18 July 2017

INTERCEDE GROUP plc

("Intercede", the "Group" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding and

Transaction in own shares

Intercede, the leading specialist in digital identity, credential management and secure mobility, announces that on 17 July 2017 Chuck Pol, Non-Executive Director of the Company and Helen Adams, Chief Sales Officer of the Company, purchased ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 55 pence per Ordinary Share as follows (the "Purchase"):

The Ordinary Shares were purchased out of treasury. The Company advises that, following the Purchase, the Company's issued share capital is 49,903,143 Ordinary Shares (including 41,645 Ordinary Shares held as treasury shares). Therefore the Company's total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights is 49,861,498.

The above figure of 49,861,498 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Further information is set out in the PDMR disclosure tables below.

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About Intercede

Intercede is a software and service company specializing in identity, credential management and secure mobility. Its solutions create a foundation of trust between connected people, devices and apps and combine expertise with innovation to provide world-class cybersecurity. Intercede has been delivering solutions to high profile customers, from the US and UK governments to some of the world's largest corporations, telecommunications providers and information technology firms, for over 20 years. Intercede's product portfolio includes MyID, an identity and credential management system that assigns trusted digital identities to employees citizens and machines. In 2015, Intercede launched MyTAM, enabling trusted applications to be loaded into a mobile device's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), providing hardware-level security for Android apps. In 2016, Intercede launched RapID, a secure, easy to implement authentication service for mobile apps and cloud services to completely eliminate the need for passwords.

For more information visit: www.intercede.com

The information communicated in this announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.