Notice of Interim Results

8 November 2007 PayPoint plc - Notice of Interim Results PayPoint plc advises that it will make its Interim Results announcement for the six months ended 30 September 2007 on Wednesday, 21 November 2007. Enquiries Finsbury Group 020 7251 3801 Rollo Head Don Hunter About PayPoint PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and Ireland, handling in excess of £5 billion in over 400 million transactions annually for more than 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several significant payment streams: * The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 18,500 terminals located in local shops (including Co-ops, Spar, Costcutter, Sainsburys Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle 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 all of the leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many consumer service companies. This network is used by consumers, free of charge, over 7 million times a week. The network has 97.3% population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure; * Additional multiple retailer connections into the electronic till systems of nearly 4,000 outlets including BP, Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top ups and selected payments from the PayPoint range; * The PayPoint ATM network has 1,979 'LINK'-branded machines across the UK, also typically in convenience stores; * PayPoint Internet Payment Services (PPIPS), trading as Metacharge and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card payments for over 4,000 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks. * PayPoint International has recently acquired a Romanian mobile top-up operator to which a bill payment service will be added, emulating the UK branded retail network. PayPoint International also operates Irish bill payment and top-up services. PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004. The company's market capitalisation at 25 March 2007 was £464 million. PayPoint has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise and is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart technology and consumer service. ---END OF MESSAGE---

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