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MPAY Mi-pay Group Plc

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Mi-Pay Group PLC Preliminary Results (9945U)

13/04/2016 7:00am

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Mi-Pay Group PLC

13 April 2016

13 April 2016

Mi-Pay Group plc

('Mi-Pay', the 'Group', or the 'Company')

Preliminary Results

Mi-Pay Group plc (AIM: MPAY), the leading provider of mobile payment solutions to Tier 1 Mobile Network Operators and Mobile Virtual Network Operators, presents its preliminary results for the 12 months ended 31 December 2015.

Financial Highlights

   --      Total Revenue GBP3.0 million for the year (2014: GBP2.7 million) 

o Transaction Services Revenue GBP2.3 million (2014: GBP2.0 million)

o Professional Services Revenue GBP0.7 million (2014: GBP0.7 million)

-- Transaction Services Revenue growth at 31% per annum (2014: 44%) from GBP1.7 million to GBP2.2 million after adjusting for terminated contract in 2013.

-- Gross profit margin increased from 45% in 2014 to 56% in 2015 through increased efficiencies, driving a GBP0.5 million Gross profit increase to GBP1.7 million. (2014: GBP1.2 million).

-- GBP1.2 million reduction in our delivery cost base from 2014, reducing administrative expenses to GBP2.9 million (2014: 4.1 million)(1).

-- GBP1.7 million reduction in adjusted Operating loss(1) to GBP1.2 million. Delivered continual month on month trading improvement during the year.

-- On 9th March 2015, raised additional funding of GBP1.75 million (GBP1.6 million net of costs).

   --      Cash and cash equivalents as at 31 December 2015 GBP3.5 million (2014: GBP2.0 million). 
   --      Basic diluted loss per share 3.6 pence (2014: 15.1 pence). 

Operational Highlights

-- GBP64.7 million of client funds processed in 2015 from 5.2 million processed transactions (2014 - GBP50.1 million and 4.0 million respectively.

-- Continued trial of full on-line and on-device top up solution with a major UK mobile network and contract extensions with our 2 largest clients.

-- Successful implementation of internally developed fraud engine in December 2014. Fraud levels decreased, contributing an 8% increase in Transaction Services Gross profits in the period.

-- Delivery of new, PCI accredited, global data centre infrastructure providing enhanced flexibility, scalability and redundancy across both Europe and Asia Pacific.

(1)After removing share based payment, research and development tax credits and non-recurring expenses.

Seamus Keating, Chairman of Mi-Pay Group plc commented on the results:

"2015 has been a year of significant progress for Mi-Pay which has seen a major improvement in trading performance following the reorganisation of the business, increased investment in our platform and cost reductions undertaken in 2014. Our financial performance improved significantly through 2015, with operating cash outflow reduced in the second half by 50% to GBP0.4 million. Our monthly operating cash outflow has now further reduced to approximately GBP30k per month as transaction volume growth continues. Mi-Pay is well positioned to deliver further revenue growth and improved financial performance.

Our key focus remains on continuing to develop our customer relationships and position ourselves as a strategic partner to our clients. We believe that our core technology and suite of products meet the needs of a fast growing market and we look forward to cementing our position as a key player in the growth of digital on-line payments in 2016."

Both the full Annual Report and Financial Statements and the notice of AGM, convening a general meeting of the Company, to be held at 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A 4ES on the 17th May 2016 at 11 a.m. are available on our website at www.mi-pay.com/investor-document-centre/ and will be posted to Shareholders shortly.

For further information please contact:

 
 Mi-Pay Group      IFC Advisory         Zeus Capital 
  plc 
 Tel: +44 207      Tel: +44 203 053     Tel +44 161 831 
  112 2129          8671                 1512 
 Seamus Keating,   Graham Herring       Nick Cowles 
  Chairman 
 John Beale, CFO   Tim Metcalfe         Jamie Peel 
                    Heather Armstrong 
 

About Mi-Pay Group

Founded in 2003, Mi-Pay Group delivers fully outsourced online and related payment solutions to digital ecommerce clients, primarily in the mobile sector. Its product offering provides the infrastructure to enable pre-paid mobile devices to be topped up via a variety of channels such as websites, mobile applications and social media applications and customers include Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MNVOs). Mi-Pay sells, integrates and operates its products and solutions on a global basis. For further information, please visit www.Mi-Pay.com or contact details as shown above.

Chairman's Statement

2015 has been a year of operational progress and major improvement in trading performance at M-Pay which has seen a major improvement in trading performance following a reorganisation of the business, increased investment in our platform and the cost reductions undertaken in 2014.

We raised additional capital of GBP1.75 million (gross) on 9(th) March 2015 to allow the Group to stabilise after the investments and restructure in 2014 and provide additional working capital to support growth. All Board members participated in the placing and continued to defer remuneration during the 2015 period in support of our short term core objective to achieve operating cash flow break even.

