Exercise of Options

For immediate release

Optimal Payments Plc

Exercise of Options

Thursday 4 August 2011 - Optimal Payments Plc (the "Company" or the "Group") was informed on Wednesday 3 August 2011 that a former employee has today exercised options totalling 553,567 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence in the Company under the terms of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan.

Application has been made for 553,567 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence in the Company to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission").

These shares are expected to be admitted to trading on Wednesday 10 August 2011. Following Admission, the Company will have 126,279,043 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 126,279,043.

For further information contact:

Optimal Payments Plc

Andrew Gilchrist EVP Corporate Affairs + 44 (0) 1624 698 713

Email: [email protected]

Canaccord Genuity + 44 (0) 207 050 6500

Simon Bridges

Kit Stephenson