Vipera PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (3132S)

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RNS Number : 3132S

Vipera PLC

25 June 2018

For immediate release 25 June 2018

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of

Regulation 596/2014.   Information in this announcement is also communicated pursuant to rule 2.9. 

VIPERA PLC

("Vipera" or the "Group" or the "Company")

Exercise of warrants and total voting rights

Vipera, the specialist provider of mobile financial services, has been notified of the exercise of warrants to subscribe for 5,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") at an exercise price of 4p by Luciano Martucci, Chairman (the "Subscription").

Following the Subscription, Mr Martucci's holding in the enlarged share capital of the Company will be:

Ordinary shares:

 
                                  Percentage      Number 
                      Number      of Ordinary   of Ordinary                     Percentage 
                    of Ordinary     Shares        Shares         Number         of Ordinary 
                      Shares      held prior     acquired      of Ordinary         Shares 
                       prior        to the       pursuant         Shares       held following 
                      to the       exercise       to the      held following    the exercise 
                     exercise     of warrants    exercise      the exercise     of warrants 
                    of warrants       (%)       of warrants    of warrants          (%) 
Luciano Martucci        890,000         0.28%     5,000,000        5,890,000            1.81% 
 

The ISIN number of the ordinary shares is GB00B5M62J37.

Total Voting Rights

Application has been made for the 5,000,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission is expected to occur at 8.00a.m. on 26 June 2018.

Following Admission, the Company will have 325,429,725 Ordinary Shares in issue, each with voting rights, which figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.

There are now 12,000,000 warrants and 9,675,000 options outstanding, representing 6.66% of the issued capital.

Contact:

 
 Vipera PLC 
  Marco Casartelli (CEO)                 Tel: [phone] 
  Martin Perrin (CFO)                    2037 
                                         Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                                         7193 0833 
 finnCap Ltd (Nomad and Broker)        Tel: +44 (0) 20 
  Adrian Hargrave / Anthony Adams       7220 0500 
  (Corporate Finance) 
  Camille Gochez (Corporate Broking) 
 IFC Advisory Ltd (Financial           Tel: +44 (0) 203 
  PR and IR)                            934 6630 
  Tim Metcalfe 
  Heather Armstrong 
  Florence Chandler 
 

About Vipera:

Vipera Plc (AIM:VIP) a cutting edge Mobile Financial Services and Digital Customer Engagement Solutions provider, serves financial institutions and retailers worldwide with differentiated mobile banking, card management and customer engagement capabilities based around its proprietary bank grade multi-purpose platform, Motif. Additionally, it provides consultancy and other services to banks and financial institutions. For further information, please visit www.vipera.com.

 
1.   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person 
      closely associated 
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(a)   Name                                                                    Luciano Martucci 
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2.    Reason for the notification 
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(b)   Position /                                                              Chairman 
       status 
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(c)   Initial notification                                                    Initial notification 
       / amendment 
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3.    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
       or auction monitor 
---  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
(a)   Name                                                                    Vipera plc 
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(b)   LEI                                                                     N/A 
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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                                                             Ordinary shares of 1 pence per share 
       of the financial                                                       GB00B5M62J37 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
(b)   Nature of                                                               Exercise of warrants 
       the transaction 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
(c)   Price(s) and                                                             Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       volume(s)                                                               ---------  ---------- 
                                                                                4p         5,000,000 
                                                                               ---------  ---------- 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
(d)   Aggregated                                                             Exercise of warrants to subscribe 
       information                                                           for 5,000,000 new ordinary shares 
       Aggregated                                                            in the Company at a price of 4 pence 
       volume Price 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
(e)   Date of the                                                             22 June 2018 
       transaction 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
(f)   Place of the                                                           London Stock Exchange 
       transaction 
---  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------- 
 
 

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