Following the rationalisation of our operating model in 2014 significant progress has been made in driving Mi-Pay to profitability and the Group now has a strong and efficient platform from which to grow. We have now delivered processed transaction value growth in excess of 40% per annum for 3 consecutive years (after adjusting for a lost client in 2013) which has continued to deliver a consistent increase in revenue. During the period we:-

-- Further enhanced the efficiency and competitiveness of our trading model, driving our gross profit margin up by 11% to 56% primarily due to the implementation of our internal fraud management solution.

-- Have seen the full benefit of the simplification of our delivery processes reducing our administrative cost base by GBP1.2 million on an annualised basis, after excluding the exceptional listing costs, Share based payments, research and development tax credits and reorganisation costs.

-- Delivered a new multi-sited infrastructure to enable a secure, efficient, flexible, and scalable platform for global growth.

The Directors believe that the Group now has a strong commercial proposition combined with a globally secure platform which is increasingly relevant as on-line mobile and tablet devices become the 'method of choice' for customers to securely order and pay for digital services.

Our Market

Customer Needs

Customers continue to move away from traditional 'in store' purchases towards the use of devices (mobile phones and tablets) and are driving exponential growth in mobile-commerce and digital content services - this drives our natural growth levels. The ever increasing mobile usage from data is more than compensating for the reduction in voice related usage, and we therefore see the average transaction values and the value of a pre-paid customer increasing.

Payments Solutions

The new influx of 'payment wallet' solutions and alternative payment methods such as PayPal, Amazon Payments, Apple Pay etc. are increasingly becoming the payment methods of choice as customers look for secure, 'one-click' payment solutions, flexible on all devices. Our investments in this space are key to our success providing simple, integrated order and payment journeys which allow the payment method of choice for the customer - whilst removing the risk for the Mobile Operator. Our white labelled product suite and deep integration with Mobile Operator platforms, along with our payment agnostic approach to payment partners enables us to answer the market's requirements.

Geographies

Whilst the European market is mature in terms of mobile ownership our opportunity lies in the customer migration to the on-line / on-device solutions. In addition we continue to target long term growth in the Asian market. Although traction remains slower than we had originally anticipated, with over 80% of mobile users in Asia Pacific being Pre-Paid customers versus 60% in Europe the region is now larger than Europe in terms of mobile ownership at over 1.8bn users. Our proven ability to deliver risk free solutions puts us in a strong position to be a first mover in this market.

Operator Needs - Business Intelligence, Risk Management and Customer Retention

The European market is increasingly competitive and in 2015 we have seen a number of major integrations between global operators as they have a need to manage falling margins and deliver a wider range of digital solutions to customers including data, voice, content, TV and music etc. Customer retention and delivery of new solutions to their customers is becoming crucial for success, with the on-line direct channel bringing certain benefits, namely the ability to market directly to customers, deliver on- demand data services and offer multiple ways to connect and order services. Our solutions enable direct marketing, retention programmes and access to business intelligence. Our experience in processing over GBP0.5 billion in transaction value makes us a leading expert in the pre-paid services market. Our ability to indemnify and de-risk both the customer and the operator creates value in our proposition.

Security

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A key shift in focus during 2015 was the increased number of high profile personal data breaches in the digital commerce market which forced mobile operators and retailers to re-evaluate the importance of the protection of their customer's data; an increasingly complicated and expensive exercise. Our core offering is security focused with a fully encrypted, PCI accredited platform and crucially fully segregated from their infrastructure. As such, we believe our solution is valuable to operators and we believe this change in market dynamics will be beneficial for outsourced solutions like ours in the longer term.

Outlook

2016 and beyond will target these market changes in our solutions and we believe we have the core technology and product suite to continue to grow by meeting the market's needs. Our key focus is to continue to develop relationships with our existing clients, especially in the areas of mobile and on device risk free payment solutions, and to be deeply integrated so that where consolidation exists we are a key strategic partner. We expect to continue to secure new clients who have ever increasing security, compliance and on device and on-line payment needs and look to drive new revenue streams from new digital commerce markets with new products.

We will do this through continuing to directly target the migration from the retail voucher channel to on-device and on-line solutions, building relationships with the market leading on-device payment solution providers and by incrementally investing in our security services including the commercialisation of our in-house fraud solutions.

The South East Asia region remains a target for longer term growth, in which we will continue to invest.

Our financial performance improved significantly through 2015, with operating cash outflow reduced in the second half by 50% to GBP0.4 million. Our monthly operating cash outflow has now further reduced to approx. GBP30k per month as transaction volume growth continues. Mi-Pay is well positioned to deliver further revenue growth and improved financial performance.

On behalf of the board I would like to thank all our employees, clients, investors and partners who have enabled Mi-Pay to deliver on its core targets and continue to support growth. We remain excited about the future and look forward to remaining a key player in the growth of digital on-line payments in 2016.

Seamus Keating

Non-Executive Chairman

12 April 2016

CEO Review of Operations

We deliver two core revenue streams for our clients:-

-- Transaction Services Revenues are driven from the processing of transactions on behalf of our clients. This is our core business and can deliver gross profit margins in excess of 40%, which in turn creates recurring, annuity based revenue in a naturally expanding market. This provides a solid, sustainable and growing source of revenue.

