NEOVIA signs bet-at-home for NETELLER e-wallet

 

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Neovia Financial PLC 
15 June 2010 
 
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  NEOVIA Signs Deal With Gaming Giant bet-at-home.com And Five Further Gaming 
                 Merchants For Secure Online Payment Processing 
      NETELLER e-wallet & Net+ pre-paid card widen access to gaming portals 
 
Tuesday, 15th June 2010 - NEOVIA Financial Plc (LSE: NEO), the leading 
alternative payments business, announces it has added six more gaming merchants 
to its growing list of customers, including the German gaming giant, 
bet-at-home.com. 
 
Along with bet-at-home.com, NEOVIA has signed agreements with 2pay, Buzzluck, 
CAIgames, Littlewoods Game On Ltd and Play'nGo, further demonstrating NEOVIA's 
strengths in the online gaming payments market. Each of these merchants is now 
using the NETELLER e-wallet, part of the NEOVIA Payment Network(TM), to offer 
increased payment options for their members worldwide. By using NETELLER, 
merchants can offer their loyal customers a branded payment account that allows 
instant and direct settlement, and avoids the complexities and costs of 
traditional card schemes. 
 
bet-at-home-com is a leading European company in online gaming and sports 
betting. With 2 million registered users worldwide and listed on the Frankfurt 
Stock Exchange, the company is one of the most popular betting providers in 
Europe, especially in Eastern Europe and German speaking countries. 
 
bet-at-home.com's Marketing & Business Development Manager, Koray Cakir said: 
"We are excited to announce our new partnership with NEOVIA as it is a big 
addition for us. We work directly in over 20 countries and indirectly with the 
rest of the world.  We recognise that adding NETELLER to our payment options 
will not only give us a single source for international payment coverage, but 
also a competitive advantage." 
 
Dan Starr, Chief Marketing Officer for NEOVIA said: "We are delighted to 
announce these merchant wins which highlight the great combination of our 
NETELLER e-wallet and Net+ card being used by more gaming merchants as a 
business enabling tool. We are providing bold payment solutions to merchants, so 
that they can improve consumer engagement, increase lifetime value, offer 
instant consumer spending and maximise their revenues. 
 
"Similar to our recent Sega Games contract win announcement, we are seeing more 
and more land-based operators looking to evolve their business model to build a 
strong footing in the online market, and within the online gaming market we are 
the experts in handling payments." 
 
The NEOVIA Payment Network(TM) simplifies payments for businesses improving 
customer experience, margins and lifetime value. It includes the international 
NETBANX  payments processing service for merchants, and member and card services 
through the NETELLER  payment account. NETBANX allows merchants to accept and 
settle card and non-card payments through multiple channels including online, 
contact centres, mail order and automated phone systems. Via NETELLER merchants 
can offer their loyal customers a branded payment account that allows instant 
and direct settlement that avoids the complexities and costs of traditional card 
schemes; the embedded multi-award-wining Net+  card allows consumers to spend at 
over 30 million MasterCard  locations worldwide. 
 
 
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For further information contact: 
 
NEOVIA Financial Plc 
Andrew Gilchrist, VP Communications + 44 (0) 1624 698 713 
Email: [e-mail] 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neovia 
 
Media Relations 
Nick Daines / Sheelagh Connelly, Lumen PR 
Tel: [phone] 
Email: [e-mail] 
 
 
Notes to editors 
Further details on the other gaming merchant contract wins being announced are 
set out below: 
 
Billed as the largest payment aggregator in Eastern Europe, 2pay 
(http://2pay.us.com) provides payments to online games and sells game time 
cards. Players can buy game time or in-game currency for more than 200 games, 
using popular payment methods including electronic money, cash terminals, or 
paid SMS. 
 
Buzzluck - (http://www.buzzluckcasinos.com/) focuses on the 3D gaming experience 
for players so that it is similar to visiting a real casino - therefore no two 
visits to the site are the same. 
 
CAI Games - (https://www.caigames.com/) is the recently launched online gaming 
platform of the giant Casino Austria International. 
 
Littlewoods Game On Ltd (http://www.littlewoodsgameon.com) Established back in 
1923, Littlewoods Gaming has established itself as the trusted name in gaming 
and has become renowned as a specialist in the online gaming industry. It was 
the Littlewoods Football Pools game that turned Littlewoods into a household 
name and one that people trust in the online gaming industry.  Today thousands 
of players enjoy this and other games but this time online. 
 
Play'n GO (http://www.playngo.com), with offices in Sweden and Austria, delivers 
a full range of smart, made-to-order online casino and bingo solutions, as well 
as back-office management and e-payment applications. 
 
 
About NEOVIA Financial 
Trusted by consumers and businesses in over 170 countries to move and manage 
billions of dollars each year, NEOVIA Financial Plc is a leading alternative 
payments business. Through the NEOVIA Payment Network, merchants use the NETBANX 
 processing service to simplify how they accept and settle card, 
direct-from-bank, and cash payments, and the NETELLER  payment account to 
increase margins, capture new customers and increase customer lifetime values. 
Being independent has allowed the company to support tens-of-thousands of 
retailers and merchants in many geographies and across multiple industries. 
 
NEOVIA Financial Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, with a ticker 
symbol of NEO. Subsidiary company NETELLER (UK) Ltd is authorised by the 
Financial Services Authority (FSA) to operate as a regulated e-money issuer. 
 
For more information about NEOVIA Financial visit www.neovia.com or subscribe at 
http://www.neovia.com/feeds. 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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