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TBC Bank Group PLC ("TBC PLC")
Admission to Trading on the London Stock Exchange
TBC PLC announces that an application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange for 212,991 new ordinary shares of TBC PLC (the "Scrip Dividend Shares") to be admitted to the premium segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to be traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange for listed securities ("Admission").
The Scrip Dividend Shares will be issued pursuant to the terms of a scrip dividend programme in respect of the final dividend declared on 12 August 2022, and will rank pari passu in all respects with TBC PLC's existing ordinary shares. It is expected that Admission of the Scrip Dividend Shares will become effective at 8:00 a.m. on 14 October 2022.
Total voting rights
Following Admission, TBC PLC will have 55,692,411 ordinary shares in issue of which 406,865 are held by TBC PLC in Treasury. The total number of voting rights that may be used by shareholders in TBC PLC as the denominator for calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of TBC PLC under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules will therefore be 55,285,546.
ENDS
For further enquiries, please contact:
Director of International Media and Investor Relations
Zoltan Szalai
Or
Head of Investor Relations
Anna Romelashvili
ir@tbcbank.com.ge
About TBC Bank Group PLC ("TBC PLC")
TBC Bank Group PLC ("TBC PLC") is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. TBC PLC is the parent company of JSC TBC Bank ("TBC Bank") and a group of companies that principally operate in Georgia in the financial sector and other closely related fields. TBC PLC also recently expanded its operations in Uzbekistan. TBC PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TBCG and is a constituent of FTSE 250 Index. It is also a member of the FTSE4Good Index Series and the MSCI United Kingdom Small Cap Index.
TBC Bank, together with its subsidiaries, is a leading universal banking group in Georgia, with a total market share of 39.1% of customer loans and 40.7% of customer deposits as of 30 June 2022, according to data published by the National Bank of Georgia.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The securities referred to herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or under the securities law of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States or to U.S. persons, except pursuant to an applicable exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. No public offering of the securities will be made in the United States.