Ferratum: Decisions of Ferratum Oyj's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Helsinki/Berlin, 02 June 2015 - Ferratum Oyj (ISIN: FI4000106299, WKN A1W9NS) ("Ferratum") held its Annual General Meeting today.
DECISIONS OF FERRATUM OYJ'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Ferratum Oyj was held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 02 June 2015.
The Annual General Meeting adopted the annual accounts for the financial year 2014 and discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability. The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders decided that, as proposed by the Board of Directors, the Company will not distribute any dividends from retained earnings and that EUR 0.05 per share will be distributed from the funds invested in the unrestricted equity reserve, to the shareholders as a return of capital, which is equivalent to EUR 1,078,888 return of capital; no capital is returned to the shares held by parent company. The distribution will be paid to shareholders registered in the shareholders' register of the Company held by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the record date of the dividend payment, 4 June 2015. The return of capital will be paid on 11 June 2015.
The number of the members of the Board of Directors was confirmed as five (5) ordinary members. Following persons were elected as Board members, all to serve for a term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting: Erik Ferm as chairman, Jorma Jokela as deputy chairman and Pieter van Groos, Lea Liigus and Juhani Vanhala as ordinary members.
The Annual General Meeting resolved that the Chairman of the Board shall be paid EUR 2,000 per month and the other members of the Board EUR 1,500 per month. It was further resolved that no remuneration will be paid to the members who are employees or CEO of the Company or the subsidiary of the Company.
The Annual General Meeting decided that the Auditor will be paid reasonable remuneration in accordance with the Auditor's invoice, which shall be approved by the Company.
The firm of authorised public accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, was appointed as Ferratum Oyj's Auditor for the term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, with APA Mikko Nieminen as the responsible auditor.
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In Frankfurt am Main on 02 June 2015
FERRATUM OYJ
Jorma Jokela
CEO
END OF THE AD-HOC ANNOUNCEMENT
About Ferratum Group:
The Finnish Ferratum Group, a pioneer for mobile consumer loans in Europe, offers short-term consumer loans. Ferratum's customers can utilize digital media to apply for consumer credit in amounts varying between EUR 25 and EUR 2,000. Managed by its founder Jorma Jokela, Ferratum has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2005: Ferratum has 1.0 million active and former customers who have been granted one or more loans in the past and 3.0 million total user accounts in its database (as of 31 March 2015). Ferratum is represented in 21 markets and employs 383 people as of 31 December 2014.
Contact:
Ferratum Group
Dr. Clemens Krause, CFO
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Ferratum Group
Paul Wasastjerna
Head of Investor Relations
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F: +358 20 741 1614
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