(PR NEWSWIRE) LML Agrees to US$5,000,000 Financing LML Agrees to US$5,000,000 Financing VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LML Payment Systems Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: LMLP) is pleased to announce it has entered into agreements to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock to four institutional investors at a purchase price of US$5.00 per share in a private placement totaling US$5,000,000. The Company has agreed to pay a 10% finder's fee through the issuance of an additional 100,000 shares. Both the offering and finder's fee have been made pursuant to Regulation S. "The procurement of these funds allows us to proceed as planned with our acquisitional strategy involving the largely fragmented check verification/recovery industry," said Company President, Patrick H. Gaines. The Company, through its ChequeMARK group of subsidiaries, is a payments processor specializing in processing checking transactions electronically and owns U.S. Patent No. 5,484,988 with regard to a "Checkwriting Point of Sale System" which, through a centralized database and authorization system, is capable of providing and administering various electronic payment services for consumers and businesses. SOURCE LML Payment Systems, Inc. -0- 11/18/1999 /CONTACT: Patrick Gaines, President, 904-281-1144, or Investor Relations, 800-888-2260, both of LML Payment Systems Inc./ (LMLP) CO: LML Payment Systems, Inc. ST: British Columbia IN: CPR FIN SU: FNC *** end of story *** |