-- Professional Services Revenues relate to the development, delivery and hosting of our platform and client solutions. Critically this revenue traditionally relates to the implementation of new services for clients which in turn increases our long-term Transaction Services Revenues.

We have continued to deliver strong growth in our core annuity based Transaction Services Revenues, seeing a further 31% increase on 2014 to GBP2.2 million from GBP1.7 million, after adjusting for the loss of a contract in August 2013. This is a third year of positive, consistent growth from our core European market as customers migrate to the on-line channel. We still expect our opportunities in Asia to deliver over the longer term, however they remain slow in growing at this stage. It was also pleasing that following the restructure in 2014 we continued to deliver strong Professional Service Revenues at GBP0.7 million following the implementation of new services to our clients and further in house development of our card vault solution. Total revenues rose to GBP3.0m from GBP2.7 million in 2014.

Underlying Revenue Trends

-- The majority of our growth in 2015 was driven from existing clients with whom we have built strong, long term relationships in the European market as the need for outsourcing increases.

-- Our revenues remain well spread across our client base with our largest at 13% of total revenue. During the year we became the on-line top up service provider to the Post Office in their launch of their MVNO brand in the UK and re-signed our 2 largest clients for a further 2 years. Importantly to us, over 75% of our clients have each shown growth during the period. This growth was partly offset by the closure of the Mobile by Sainsbury network in December 2015.

-- We have continued to develop our relationships in Asia, and saw our first revenues from the Philippines which remains a potentially high growth market. Despite slow growth during 2015 we remain optimistic in its long term growth prospects.

-- We have seen real traction from the delivery of on-device 'payment applications' and mobile wallet payment solutions with our partners which we expect to continue to invest in and integrate with. Our solutions allow us to embed within our clients' own 'mobile app' strategies and become a core strategic partner to them.

Key Performance Metrics & Operational Investments

We will deliver long term success from providing flexible secure, risk free solutions targeted at increasing customer expenditure and enhancing customer retention whilst removing our client's risks.

Our major contracts indemnify our clients from fraudulent transactions and only charge for successfully completed ones, an offering more strategically aligned with our clients than that of the general payments market. As such it is critical that we deliver world class fraud management and payment transaction optimisation rates to both protect our gross profit margins but also deliver real business value to our clients and keep their data safe. It is here that we target our investments.

We continue to invest in our internal fraud management platform which was successfully rolled out to over 90% of our clients during the year and its success is key to achieving our key performance indicators. Our target was to:-

-- Improve our commercial proposition and drive up gross profit margins for every transaction processed.

-- Exert full control, visibility, learnings and management experience for all customer data we process, especially as we move into the developing Asian market.

   --      Deliver new technological intellectual property 

-- Improve the scalability, real time visibility and flexibility of our fraud management service to create a new core product offering to drive new revenue streams outside of our existing markets.

We are very pleased that during 2015 we achieved our targets, seeing continued high levels of transaction success rates, consistent with 2014 figures at 86%. Critically we delivered a further 0.02% reduction in our fraud levels to 0.09% of transaction value which we see as market leading. The GBP0.2 million reduced cost of sales as a result of this insource was a core driver of our overall 12% increase in Transaction Services gross profit margins to 48% which we expect to continue.

In addition we continue to add new functionality; including improved fraud agent controls, fraud rule reversal management and real time reporting. We will continue this investment programme in 2016 by delivering real time visual interfaces to track fraudsters globally, utilise social media and IP address information to better screen customers and improve our business intelligence to better utilise the 0.5 billion transaction history we have accumulated. When completed we expect this to become a fully commercialised service offering to our clients to use directly in addition to our core indemnified payment solution.

The Group also considers its revenues, gross profit margins and administration expenses as key performance metrics and these are reviewed in the Financial Review.

Infrastructure Investments

A core target for Mi-Pay throughout 2015 has been to deliver global flexibility in an efficient and scalable way, combined with market leading security services. With the increasing risks around the security of personal data we have placed its protection at the heart of our infrastructure investments whilst creating a platform to flexibly support our opportunities in Asia. In August 2015 we successfully migrated our clients onto a new infrastructure platform which delivered this target for us. The solution has enabled us to:

-- Transfer our core payments platform to a managed IBM cloud environment, standardising the underlying technology to enable us to be flexible in scaling our global services 'on demand' and rapidly deploy new geographies when required.

-- Using this architecture we have delivered a secondary data centre in Singapore which allows faster responsive rates to our Asian clients but critically also provides the dual site redundancy, essential for our client's needs.

-- This migration also included the upgrade of our PCI DSS certification to the new standard 3.1, across both locations, with the IBM cloud environment facilitating the outsource of some of the core technical competencies of the security standard as part of our ongoing target to improve efficiencies and use best in industry experts to protect our clients data.

-- Deliver this within our previous cost structures as part of our continued drive to profitability.

