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VPC Specialty Lending completes first share repurchase for £1.15m

VPC Specialty Lending has announced that, on 30 December 2016, it completed its first share repurchase under its new buyback programme. 1.5m shares were repurchased at a price of 77.25p per share, this being a 20.4% discount to the company’s most recently published NAV of 96.99p per share on 31 October 2016. The company says that it intends to hold the repurchased shares in treasury and that, following the transaction, it has 381,115,665 shares in issue (excluding the treasury shares).

About VPC Specialty Lending

VPC Specialty Lending Investments is a UK Investment trust. It is targeting an 8% per annum dividend yield (paid quarterly) and a net total return in excess of 10% by investing in loans originated by the online lending market. It intends to invest in and lend money through multiple platforms, diversified by geography (UK, US and Europe), product (consumer and small business), and structure (whole loans, senior credit facilities and equity warrants). Equity or equity-linked instruments in lending platforms will represent up to 10% of the portfolio, in some cases this equity will be taken in exchange for VPC Speciality Lending Investments providing debt capital to their platforms. They may use leverage (up to 1.5x net asset value, i.e. 50%) to enhance returns.

VPC Specialty Lending completes first share repurchase : VSL

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