AACE Ace Cash Express

DALLAS, April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ACE Cash Express, Inc. (NASDAQ:AACE) will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results on Thursday, April 27, 2006, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (4 p.m. Central Time). ACE invites you to participate in the conference call by dialing (800) 442-9701. The confirmation code to access the call is 7592978. Jay B. Shipowitz, President and Chief Executive Officer, and William S. McCalmont, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present the review. For your convenience, the conference call will be replayed in its entirety beginning at approximately 6 p.m. EDT on April 27th through 6 p.m. EDT on May 4th. If you wish to listen to a replay of this conference call, dial (800) 642-1687, provide your name and use confirmation number 7592978. This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at ACE's web site at http://www.acecashexpress.com/ The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at http://www.companyboardroom.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/). About ACE Cash Express ACE Cash Express, Inc. is headquartered in Irving, Texas and is the largest owner, operator and franchiser of check-cashing stores in the United States. The company's website is found at http://www.acecashexpress.com/. DATASOURCE: ACE Cash Express, Inc. CONTACT: William S. McCalmont, EVP & CFO, +1-972-753-2314, or , or Douglas Lindsay, VP of Finance, +1-972-753-2342, or , both of ACE Cash Express, Inc. Web site: http://www.acecashexpress.com/

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