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Funding Circle Holdings PLC
19 May 2021
19 May 2021
Funding Circle Holdings plc
Poll Results of 2021 Annual General Meeting
Following its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today, Funding
Circle Holdings plc (the "Company") announces that all resolutions
proposed to shareholders as set out in the Notice of AGM were
carried by the requisite majority on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 14
and 19 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18
were passed as special resolutions. The table set out below shows
the votes cast on each resolution.
Resolution Votes % of Votes % Total % of Votes
for votes against of votes issued withheld
cast votes share
cast capital
voted
To receive the
Annual Report
and Accounts
of the Company
for the year
ended 31 December
1. 2020 230,146,356 100.00 420 0.00 230,146,776 64.76% 139,809
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To approve the
Directors' Remuneration
Report for the
year ended 31
December 2020
(excluding the
Directors' Remuneration
2. Policy) 219,192,706 95.18 11,093,878 4.82 230,286,584 64.80% 1
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To approve the
Directors' Remuneration
3. Policy 226,078,928 98.59 3,229,853 1.41 229,308,781 64.53% 977,804
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To approve the
Funding Circle
Holdings plc
Deferred Bonus
4. Plan 230,238,390 99.98 46,972 0.02 230,285,362 64.80% 1,205
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To reappoint
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditors
5. of the Company 230,266,281 99.99 18,031 0.01 230,284,312 64.80% 2,273
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To authorise
the Audit Committee
to fix the remuneration
6. of the auditors 230,249,230 99.98 37,336 0.02 230,286,566 64.80% 1
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To re-elect Eric
Daniels as a
7. Director 223,447,041 97.44 5,860,831 2.56 229,307,872 64.53% 978,713
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To re-elect Samir
8. Desai as a Director 229,243,298 99.55 1,042,360 0.45 230,285,658 64.80% 909
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To re-elect Geeta
Gopalan as a
9. Director 230,099,432 99.92 186,244 0.08 230,285,676 64.80% 909
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To re-elect Andrew
Learoyd as a
10. Director 219,518,805 95.75 9,738,661 4.25 229,257,466 64.51% 1,029,119
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To re-elect Hendrik
11. Nelis as a Director 226,207,880 98.23 4,077,795 1.77 230,285,675 64.80% 910
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To elect Oliver
12. White as a Director 229,231,946 99.54 1,053,730 0.46 230,285,676 64.80% 909
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To re-elect Neil
13. Rimer as a Director 220,228,258 95.63 10,057,417 4.37 230,285,675 64.80% 910
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To authorise
the Directors
14. to allot shares 214,767,337 93.26 15,519,248 6.74 230,286,585 64.80% 0
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To disapply pre-emption
15. rights(*) 230,276,489 100.00 9,415 0.00 230,285,904 64.80% 681
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To further disapply
pre-emption rights
in connection
with an acquisition
or specified
16. capital investment(*) 230,163,319 99.95 122,584 0.05 230,285,903 64.80% 682
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To authorise
the Company to
purchase its
17. own shares(*) 230,242,447 99.99 17,554 0.01 230,260,001 64.80% 26,584
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To authorise
the Company to
call general
meetings (other
than an annual
general meeting)
on not less than
14 clear days'
18. notice(*) 228,975,610 99.43 1,304,646 0.57 230,280,256 64.80% 6,329
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To authorise
the Company to
make political
19. donations 221,374,698 96.13 8,911,886 3.87 230,286,584 64.80% 1
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Other
1. (*) indicates a Special Resolution requiring 75% of votes cast to be carried.
2. Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes cast.
3. Votes "For" include discretionary votes.
4. A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not
counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a
resolution.
5. Equiniti, the Company's registrar, acted as scrutineer of the poll on all resolutions.
6. To view the full wording of the resolutions, please refer to
the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting on the Company's
website.
7. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the
resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary
business will shortly be available for inspection on the National
Storage Mechanism at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
8. On Monday 17 May 2021, the total number of issued ordinary
shares of GBP0.001 each entitling the holders to attend and vote on
all the resolutions at the AGM was 355,365,362.
For and on behalf of
Funding Circle Holdings plc
Lucy Vernall
Company Secretary
Investor relations and media relations:
Investor Relations
David de Koning - Director of Investor Relations and
Communications (0203 927 3893)
Media relations
Natasha Jones - Head of UK Communications (020 3667 2245)
Headland Consultancy - Mike Smith / Stephen Malthouse (020 3805
4822)
About Funding Circle:
Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) is a small and medium enterprise
("SME") loans platform. Since launching in 2010, investors and
lenders across Funding Circle's geographies - including banks,
asset management companies, insurance companies, government-backed
entities, retail investors and funds - have lent more than GBP12
billion to 100,000 businesses globally.
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