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22 January 2016


First Derivatives plc ("FD" or the "Company")


Director's Shareholding


FD (AIM: FDP.L, ESM: FDP.I), a leading provider of software and consulting services, announces that Seamus Keating, Chairman, has today acquired 10,000 ordinary shares of 0.5 pence per share in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 1,550p per share. Following the transaction, Mr. Keating now has an interest in 25,314 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.1% of the Company's issued share capital.


For further information please contact:

First Derivatives plc

Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer Graham Ferguson, Chief Financial Officer Ian Mitchell, Head of Investor Relations

+44(0)28 3025 2242

www.firstderivatives.com

Investec Bank plc

(Nominated Adviser and Broker) Dominic Emery

Sebastian Lawrence

+44 (0)20 7597 4000

Goodbody (ESM Adviser and Broker)

Linda Hickey Finbarr Griffin

+353 1 667 0420

Walbrook PR Paul Cornelius Nick Rome Helen Cresswell Sam Allen

+44 (0)20 7933 8780


About FD


FD is a global technology provider with 20 years of experience. The Group's Kx technology is used by some of the world's largest finance, technology and energy institutions. FD employs over 1,500 people worldwide and has operations in London, New York, Stockholm, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Palo Alto, Toronto, Philadelphia, Dublin, Belfast and its headquarters in Newry.


For further information, please visit www.firstderivatives.com

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