Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 4672J

Secure Trust Bank PLC

17 December 2015

 

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES i

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii

Secure Trust Bank PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		Yes
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached		No
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments		No
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights		No
Other (please specify):		No

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii	Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): iv	HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Limited Nortrust Nominees Ltd Vidacos Nominees Ltd
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	15 December 2015
6. Date on which issuer notified:	17 December 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	Above the threshold of 5%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of  voting rights x
			Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
GB00B6TKHP66	895,010	895,010	9,807	9,807	919,613	0.054%	5.055%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date xiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
929,420	5.109%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (5.109%) Threadneedle Asset Management Limited is wholly owned by TC Financing Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by TAM UK Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Holdings Limited,  which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings SARL, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise International Holdings GmbH, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	N/A
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	N/A
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	N/A

13. Additional information:	The Shares referred to in section 9 of this form are held in portfolios and funds managed on a discretionary basis by the entities set out in section 9. Please note that the Shares are held through certain nominee companies.
14. Contact name:	Mark Powney, Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd.
15. Contact telephone number:	[phone]

The total number of Secure Trust Bank PLC ordinary shares of 40p each in issue is 18,191,894 with each ordinary share carrying the right to one vote.

There are no shares held as treasury shares.

The total number of voting rights in Secure Trust Bank PLC is 18,191,894.

Secure Trust Bank PLC

A.J. Karter, Company Secretary

[phone]

17 December 2015

 

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