Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4233H

IG Group Holdings plc

31 July 2019

 

IG Group Holdings plc

LEI No: 2138003A5Q1M7ANOUD76

 31 July 2019

DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING - ALLOTMENT OF SHARES TO EMPLOYEE BENEFITS TRUST

IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, announces that the Company was today notified by the IG Group Limited Employee Benefit Trust (the "Trust") that the Trust has today been allotted 595,000 ordinary shares of 0.005p each in the share capital of the Company (the "Shares") at nominal value.

The Trust holds the Shares for the purpose of satisfying awards to the beneficiaries of the Trust under the IG Group Sustained Performance Plan. Executive Directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility are potential beneficiaries under the Trust and are therefore treated as having an interest in such shares.

For further information, please contact:

 IG Group

Liz Scorer                                             020 7573 0727

[e-mail]

FTI Consulting

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry                     020 3727 1141 / 1046

About IG

IG empowers informed, decisive, adventurous people to access opportunities in over 16,000 financial markets. With a strong focus on innovation and technology, the Company puts client needs at the heart of everything it does.

IG's vision is to provide the world's best trading experience. Established in 1974 as the world's first financial derivatives firm, it continued leading the way by launching the world's first online and iPhone trading services.

IG is an award-winning, multi-platform trading Company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex. It provides leveraged services with the option of limited-risk guarantees and offers an execution-only stock trading service in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. IG has a range of affordable, fully managed investment portfolios, which provide a comprehensive offering to investors and active traders.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, including a Swiss bank, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the US, where it offers on-exchange limited risk derivatives via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX (from published financial statements, June 2019).

 

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