Exercise of Options, Director/PCA Dealings & TVR

PCI-PAL PLC

27 March 2024

 

27 March 2024

PCI-PAL PLC

("PCI Pal", the "Company" or "the Group")

Exercise of Options, Director/PCA Dealings

& Total Voting Rights

PCI-PAL PLC (AIM: PCIP), the global cloud provider of secure payment solutions for business communications, announces that it has been notified of an exercise of options ("Options") over ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") by William Good, CFO of the Company, and the acquisition of Ordinary Shares by William Good.

The transactions undertaken by William Good were:

·      Exercise of options over 200,000 Ordinary Shares ("the Option Shares") at an exercise price of 40p;

·      Sale of 200,000 Ordinary Shares at 56p;

·      Purchase of 225,000 Ordinary Shares at 56p; and

·      Purchase of 25,000 Ordinary Shares at 55.777p.

Further to the transactions above, William Good holds 630,000 Ordinary Shares through his pension, and his wife holds 21,052 through her ISA.  As a result, William Good together with his wife have, in aggregate, an interest over 651,032 shares representing 0.9% of the current share capital of the Company.  

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the Option Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that Admission will be effective and dealings will commence in respect of the Option Shares at 8.00 a.m. on 3 April 2024.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 72,149,818 Ordinary Shares. The Company holds 167,229 Ordinary Shares in Treasury. Therefore, on Admission, the total number of voting rights will be 71,982,589. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

PCI-PAL PLC	Via Walbrook PR
James Barham - Chief Executive Officer William Good - Chief Financial Officer
Cavendish Capital Market Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Marc Milmo/Simon Hicks/Fergus Sullivan (Corporate Finance) Sunila De Silva (Corporate Broking)
Walbrook PR	[phone]
Tom Cooper/Joseph Walker	[phone]
	[e-mail]

About PCI Pal:

PCI Pal is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") solutions that empower companies to take payments from their customers securely, adhere to strict industry governance, and remove their business from the significant risks posed by non-compliance and data loss. Our products secure payments and data in any business communications environment including voice, chat, social, email, and contact centre. We are integrated to, and resold by, some of the worlds' leading business communications vendors, as well as major payment service providers.

The entirety of our product-base is available from our global cloud platform hosted in Amazon Web Services ("AWS"), with regional instances across EMEA, North America, and ANZ.

For more information visit www.pcipal.com or follow the team on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pci-pal/

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	William Good
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Chief Financial Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	PCI PAL PLC
b)	LEI:	213800XTX34IQYMYES95
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1 pence each ISIN Code: GB0009737155
b)	Nature of the transaction:	a)   Exercise of Options b)   Sale of Ordinary Shares c)   Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) a)   40 pence b)   56 pence c)   56 pence 55.777 pence 200,000 200,000 225,000 25,000
d)	Aggregated information: ·      Aggregated volume: ·      Price:	Purchased 250,000 Ordinary Shares 55.97 pence
e)	Dates of the transactions:	26 March 2024
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange

 

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