11 March 2015
FBD Holdings plc
Withdrawal of TR1 Notification
The following is the text of a letter received from FMR LLC today:
FBD Holdings plc
FBD House,
Bluebell,
Dublin 12,
Ireland .
11th March 2015
Withdrawal of notification of voting rights - Notification dated 22nd August 2014
To whom it may concern,
In the name and on behalf of FMR LLC, 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210, USA, we hereby withdraw our notification of voting rights dated 22 August 2014. It has been established this filing was made unnecessarily, based on a slight miscalculation of the voting rights attributable to FMR LLC. In reality FMR LLC did not cross below the 5% threshold in FBD Holdings Plc on 22 August 2014. We can confirm that as of 10th March 2015, FMR LLC holdings in FBD Holdings Plc remain above the 5% threshold at 5.16%.
Please note that the Central Bank of Ireland have also been notified of this notice of withdrawal.
The person to contact with respect to this notification is via email at fil-regreporting@fil.com.
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Sally-Ann Hatton, Regulatory Reporting. Duly authorized under Powers of Attorney effective May 11, 2012 by Scott Goebel by and on behalf of FMR LLC and its direct and indirect subsidiaries