RNS Number: 6436N
IG Group Holdings plc
29 July 2014

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND OTHER PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY ("PDMRs")

IG Group Holdings Plc (the "Company") gives notice of the following transactions carried out in respect of the Company's ordinary shares of 0.005p each (the "Ordinary Shares") by the Directors and other PDMRs. This notice is being issued in accordance with DTR 3.1.4R(1).

Purchase of Shares under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP")

The Company operates a HMRC approved SIP, which is open to all UK based employees. For this year, the maximum annual amount that an employee can invest under the scheme is £1800. Employees that choose to invest the maximum received 297 shares on 25 July 2014. If employees participating in the plan retain their purchased shares and remain employed on the 3rd anniversary of the purchase, the Company will match the shares on a two-for one basis.

On 28 July 2014, the Company was advised that the following transactions were made under the SIP:

Director/PDMR Date and place of transaction Nature of transaction Price
per share
Shareholding of director (or their connected persons) following transaction
Peter Hetherington

25/07/2014

London
Purchase: 297 Ordinary
Shares under the SIP
605.8 pence 114,267
Christopher Hill

25/07/2014

London
Purchase: 297 Ordinary
Shares under the SIP
605.8 pence 35,428

Jon Noble
(CIO, PDMR)

25/07/2014

London

Purchase: 297 Ordinary
Shares under the SIP)

605.8 pence N/A

For further information please contact:

IG Group
Kieran McKinney
Head of Investor Relations 020 7573 0026

FTI
Neil Doyle / Ed Berry 020 3727 1141 / 1046

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