PayPoint Romania partners with Electrica Muntenia Nord,
Electrica Transilvania Nord and Vodafone

Bucharest, 15 July 2009 – PayPoint Romania, one of the main cash payment
operators in Romania, has announced that it has signed another three new
agreements for bill collection. The new clients are electricity providers Electrica
Furnizare Muntenia Nord and Electrica Furnizare Transilvania Nord and mobile
operator Vodafone Romania.

The new agreements allow customers of the three companies to pay their bills and
monthly installments for credit or insurance services in cash, by using the
PayPoint Romania POS network in convenience stores across the country. Through
the PayPoint network, consumers benefit from quick and easy access to cash
payment services at no aditional cost.

The announcement cames just a week after PayPoint Romania announced the
signing of five new clients; four for bill payments – Apa Nova, Electrica Furnizare
Transilvania Sud, EOS KSI România, Petrom Distributie Gaze SRL Bucharest – and
GE Money for payment of consumer credit installments.

Electrica Furnizare Muntenia Nord and Electrica Furnizare Transilvania Nord are
two of the three businesses of Electrica SA, the main electricity services provider
in Romania. Electrica Furnizare Muntenia Nord provides services for the counties
of Braila, Buzau, Vrancea, Galati and Targoviste, while Electrica Furnizare
Transilvania Nord provides electricity for the Bihor, Cluj, Maramures, Satu Mare,
Salaj and Bistrita-Nasaud counties.

Vodafone Romania is part of Vodafone Group plc, the largest mobile operator in
the world, with operations in 27 countries and 40 partner mobile networks.
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.

ENDS

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.