Secure Trust Bank : Grant of awards under the Company's 2017 LTIP

Secure Trust Bank PLC (the 'Company')

Grant of awards under the Company's2017 Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP')

On 01 June 2017 Secure Trust Bank PLCgranted awards over ordinary shares ('Ordinary Shares') under the LTIP to the following PDMRs:

PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares over which award granted	Exercise price*
Paul Lynam	26,335	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Neeraj Kapur	7,132	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Kevin Hayes	4,389	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
David Nield	4,389	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Jon Bowers	3,292	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Anne McKenning	3,292	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Roy Aston	1,811	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Adrian Walters	1,920	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Alan Karter	841	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Nick Davies	3,292	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Nick Shepherd	878	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Esther Morley	3,292	£0.40 per Ordinary Share
Paul Kilbride	658	£0.40 per Ordinary Share

*In accordance with the terms of the awards, the exercise price payable may be waived before exercise.

Each award has been granted subject to performance conditions based on: (1) compound annual growth in Earnings Per Share over a three year performance period starting with 2017 (as regards 40% of the Ordinary Shares subject to the award); (2) the Company's total shareholder return over that performance period relative to the TSRs of a group of comparator companies (as regards 40% of the Ordinary Shares subject to the award); and (3) an assessment of the Company's approach to risk management over the performance period (as regards 20% of the Ordinary Shares subject to the award).

Each award will, ordinarily, vest on the date on which the Company's board of directors determines the extent to which the performance conditions have been satisfied. Each award will be released so that the participant is entitled to acquire the vested Ordinary Shares on the vesting date except in the case of Paul Lynam and Neeraj Kapur when the date of release will be at the end of a holding period which shall end on the second anniversary of the vesting date.