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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included herein have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules&amp;#160;and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (&amp;#8220;SEC&amp;#8221;). Some of the information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules&amp;#160;and regulations, although the Company believes that the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which include normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of results for the interim periods have been made. The results for the three and six months ended June&amp;#160;30, 2013 are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the full fiscal year.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the annual consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included within the Company&amp;#8217;s Annual Report on Form&amp;#160;10-K for the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2012 (the &amp;#8220;2012 10-K&amp;#8221;).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;The Company has made estimates and judgments affecting the amounts reported in these financial statements and the accompanying notes. The actual results may differ from these estimates. These accounting estimates incorporated into the Company&amp;#8217;s consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents include cash and all balances on deposit in banks and financial institutions. The Company considers all highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase to be cash and cash equivalents. Such balances may at times exceed the federal insurance limits. However, the Company periodically evaluates the creditworthiness of these institutions to minimize risk.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;For our non-Site-Funded locations, the Company&amp;#8217;s Contract Cash Solutions Agreement with Wells Fargo allows for the Company to utilize funds owned by Wells Fargo to provide the currency needed for normal operating requirements for the Company&amp;#8217;s ATMs.&amp;#160;For the use of these funds, the Company pays Wells Fargo a cash usage fee on the average daily balance of funds utilized multiplied by a contractually defined cash usage rate. Under this agreement, all currency supplied by Wells Fargo remains the sole property of Wells Fargo at all times until it is dispensed, at which time Wells Fargo obtains an interest in the corresponding settlement receivable. As the cash is never an asset of ours, supplied cash is not reflected on our&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;condensed consolidated balance sheets. We are charged a cash usage fee for the cash used in these ATMs, which is included as interest expense on our condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. The Company recognizes the fees as interest expense due to the similar operational characteristics to a revolving line of credit, the fact that the fees are calculated on a financial index and the fees are paid for access to a capital resource.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;In the credit card cash access and POS debit card cash access transactions provided by GCA, the gaming establishment is reimbursed for the cash disbursed to gaming patrons, in most instances, through the issuance of a negotiable instrument, and, in some instances, through electronic settlement. GCA receives reimbursement from the patron&amp;#8217;s credit or debit card issuer for the transaction in an amount equal to the amount owing to the gaming establishment plus the fee charged to the patron. This reimbursement is included within the settlement receivables on our&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;condensed consolidated balance sheets. The unpaid negotiable instrument amounts and electronic settlement amounts owing to gaming establishments are included within settlement liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;In conjunction with the terms and conditions of the Senior Credit Facility, as described in Note 4, GCA purchased a $150.0 million notional amount interest rate cap with an effective date of January&amp;#160;5, 2012 and a term of three years. GCA purchased this interest rate cap to partially reduce the Company&amp;#8217;s exposure to increases in the London Interbank Offer Rate (&amp;#8220;LIBOR&amp;#8217;) above 1.5% during the term of the interest rate cap with respect to its variable rate debt obligations under the Senior Credit Facility and its obligations under the Contract Cash Solutions Agreement with Wells Fargo. This interest rate cap is recorded in prepaid expenses and other assets on our condensed consolidated balance sheets, and is marked-to-market based on a quoted market price with the effects offset in our condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. The interest rate cap carrying value and fair value approximate each other and these values are insignificant as of June&amp;#160;30, 2013 and December&amp;#160;31, 2012.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;In accordance with ASC 350, we test goodwill at the reporting unit level for impairment on an annual basis and between annual tests if events and circumstances indicate it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. The Company does not believe that any of its goodwill was impaired as of June&amp;#160;30, 2013.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;Other intangible assets consist primarily of customer contracts (rights to provide cash access services to gaming establishment customers) acquired through business combinations and acquisitions, capitalized software development costs and the acquisition cost of our patent related to the &amp;#8220;3-in-1 rollover&amp;#8221; technology acquired in 2005. Customer contracts require the Company to make renewal assumptions, which impact the estimated useful lives of such assets. The acquisition cost of the 3-in-1 rollover patent is being amortized over the term of the patent, which expires in 2018.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;The Company recognizes revenue when evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the price is fixed or determinable and collectability is reasonably assured. The Company evaluates its revenue streams for proper timing of revenue recognition. Revenue is recognized as products are delivered and/or services are performed.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;The cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) represent the direct costs required to perform revenue generating transactions. The principal costs included within cost of revenues (exclusive of depreciation and amortization) are commissions paid to gaming establishments, interchange fees paid to credit and debit card networks, transaction processing fees to our transaction processor, cost of cash access devices and associated parts and check cashing warranties.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;Income tax expense includes U.S. and international income taxes, plus the provision for U.S. taxes on undistributed earnings of international subsidiaries not deemed to be permanently invested. Since it is management&amp;#8217;s practice and intent to reinvest the earnings in the international operations of our foreign subsidiaries, U.S. federal income taxes have not been provided on the undistributed earnings of any foreign subsidiaries except for GCA Macau. Some items of income and expense are not reported in tax returns and financial statements in the same year. The tax effect of such temporary differences is reported as deferred income taxes.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 23.75pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;Foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities for those foreign entities for which the local currency is the functional currency are translated into U.S. dollars based on exchange rates prevailing at the end of each period. Revenues and expenses are translated at average exchange rates during the year. The effects of foreign exchange gains and losses arising from these translations are included as a component of other comprehensive income on our&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;" size="2"&gt;condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. Translation adjustments on intercompany balances of a long-term investment nature are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income on our condensed consolidated balance sheets.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 23.75pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: 0.3in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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