Guernsey, 24 October 2012 - Volta Finance Limited (the "Company" or "Volta Finance" or "Volta") has published its monthly report. The full report is attached to this release and is available on Volta Finance Limited's financial website (www.voltafinance.com).
Gross Asset Value
At 28.09.12 At 31.08.12
Gross Asset Value (GAV / € million) 198.9 187.7
GAV per share (€) 6.34 5.98

At the end of September 2012, the Gross Asset Value (the "GAV") of Volta Finance Limited (the "Company", "Volta Finance" or "Volta") was €198.9 m or €6.34 per share, an increase of €0.36 (6.0%) since the end of August 2012.

Year to date 2012 performance (including dividend payments) is + 49.7% for the first 9 months.

It should be noted that approximately €4.1m of expenses (€0.13 per share), relating to the Investment Manager's Management and Performance Fees for the semi-annual period ended 31 July 2012 (see Annual Report recently published for more details) are not yet settled, hence are still taken into account in the end of September GAV. Approximately €1.6m of this amount will be paid in the form of newly issued Class C shares, whilst the remainder is payable in cash..

The August mark-to-market variations* of Volta Finance's asset classes have been: +11.4% for Synthetic Corporate Credit deals, +3.9% for CLO Equity tranches; +3.8% for CLO Debt tranches, -4.2% for Cash Corporate Credit deals and +0.4% for ABS. The GAV increase in September is in line with a still positive trend on credit markets over the month.

Volta's assets generated the equivalent of €3.7m cash flows in September 2012 (non-Euro amounts converted to Euro using end-of-month cross currency rates and excluding principal payments from debt assets as well as the gain on the ABS sale) bringing the total cash generated during the last six months to €16.1m. It can be compared with €15.4m for the previous six-month period which ended in March 2012.

In September the company made no new investment but sold a portion of its position in a USD CLO Equity tranche (Northwoods Capital VIII).

At the end of September, Volta held €10.6m in cash, including €0.5m posted in respect to the currency hedge transactions. Considering the pace at which cash flows are generated and the necessity to finance the next dividend payment as well as end of year 2012 expenses, Volta could be considered as being able to invest €2 to 3m.

MARKET ENVIRONMENT
In September 2012, credit spreads continued tightening in Europe. The 5 year iTraxx European Main index and 5 year iTraxx European Crossover Index (series 17) spreads went respectively, from 149 and 591 bps at the end of August 2012 to 133 and 503 bps at the end of September 2012. During the same period, credit spreads in the US, as illustrated by the 5y CDX main index (series 18), was almost unchanged from 98 to 101 bps at the end of September 2012. According to the CSFB Leverage Loan Index, the average price for USA liquid first lien loans increased from 95.46% at the end of August 2012 to 96.29% at the end of September 2012.**

VOLTA FINANCE PORTFOLIO
In September 2012, no particular event materially affected the situation of the Synthetic Corporate Credit deals. However, the first loss positions in this bucket (ARIA III and the residual positions in JAZZ III) remain highly sensitive to any new credit event, especially to debt of financial institutions considering the significant exposures to banks held through these positions.

Regarding the Cash Corporate Credit Deals, no particular event materially affected the situation of the 3 positions in this bucket.

Regarding the Company's investments in Equity or Debt tranches of CLOs, at the end of September 2012, all 56 positions are currently paying their coupons. No particular event materially affected the situation of these positions.

Regarding the Company's ABS investments, no particular event materially affected the situation of the positions in this bucket.

The Company considers that opportunities could arise in several structured credit sectors in the current market environment. Amongst others, mezzanine or senior tranches of CLOs, European or US ABS as well as tranches of Cash or Synthetic Corporate Credit portfolios could be considered for investment. Potential investments could be done depending on the pace at which market opportunities could be seized and cash is available. Depending on market opportunities, the Company may aim to take advantage of the current volatility in prices to sell some assets in order to reinvest the sale proceeds on assets representing, at the time of purchase, those which the Company considers a better opportunity.

* "Mark-to-market variation" is calculated as the Dietz-performance of the assets in each bucket, taking into account the Mark-to-Market of the assets at month-end, payments received from the assets over the period, and ignoring changes in cross currency rates Nevertheless, some residual currency effects could impact the aggregate value of the portfolio when aggregating each bucket.

** Index data source: Markit, Bloomberg.

(Full monthly report in attachment or on www.voltafinance.com)