New Loan Agreements

Manx Financial Group PLC

05 January 2026

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                               5 January 2026

Manx Financial Group PLC

 (the "Company")

New Loan Agreements

The Company has entered into two new unsecured loan agreements totaling £2.0 million for three years to help support the regulatory capital requirements of Conister Bank Limited under Isle of Man banking regulations.

The two loans of £1.0 million each from Jim Mellon and Burnbrae Limited respectively have been agreed on arms-length standard commercial terms with an annual interest rate of 8% that is comparable with the terms offered to unrelated parties. The loans are unsecured and repayable by the Company at any time during the period.

Both loans are considered to be Related Party Transactions under the AIM rules as Jim Mellon is a director of the Group and indirectly wholly owns and is Chairman of Burnbrae Limited and Denham Eke, also a director of the Group, is Managing Director. As a result, Jim Mellon, Denham Eke and Greg Bailey (who is deemed to be in concert with Jim Mellon) recused themselves from voting in the transaction.

The Group's Independent Directors (being the Board with the exception of Jim Mellon, Denham Eke and Greg Bailey) consider, after consulting the Group's Nominated Adviser, that the terms of the loans are fair and reasonable insofar as the Group's shareholders are concerned. In reaching this conclusion the Independent Directors, having considered the most suitable method of preserving the regulatory capital funding required for the continued expansion of the Group's subsidiary, Conister Bank Limited, reviewed the costs and practicality of alternative third-party finance, as well as the possibility of a rights issue, and concluded that the terms of the loans were both fair and reasonable for all shareholders.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU NO. 596/2014), AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018. UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

For further information, please contact:

Manx Financial Group PLC	Beaumont Cornish Limited	Shore Capital	Tavistock Communications Limited
Denham Eke	Roland Cornish/ James Biddle	Toby Gibbs / Oliver Jackson	Simon Hudson/ Adam Baynes
Tel: [phone]	Tel: [phone]	Tel: [phone]	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]

About Manx Financial

Manx Financial Group (AIM: MFX) is a diversified UK banking and financial services group with a proud Manx heritage. The Group holds Isle of Man and UK banking licences, allowing it to provide flexible funding solutions across both territories focused on SME lending. Knowledge of the SME sector has enabled MFX to build a portfolio of valuable subsidiaries, from start-ups to selective and accretive acquisitions, which are creating significant value for shareholders. These entrepreneurial subsidiaries are grouped under our entrepreneurial subsidiary Manx Ventures Limited.

Nominated Adviser

Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA. Beaumont Cornish's responsibilities as the Company's Nominated Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any matter referred to in it.

 

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