Craig Preston, chief financial officer of software and support services firm Craneware, sold 112,126 ordinary shares in the Edinburgh-based group on Monday at a price of 1,950p per share.
Preston, who exercised options over 194,229 ordinary shares on the same day, collected a healthy £2.18m as a result of the sale, leaving the CFO's total stake in the firm at 82,103.

Craneware reported that it had raised profits and revenue by 16% and boosted its dividend by 15% earlier in the month as the company, which makes tools that allow hospitals and healthcare groups to analyse their finances and billing more efficiently saw revenue hit $31.1m as pre-tax profit went to $8.7m for the six months leading to 31 December 2017.

Keith Neilson, chief executive and co-founder of the firm, said there was already $63.1m of revenue booked in for the financial year ending 31 June.

As of 1530 GMT, shares had dialled back 1.79% to 1,920p.

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Director name: Preston,Craig
Amount sold: 112,126 @ 1,950.00p
Value: £2,186,457.00

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Paypoint (PAY)
Director name: Marchant,Jon
Amount sold: 3,017 @ 802.00p
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Paypoint (PAY)
Director name: Marchant,Jon
Amount sold: 371 @ 804.00p
Value: £2,982.84

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