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RNS Number : 0136T  Plus500 Limited  13 January 2025

13 January 2025

Plus500 Ltd.

("Plus500", the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")
Year End Trading Update

Further strategic, operational and financial progress delivered Revenue for FY
2024 meaningfully ahead of market expectations

Plus500, a global multi-asset fintech group operating proprietary
technology-based trading platforms, today issues the following trading update
for the financial year ended 31 December 2024.

Strong financial and operational results with revenue meaningfully ahead of market expectations

For FY 2024, the Group delivered strong financial results including revenue 1 
(#_ftn1) of approximately $768m, generating EBITDA 2  (#_ftn2) of
approximately $342m.

The Group's financial position remained highly robust and debt-free with cash
balances of approximately $900m as of 31 December 2024.

The Group's sophisticated and proprietary marketing technologies drove a
significant increase in New Customer 3  (#_ftn3) acquisition during the year,
including more than 36,000 New Customers in Q4 2024 alone, which equates to an
increase of c.45% versus Q3 2024. As the Group has consistently demonstrated
historically, current customer acquisition lays the foundation for future
performance, making it an investment in Plus500's medium to long-term growth.

Notable strategic progress

During FY 2024, Plus500 delivered significant progress across a wide range of
technological developments, it expanded its product offering and delivered
excellent progress in enhancing its existing market operations, including:

·     Post the period end, in January 2025, the Group achieved a
significant milestone by obtaining a clearing membership with ICE Clear US, a
premier global exchange recognised for its innovation and reliability in
financial markets. This membership is an important achievement for Plus500,
bringing multiple benefits which include enabling the Group to offer
additional products to its customers, reducing costs to third parties and
bringing new holistic solutions to institutional customers across multiple
exchanges.

·     In January 2025, the Group secured a new licence in the UAE from the
Securities and Commodities Authority ("SCA") allowing it to offer OTC, share
dealing, futures and options on futures products. Obtaining the SCA licence
further highlights the Group's ability to execute against its strategic vision
of consistently improving its proposition in key markets. The new licence will
enable the Group to enhance its operations within the UAE and to market itself
more widely in the region.

Significant level of total shareholder returns

During FY 2024, Plus500 announced total shareholder returns of $360.5m,
providing further evidence of the Group's financial strength, its operational
progress and the Board's continued confidence in the outlook for the Group.
Driven by attractive and sustainable returns, Plus500 has been the best
performing stock on the FTSE All-Share on a total return basis since the
Company's IPO in 2013.

2025 Outlook

Enabled by its market-leading technologies and supported by its strong
financial position, the Group remains well positioned to continue executing
against its strategic roadmap of expanding into new markets, developing new
products and deepening engagement with customers, in turn driving growth and
shareholder value. The Board looks to the year ahead with confidence as it
expects the Group to continue making strong financial and strategic progress
alongside delivering further shareholder returns.

Notice of Results

Plus500 will publish its Preliminary Results for FY 2024 on Tuesday 18
February 2025.

For further details:
 Plus500 Ltd.
   Elad Even-Chen, Chief Financial Officer   +972 4 8189503

   Owen Jones, Head of Investor Relations    +44 (0) 7551 654208

                                             ir@Plus500.com (mailto:ir@Plus500.com)

 DGA Group
   James Melville-Ross                       +44 (0)20 7664 5095

   James Styles                              Plus500@dgagroup.com (mailto:Plus500@dgagroup.com)

   Methuselah Tanyanyiwa

About Plus500

Plus500 is a global multi-asset fintech group operating proprietary
technology-based trading platforms. Plus500 offers customers a range of
trading products, including OTC ("Over-the-Counter" products, namely Contracts
for Difference (CFDs)), share dealing, as well as futures and options on
futures.

The Group retains operating licences and is regulated in the United Kingdom,
Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, the
Seychelles, the United States, Estonia, Japan, the UAE and the Bahamas and
through its OTC product portfolio, offers more than 2,500 different underlying
global financial instruments, comprising equities, indices, commodities,
options, ETFs, foreign exchange and cryptocurrencies. Customers of the Group
can trade its OTC products in more than 60 countries and in 30 languages.

Plus500's trading platforms are accessible from multiple operating systems
(iOS, Android and Windows) and web browsers. Customer care is, and has always
been, integral to Plus500. As such, OTC customers cannot be subject to
negative balances. A free demo account is available on an unlimited basis for
OTC trading platform users and sophisticated risk management tools are
provided free of charge to manage leveraged exposure, and stop losses to help
customers protect profits, while limiting capital losses.

Plus500 was admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange (LON: PLUS) on 24
July 2013. It was admitted to the Equity Shares in Commercial Companies"
("ESCC") Category of the Official List and is a constituent of the FTSE 250
Index. Website: www.plus500.com (http://www.plus500.com/) .
(http://www.plus500.com/)

Forward looking statements

This announcement contains statements that are or may be forward-looking
statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts included
in this announcement may be forward-looking statements, including statements
that relate to the Group's future prospects, developments and strategies. The
Company does not accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of
any information reported by the press or other media, nor the fairness or
appropriateness of any forecasts, views or opinions express by the press or
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appropriateness, accuracy, completeness or reliability of any such information
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references to assumptions. The forward-looking statements in this announcement
are based on current expectations and are subject to known and unknown risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and
achievements to differ materially from any results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors
that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or
implied by such forward looking statements include, but are not limited to,
those described in the Risk Management Framework section of the Company's most
recent Annual Report. These forward- looking statements are based on numerous
assumptions regarding the present and future business strategies of the Group
and the environment in which it is and will operate in the future. All
subsequent oral or written forward-looking statements attributed to the
Company or any persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their
entirety by the cautionary statement above. Each forward-looking statement
speaks only as of the date of this announcement. Except as required by law,
regulatory requirement, the Listing Rules and the Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules, neither the Company nor any other party intends to update
or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

 1  (#_ftnref1) Revenue is comprised of trading income and interest income

 2  (#_ftnref2) EBITDA - Revenue (trading income and interest income) minus
operating expenses plus depreciation and amortisation

 3  (#_ftnref3) New Customers - Customers depositing for the first time

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