Optimal Payments Takes Top Industry Award in London - Winner of the Payments Solutions Provider Company of the Year Award

LONDON, MONTREAL and NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - Optimal Payments (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded with one top award at the International Gaming Awards dinner in London on February 3, 2014.

Optimal Payments took the 'Payments Solutions Provider Company of the Year Award' that honours the company who has excelled in the payments field for either online or offline gaming, focusing on value-add, customer service, innovation, ease of use and speed of processing.

This award further demonstrates the commitment Optimal Payments makes to its customers in both the gaming payments market and the affiliates industry, and marks an exciting week at both ICE 2014 and the London Affiliate Conference where the Group is exhibiting.

"This award recognizes not only the extensive efforts of our team to deliver industry-leading solutions to our customers, but also showcases Optimal Payments' strength as an innovative payment sector provider," said Joel Leonoff, president and CEO, Optimal Payments. "We are very pleased to have been selected for this prestigious award and congratulate all of the other winners and nominees. Our commitment to bring ingenious and differentiated solutions remain at the top of our priorities, and we look forward to announcing new developments in the future."

About Optimal Payments Plc

Optimal Payments is a global provider of online payment solutions. Trusted by businesses and consumers in over 200 countries to move and manage billions of dollars each year, merchants use the NETBANX^® processing service to simplify how they accept and settle credit card, direct-from-bank, and cash payments; and the NETELLER^® payment service to increase margins, capture new customers and increase their lifetime value. Being an independent provider has allowed the company to support tens-of-thousands of merchants around the globe across a wide range of industries. Optimal Payments Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market, 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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