Utilities, consumer finance and debt management businesses
opt for cash payments with PayPoint

Bucharest, 2 July 2009 – PayPoint Romania, one of the main cash
payment operators in Romania, has announced that it has signed five new
agreements across a range of business sectors. The new contracts with
Apanova, Electrica Transilvania Sud, EOS KSI Romania, GE Money and
Petrom Distributie Gaze will enable customers of the five companies to
benefit from the cash payment services offered by PayPoint Romania
through its network of branded terminals in neighbourhood stores
throughout Romania.

“We are very pleased to be announcing these new contracts with five of
the most important companies in Romania,” said Mugur Dogariu,
Managing Director, PayPoint Romania. “These new clients, from market
sectors as diverse utilities to consumer finance, brings the number of
PayPoint’s clients in Romania to 19, almost doubling our client base over
the last year.”

To use the PayPoint cash payment service, consumers present a bill or
payment request form at a local neighbourhood store with the PayPoint
brand displayed. The shopkeeper scans the bill using the PayPoint POS
equipment, takes the cash payment and issues a receipt with the payment
details after the transaction has been processed The company which
issued the bill is automatically sent confirmation that payment has been
made. The entire process takes only a few seconds.

“Time is one of the most precious commodities nowadays,” added Mugur
Dogariu. “By using PayPoint to manage their cash payments, our clients’
customers are able to save themselves a lot of time and so spend much
more time with family, friends and in leisure activities.”

At the same time, the five new PayPoint clients will be able to streamline
the bill payment process, allowing them to plan ahead more effectively,
have a better understanding of future revenues and optimise their cash
flow.

Apanova is the main water services provider in Bucharest and also
manages the city’s drainage system. Electrica Transilvania Sud is one of
the three branches of Electrica S.A., distributing and providing electricity
services to over 1,000,000 customers in the counties of Alba, Brasov,
Covasna, Harghita, Mures and Sibiu. EOS KSI is one of Romania’s leading
providers of bill and cash-flow management services.

GE Money is the consumer finance division of GE, providing innovative
financial solutions for consumers, ranging from personal, mortgage and
consumer loans to credit cards and car leasing solutions. GE Money also
offers financial solutions for SMEs, corporations, car dealers and mortgage
loan brokers.

Petrom Distributie Gaze (PDG) is the gas distribution company resulting
from Petrom’s spin-off of its gas distribution operations. PDG has 42 gas
distribution operations in the counties of Bihor, Arad, Timis, Gorj,
Teleorman, Giurgiu, Ilfov, Arges, Dambovita, Prahova, Ialomita and
Buzau.

Since the launch of its bill payment service under the PayPoint brand in
August 2008, PayPoint Romania has built an extensive portfolio of clients
across a diverse range of service sectors, including utilities, insurance,
cable TV and mobile telecoms. Other PayPoint clients in Romania are E.ON
Gaz Romania, E.ON Furnizare Moldova, Allianz Tiriac, Enel Energie
Doborgea and Banat, Romtelecom, UPC Romania, Telemobil and GDF Suez
Energy Romania.

PayPoint also offers top-up services for all mobile operators (Cosmote,
Orange, Vodafone, Zapp), for landline operators providing international
calls and for Internet Service Providers. PayPoint clients in this sector
include EasyComm, Nobel and Worldtelecom (Number One). For Focusat,
PayPoint provides electronic recharge vouchers for DTH service users.

At the end of March 2009, PayPoint had 5,702 terminals in Romania, up
42% compared to March 2008. 2,000 of the terminals were PayPoint
branded.

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For more information, please contact:
SAATCHI & SAATCHI PUBLIC RELATIONS
Tudor Mircea
tudor.mircea@saatchi.ro
Mob: +40 756 167 669

About PayPoint
PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK
with operations also in Ireland and Romania. It handles nearly £9 billion
from over 540 million transactions annually for more than 6,000 clients
and merchants. The company operates several payment networks:

• The PayPoint branded retail network numbers nearly 22,000
terminals located in local shops (including Co-op, Spar, McColls,
Costcutter, Sainsbury’s Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of
independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Its terminals
process gas and electricity meter prepayments, cash bill payments,
mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, London Congestion
Charges, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types
for most leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many
consumer service companies

• An ATM network which has over 2,000 ‘LINK’ branded machines
across the UK, typically in convenience stores;

• PayPoint.net, an internet payment service provider, delivers secure
online credit and debit card payments for over 5,000 web merchants
linking into all major UK acquiring banks; and

• Pay Store SRL, trading as PayPoint Romania, a mobile top-up
operator with over 5,700 outlets equipped with electronic terminals.
A bill payment service has been added to increase the breadth of
PayPoint’s offering in Romania, emulating the UK branded retail
network.

• Collect+ a joint venture with Home Delivery Network Limited to
provide a parcel collection and drop off service at its retailers.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and
the company’s market capitalisation at 29 March 2009 was £254 million.
PayPoint is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems,
smart technology and consumer service.