AGM Information • May 7, 2025
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COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT 2006
RESOLUTIONS OF
INTERNATIONAL PERSONAL FINANCE plc
COMPANY NO. 6018973
At the annual general meeting of International Personal Finance plc (the “Company") duly convened and held at the Company’s registered office at 26 Whitehall Road, Leeds, LS12 1BE, on Thursday, 1 May 2025 commencing at 10.30am, the following resolutions were proposed and passed as special business.
RESOLUTIONS
ORDINARY RESOLUTION
Removal of discretionary share plan 5% dilution limit
a. remove all dilution limits in existing discretionary share incentive plans which continue to be operated by the Company, which restrict the number of shares which may be issued or shares transferred from treasury, to 5% of the Company’s ordinary share capital over 10 years. Also, to apply a single limit for new issue and treasury shares, such that no more than 10% of the Company’s ordinary share capital over 10 years may be used to satisfy awards for all share plans operated by the Company; and
b. do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient to give effect to this amendment in the Company incentive and reward plans, programmes and policies.
ORDINARY RESOLUTION
Authority to allot shares
exercise all the powers of the Company to:
aggregate nominal amount of £7,247,958 in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interest of all shareholders are as proportionate (as nearly as practicable) to the respective numbers of shares held by them, and that the directors may impose any exclusions or make any other arrangements which they deem necessary or desirable to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, regulatory or practical problems in, or laws of, any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory or any other matter.
The prescribed period for which the authority conferred by this resolution is given shall be a period expiring (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting) at the conclusion of the Company’s AGM in 2026 or at the close of business on 30 June 2026, whichever is sooner but, in each case, during this period the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after the authority ends and the directors may allot shares or grant rights to
subscribe for or convert securities into shares under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not ended.
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
Disapplication of pre-emption rights
a. the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares in connection with a rights issue or other pre-emptive offer in favour of ordinary shareholders
where the equity securities are proportionate (as nearly as practicable) to the respective number of ordinary shares held by such holders, but subject to such
exclusions or other arrangements as the directors may deem necessary or desirable in relation to treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, regulatory or practical problems in, or the laws of, any territory or the
requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange in any territory or any other matter; and
b. the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than in connection with a rights issue or other pre-emptive offer under paragraph 14a. above) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £1,087,193.
Such power to expire on the revocation or expiry (unless renewed) of the authority conferred on the directors by Resolution 13 save that, in each case, prior to its expiry, revocation or variation the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted or rights to be granted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the
power expires, is revoked or varied and the directors may allot equity securities or grant rights (and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not expired, been revoked or varied.
a. limited to the allotment of equity securities and/or sale of treasury shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of £1,087,193; and
b. used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the power is to be used within twelve months after the original transaction) a transaction which the directors determine to be either an acquisition or specified capital
investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights, most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice.
Such power shall expire on the revocation or expiry (unless renewed) of the authority conferred
on the directors by Resolution 13 save that, prior to its expiry, revocation or variation the
Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted or rights to be granted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the
power expires, is revoked or varied and the directors may allot equity securities or grant rights
(and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not expired,
been revoked or varied.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
Authority to purchase its own shares
701 of the Act, to make market purchases (within the meaning of section
693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares provided that:
a. the maximum number of ordinary shares that may be
purchased is 21,743,876;
b. the minimum price (excluding expenses) which the
Company may pay for each ordinary share is the
nominal value;
c. the maximum price (excluding expenses) which the
Company may pay for each ordinary share is the
higher of:
i. an amount equal to 105% of the average of the
mid-market price of an ordinary share, based on
the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List, for the
five business days immediately before the day on
which the Company agrees to purchase the ordinary
shares; and
ii. the higher of the price of the last independent trade
and the highest current independent bid on the
trading venue where the purchase is carried out.
This authority shall expire at the conclusion of the Company’s AGM in 2026 or at the close of
business on 30 June 2026, whichever is sooner, and a contract to purchase shares under this
authority may be made prior to the expiry of this authority and concluded, in whole or in part,
after the expiry of this authority.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
Notice for general meetings
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Thomas Crane
Chief Legal Officer & Company Secretary
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