Appointment of Joint Corporate Broker

RNS Number : 3264F

Playtech PLC

20 February 2018

 

Playtech plc

("Playtech," or the "Company")

 Appointment of Joint Corporate Broker

Playtech (LSE: PTEC) is pleased to announce the appointment of UBS as joint corporate broker to the Company with immediate effect. UBS will work alongside Goodbody, Playtech's existing corporate broker.

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For further information contact:

Playtech plc Mor Weizer, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Smith, Chief Financial Officer c/o Buchanan Communications James Newman, Head of Investor Relations	[phone] [phone]
Goodbody Stockbrokers Piers Coombs / David Kearney / Charlotte Craigie UBS Investment Bank                          Rahul Luthra Sandip Dhillon Buchanan Communications David Rydell Stephanie Watson Jamie Hooper	[phone] [phone] [phone]

About Playtech

Playtech is a market leader in the gambling and financial trading industries. Founded in 1999 and listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (LEI code: 21380068TTB6Z9ZEU548), Playtech has c. 5,000 employees in 17 countries.

Playtech is the gambling industry's leading software and services supplier to many of the world's leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.

It is the pioneer of omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution. Playtech's Financials division operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Its B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Its B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.

About UBS

UBS Limited ("UBS") is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom. UBS is acting exclusively as joint corporate broker and adviser to Playtech plc and no one else for the purpose of the matters discussed herein and will not be responsible to anyone other than Playtech plc for providing the protections offered to clients of UBS nor for providing advice in relation to the subject matter of this announcement or any transaction, arrangement or other matter referred to herein.

 

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