FinecoBank

Transaction in Own Shares • Jan 12, 2016

Informazione Regolamentata n. 1615-6-2016		Data/Ora Ricezione 12 Gennaio 2016 15:00:27	MTA
Societa'	:	FINECOBANK
Identificativo Informazione Regolamentata	:	67890
Nome utilizzatore	:	FINECOBANKN05 - Spolini
Tipologia	:	IROS 09
Data/Ora Ricezione	:	12 Gennaio 2016 15:00:27
Data/Ora Inizio Diffusione presunta	:	12 Gennaio 2016 15:15:28
Oggetto	:	Press Release_Purchase of treasury shares
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PRESS RELEASE

FinecoBank S.p.A.: Purchase of treasury shares to support the 2016 Incentive System for Personal Financial Advisors (PFA) identified staff – "2016 PFA SYSTEM"

Milan, January, 12th 2016

FinecoBank S.p.A. informs that today's Board of Directors resolution, according to the provisions of articles 2357 and 2357-ter of the Civil Code, 132 of Legislative Decree no. 58/1998 and 114-bis of Issuers Consob Regulation, it will be required to the FinecoBank's ordinary shareholders' meeting – that will be called to approve 2015 financial statement – the authorization to purchase and to dispose of treasury shares for a maximum number of 250.000 FinecoBank ordinary shares, in order to acquire the financial instruments needed to carry out the "2016 PFA System" for the Personal Financial Advisors identified staff.

The authorization mentioned above, where released, could also meet the following purposes:

• (i) execute, in respect to the applicable provisions, potential investments operations also to limit any irregular movement in trading, to regulate trading and courses trends and to support the share liquidity on the market, in order to foster the regular trading execution above normal market variation linked to the market trend;
• (ii) execute potential capital-related transactions or other operations in relation to which it may be necessary or appropriate to trade or sell parcels of shares by means of exchange, transfer or other method of disposal; and/or
• (iii) purchase treasury shares in order to make medium-term and long-term investments.

The requested authorization is for maximum no. 250,000 ordinary shares, equal to 0.04% of share capital and, therefore, well below the maximum limit of 20% provided by the applicable regulation, also taking into consideration the no. 1,408,834 treasury shares owned by the Company at the date of the present report, equal to 0.23% of share capital.

The amount of the purchasing operations should not be below the nominal per share value, equal to a nominal value of Euro 0.33 and not above, as a maximum, to the arithmetic mean of the official closing price of FinecoBank ordinary shares registered in the MTA ("Mercato Telematico Azionario" – Milan Stock Exchange) in the 30 days preceding the purchase, increased by 10%.

The authorization to purchase will be released for a period of 18 months from the date of the Shareholders' Meeting that passed the resolution for authorization.

Buy back operations of treasury shares could be executed only after having received the necessary authorization of the Regulator, according to articles 77-78 Reg. UE no. 575/2013 (CRR) dated June 26th, 2013.

FinecoBank

FinecoBank is UniCredit Group's direct multichannel bank. It has one of the largest advisory networks in Italy, and is the number one broker in Italy for equity trades in terms of volume of orders and number one online broker in Europe for number of executed orders. FinecoBank offers an integrated business model combining direct banking and financial advice, with a single free-of-charge account including a full range of banking, credit, trading and investment services, which are also available through applications for smartphone and tablet. With its fully integrated platform, FinecoBank is the benchmark for modern investors.

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