MetaBank Announces Expected Closing Date for the Pending Sale of the Community Bank Division - Seite 2

About Meta Financial Group
Meta Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASH) is the holding company for the financial services company MetaBank (“Meta”). Meta is a leader in providing innovative financial solutions to consumers and businesses in under-served niche markets, and believes in financial inclusion for all. Meta’s commercial lending division works with high-value niche industries, rapid-growth companies and technology adopters to grow their businesses and build more profitable customer relationships. Meta is one of the largest issuers of prepaid cards in the U.S., having issued more than a billion cards in partnership with banks, program managers, payments providers and other businesses, and offers a total payments services solution that includes ACH origination, wire transfers, and more. Meta has a national presence and over 1,000 employees, with corporate headquarters in Sioux Falls, S.D. For more information, visit the Meta Financial Group website.

About Central Bank
With assets exceeding $900 million, Central Bank specializes in community banking and provides personal, business and private banking services, insurance products and risk management services. Two-hundred employees in 17 locations throughout Iowa and South Dakota contribute to Central Bank’s long-standing tradition of community responsibility and relationship-based service. The family-owned bank was chartered in Storm Lake in 1877. For more information, visit centralbankonline.com.

MetaBank Investor Relations/Media Contact:	Central Bank Media Contacts:
Brittany Kelley Elsasser	Tim Brown
Director of Investor Relations	Chairman, CEO
605.362.2423	712.732.2190
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	John Brown
	President, CFO
	515.224.2130
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