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WNS Announces Scheduled Payment on Term Loan

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

NEW YORK and MUMBAI -January 11, 2011 - WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced that it has made its scheduled term loan repayment of $20 million on its existing $94 million term loan facility on January 10, 2011, in accordance with the terms of the loan agreement.  WNS refinanced its previously existing term loan facility in July 2010 to take advantage of lower interest rates.  The interest rate of the existing term loan is approximately 100 basis points lower than the previous facility. 

 

As a result of this payment, the outstanding amount due under the term loan was reduced to $74 million.  The next scheduled repayment of the term loan facility of $20 million is due in July 2011.

 

"This repayment brings our total loan payments on this facility during the fiscal year to over $60 million.   I am very comfortable that we will continue to be able to make the scheduled repayments on this loan," said Alok Misra, WNS's Group CFO.  "Our balance sheet is strong and we are generating cash.  Given the current low interest rates, we do not presently see prepayments as the best use of excess cash.  We plan on reinvesting in the sales function of the business to support top and bottom line growth."

 

About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000 professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. For more information, visit http://www.wns.com/

 

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This release contains forward-looking statements, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our Company and our industry. The forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "will," "project," "seek," "should" and similar expressions. These statements include, among other things, the discussions of our expectations concerning our future results and interest rate savings. We caution you that reliance on any forward-looking statement involves risks and uncertainties, and that although we believe that the assumptions on which our forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, any of those assumptions could prove to be inaccurate, and, as a result, the forward-looking statements based on those assumptions could be materially incorrect. These factors include but are not limited to worldwide economic and business conditions; political or economic instability in the jurisdictions where we have operations; regulatory, legislative and judicial developments; our ability to attract and retain clients; technological innovation; telecommunications or technology disruptions; future regulatory actions and conditions in our operating areas; our dependence on a limited number of clients in a limited number of industries;  the implications of our recently announced accounting changes and restatement of our financial statements and any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or initiation of new legal proceedings; our ability to expand our business or effectively manage growth; our ability to hire and retain enough sufficiently trained employees to support our operations; negative public reaction in the US or the UK to offshore outsourcing; increasing competition in the BPO industry; our ability to successfully grow our revenue, expand our service offerings and market share and achieve accretive benefits from our acquisition of Aviva Global Services Singapore Pte. Ltd. (which we have renamed as WNS Customer Solutions (Singapore) Private Limited following our acquisition) and our master services agreement with Aviva Global Services (Management Services) Private Limited; our ability to successfully consummate strategic acquisitions; and volatility of our ADS price. These and other factors are more fully discussed in our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which is available at http://www.sec.gov/. In light of these and other uncertainties, you should not conclude that we will necessarily achieve any plans, objectives or projected financial results referred to in any of the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we do not undertake to release revisions of any of these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

 

 

CONTACT:


Investors & Media:                                            
Alan Katz
Investor Relations
WNS (Holdings) Limited
+1 212-277-8183
ir@wns.com

 

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