This investment will ultimately lead to a fully data encrypted, managed platform that delivers security levels above and beyond our payment compliance requirements and enables us to remain a leader in the storage and processing of personal and payment customer data, critical for our clients.

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We have also seen an increasing requirement for multi-device solutions that require ubiquitous payment options and give the end customers choice, security and flexibility. We have worked with our clients in enhancing their 'on-device' strategies and payment solutions with 3 core investments during the year.

1. Providing secure, device optimised payment solutions within our clients' existing mobile applications.

2. Developing and delivering bespoke mobile applications to support optimised 'in APP' purchases.

3. Partnering with market leading optimised mobile payment and mobile wallet solutions such as PayPal and Amazon Payments to provide our clients with the best 'on device' payment solution. We have seen these payment options grow by over 180% over the 12 month period.

All of our investments in the growth of revenues, new markets, operational efficiency and infrastructures are reliant on the support and dedication of our employees. As 2014 was a period of change for the Group we are pleased that our employees have remained stable and supportive during 2015. Their experience and dedication remains our most valuable resource and we would particularly like to thank them for their efforts, support and commitment in delivering these challenging projects successfully which has created the platform and environment for success.

Michael Dickerson

Chief Executive Officer

12 April 2016

Financial Review

The 2015 financial performance reflects the impact of the reorganisation and infrastructure investment made in 2014. We have now delivered an improved commercial trading model supported by a more efficient delivery of infrastructure which has resulted in increased gross profit margins, reduced costs, and subsequent reduced losses for the year.

Revenues & Gross Profits

Total revenue was GBP3.0 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, in line with management expectations and 12% ahead of the prior year.

The 12% growth was achieved despite the continued year on year impact of GBP0.3 million reduced revenues due to the loss of the contract in 2013 which has continued to generate sales. The effect of this is now marginal in 2015, however, when adjusting for the loss of the contract our core Transaction Services Revenues increased 31% year on year to GBP2.2m (2014: GBP1.7 million), following the 44% increase in 2013 and 42% in 2014. This growth was driven from processing 5.2 million transactions which generate GBP64.7 million of customer's payments. (2014: 4 million transactions and GBP50.1 million of customer's payments).

Professional Services Revenues were in line with the prior year at GBP0.7 million (2014: GBP0.7 million) as we developed new services to our clients and we continued to deliver chargeable enhancements to our Card Vault Solution during the year, which accounted for 63% of this revenue stream. Whilst Professional Services Revenues achieved a higher gross margin (usually in excess of 70%), they are primarily non-recurring one-off project based payments for existing clients and over the longer term we expect this part of the business to reduce as our Transaction Services Revenues grow.

We continued our key focus of improving our gross profit margins during 2015 with good success. We expect these to be consistent across geographies, however, our revenue segments drive differing gross profit margins and as such our revenue mix impacts our overall performance. For the year ended 31 December 2015, gross profit margins increased to 56% (2014: 45%) due to:

-- 6% improvement following the successful insource of our fraud processing. We expect this to continue and enable each transaction processed to be more profitable.

-- 3% improvement in Transaction Services Margins due to improved fraud levels and improved commercial terms with our payment partners as volumes increase.

-- 2% improvement in Professional Services Margins following the more efficient delivery model implemented in 2014 and improved contractual terms with clients.

This continues the positive trend since 2011 where we have seen gross profit margins increase from 34% to 56%. Our major Transaction Services growth in 2015 was delivered from existing clients with market competitive pricing and as such we have demonstrated an ability to maintain and grow profits against commercial pressures in the mature European market. Our increasing transaction volumes, low fraud levels, high transaction success rates and continued strong relationships with our payment partners have all been critical in this improvement in underlying profitability.

Operating Loss

During the period we have restated our performance against prior years to net off the research and development tax credits (GBP0.2 million) with our research and development investment costs in line with current accounting best practice, resulting in an Operating loss for the year of GBP1.4 million (2014: GBP4.2 million). This includes GBP0.1 million related to non-recurring restructuring costs, a process that is now complete and GBP0.3 million for share-based payments relating to the provision of share options for key management. We do not expect further charges to the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income from these share options. No share options were exercised during the period.

Overall the Group delivered a GBP1.7 million reduction in Adjusted Operating Losses for the period due to the GBP0.5 million increase in Gross margins and GBP1.2 million reduction in general and administration, depreciation and research and development costs.

We are pleased that 2015 has therefore been a period of positive trading improvement for Mi-Pay. We have seen consistent month on month growth during the year with consistent key performance indicators delivering improved financial performance. Our core business model is based upon monthly growth, high margin, annuity based revenue streams in combination with low working capital and capital investment requirements. We enter 2016 in a significantly stronger position than in 2015 and are particularly encouraged with the continued month on month improvements to the business as our revenue growth continues. In the 6 months period to June 2015 our operating loss was GBP1.0 million, for the 6 month period to December 2015 this was reduced to GBP0.4 million demonstrating this progression.

Cash Flow, Assets and Liabilities.

