30 June 2015    

Optimal Payments Plc

("Optimal Payments" or the "Company")

GRANT OF SHARE OPTIONS

Optimal Payments PLC announces that its Executive Directors were yesterday granted the following options over ordinary shares of £0.0001 each in the Company ("Shares") at an exercise price of £0.0001 per Share (the "Options").

The Options were granted under The Optimal Payments PLC Long-Term Incentive Plan 2010 over the Company's Shares as follows:-

The Options will vest three years from after the date of grant.  The Options are subject to two performance conditions.  50% of the Options are subject to a relative Total Shareholder Return ("TSR") performance condition, measured against the constituents of the FTSE 250 (excluding Investment Trusts).  The remaining 50% of the Options are subject to challenging earnings per share ("EPS") targets.  The EPS targets will have an appropriate sliding scale and will be disclosed in the 2015 Annual Report and Accounts.  Both the TSR and EPS targets will be measured until 31 December 2017.  The Options are also granted conditional on the completion of the Company's proposed acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited.

For further information please contact:

Tony Hunter

Company Secretary

Optimal Payments PLC                                                                       + 44 (0)207 603 1515