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TRANSACTION CAPITAL LIMITED - Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

Release Date: 14/11/2013 16:30
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Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

     TRANSACTION CAPITAL LIMITED                                  Bayport Management Limited
     (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)               (Incorporated in Mauritius)
     (Registration No. 2002/031730/06)                            (Registration No. 54787 C1/GBL)
     ISIN: ZAE00167391                                            (“BML”)
     JSE share code: TCP
     ("Transaction Capital" or the "Company")


POSTING OF CIRCULAR AND NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING


1.        INTRODUCTION

          Shareholders are referred to the announcement released on the Stock Exchange News Service of
          the JSE Limited (“SENS”) on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 and published in the South African press
          on Thursday, 24 October 2013 in terms of which they were advised that -

          1.1 Transaction Capital currently owns 82.65% of the issued share capital of each of Bayport
               Financial Services 2010 Proprietary Limited (“BFS”) and Zenthyme Investments Proprietary
               Limited (“Zenthyme”);

          1.2 Transaction Capital has entered into a sale of shares agreement (the “Minority Buy-Out
               Agreement”) with the Trustees of The Stuart Stone Family Trust, Grant Kurland, Martin
               Freeman, Justin Chola and Suganthran Govender (collectively the “Minorities”), BFS and
               Zenthyme in terms of which Transaction Capital will acquire from the Minorities all the issued
               shares in BFS and Zenthyme held by the Minorities on the same terms and conditions
               (including the price), mutatis mutandis, contained in the Agreement (defined in paragraph 1.3
               below) such that on the implementation of the Minority Buy-Out Agreement, BFS and Zenthyme
               will become wholly owned subsidiaries of Transaction Capital;

          1.3 contemporaneously with the signature of the Minority Buy-Out Agreement, Transaction Capital
               entered into an agreement (“Agreement”) with BFS, Zenthyme and BML, pursuant to and in
               terms of which BFS and Zenthyme will, subject to the fulfilment or waiver of the conditions
               precedent specified in the Agreement, and after implementation of the Minority Buy-Out
               Agreement, become wholly owned subsidiaries of BML,

               (collectively the “Proposed Transaction”).

          The Minority Buy-Out Agreement and the Agreement are conditional on one another and are
          accordingly indivisibly linked.

2.        CIRCULAR AND NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

          Shareholders are advised that a circular setting out full details of the Proposed Transaction and
          containing a notice convening a general meeting of Transaction Capital shareholders (“General
          Meeting”) to approve the resolutions required to authorise the Proposed Transaction and ancillary
          matters has been distributed to Transaction Capital shareholders today, Thursday, 14 November
          2013 (“Circular”).

          The General Meeting will be held in the Lord of the Rings boardroom at the registered office of
          Transaction Capital at Sandhavon Office Park, 14 Pongola Crescent, Eastgate Extension 17,
          Sandton, 2199, at 08:30 on Friday, 13 December 2013 to consider and, if deemed fit, to pass, with or
          without modification, the proposed ordinary resolutions.

3.        IMPORTANT DATES AND TIMES OF THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION

The important dates and times relating to the Proposed Transaction are set out in the table below. Words
and expressions in the table and notes below shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the
Circular.
                                                                                                 2013

Record date for the purposes of receiving the notice of General Meeting                   Friday, 8 November

Circular distributed to Transaction Capital shareholders on                          Thursday, 14 November

Last day to trade in order to attend, participate in and vote at the General             Friday, 29 November
Meeting

Record date to determine which Transaction Capital shareholders may attend,               Friday, 6 December
participate in and vote at the General Meeting

Last day for receipt of forms of proxy for the General Meeting by the Transfer       Thursday, 12 December
Secretaries by no later than 08:30 on (see notes 3 and 4)

General Meeting to be held at 08:30 on                                                   Friday, 13 December

Results of the General Meeting to be released on SENS on                                 Friday, 13 December

Results of the General Meeting to be published in the South African press on          Tuesday, 17 December

Notes:

1.   The above dates and times are subject to change. Any material changes will be released on SENS and
     published in the South African press.

2.   Any reference to time is a reference to South African time.

3.   If any form of proxy is not delivered timeously to the address of the Transaction Capital’s transfer
     secretaries, being Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited (“Transfer Secretaries”), it
     may be handed to the chairman of the General Meeting at any time before the proxy exercises any
     rights of the shareholder at the General Meeting.

4.   If the General Meeting is adjourned or postponed, an appropriate announcement will be released on
     SENS and published in the South African press. In such circumstances a form of proxy must be
     received preferably by no later than 24 hours prior to the time of the adjournment or postponement of
     the General Meeting (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and official public holidays in South Africa) at the
     offices of the Transfer Secretaries, provided that if any form of proxy is not delivered timeously it may be
     handed to the chairman of the adjourned or postponed General Meeting at any time before the proxy
     exercises any rights of the shareholder at such adjourned or postponed General Meeting.

Johannesburg
14 November 2013

Sponsor to Transaction Capital
Deutsche Securities (SA) Proprietary Limited

Legal advisors to Transaction Capital
ENS africa

Independent Professional Expert to the board of directors of Transaction Capital
Grant Thornton

Independent auditors and reporting accountants
Deloitte & Touche

Tax advisors to Transaction Capital
Werksmans Attorneys

Corporate advisors to BML
Hyde Park Capital

South African legal advisors to BML
Bowman Gilfillan

International legal advisors to BML
Berwin Leighton Paisner

Swedish debt advisors to BML
Gernandt and Danielsson

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