Optimal Payments Renews Agreement And Delivers Enhancement To The Desjardins Internet Payment Solution

Desjardins Ecommerce Merchants Now Able to Accept Accord D Online Payments

MONTREAL, September 18, 2014 /CNW/ - Optimal Payments Plc (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payments provider, announces that is has renewed its current agreement as a certified partner providing Desjardins' Premier Internet Payment Solution, and has successfully implemented several solution enhancements.

Desjardins selected Optimal Payments to develop a custom NETBANX® payment gateway to serve as its Internet Payment Solution through a competitive RFP process in early 2012. When initially launched, the solution provided merchants with transaction processing, hosted payment pages, customer profile management, access to real-time data and comprehensive fraud management tools including custom fraud parameter setting, tokenization and 3D Secure.

Since 2012, Optimal Payments has enhanced its custom solution to include the ability for ecommerce merchants to accept online payments made by customers wishing to use the Accord D financing option available on their Visa Desjardins credit card. More than 7,500 retailers across Canada currently offer the Accord D financing program in-store through Desjardins, and with this new enhancement, they can now also accept Accord D transactions from their online websites. Additional features released include the ability for Desjardins ecommerce merchants to accept payments using various scheduled billing methods and through automated batch uploading.

"We are pleased to be a trusted payment solution partner for Desjardins Premier Internet Payment Solution and collectively serve thousands of Desjardins merchants across Quebec and Canada" said Danny Chazonoff, chief operating officer, Optimal Payments. "We are continuously enhancing the solution to ensure that we deliver valuable premium online payment services that meet the high standards of Desjardins and their merchants."

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).

For more information on Optimal Payments visit www.optimalpayments.com or subscribe at http://www.optimalpayments.com/media/email-alerts.

SOURCE: Optimal Payments Plc

Head of Investor Relations, Jessica Stalley, Optimal Payments Plc, + 44 207 182 1707, [email protected]; Media Contacts - Canada, Erin Cudmore, Zenergy Communications, [phone], [email protected]; Spokesperson: Nathalie Genest, Services de cartes Desjardins, [email protected], 1866-866-7000 ext. 7275