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2016-04-26 12:28:06 CEST 2016-04-26 12:28:06 CEST REGULATED INFORMATION Ferratum Oyj - Decisions of general meetingFERRATUM OYJ: Decisions of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Ferratum OyjHelsinki/Berlin, April 26, 2016 - Ferratum Oyj (ISIN: FI4000106299, WKN: A1W9NS) ("Ferratum") publishes this announcement pursuant to Chapter 6, Section 4 of the Finnish Securities Markets Act. DECISIONS OF FERRATUM'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 Ferratum held its Annual General Meeting today and the meeting made the following resolutions. ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS AND DISCHARGE FROM LIABILITY The Annual General Meeting adopted the Annual Accounts including the Consolidated Annual Accounts for the financial year 2015 and discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability for the financial year 2015. DIVIDEND The Annual General Meeting decided in accordance with the proposal of the board of directors that a per-share dividend of EUR 0.10 will be paid for the financial year 2015 to a total of EUR 2,157,776 to the shareholders who on the dividend record date 28 April 2016 are registered in the company's shareholders' register. The payment date for the dividend will be 6 May 2016. COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Annual General Meeting confirmed the number of members of the board of directors as six (6) and re-elected the current members of the board of directors to serve for a term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting: Pieter van Groos as chairman, Jorma Jokela as deputy chairman and Erik Ferm, Lea Liigus and Juhani Vanhala as ordinary members. Jouni Hakanen was elected as a new ordinary member of the board of directors for the same term. REMUNERATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Annual General Meeting resolved that the chairman of the board of directors be paid EUR 2,000 per month and the other members of the board of directors EUR 1,500 per month. Furthermore it was resolved that no remuneration will be paid to the members who are employees or managing director of the company or a subsidiary of the company. AUDITOR AND REMUNERATION OF THE AUDITOR Audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, which had stated that APA Mikko Nieminen will act as the responsible auditor, was appointed as auditor of the company for a term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting. It was decided that the auditor be paid reasonable remuneration in accordance with the auditor's invoice, which shall be approved by the company. INCREASE OF SHARE CAPITAL AND AUTHORISATION TO TRANSFER OWN SHARES The Annual General Meeting approved the board of directors' proposal concerning increase of share capital by EUR 30,000,000 from EUR 10,133,560 to EUR 40,133,560 by transferring assets from the reserves of invested unrestricted equity into the share capital (increase from reserves). Furthermore, the Annual General meeting approved the board of director's proposal on authorisation for the board to decide on a share issue by transferring own shares. A maximum of 146,200 own shares may be issued on the basis of the authorisation. The proposed maximum authorised quantity represents approximately 0.7 per cent of the company's total amount of shares. The authorisation entitles the board to decide on a directed share issue in deviation from the pre-emptive rights of shareholders. The board can use the authorisation in one or several tranches to all purposes decided by the board of directors. The authorisation is in force until the next Annual General Meeting, however, no longer than until 30 June 2017. About Ferratum Group: The Finnish Ferratum Group, a pioneer for mobile consumer loans in Europe, offers short-term consumer loans for private persons. Ferratum's customers can utilize digital media to apply for consumer credit in amounts varying between EUR 25 and EUR 3,000. Moreover, Ferratum offers successful small businesses installment loans with a term of six to twelve months. Managed by its founder Jorma Jokela, Ferratum has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2005: Ferratum has more than 1.2 million active and former customers who have been granted one or more loans in the past and 3.7 million total user accounts in its database (as of 31 December 2015). Ferratum is represented in 23 markets. Contacts: Ferratum Group Dr. Clemens Krause, CFO T: +49 30 88715308 F: +49 30 88715309 M: clemens.krause@ferratum.com Ferratum Group Paul Wasastjerna Head of Investor Relations T: +358 40 7248247 F: +358 20 741 1614 M: paul.wasastjerna@ferratum.com cometis AG Henryk Deter | Maximilian Breuer T: +49 611 20 58 55-22 F: +49 611 20 58 55-66 M: breuer@cometis.de [HUG#2006578] |
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