Optimal Payments Honored at CNP Awards 2014

Takes Home Best E-Commerce Platform/Gateway – Customer Choice Award

LONDON, MONTREAL and NEW YORK, May 22, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Optimal Payments (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, has been awarded one of the top recognitions at the Card-Not-Present (CNP) Awards on May 21, part of the CNP Expo from May 19-22, 2014 in Orlando.

The CNP Awards honor the companies, programs and solutions that have distinguished themselves in the card-not-present space. The CNP Customer Choice Award winners are selected by customers for their experience and longstanding reputation in the card-not-present industry. Winning the 'Best Ecommerce Platform/Gateway - Customer Choice Award' further demonstrates the excellence Optimal Payments delivers with its NETBANX^® online payment gateway that serves the card-not-present needs of thousands of merchants around the world.

"We are very pleased to be recognized as the leading e-commerce platform and gateway provider in this year's CNP Awards," said Danny Chazonoff, chief operating officer, Optimal Payments. "At Optimal Payments, we are committed to setting industry standards for making card-not-present payments efficient and secure for merchants and consumers around the world. Winning this award is a reflection of our extensive efforts to deliver industry-leading solutions and being selected by our customers is testament to our commitment to best-in-class service."

"Significant growth in e-commerce and mobile payments continues to spur innovation and excellence from the technology providers serving card-not-present merchants," said Steve Casco, CardNotPresent.com Founder & CEO. "That growth is reflected in this year's CNP Awards, which had a record number of nominations and a record number of votes for Customer Choice nominees. The CNP Awards have become the standard by which companies, programs and services around the world are being recognized and judged now and in the future."

Merchants around the world rely on NETBANX to accept payments from other businesses and consumers on their websites. Every payment is processed via a secure online gateway with extensive risk management functionality to minimize fraud exposure and liabilities.

About Optimal Payments Plc
Optimal Payments is a global provider of online payment solutions, trusted by businesses and consumers in over 200 countries and territories to move and manage billions of dollars each year.  Merchants use the NETBANX® platform and services to simplify how they accept credit and debit card, direct-from-bank, and alternative and local payments; and the NETELLER® service to increase revenues and capture new customers. Consumers use the multilingual and multicurrency NETELLER and Net+® Card stored-value offering to make secure and convenient payments. Optimal Payments Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, with a ticker symbol of OPAY.  Subsidiary company Optimal Payments Ltd is authorised and regulated as an e-money issuer by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FRN: 900015).

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SOURCE: Optimal Payments Plc.

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