RNS Number : 0522I
Tap Global Group PLC
19 November 2025
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19 November 2025
Tap Global Group plc
("Tap " or the "Company")
Grant of Options
Tap Global Group plc (AIM: TAP), an innovative digital finance hub that brings money payments and crypto settlement services together in a single user-friendly app, announces the grant of share options over 10,000,000 ordinary shares to a Director (the "Options"), as set out below, to incentivise long-term growth reflected in Company valuation.
Schedule of Options
DIRECTOR
ROLE
DATE OF GRANT
NO. OPTIONS GRANTED
EXERCISE PRICE
VESTING CONDITIONS
EXPIRY DATE
Manuel De Luque Muntaner
Non-Executive Chair
19 November 2025
10,000,000
3p
See vesting criteria below
19 November 2035
The Options will vest according to the schedule below:
25%
Six months after date of grant
25%
On share price reaching a bid-price of 15p
25%
On share price reaching a bid-price of 25p
25%
On share price reaching a bid-price of 50p
The vesting criteria requires the recipient to remain engaged by the Company at the time of vesting. Share price targets require the share price to close at or above each target for at least five days in a 20-day period.
All 30,000,000 options granted to the Company's previous Chair have lapsed, including the 7,500,000 options that had vested under the six-month vesting criteria.
Related Party Transaction
The issue of the Options to Mr De Luque Muntaner has been treated as a related party transaction under AIM Rule 13. The independent directors (being all of the directors other than Mr De Luque Muntaner) consider, having consulted with SPARK Advisory Partners Limited, the Company's nominated adviser, that the terms of the Options grant to Mr De Luque Muntaner are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned.
Enquiries:
Tap Global Group plc Arsen Torosian, Chief Executive Officer
via Vigo Consulting
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited(AIM Nominated Adviser) Andrew Emmott Angus Campbell
+44 (0)20 3368 3555
Tennyson Securities(Broker) Peter Krens Alan Howard
+44 (0)20 7186 9030
Vigo Consulting(Investor Relations) Ben Simons Peter Jacob Amelia Thorn
+44 (0)20 7390 0230 tapglobal@vigoconsulting.com
Investor website:
investor.tap.global
About Tap Global Group plc
Tap Global Group plc bridges the gap between traditional finance and blockchain technology. It offers over 390,000 individual and business customers an innovative and fully integrated fiat payments and cryptocurrency settlement service including access to several major cryptocurrency exchanges. Through the Tap app, customers can trade over 50 cryptocurrencies and store them directly in their customer wallet, while benefiting from proprietary AI middleware for real-time best-execution and pricing.
Tap Group's European business, Tap Global Limited, was the first cryptocurrency FinTech company to be approved by Mastercard in Europe. Through the Tap card, European users can convert their cryptocurrencies to fiat and spend at more than 37 million merchant locations worldwide.
Tap Group's operating subsidiaries
Tap Global Limited serves the European customer base and is registered in Gibraltar and licensed and regulated by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission under the DLT with licence No. 25532.
Tap's Bulgarian subsidiary has been granted a VASP registration by the National Revenue Agency of Bulgaria in order to qualify for the EU MiCA regulations grandfathering provisions.
Tap Americas LLC serves the US customer base and is a limited liability company organised under the laws of the state of Florida. Cryptocurrency services are provided by Zero Hash, a Chicago-based B2B2C crypto infrastructure platform.
Appendix - 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
Manuel De Luque Muntaner
2.
Reason for notification
a)
Position/Status
Non-Executive Chair
b)
Initial notification/ Amendment
Initial notification
3.
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Tap Global Group plc
b)
LEI
213800BF6GRJEOAQNP31
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 Identification Code
Ordinary shares of 0.1 pence per share par value GB00BMVSDN09
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of Options
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Exercise price: 3 pence Volume: 2,500,000 vesting on 19 May 2026 2,500,000 vesting on the bid price for the Company's shares reaching at least 15p 2,500,000 vesting on the bid price for the Company's shares reaching at least 25p 2,500,000 vesting on the bid price for the Company's shares reaching at least 50p
d)
Aggregated information - Aggregated Volume - Price
10,000,000 options Exercise price: 3 pence
e)
Date of the transaction
19 November 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market
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