23 Oct 2017 10:50
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Earthport Plc
("Earthport" or the "Company")
Results of General Meeting
Earthport (AIM: EPO) is pleased to announce that at a general meeting of the Company held earlier today all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed.
Application has been made for 125,000,000 new ordinary shares, pursuant to the placing announced on 4 October 2017, to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will occur at 8.00 a.m. on 24 October 2017.
Following admission of the new ordinary shares, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will comprise 613,190,409 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change in the interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Ends
Enquiries:
Earthport plc Hank Uberoi, Chief Executive Officer Simon Adamiyatt, Chief Financial Officer
| +44 20 7220 9700
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N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker) Mark Taylor / Michael Taylor / James White
| +44 20 7496 3000 |
Shore Capital (Joint Broker) Toby Gibbs
| +44 20 7408 4090 |
Newgate Bob Huxford / James Ash
| +44 20 7653 9848 |
Notes to Editors
About Earthport
Earthport provides cross-border payment services to banks and businesses. Through a single relationship with Earthport, clients can seamlessly manage payments to almost any bank account in the world, reducing costs and complexity to meet their customers' evolving expectations of price, speed and transparency.
Earthport offers clients access to global payment capability in 190+ countries and territories, with local ACH options in 65+ countries and an evolving suite of currencies and settlement options.
Earthport continues to invest in the establishment of in-country bank partnerships across the world, bringing together its deep market and regulatory expertise in order to maintain compliant and commercially competitive services.
The result - a global payments network accessed via a single relationship, delivering significant cost and operating efficiencies for banks and businesses servicing high volumes of lower value payments.
Headquartered in London with regional offices in New York, Dubai, Miami and Singapore, Earthport is a public company, traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: EPO) with an institutional investor base including World Bank IFC, Oppenheimer, Blackrock, Henderson.
Please visit www.earthport.com for more information.
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