2007 Annual Report and Form 10-K Financial Self-Service Solutions Worldwide ATM Footprint ATM Five - Year Highlights Year - Five *For details on the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA, pleaseseethereconciliation includedattheendofthisannualreport EBITDA, onthecalculationofAdjusted details *For in millions Revenue Total actuals ATMs Transacting Average 03 10,480 03 $110.4 04 17,936 04 $192.9 05 26,164 05 $269.0 06 25,778 06 $293.6 United States,Kingdom,Mexico 07 28,282 07 $378.3 actuals ATM per Revenue Monthly ATM OperatingRevenue ATM in millions 03 $811 03 $102.0 04 $849 04 $182.7 05 $825 05 $259.0 06 $908 06 $281.0 07 $1,073 07 $364.1 in millions Transactions Total in millions Adjusted EBITDA* 03 64.6 03 $18.4 04 111.6 04 $33.6 05 156.9 05 $45.2 06 172.8 06 $52.9 07 246.6 07 $60.9 Financial Self-Service for the World Cardtronics is the world’s leading provider of financial self-service. In 2007 we placed over $16 billion in the hands of consumers, conducted over $400 million worth of advanced-function financial transactions, and expanded our surcharge-free access and marketing services to over 1,200 banks and credit unions. We currently operate over 32,000 financial kiosks throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Mexico with additional international expansion on the horizon. Augmenting our financial kiosk network, the largest in the world by a wide margin, Cardtronics is quickly entering the electronic transaction processing business. Our proprietary processing operation handled transactions for over 13,000 kiosks at 2007 year end, allowing us significantly better control over the user experience. Furthermore, our processing capability allows us to layer emerging business opportunities such as one-to-one marketing, multi-bank branding, and advertising onto our extensive network. By the end of 2008 we expect to process transactions in-house for our entire financial kiosk fleet. Cardtronics is a company on the move. Utilizing our operational expertise, scale advantages, back-end systems, retail and bank relationships, and management team expertise, we continue to grow and evolve financial self-service solutions to meet the needs of financial institutions, retailers, and both banked and unbanked consumers across the street and around the world. My Fellow Shareholders It is with tremendous pride and excitement that I write capabilities to provide image deposits, check cashing, to you in what is our first annual report to public money transfer, bill payments, transaction processing, shareholders. For Cardtronics, 2007 was a year of and more. significant expansion and accomplishment, and one in which we continued to lay the groundwork for the Building on the experience gained from operating this future growth and success of our business, the world’s extensive domestic financial kiosk fleet, we expanded global leader in financial self-service. our operations overseas in 2005, acquiring Bank Machine, a leading ATM deployer in the United A Little History Kingdom. In 2006 we further expanded our Cardtronics has been in the business of providing international presence, acquiring a majority interest in consumers with reliable access to cash—quickly and a small but growing ATM operator in Mexico. conveniently—for the past twelve years. An early Cardtronics Mexico is now the leading non-bank entrant in the U.S. off-premise ATM deployment space deployer of ATMs in the country. in 1996, we increased the size of our ATM fleet nearly eightfold, from 4,100 in 2001 to 32,300 machines We currently generate revenues from four primary this past year. sources: - Surcharge fees paid by consumers who rely on Along the way we have established ourselves as one our ATMs for quick, convenient, and reliable of the most innovative owners and operators of access to cash financial self-service kiosks in the world, partnering - Interchange fees paid by the financial institutions with leading regional and national retailers whose of those consumers upscale, clean and friendly retail centers—with high - Branding fees paid by financial institutions who brand recognition and strong foot traffic—provide place their brands on our ATMs optimal locations for millions of consumers to get - Fees paid by financial institutions who participate cash and perform other financial transactions. in our surcharge-free ATM programs, including our premier Allpoint® Network Realizing early on the importance electronic payment mechanisms such as credit and debit cards would Cardtronics’ ATM branding and surcharge-free have on the U.S. retail payments landscape, we programs leverage our existing network infrastructure reshaped our business from simply providing cash to and deployed capital to generate consistent recurring becoming the preferred provider of financial self- revenues. Branding financial institutions pay a service to consumers, retailers, and financial monthly fee to display their brands on the exteriors of institutions. Our domestic ATM bank branding our ATMs, on the ATM screens, and when available on program, by far the most successful program of its windows or exterior signage. Their cardholders receive kind in the United States, and our industry-leading surcharge-free cash access at the branded ATMs, surcharge-free ATM programs have enabled us to effectively increasing the size of each branding maintain a significant competitive advantage over financial institution’s ATM network with minimal other domestic ATM network providers. We have expenditure of capital, time, operational, and human further augmented our financial self-service resources. Where We Are Today As the world’s largest operator of ATMs, we know Cardtronics enjoyed a tremendous year in 2007 more than a thing or two about how to operate a during which we generated over $378 million in geographically dispersed, highly reliable kiosk-based revenue, an increase of nearly 29 percent over the network. Our expertise in deploying self-service prior year. Significant 2007 accomplishments devices combined with our monitoring and customer included: care operations, relationships with many of the world’s most influential retailers, intelligent - Generating new ATM branding deals covering deployment of capital, and flexible network driving 1,900 domestic machines, including the and processing capabilities allow us to benefit from branding of over 700 ATMs in Walgreens® the world’s growing use of self-service technology. and CVS/pharmacy® stores in Texas We deploy the self-service kiosks and related systems - Acquiring the domestic financial services that are most needed by consumers and our retail ® ® business of 7-Eleven including 2,200 Vcom partners around the world. multi-function kiosks and over 3,300 traditional ATMs, representing our largest acquisition to An increasingly competitive banking marketplace has date based on purchase price provided Cardtronics with a powerful source of - Growing our overall ATM count through recurring revenue through our ATM branding and acquisition and organic growth to over 32,300 surcharge-free programs. Banks and credit unions machines, the largest in the world by a have been so impressed with our financial service considerable margin offerings that more than 10,000 of our ATMs are now - Raising $100 million through the sale of senior branded, and over 1,200 financial institutions subordinated notes participate in our surcharge-free programs. With our nationwide ATM network and dedicated, experienced - Completing an initial public offering of financial services team, we are helping financial 12,000,000 shares of our common stock institutions of all sizes give their customers what they generating over $110 million in net proceeds want—convenient access to their money 24/7. And - Transitioning over 13,000 of our ATMs to our our ability to accept image deposits of checks in-house transaction processing network provides us with another important service offering - Accepting check deposits using electronic and revenue driver. imaging for credit union members of Financial Services Center Cooperative (FSCC) While cash usage has stabilized at about one-third of retail payments in the United States, cash remains - Winning several important new ATM placement the dominant form of payment for the rest of the contracts with nationally recognized retailers and world. With our already strong presence in the United hospitality operators including Safeway®, Gaylord ® Kingdom and Mexico, we are well-positioned to Entertainment , and General Electric Capital continue our international expansion into key regions Corporation where cash usage is high, ATM penetration is low, - Nearly doubling the ATM count in our economics are strong, and transaction volumes are international operation, adding over 800 ATMs large and growing. in the United Kingdom and over 900 ATMs in Mexico Exciting Times As the world’s leading provider of financial Where We Are Going Tomorrow self-service, these are exciting times for Cardtronics, With significant groundwork complete for the future our employees, and our shareholders. Moving through growth and success of our business, Cardtronics is 2008 and beyond, we will continue to leverage our extremely well-positioned to benefit from several key key strengths to expand profitably in our existing and factors impacting our global society. The growing related business segments around the world. consumer acceptance of self-service technologies, the fiercely competitive landscape in the banking industry, and the increase in prosperity around the world are all