APS Bank plc announced that the Directors are recommending a final gross dividend of ?0.022 per ordinary share, totaling ?8.5 million (final net dividend of ?0.015 per ordinary share, or ?5.5 million). The recommendation is to pay the dividend as Scrip, i.e. each shareholder having the option to receive the dividend in cash or through the issuance of new ordinary shares at an attribution price 0.55 cents per share. This dividend is subject to approval by the Malta Financial Services Authority and the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting and has not been included as a liability in the financial statements.

Shareholders appearing on the register of members maintained by the Central Securities Depositary of the Malta Stock Exchange as at close of trading on 9 April 2024 (trading session of 5 April 2024) will receive notice of the Meeting and be entitled to the dividend. During the financial year ended 31 December 2023, the Bank paid an interim gross dividend of ?3.2 million (net dividend of ?2.1 million). Taken together, the interim dividend and the declaration of this final dividend will amount to a total gross dividend payment for 2023 of ?11.6 million (total net dividend of ?7.6 million) or a total gross dividend per share of ?0.031 (total net dividend per share of ?0.020).