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TCS Group Holding PLC (TCS)
TCS Group Holding PLC: Conversion of Class B Shares
18-March-2019 / 17:47 MSK
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TCS Group Holding PLC: Conversion of Class B Shares
Limassol, Cyprus - 18 March 2019
TCS Group Holding PLC (TCS LI) (the "Group"), Russia's leading provider of
online financial and lifestyle services via the Tinkoff.ru ecosystem, today
announces that 6,385,310 Class B Shares in the Group held indirectly by Oleg
Tinkov were converted to Class A Shares with effect from 15 March 2019. As a
result of the conversion and sale, Oleg Tinkov's voting rights in the Group
have decreased from 90.18% to 88.63%. Following the conversion, the total
number of votes in issue is 902,766,841.
For enquiries:
Tinkoff Bank Tinkoff Bank
Darya Ermolina Larisa Chernysheva
Head of PR IR Department
+ 7 495 648-10-00 (ext. 2009) + 7 495 648-10-00 (ext. 2312)
d.ermolina@tinkoff.ru ir@tinkoff.ru
About the Group
TCS Group Holding PLC is an innovative provider of online retail financial
services. It includes Tinkoff Bank, mobile virtual network operator Tinkoff
Mobile, Tinkoff Insurance, and Tinkoff Software DC, a network of development
hubs in major Russian cities. The Group also has Tinkoff.ru, an evolving
ecosystem that offers financial and lifestyle services.
The Group was founded in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov and has
been listed on the London Stock Exchange since October 2013.
The Group's key business is Tinkoff Bank, the country's first and only
direct bank and the core of the Tinkoff.ru ecosystem.
Tinkoff Bank is the second largest player in the Russian credit card market,
with a share of 11.8%. The 2018 IFRS net income of TCS Group Holding PLC
amounted to RUB 27,1 bn (a record high year net income in the Group's
history), ROE grew to 74.7%.
With no branches, the Group serves all its customers remotely via online
channels and a cloud-based call centre staffed by over 10,000 employees,
which makes it one of the largest in Europe. To ensure smooth delivery of
the Group's products, the Group has a nationwide network of over 2,500
representatives.
In 2018 Global Finance named Tinkoff Bank the world's Best Consumer Digital
Bank, in 2018, 2016 and 2015, the Best Consumer Digital Bank in Russia, and
in 2017 and 2013 The Banker recognised it as the Bank of the Year in Russia.
The bank's mobile app has been consistently praised by local and global
independent experts as the best of its kind (in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 by
Deloitte and in 2018 by Global Finance).
ISIN: US87238U2033
Category Code: MSCM
TIDM: TCS
LEI Code: 549300XQRN9MR54V1W18
Sequence No.: 7851
EQS News ID: 788689
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