The Group ended the year with GBP3.5 million in cash and cash equivalents (2014: GBP2.0 million), noting that GBP2.2 million of this balance related to the operation of managing client payments. The increase to the cash position of GBP1.5 million during the period delivered stability to the Group.

-- GBP1.6 million (net proceeds after costs) raised to provide further investment for working capital via a successful fund raise on 9 March 2015 by the issue and allotment of 7,608,696 Ordinary Shares at 23 pence each.

-- GBP0.8 million increase in client related funds due to the growth in transaction volumes and improved payment terms with our payment partners, however over the longer term we expect this growth to reverse as we look to improve our client repayment terms to closer align ourselves with our clients.

-- GBP0.9 million decrease of cash flows from operating activities, working capital movements excluding client related impacts, capital investment, interest tax income and finance lease expenditure.

In relation to the GBP0.9 million decrease of cash flows from operating activities defined above, we were pleased to see continual month on month reductions in our cash outflow with the 6 month period to June 2015 showing a GBP0.8 million outflow and 6 month period to December 2015 showing a GBP0.1 million outflow after the inflow of GBP0.3 million in research and development tax credits relating to 2014, paid as cash in August 2015.

The Group had limited capital expenditure exposure at less than GBP0.1 million and does not meet the IAS 38 criteria to enable it to capitalise its internal development costs. The Group continues to service a finance lease related to the five year licence arrangement for our core transaction processing platform, effective from 28 June 2013 of which GBP0.2 million remained outstanding as at 31 December 2015.

Excluding the increase in client funds, there were no other material movements in working capital with the Group being well protected from risk in this area as its debtor fees relating to its core Transaction Services Revenues are deducted at source before net payments are made to clients. Trade and other payables increased by GBP0.8 million due to the growth in amounts due to our clients for payments received and slower settlement terms and is offset by the increased cash holding. The Group has no external borrowings.

John Beale

Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary

12 April 2016

 
 
   Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive 
   Income 
   For the year ended 31 December 
   2015 
                                                                         (Restated) 
                                                                 Year          Year 
                                                                ended         ended 
                                                               31 Dec        31 Dec 
                                                                 2015          2014 
                                                   Note           GBP           GBP 
-------------------------------------------     -------  ------------  ------------ 
 Transactional Services: 
  Gross Revenue                                            64,666,714    50,124,637 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Transactional Services: 
  Net Commission Revenue                                    2,257,130     2,033,961 
 Professional Services Revenue                                757,044       665,354 
 Revenue                                              2     3,014,174     2,699,315 

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----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Cost of sales                                            (1,322,832)   (1,495,605) 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 Gross profit                                         2     1,691,342     1,203,710 
 
 
 Administrative expenses 
-------------------------------------------     -------  ------------  ------------ 
 General and administration                               (2,287,618)   (3,116,789) 
 Research and Development                                   (384,909)     (608,687) 
 Depreciation                                               (127,121)     (217,892) 
 Share-based payment                                        (326,310)     (298,419) 
 Exceptional items - listing 
  costs                                                       (4,360)   (1,166,816) 
 
 
 Total administrative expenses                            (3,130,318)   (5,408,603) 
 
 Operating loss                                           (1,438,976)   (4,204,893) 
 
 Finance income                                                 3,512        19,142 
 Finance expense                                                (478)     (124,792) 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 Loss before taxation                                     (1,435,942)   (4,310,543) 
 
 Taxation                                                     (3,149)       (7,100) 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Loss for the year from continuing 
  operations                                              (1,439,091)   (4,317,643) 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Other Comprehensive expense for the year 
 Amounts which may be subsequently                                  -             - 
  recycled to profit and loss 
 Exchange differences on 
  translation of foreign operation                              (696)       (3,838) 
 Loss and total comprehensive 
  expense for the year 
  attributable to the owners 
  of the parent                                           (1,439,787)   (4,321,481) 
----------------------------------------------  -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Basic and diluted loss per 
  ordinary share for continuing 
  operations                                          4        (3.6)p       (15.1)p 
--------------------------------------------    -------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Consolidated Statement of 
  Financial 
  Position 
  For the year ended 31 
  December 
  2015 
 
 
                                                                            31                            31 
                                                                           Dec                           Dec 
                                                                          2015                          2014 
                                 Note                                      GBP                           GBP 
-------------------------       -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 ASSETS 
 Non-current assets 
 Property, plant and 
  equipment                                                            258,059                       310,281 
--------------------------      -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total non-current 
  assets                                                               258,059                       310,281 
 
 Current assets 
 Trade and other 
  receivables                     5                                    724,335                       759,143 
 R&D credit receivable                                                 203,657                       339,333 
 Cash and cash equivalents                                           3,530,154                     2,002,698 
---------------------------     -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total current assets                                                4,458,146                     3,101,174 
 
 Total assets                                                        4,716,205                     3,411,455 
------------------------------  -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 LIABILITIES 
 Current liabilities 
 Trade and other payables         6                                (3,473,741)                   (2,636,010) 
 Obligations under 
  finance lease                                                       (66,000)                      (66,000) 
--------------------------      -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total current liabilities                                         (3,539,741)                   (2,702,010) 
 
