Vanquis Banking Group (formerly: Provident Financial Plc)

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jun 30, 2021

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Provident Financial PLC

30 June 2021

Provident Financial plc ("the Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its annual general meeting (AGM) today, Wednesday 30 June 2021.

A poll was held on each of the resolutions set out in the notice of AGM and the results of the poll are set out below. All of the resolutions voted on at the AGM were duly passed.

		Number of votes cast "For"	% of votes cast "For"	Number of votes cast "Against"	% of votes cast "Against"	Number of votes Withheld	Total votes cast as a % of Issued Share Register
RESOLUTION
1.	Directors' and auditor's reports and the financial statements	195,659,285	99.04	1,888,651	0.96	170,655	77.89
2.	Approval of the annual statement by the chairman of the remuneration committee and the annual report on remuneration	195,698,663	98.98	2,015,198	1.02	4,730	77.96
3.	Re-election of Andrea Blance as a Director	197,538,448	99.91	175,760	0.09	4,383	77.96
4.	Re-election of Elizabeth Chambers as a Director	197,644,520	99.96	69,688	0.04	4,383	77.96
5.	Re-election of Robert East as a Director	194,983,630	99.96	84,520	0.04	2,650,441	76.91
6.	Re-election of Paul Hewitt as a Director	197,641,831	99.96	72,377	0.04	4,383	77.96
7.	Election of Margot James as a Director	197,686,553	99.99	27,655	0.01	4,383	77.96
8.	Re-election of Neeraj Kapur as a Director	197,632,849	99.96	81,359	0.04	4,383	77.96
9.	Re-election of Angela Knight as a Director	197,460,313	99.87	253,895	0.13	4,383	77.96
10.	Re-election of Malcolm Le May as a Director	197,639,217	99.96	76,093	0.04	3,281	77.96
11.	Re-election of Graham Lindsay as a Director	197,643,635	99.96	70,573	0.04	4,383	77.96
12.	Re-election of Patrick Snowball as a Director	197,642,049	99.96	72,755	0.04	3,787	77.96
13.	Reappointment of Deloitte LLP as the Auditor of the Company	195,041,997	99.99	17,865	0.01	2,658,729	76.91
14.	Audit committee to determine the Auditor's Remuneration	197,687,071	99.99	20,378	0.01	11,142	77.96
15.	Company granted authority to make political donations	197,359,491	99.83	337,687	0.17	21,413	77.95
16.	Directors authorised to allot shares	197,007,589	99.64	705,071	0.36	5,931	77.96
17.	Company authorised to disapply pre-emption rights	197,673,549	99.98	32,559	0.02	12,483	77.95
18.	Company authorised to disapply pre-emption rights (in relation to acquisitions and specified capital investments)	193,694,195	97.97	4,019,234	2.03	5,162	77.96
19.	Company authorised to purchase its own shares	195,005,811	98.65	2,666,659	1.35	46,121	77.94
20.	Convening of a general meeting on not less than 14 days' notice authorised	190,859,186	96.53	6,856,097	3.47	3,308	77.96
21.	That an increase in the limit set out in Article 87 for non-executive director fees be approved	193,006,331	97.62	4,699,912	2.38	12,348	77.96
22.	That the conduct of directors relating to the payment of fees above the limit in Article 87 be ratified and the release of any liability relating to such matters be approved	194,879,754	98.57	2,821,498	1.43	17,339	77.95

Notes

1.   Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

2.   A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

3.   As at close of business on Monday 28 June 2021, the time by which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were  253,615,794 ordinary shares in issue and 78% of the voting capital was instructed, as set out in the table above. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Name of contact and telephone number for AGM queries:

Charley Davies

Company Secretary

0203 620 3689

Name of contacts and contact details for Investor Relations:

Vicki Turner / Owen Jones

01274 351 900 

investors@providentfinancial.com

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