Optimal Payments Wins at Top Industry Awards in London

Takes Home honours from IGA and iGB

LONDON, MONTREAL and NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Optimal Payments (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, has been honoured with The Best Payment System Award at the iGB Affiliate Awards on February 1, as part of the London Affiliate Conference (LAC) events from January 31 – February 3, 2015. The company has also been recognized with the Corporate Services Supplier of the Year Award at the International Gaming Awards (IGA) on February 2.

Both the iGB Affiliate Awards and the International Gaming Awards are an important part of the iGaming calendar. Voted and judged by industry members, these awards are truly representative of who is the best in the space from merchants and affiliates to operators and their partners. Winning The Best Payment System Award for the fourth time and securing the Corporate Services Supplier of the Year Award further demonstrates the excellence Optimal Payments delivers to its customers in both the gaming payments market and the affiliates industry. It also recognizes the benefits that using the NETELLER® service and the NET+® Card stored value offering, brings to many around the world.

"Winning these awards is a testament to the value Optimal Payments brings to its affiliates and customers, and certainly makes for an exciting week at both ICE and the LAC where the company is participating," said Joel Leonoff, President and CEO, Optimal Payments. "We are very pleased to have been selected for these prestigious industry awards, and are especially proud of Lee-Ann Johnstone, Head of Affiliate and Merchant Marketing, as well as the entire NETELLER team, lead by Lorenzo Pellegrino, Executive Vice President of NETELLER. Our commitment to bring ingenious and differentiated solutions remains at the top of our priorities, and we continue to invest in providing the best for our partners."

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 multi-lingual and multi-currency NETELLER and Net+® Card stored-value offering to make secure and convenient payments. In addition, Optimal Payments Card Services, another division of Optimal Payments, provides innovative prepaid products and services to merchants. 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 http://www.optimalcardservices.com to find out more about our Card Services division.

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