London Capital Group Holdings PLC Trading Statement (2019Y)
January 22 2014 - 2:00AM
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RNS Number : 2019Y
London Capital Group Holdings PLC
22 January 2014
Wednesday 22 January 2014
London Capital Group Holdings plc
("LCG", "the Group", or the "Company")
Trading update
London Capital Group Holdings plc, gives the following trading
update in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2013. LCG
will publish its results for the year ended 31 December 2013 on 1
April 2014.
Group revenue for the year was GBP28.0m (2012: GBP28.6m) and
Group revenue from the continuing operations of UK financial spread
betting and CFDs and institutional FX business was GBP25.2m (2012:
GBP26.6m). Group revenue in the six months ended 31 December 2013
was GBP10.9m (2012: GBP10.2m). The adjusted profit before tax is
expected to be in the region of GBP2.4m (2012: Loss GBP0.2m),
stated before share based payment charge, impairment, the Financial
Ombudsman Service (FOS) and the Life Settlement Consulting Limited
(Integrity) claims, restructuring costs, profit on disposal of
subsidiaries and costs related to change in IT platform including
accelerated amortisation.
In November 2013 the Board announced it had settled the legal
proceedings in relation to the claim by Integrity. The 2013 charge
for the Integrity claim is GBP1.6m and for the FOS claims is
GBP1.6m.
The Group remains well capitalised with net cash resources and
amounts due from brokers amounting to GBP21.8m at 31 December 2013.
The FOS claims provision at 31 December 2013 is GBP4.9m and payment
of settled claims has started in January 2014.
Commenting on the results, Kevin Ashby, Chief Executive
said:
"2013 was a year of refocusing and reorganising the business as
well as resolving a number of legacy issues. The company has moved
forward with the deployment of its new trading platform which will
be completed by the end of Q1 2014, from which point we plan to
release a number of new trading tools and applications which will
attract new users to our platform. I am also pleased that we have
been able to conclude the Integrity claim to our satisfaction and
that the settlement of the FOS claims will be materially completed
in Q1 2014.
"The business is now in better shape to capitalise on any
improvement in market conditions."
For further information, please contact:
www.londoncapitalgroup.com
London Capital Group Holdings
plc
Kevin Ashby, Chief Executive
Officer 020 7456 7000
Smithfield Consultants
John Kiely 020 7360 4900
Cenkos Securities plc
Nick Wells 020 7397 8900
Notes to Editors:
London Capital Group Holdings plc (hereafter "LCGH plc" or "LCG"
or "London Capital Group" or "the Group") is a financial services
company offering online trading services.
London Capital Group Limited (LCG Ltd), a wholly owned trading
subsidiary of LCGH plc, is authorised and regulated by the
Financial Conduct Authority. Its core activity is the provision of
spread betting and CFD products on the financial markets to retail
clients under the trading names Capital Spreads, Capital CFDs and
LCG MT. Its other divisions provide online foreign exchange trading
services to institutional and professional clients and also
institutional derivatives broking. LCG Ltd is one of the leading
providers of white label financial spread trading and CFD platforms
and its white label partners include TD Direct Investing,
Bwin.party, and Saxo Bank.
LCG Ltd has a European passport and is a member of the London
Stock Exchange. LCG Ltd also has access to international markets
through its global clearing relationships.
LCGH plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market.
LCG is included in the General Financial sector (8770) and
Speciality Finance sub sector (8775) and has a RIC code of
LCG.L.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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