Result of AGM

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Funding Circle Holdings PLC
05 June 2019
 

5 June 2019

 

Funding Circle Holdings plc

Poll results of 2019 Annual General Meeting

 

Following its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today, Funding Circle Holdings plc (the "Company") announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders as set out in the Notice of AGM were carried by the requisite majority on a poll.

 

Resolutions 1 to 16 and 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

 

The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:

 

Resolution

Votes for

% of votes cast

Votes against

% of votes cast

Total votes

% of issued share capital voted

Votes withheld

1.

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the Company for the year ended 31 December 2018

257,655,791

100.00

420

0.00

257,656,211

74.13%

317,400

2.

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy)

256,867,652

99.70

783,726

0.30

257,651,378

74.13%

322,233

3.

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy

256,886,226

99.70

769,531

0.30

257,655,757

74.13%

317,854

4.

To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company

257,650,238

100.00

4,837

0.00

257,655,075

74.13%

318,536

5.

To authorise the Board to determine the remuneration of the auditors

257,643,573

100.00

12,638

0.00

257,656,211

74.13%

317,400

6.

To elect Eric Daniels as a Director

256,256,426

99.64

936,622

0.36

257,193,048

74.00%

780,563

7.

To elect Samir Desai as a Director

257,644,405

100.00

11,806

0.00

257,656,211

74.13%

317,400

8.

To elect Sean Glithero as a Director

257,639,769

99.99

12,942

0.01

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

9.

To elect Geeta Gopalan as a Director

257,648,744

100.00

3,967

0.00

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

10.

To elect Catherine Keers as a Director

255,020,009

98.98

2,632,702

1.02

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

11.

To elect Andrew Learoyd as a Director

254,485,482

98.95

2,705,459

1.05

257,190,941

73.99%

782,670

12.

To elect Hendrik Nelis as a Director

257,621,060

99.99

31,651

0.01

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

13.

To elect Robert Steel as a Director

254,992,325

98.97

2,660,386

1.03

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

14.

To elect Neil Rimer as a Director

257,619,924

99.99

32,787

0.01

257,652,711

74.13%

320,900

15.

To elect Edward Wray as a Director

256,261,032

99.64

933,152

0.36

257,194,184

74.00%

779,427

16.

To authorise the Directors to allot shares

257,642,682

99.99

13,529

0.01

257,656,211

74.13%

317,400

17.

To disapply pre-emption rights*

257,008,049

100.00

1,778

0.00

257,009,827

73.94%

963,784

18

To further disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment*

256,978,049

99.99

35,021

0.01

257,013,070

73.94%

960,541

19.

To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*

257,638,827

100.00

6,045

0.00

257,644,872

74.13%

328,739

20.

To authorise the Company to call general meetings (other than an annual general meeting) on not less than 14 clear days' notice*

257,102,870

99.79

553,341

0.21

257,656,211

74.13%

317,400

21.

To authorise the Company to make political donations

257,643,940

100.00

11,020

0.00

257,654,960

74.13%

318,651

 

Other

 

1.    * indicates a Special Resolution requiring 75% of votes cast to be carried.

 

2.    Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes cast.

 

3.    Votes "For" include discretionary votes.

 

4.    A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

 

5.    Equiniti, the Company's registrar, acted as scrutineer of the poll on all resolutions.

 

6.   To view the full wording of the resolutions, please refer to the Notice of 2019 Annual General Meeting on the Company's website.

 

7.    In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 

8.   On Monday 3 June 2019, the total number of issued ordinary shares of £0.001 each entitling the holders to attend and vote on all the resolutions at the AGM was 347,580,851.

 

 

For and on behalf of

Funding Circle Holdings plc

 

Lucy Vernall

Company Secretary

 

 

Media Enquiries:

Funding Circle

press@fundingcircle.com / 0203 667 2245

 

TB Cardew

Ed Orlebar (020 79300 777)

Tom Allison (020 79300 777)

 

Investor Relations:

Funding Circle

ir@fundingcircle.com / 0203 927 3893

 

 

About Funding Circle:

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) is a global SME loans platform, connecting SMEs who want to borrow with investors who want to lend in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands. Since launching in 2010, investors across Funding Circle's geographies - including more than 90,000 retail investors, banks, asset management companies, insurance companies, government-backed entities and funds - have lent more than £7 billion to over 65,000 businesses globally. Funding Circle is a member of the FTSE 250 Index.


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