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OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.
This announcement does not
contain, constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to sell
or subscribe or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or
subscribe for any securities in any jurisdiction, and neither
this announcement (nor any part of it) nor the fact of its
distribution form the basis of, or may be relied upon in
connection with, or act as any inducement to enter into, any
contract or commitment whatsoever.
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 871,937 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 16 February 2024, 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 19 July 2024.
Total voting rights
Total voting rights with effect from 19 July
2024: Following Admission, TBC PLC
will have 56,205,612 ordinary shares in issue of which none are
held 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 56,205,612.
Correction to Total Voting Rights
announcement of 1 July 2024: On 1 July 2024, TBC PLC announced that
its total voting rights figure as at 30 June 2024 was 55,378,777
whilst the figure as at 30 June 2024 should have been
55,361,967.
For
further enquiries, please contact:
Director of Investor
Relations
Andrew Keeley
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.
TBC PLC also offers non-financial services via TNET, the largest
digital ecosystem in Georgia. Since 2019, TBC PLC has expanded
its operations into Uzbekistan by operating fast growing
retail digital financial services in the country. TBC PLC is listed
on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TBCG and is a
constituent of the 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 39.5% of
customer deposits as of 31 March 2024, according to data published
by the National Bank of Georgia on the analytical tool
Tableau.
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.