 Non-current liabilities 
 Obligations under finance 
  lease                                                               (99,000)                     (165,000) 
---------------------------     -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total non-current 
  liabilities                                                         (99,000)                     (165,000) 
 
 Total liabilities                                                 (3,638,741)                   (2,867,010) 
--------------------------      -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 Net assets / 
  (liabilities)                                                      1,077,464                       544,445 
--------------------------      -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 Equity                           7 
 Share capital                                                       4,159,324                     3,398,453 
 Share premium                                                       1,403,923                       518,298 
 Share options reserve                                                 624,729                       298,419 
 Reverse acquisition 
  reserve                                                            6,920,115                     6,920,115 
 Merger reserve                                                      6,808,742                     6,808,742 
 Retained deficit                                                 (18,839,369)                  (17,399,582) 
--------------------------      -----  ---------------------------------------  ---------------------------- 
 Total equity attributable to 
  the equity shareholders of 
  the 
  parent                                                             1,077,464                       544,445 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   Consolidated Statement 
   of Cash Flows 
   For the year ended 31 
   December 2015 
 
 
                                                                                                                           (Restated) 
                                                                                                   Year                          Year 
                                                                                                  ended                         ended 
                                                                                                 31 Dec                        31 Dec 
                                                                                                   2015                          2014 
                                                                                    Note            GBP                           GBP 
-------------------------------     ---    ---------------------------------------------   ------------  ---------------------------- 
 Cash flows from operating 
  activities 
 Loss before tax from 
  continuing operations                                                                     (1,435,942)                   (4,310,543) 
---------------------------------   ---     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 Adjusted for: 
 Depreciation                                                                                   127,121                       217,892 
 Finance income                                                                                 (3,512)                      (19,142) 
 Finance expense                                                                                    478                       124,792 
 Share based payment                                                                            326,310                     1,228,955 
 R&D credits                                                                                  (203,657)                     (509,228) 
 
 Decrease in trade and 
  other receivables                                                                              34,808                     1,017,302 
 (Decrease) in trade 
  and other payables                                                                            833,887                   (1,138,536) 
 
 Adjusted loss from operations 
  after changes in working 
  capital                                                                                     (320,507)                   (3,388,508) 
 
 Interest received                                                                                3,512                        19,142 
 Interest paid                                                                                    (478)                      (17,508) 
 R&D credit (paid) 
  / received                                                                                    339,333                       272,795 
 
 Net cash flows from 
  operating activities                                                                           21,860                   (3,114,079) 
 
 Cash flows from investing 
  activities 
 Cash acquired on 
  acquisition                                                                                         -                     2,808,149 

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 Redemption of loan 
  notes receivable                                                                                    -                       564,999 
 Purchase of property, 
  plant and equipment                                                                          (74,899)                      (45,357) 
 
 Net cash flows from 
  investing activities                                                                         (74,899)                     3,327,791 
 
 Cash flows from financing 
  activities 
 Proceeds from issue 
  of share capital, net 
  of issue costs                                                                              1,646,495                       700,000 
 Issue of debt and 
  convertible debt, 
  net of issue costs                                                                                  -                       198,589 
 Finance lease payments                                                                        (66,000)                      (66,000) 
 
 Net cash flows from 
  financing activities                                                                        1,580,495                       832,589 
 
 Net increase in cash 
  and cash equivalents                                                                        1,527,456                     1,046,301 
 Cash and cash equivalents 
  at beginning of period                                                                      2,002,698                       956,397 
----------------------------------  ---     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 Cash and cash equivalents 
  at end of period                                                                            3,530,154                     2,002,698 
---------------------------------   ---     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 
 
 
 Consolidated Statement of Changes 
  in Equity 
  For the year ended 31 December 
  2015 
 
 
 For the year 
 ended 31                                                                                                           Share                             Reverse 
 December                                       Share                                 Share                       options                         acquisition                             Merger                                  Retained 
 2015                                         capital                               premium                       reserve                             reserve                            reserve                                   deficit                                   Total 
                                                  GBP                                   GBP                           GBP                                 GBP                                GBP                                       GBP                                     GBP 
 ---------------    ---------------------------------  ------------------------------------                                                                                                       ----------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 At 1 January 
  2015                                      3,398,453                               518,298                       298,419                           6,920,115                          6,808,742                              (17,399,582)                                 544,445 
 Loss for the year 
  from 
  continuing 
  operations                                        -                                     -                             -                                   -                                  -                               (1,439,091)                             (1,439,091) 
------------------  ---------------------------------  ------------------------------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------------------  ---------------------------------  ----------------------------------------  -------------------------------------- 
 Other 
  comprehensive 
  expense 
  for the year                                      -                                     -                             -                                   -                                  -                                     (696)                                   (696) 
 Additional 
  placing shares                              760,871                               885,625                             -                                   -                                  -                                         -                               1,646,496 
 Share-based 
  payment                                           -                                     -                       326,310                                   -                                  -                                         -                                 326,310 
 
