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RNS Number : 9616C Intercede Group PLC 13 October 2025
13 October 2025
INTERCEDE GROUP plc
('Intercede', the 'Company' or the 'Group')
Exercise of Options, PDMR Shareholding & Total Voting Rights
Intercede, the leading cybersecurity software company specialising in digital
identities, announces that it received notification of exercise from Klaas van
der Leest, Chief Executive Officer, in relation to 500,000 share options
("Options") over ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
at an exercise price of 38.0 pence pursuant to the Company's Enterprise
Management Incentive Plan (the "Exercise").
Following this exercise, Klaas van der Leest is now interested in 2,319,727
Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing 3.88 per cent. of the Company's
total voting rights.
Accordingly, application has be made for 500,000 new Ordinary Shares to be
admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to occur at
8.00 a.m. on or around 16 October 2025.
The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing shares of the
Company. Following Admission, The Company will have 60,186,452 Ordinary
Shares, each with voting rights. The Company holds 373,906 Ordinary Shares in
treasury, therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is
59,812,546. Accordingly, the figure of 59,812,546 may be used by shareholders
as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they
are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the
Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
ENQUIRIES
Intercede Group plc Tel. + 44 (0)1455 558111
Klaas van der Leest CEO
Nitil Patel CFO
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited Tel. + 44 (0)20 7220 0500
Marc Milmo/Fergus Sullivan Corporate Finance
Tim Redfern Corporate Broking
About Intercede
Intercede is a cybersecurity software company specialising in digital
identities, and its innovative solutions enable organisations to protect
themselves against the number one cause of data breach: compromised user
credentials.
The Intercede suite of products allows customers to choose the level of
security that best fits their needs, from Secure Registration and ID
Verification to Password Security Management, One-Time Passwords, FIDO and
PKI. Uniquely, Intercede provides the entire set of authentication options
from Passwords to PKI, supporting customers on their journey to passwordless
and stronger authentication environments. In addition to developing and
supporting Intercede software, the Group offers professional services and
custom development capabilities as well as managing the world's largest
password breach database.
For over 20 years, global customers in government, aerospace and defence,
financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, cloud services and
information technology have trusted Intercede solutions and expertise in
protecting their mission critical data and systems at the highest level of
assurance.
For more information visit: www.intercede.com (http://www.intercede.com)
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging
managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.
1. Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
associated
a) Name Klaas van der Leest
2. Reason for the Notification
a) Position/status Chief Executive Officer
b) Initial notification/Amendment Initial notification
3. Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Intercede Group plc
b) LEI 2138001HHZHVUMKZ8968
4. Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
place where transactions have been conducted
a) Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument Ordinary Shares of 1 pence
Identification code GB0003287249
b) Nature of the transactions Exercise of Options
c) Date(s), Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
38p 500,000
d) Aggregated information: As above
· Aggregated volumes
· Prices
e) Date of the transaction 13 October 2025
f) Place of the transaction Outside of trading venue
d)
Aggregated information:
· Aggregated volumes
· Prices
As above
e)
Date of the transaction
13 October 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Outside of trading venue
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