AGBA updates Nasdaq and SEC in relation to Irregular Trading Activities by third parties in AGBA Shares

HONG KONG (3 October 2023) – NASDAQ-listed, AGBA Group Holding Limited (“AGBA” or the “Company”), the leading one-stop financial supermarket in Hong Kong, provide updates on its actions against certain irregular trading activities in the Company’s ordinary shares.  

On October 3, 2023, AGBA submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission and to Nasdaq regarding irregular trading activities in the Company’s ordinary shares by unknown parties since April 28, 2023. On those irregular trading days, trading volume represented more than 100% of the Company’s freely tradeable shares.

AGBA is taking these matters seriously and is committed to ensuring that the Company’s shareholders are protected.

We would like to further stress that the Company’s controlling shareholder, TAG Holdings Limited (“TAG”), currently holds 55,500,000 ordinary shares of AGBA (the “Ordinary Shares”), which represents approximately 82.3% of the Company’s outstanding Ordinary Shares as of today. TAG has not sold any Ordinary Shares since the date of the Company’s listing on Nasdaq in November 2022.  All of the Ordinary Shares held by TAG are restricted shares and are required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) or rely any applicable exemption from registration under the Act in order to be sold in the public market.

For more information on all recent corporate structural updates on AGBA, please visit the official links below: www.agba.com/ir.

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About AGBA Group:

Established in 1993, AGBA Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: “AGBA”) is a leading one-stop financial supermarket based in Hong Kong offering the broadest set of financial services and healthcare products in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) through a tech-led ecosystem, enabling clients to unlock the choices that best suit their needs. Trusted by over 400,000 individual and corporate customers, the Group is organized into four market-leading businesses: Platform Business, Distribution Business, Healthcare Business, and Fintech Business.

For more information about AGBA, please visit www.agba.com

Media and Investor Relations Contact:

Ms. Bethany Lai [email protected]/ [email protected] +852 5529 4500