Exercise of Options

For immediate release

Optimal Payments Plc

Exercise of Options

Friday 1 April 2011 - Optimal Payments Plc (the "Company" or the "Group") announces that it has made application today for 300,000 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence in the Company to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). These shares have been allotted and issued to certain employees of the Group under the terms of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan following the achievement of certain prescribed targets.

These shares are expected to be admitted to trading on Thursday 7 April 2010. Following Admission, the Company will have 125,588,331 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 125,588,331.

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