Prudential : Notification of Major Interests in Shares

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(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under the number 01397169)

(Stock code: 2378)

OVERSEAS REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer andto the FCA in Microsoft Word format if possible)i

1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying

issuer of existing shares to which voting rightsPrudential plc are attachedii:

1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer (please mark with an "X" if appropriate)

Non-UK issuer

2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an "X")

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify)iii:
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationiv
Name		Norges Bank
City and country of registered office (if applicable)		Oslo, Norway
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)v
Name
City and country of registered office (if applicable)

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5.	Date on which the threshold was crossed or		10 February 2020
reachedvi:
6.	Date on which issuer notified		11 February 2020
(DD/MM/YYYY):
7.	Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation

	% of voting rights	% of voting rights		Total number of
	through financial	Total of both in %
	attached to shares	voting rights of
	instruments	(8.A + 8.B)
	(total of 8. A)	issuervii
	(total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)
Resulting situation on
the date on which	2.99%	0.01%	2.998%	2,601,316,917
threshold was crossed
or reached
Position of previous
notification (if	3.99%	0.00%	3.99%
applicable)

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reachedviii

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of	Number of voting rightsix	% of voting rights
shares
Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISIN code (if possible)
(Art 9 of Directive	(Art 10 of Directive	(Art 9 of Directive	(Art 10 of Directive
	2004/109/EC) (DTR5.1)	2004/109/EC) (DTR5.2.1)	2004/109/EC)	2004/109/EC)
			(DTR5.1)	(DTR5.2.1)
GB0007099541	77,815,026		2.99%

SUBTOTAL 8. A

77,815,026

2.99%

B 1: Financial Instruments according to Art. 13(1)(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (a))

	Expira-		Number of voting rights
Type of financial in-	Exercise/	that may be acquired if the
tion	% of voting rights
strument	Conversion Periodxi	instrument is
datex
		exercised/converted.

Shares on loan	At any time	181,573	0.01 %
(right to recall)
	SUBTOTAL 8. B 1	181,573	0.01%

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B 2: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to Art. 13(1)(b) of Directive 2004/109/EC (DTR5.3.1.1 (b))

Type of		Exercise/
financial	Expiration	Physical or cash	Number of voting
Conversion	% of voting rights
instru-	datex	settlementxii	rights
Period xi
ment

N/A

SUBTOTAL 8.B.2

9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation (please mark the applicable box with an "X")

Person subject to the notification obligation is not controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does	X
not control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an interest in the (underlying) issuerxiii

Fullchain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the

financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entityxiv (please add additional rows as necessary)

	% of voting	% of voting rights through	Total of both if it
	rights if it equals
	financial instruments if it	equals or is higher
Namexv	or is higher than
equals or is higher than the	than the notifiable
	the notifiable
	notifiable threshold	threshold
	threshold

10. In case of proxy voting, please identify:

Name of the proxy holder

The number and % of voting rights held

The date until which the voting rights will be held

11. Additional informationxvi

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Place of completion	Oslo, Norway
Date of completion	11 February 2020

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America nor with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Contact name for enquiries

Chris Smith, Deputy Group Secretary, [phone]

Ian Smith, Senior Assistant Company Secretary, [phone]

Company official responsible for making notification

Tom Clarkson, Company Secretary

12 February 2020, London

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Prudential plc comprises:

Chairman

Paul Victor Falzon Sant Manduca

Executive Directors

Michael Andrew Wells (Group Chief Executive), Mark Thomas FitzPatrick CA and Stuart James Turner FCA FCSI FRM

Independent Non-executive Directors

Jeremy David Bruce Anderson CBE, Sir Howard John Davies, David John Alexander Law ACA, Kaikhushru Shiavax Nargolwala FCA, Anthony John Liddell Nightingale CMG SBS JP,

The Hon. Philip John Remnant CBE FCA, Alice Davey Schroeder, Thomas Ros Watjen, Jane Fields Wicker-MiurinOBE and Yok Tak Amy Yip

* For identification purposes

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