 At 31 December 
 2015                                       4,159,324                             1,403,923                       624,729                           6,920,115                          6,808,742                              (18,839,369)                               1,077,464 
 
 
 
 

Notes to the Financial Statements

   1.    Accounting policies 

Basis of preparation and consolidation

The financial information of the Group set out above does not constitute "statutory accounts" for the purposes of Section 435 of the Companies Act 2006. The financial information for the year ended 31 December 2015 has been extracted from the Group's audited financial statements which were approved by the Board of directors on 12 April 2016 and will be delivered to the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales in due course. The financial information for the year ended 31 December 2014 has been extracted from Mi-Pay Limited's audited financial statements for that period which have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. The reports of the auditors on both these financial statements were unqualified, did not include any references to any matters to which the auditors drew attention by way of emphasis without qualifying their report and did not contain a statement under Section 498(2) or Section 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006. Whilst the financial information included in this preliminary announcement has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of International Financial Reporting Standards ('IFRSs') as adopted by the European Union, this announcement does not itself contain sufficient information to comply with those IFRSs. The financial information has been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in the 31 December 2015 annual report and financial statements published at www.mi-pay.com

Research and Development

During the year a decision was made to adjust the treatment of Research and Development in the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income. It was decided the Financial Statements would be more relevant if the Research and Development credit was removed from the tax line in the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income, where it has been in previous years, and included within and offset against the Research and Development line instead.

This treatment has been applied retrospectively and the 2014 prior year Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income has been adjusted in line with this new change in accounting policy.

During the year ended 31 December 2015, the Group has invested GBP588,566 (2014: GBP1,117,915) in Research and Development activities. When deducting the Research and Development credit of GBP203,657 (2014: GBP509,228) the net effect and total within the Research and development line of the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income is GBP384,909 (2014: GBP608,687)

This adjustment of the treatment of the Research and Development credit has impacted not only the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income but also notes 5 & 8 to the Financial Statements and the Loss before tax from continuing operations figure in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for both the current and comparative year. Consequently, the comparative figures in the aforementioned statements and notes are presented as restated.

   2.    Segmental analysis 

The chief operating decision maker has been identified as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Group. The chief operating decision maker is responsible for regularly assessing the performance of the Group's operating segments and performing the function of allocating resources. To assist the chief operating decision maker in this process, internally generated reporting is prepared for each operating segment.

The Group has two operating segments that it reports on. These operating segments are:

-- Transaction Services Revenues: This segment generates revenue from the processing of transactions on behalf of clients and is Mi-Pay Group plc's core business. For the majority of clients, Mi-Pay Group plc collects gross transaction top up values from acquirers less their acquirer fees, on behalf of client mobile operators. Mi-Pay Group plc generates net commission revenue through charging clients a commission percentage on transaction value as per each individual client contract, with operators then receiving the remainder.

-- Professional Services Revenues: This segment generates revenue from the development, delivery and hosting of our platform and client solutions.

The CEO assesses the performance of the operating segments based on revenue and gross profit. The CEO uses these measures to assess performance because they are quick to analyse and directly relevant to evaluating the results of each segment. (1)

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Both segments are continuing operations and results are as follows:

 
 Operating Segments 
 
                                                     2015          2014 
                                                      GBP           GBP 
 
 Transaction Services: Gross 
  Revenue                                      64,666,714    50,124,637 
 
 Transaction Services: Net Commission 
  Revenue                                       2,257,130     2,033,961 
 Professional Services Revenue                    757,044       665,354 
                                                  _______       _______ 
 
 Total revenue                                  3,014,174     2,699,315 
 
 
 Transaction services cost of 
  sales                                         1,167,525     1,295,685 
  Professional services cost 
   of sales                                       155,307       199,920 
                                                  _______       _______ 
 
   Total cost of sales                          1,322,832     1,495,605 
 
 
 Transaction services gross 
  profit                                        1,089,605       738,276 
  Professional services gross 
   profit                                         601,737       465,434 
                                                  _______       _______ 
 
   Total gross profit                           1,691,342     1,203,710 
                                                 ________      ________ 
 
 
  Transaction services gross                          48%           36% 
   profit % 
   Professional services gross                        79%           70% 
    profit % 
 
                                                  _______       _______ 
 
   Total gross profit %                               56%           45% 
                                                 ________      ________ 
 
 

(1) There is no inter segment trading and assets and liabilities are not allocated to segments.

 
 Geographical Information 
 
  All material non-current assets owned by the 
  Group are held in the United Kingdom. 
 
  In presenting the consolidated revenue information 
  on a geographical basis, revenue is based on 
  the geographical location of clients. The United 
  Kingdom is the place of domicile of the Parent 
  Company. 
 
