News alert from Auction Technology Group

NO MATERIAL EXPOSURE TO SILICON VALLEY BANK

London, United Kingdom, 13 March 2023 - Auction Technology Group plc ("ATG", "the Company", "the Group") (LON: ATG), operator of the world's leading marketplaces for curated online auctions, updates on its financing arrangements.

The Group has a Senior Facilities arrangement with a syndicate of six banks. The arrangement is comprised of a $150.3m senior term loan facility, which is fully drawn, and a $49.0m multi-currency revolving credit facility, of which $24.3m is currently drawn.  Silicon Valley Bank represent one sixth of the respective drawn and undrawn amounts on the facilities.  ATG has a strong liquidity position, benefiting from both ongoing cash generation from operations as well as funding and liquidity access from the other five banks within the syndicate. 

As at 9 March 2023, the Group has $10.0m cash at bank, of which 5% is held on deposit at Silicon Valley Bank.  This deposit is held across the Group's different US entities. The Group uses J.P. Morgan Chase and HSBC for its main clearing and operational uses.

The Group therefore does not believe that the developments around Silicon Valley Bank represent a material impact to the Group's current or future liquidity position.

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Auction Technology Group plc ("ATG") is the operator of world leading marketplaces and auction services for curated online auctions, seamlessly connecting bidders from around the world to around 3,800 trusted auction houses across two major sectors: Industrial & Commercial ("I&C") and Art & Antiques ("A&A").

The Group powers seven online marketplaces using its proprietary auction platform technology, hosting in excess of 70,000 live and timed auctions each year. ATG has been supporting the auction industry since 1971 and the Company has offices in the UK, US and Germany. 

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