Admission to NEX, First Day of Dealings

17 May 2019

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Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC

Admission to the NEX Exchange Growth Market, First Day of Dealings

Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC (the "Group", the "Company", or "ABG") is pleased to announce that admission of the entire issued ordinary share capital of 15,279,322 ordinary shares of £0.01 each ("Ordinary Shares") to trading on the NEX Exchange Growth Market ("NEX") will take place at 8.00 a.m. today, 17 May 2019. The Group's Ordinary Shares will trade under the ticker NEX: ARBB with the ISIN GB0007922338. The Ordinary Shares will continue to be admitted to trading on AIM (LSE:ARBB).

For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), this figure of 15,279,322 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the DTRs.

In addition, the Company announces that admission of 152,621 new ordinary non-voting shares of £0.01 each ("Ordinary Non-Voting Shares") to trading on NEX will also take place at 8.00 a.m. today, 17 May 2019. The Ordinary Non-Voting Shares will trade under the ticker NEX: ARBN and with the ISIN GB00BJRHYM66. The Ordinary Non-Voting Shares will not be admitted to trading on AIM.

The Company's announcement of its application for admission to NEX, together with further details of the Company, can be found on the Company's website: http://www.arbuthnotgroup.com/default.html.

The directors of the Company accept responsibility for the contents of this announcement.

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