Result of EGM

RNS Number : 6669N

Plus500 Limited

21 January 2019

 

 

21 January 2019

Plus500 Ltd.

("Plus500" or "the Company") 

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Result of EGM

Plus500, a leading online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, is pleased to announce that at the Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of the Company held today 21 January 2019, all resolutions were duly passed.

For information, the votes cast were as follows:

Resolutions	For	% Votes cast	Against	% Votes cast	Total Votes Cast (excl. Votes Withheld)	Vote Withheld
1.  Increase in fees payable to Ms Penelope Judd as Chairman	76,273,101	98.67	1,031,055	1.33	77,304,156	6,000
2.  Increase in fees payable to Mr Charles Fairbairn as Senior Non-Executive Director	76,273,101	98.67	1,031,055	1.33	77,304,156	6,000
3.  Increase in fees payable to Mr Steven Baldwin as Non-Executive Director	77,213,529	99.89	87,572	0.11	77,301,101	9,055
4.  Increase in fees payable to Mr Daniel King as Non-Executive Director	77,213,529	99.89	87,572	0.11	77,301,101	9,055
5.  Increase to service fees to Wavesoft Ltd for Gal Haber's services as Executive Director and MD	76,336,929	98.75	964,172	1.25	77,301,101	9,055
6.  Remuneration terms for Asaf Elimelech	39,723,986	52.45	36,014,411	47.55	75,738,397	1,571,759
7. Remuneration terms for Elad Even-Chen	39,473,053	52.12	36,265,344	47.88	75,738,397	1,571,759

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against the resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all the resolutions passed will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.   A summary of the poll results in respect of each resolution is set out above.

The Board of Plus500 notes that there have been a number of votes (more than 20%) cast against Resolutions 6 and 7, as above.  The Board proposed these resolutions for the reasons set out in its Notice of EGM. These resolutions introduced a number of measures to transition towards UK Corporate Governance standards. However, the Board, with the support of the Remuneration Committee, takes these votes seriously, and will consider shareholder feedback to ensure it is better understood and implemented as appropriate. The Board also reiterates its commitment to achieving the highest governance standards.

The total number of shares in issue at 6.00pm on 18 January 2019 was 114,888,377 ordinary shares of NIS0.01 each of which the Company holds 1,196,109 ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in Plus500 are 113,692,268.

The Notice of EGM and the voting results are also available on the Plus500 Ltd. website at www.plus500.com 

Enquiries

For further details:

Plus500 Ltd Elad Even-Chen, Chief Financial Officer Kieran McKinney, Investor Relations [e-mail]	Tel: [phone]
Liberum - Joint Broker Clayton Bush, Christopher Britton, Josh Hughes, William Hall www.liberum.com	Tel: [phone]
Berenberg - Joint Broker Chris Bowman, Mark Whitmore www.berenberg.de/en	Tel: [phone]
MHP Communications Reg Hoare, Tim Rowntree, Kelsey Traynor, Pete Lambie [e-mail]	Tel: [phone]

About Plus500

Plus500 operates an online trading platform for individual customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 2,200 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, indices, commodities, options, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange. Individual customers of Plus500 can trade CFDs in more than 50 countries and in 32 languages. The trading platform is also accessible from multiple operating systems (Windows, smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), tablets (iOS, Android and Surface) and web browsers). Plus500 retains operating licences and is regulated in the United Kingdom, Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore.  Customer care is integral to Plus500: customers cannot be subject to negative balances and there are no commissions on trades. Plus500 does not utilise cold calling techniques and does not offer binary options.  A free demo account is available on an unlimited basis for platform users and sophisticated risk management tools are provided free of charge to manage your leveraged exposure and stop losses to help customers protect profits and limit capital losses.www.plus500.com

 

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