MCB Finance Group plc : Amendments to employee stock option plan

MCB Finance's Remuneration Committee has decided to extend the expiry term of certain employee stock options in order to maintain the incentive value of the option plan.

MCB Finance currently has 1,542,538 employee stock options outstanding, representing approximately 8.02% of the fully-diluted share capital of the Company. The options vest over a period of up to four years, can be exercised at prices between 41p and 100p per share, and have expiry periods ranging between 31 December 2013 and 30 June 2018. 932,538 options are exercisable only if a trigger price of 150p is reached, defined as the average closing price of the Company's ordinary shares for a minimum period of twenty business days.

610,000 options expire on 31 December 2013. In order to maintain the incentive value of the option plan, the Company will extend the exercise period of these options by one year, so that they expire on 31 December 2014.

Out of the amended options, 392,000 options are held by Rami Ryhanen, CEO and board member, and 151,000 options are held by Henry Nilert, Head of Corporate Development and board member. No changes were made to options held by the non-executive directors of the Company.

After these amendments employee stock options will be broken down as follows:

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