Grant of Awards and Director's Dealing

OPTIMAL PAYMENTS PLC

Grants under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan and Director's Dealings

Thursday 10 July - Optimal Payments Plc (the "Company") announces that it has granted certain awards under the Optimal Payments Plc Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP") which include granting awards to Joel Leonoff, Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Company.

On 9 July 2014, the Remuneration Committee determined to grant awards over a total of 3,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") to eligible executives, under the rules of the LTIP (the "Awards").

The Awards are structured as options with an option price per share equal to the nominal value of the Ordinary Shares, currently 0.01 pence. No consideration was paid for the grant of the Awards. The Awards will become exercisable after 1 October 2016, subject to the continued employment of the participant and the satisfaction of performance conditions set by the Remuneration Committee of the Company. To the extent that all or any part of the Awards become exercisable, they shall remain exercisable until the tenth anniversary of the date of the Grant.

The Awards included a grant of awards made on 9 July 2014 to Joel Leonoff, Chief Executive and an Executive Director of the Company, over 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 0.01 pence per Ordinary Share. Following the grant of the Awards, Mr Leonoff has the following interests in the Company's share capital:

As at 10 July, 2014, the Company had 161,748,260 Ordinary Shares in issue.

For further information contact:

Optimal Payments Plc

Elaine Swain, Company Secretary + 44 (0) 1624 698 700

Email: [email protected]

Canaccord Genuity + 44 (0) 207 523 8000

Simon Bridges

Cameron Duncan