Director and PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7718V

IG Group Holdings plc

30 October 2014

 



IG Group Holdings plc
30 October 2014

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND OTHER PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY ("PDMRs")

IG Group Holdings Plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, gives notice of the following transactions carried out in respect of the Company's ordinary shares of 0.005p each (the "Ordinary Shares") by an Executive Director and PDMRs as set out below.

This notice is being issued in accordance with DTR 3.1.4R(1).

1.    Value Sharing Scheme: Exercise of nil-cost options

As disclosed in RNS 4155V, on 29 October 2010 the Company granted a number of options to the Executive Directors and PDMRs under the Company's Value Sharing Plan. The performance period for the awards was 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013. The awards vest in two tranches, 50% on 22 October 2013 and 50%, 12 months later. On 29 October 2014, the Company received exercise notices from Peter Hetherington, Jackie Bornor  and Bridget Messer exercising the second tranche of their nil‑cost options vesting on 29 October 2014.

Full details of the options exercised are set out in the table below:

Director/PDMR	Date and place of transaction	Nature of transaction	Price per share
Peter Hetherington	29/10/14 London	Exercise of nil-cost options to acquire 10,661 Ordinary Shares under the Company's Value Sharing Plan, following the award made in 2010, vesting in 2014.	Nil
Jackie Bornor (PDMR - Head of HR)	29/10/14 London	Exercise of  nil-cost options to acquire 1,919  Ordinary Shares under the Company's Value Sharing Plan following the award made in 2010, vesting in 2014.	Nil
Bridget Messer (PDMR - Head of Legal & Compliance and Company Secretary)	29/10/14 London	Exercise of  nil-cost options to acquire 4,264  Ordinary Shares under the Company's Value Sharing Plan following the award made in 2010, vesting in 2014.	Nil

2.    Shares sales

On 30 October 2014, the Company received notice of the following share sales made by Peter Hetherington, Jackie Bornor and Bridget Messer:

Director/PDMR	Date and place of transaction	Nature of transaction	Price per share	Shareholding prior to transactions	Shareholding following transactions
Peter Hetherington	30/10/14 London	Sale of 5,029 Ordinary Shares	£5.9762	124,267 Ordinary Shares	129,899 Ordinary Shares
Jackie Bornor (PDMR - Head of HR)	30/10/14 London	Sale of 1,919 Ordinary Shares	£5.9762	N/A	N/A
Bridget Messer (PDMR - Head of Legal & Compliance and Company Secretary)	30/10/14 London	Sale of 4,264 Ordinary Shares	£5.9762	N/A	N/A

For further information, please contact:

IG Group

Kieran McKinney

Head of Investor Relations          020 7573 0026

FTI Consulting

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry     020 3727 1141 / 1046

IG is a global leader in online trading, providing fast and flexible access to over 10,000 financial markets - including shares, indices, forex, commodities and binaries.

Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, IG's aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally. It is already an award-winning multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex, and it launched an execution-only stockbroking service in the UK and Ireland in September 2014.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the US, where it offers limited risk derivatives contracts via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX, published financial statements, July 2014.

 

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