 
    Revenue by location: 
 
                                                 2015         2014 
                                                  GBP          GBP 
    Transaction Services Revenue 
    United Kingdom                          1,320,464    1,220,749 
  Europe                                      818,264      721,917 
  Rest of the world                           118,402       91,295 
 
    Professional Services Revenue 
    United Kingdom                            581,578      546,512 
  Europe                                       13,450       37,475 
  Rest of the world                           162,016       81,367 
                                              _______      _______ 
 
  Total                                     3,014,174    2,699,315 
                                             ________     ________ 
 
  The proportion of turnover that is 
   attributable outside the UK 37 %                            35% 
 
 

Major clients

During the year, there were 2 (2014: 3) clients that individually made up at least 10% of total revenue. In aggregate, this accounted for 28.67% (individually 16.24% and 12.43%) (2014: 37.72% (individually 13.78%, 11.4% or 12.54%)) of total revenue.

4. Loss per share

 
                                                     2015          2014 
                                                      GBP           GBP 
 
 Loss for the year                            (1,439,091)   (4,317,643) 
  Weighted-average shares outstanding          40,175,719    28,672,556 
                                                  _______       _______ 
 Basic EPS (pence)                                  (3.6)        (15.1) 
  Diluted EPS (pence)                               (3.6)        (15.1) 
 

The numerators shown above represent the total loss from continuing operations for the year.

The weighted-average number of common shares outstanding (the denominator of the loss-per-share [EPS] calculation) during the year ended 31 December 2014, the year in which the reverse acquisition took place, has been calculated by adding together the following:

The number of common shares outstanding from the beginning of the year to the acquisition date of 29 April 2014 is computed on the basis of the weighted-average number of common shares of the legal acquiree (accounting acquirer) outstanding during this year, multiplied by the exchange ratio established in the acquisition agreement.

The number of common shares outstanding from the acquisition date to the end of the year is the weighted-average number of common shares of the legal acquirer (the accounting acquiree) outstanding during this year.

As none of the share options in place at the Statement of Financial Position date were dilutive, there was no difference between the weighted-average number of shares used to calculate basic and diluted net loss per share.

5. Trade and other receivables

 
                                 2015        2014 
                                  GBP         GBP 
 
 Trade receivables            167,690     227,388 
 Less: provision for 
  impairment of trade 
  receivables                       -    (13,132) 
                              _______     _______ 
 
   Trade receivables - 
   net                        167,690     214,256 
 
 Client receivables           471,428     357,221 
 Prepayments                   65,785      92,075 
 Other receivables             19,432      95,591 
                              _______     _______ 
 
 Total trade and other 
  receivables                 724,335     759,143 
                             ________    ________ 
 

6. Trade and other payables

 
                                    2015        2014 
                                     GBP         GBP 
 
 Trade payables                  109,480     282,103 
 Client payables               2,626,055   1,852,897 
 Accruals                        364,775     366,659 
 Deferred income                 134,766      13,210 
 Other payables - tax and 
  social security payments       233,515     102,003 
 Other payables                    5,150      19,138 
                                 _______     _______ 
 
 Total trade and other 
  payables                     3,473,741   2,636,010 
                                ________    ________ 
 

7. Share capital and premium

 
                             Note                            Number                  Share             Share 
                                                          of shares                capital            Premium 
                                                                                       GBP              GBP 
 
 At 1 January 2014                                          586,523                586,523                    10,173,434 
 
 Share capital issued 
  pre-acquisition                                           142,916                142,916                    1,785,717 
 
 Reverse takeover 
  acquisition                                             (729,439)              (729,439)                  (11,959,151) 
 
 Merger reserve / 
  consideration shares          1              21,912,583                        2,191,258                             - 
 
 AimShell Acquisitions 
  plc existing shares                                    10,400,020              1,040,002                             - 
 
 Additional placing 
  shares                        2                         1,671,930                167,193                       518,298 
 
 At 31 December 2014                                     33,984,533              3,398,453                       518,298 
-----------------------  --------  --------------------------------  ---------------------  ---------------------------- 
 
 At 1 January 2015                                       33,984,533              3,398,453                       518,298 
 
 Additional placing 
  shares                        3                         7,608,696                760,871                       885,625 
 
 At 31 December 2015                                     41,593,229              4,159,324                     1,403,923 
 
 

1 21,912,583 ordinary shares of 10p were issued on 29 April 2014 as consideration for the entire share capital of Mi-Pay Limited as part of the acquisition. The issue price per consideration share was 41.07p.

2 1,428,027 ordinary shares of 10p were issued on 29 April 2014 as placing shares, as part of the acquisition. These shares were issued at a premium of 31p per share, to provide further working capital for the company. Funds raised from these placing shares amounted to GBP585,491.

Post 29 April 2014 but during the year on 2 May 2014, 243,903 additional ordinary 10p shares were issued. These shares were issued at a premium of 31p per share, to provide further working capital for the company. Funds raised from these placing shares amounted to GBP100,000.

3 7,608,696 ordinary shares of 10p were issued on 09 March 2015. These shares were issued at a premium of 13p, to provide further working capital for the company. Funds raised from these placing shares amounted to GBP1,750,000 (gross).

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