The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Selects Optimal Payments to Accept Secure Online Donations

LONDON, United Kingdom, Feb. 20, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Optimal Payments announced today that the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) has chosen its NETBANX services and online gateway to provide secure online credit card processing and fraud management for its online fundraising Websites.

Today, more than 100 non-profit organizations around the world use the NETBANX gateway to accept online donations by credit card, online direct debit, and online banking payments. Along with multiple payment options and extensive fraud scrubbing, the gateway also provides the ability to schedule recurring donations and includes a virtual terminal for accepting donations over the phone. To track and manage donations, organizations use the NETBANX Back Office suite which provides real-time transaction data and extensive reporting tools.

"We are pleased to have been chosen as the preferred vendor in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's tender for a Payment Processing Gateway", said Martin Leroux, Chief Business Development Officer, Optimal Payments. "Finding a PCI DSS compliant solution was important for the CBCF and Optimal provided an easy-to-implement solution that allows us to accept secure online credit card donations and minimize fraud."

Providing cost-effective payment acceptance solutions for charitable organizations has been part of Optimal Payments core values for many years, and the company is proud to be able to facilitate the online donation process for the CBCF.  Optimal hopes having the option to make a secure donation will encourage more people to contribute to this worthy cause.

About NETBANX®

The NETBANX service enables merchants to process payments online. Since 1996, thousands of e-commerce, MOTO, and multi-channel businesses around the world rely on the NETBANX gateway and services for the payment processing of credit/debit cards, online direct debit and alternative payments as well as the management of online payment fraud.  The NETBANX solution is state-of-the art, geo-redundant and PCI-DSS Level 1 certified. A robust and flexible platform, it can be configured or customized to meet the card-not-present needs of any businesses from local e-commerce websites to large scale international online businesses.

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About Optimal Payments

Optimal Payments is a global provider of online payment solutions. Trusted by businesses and consumers in over 190 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 account 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 Services Authority (FRN 900015).

About The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is the leading community -driven organization in Canada dedicated to creating a future without breast cancer. Our investments in innovative and relevant research and education have led to progress in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care. Since 1986, we have been at the forefront of a nationwide movement supporting and advocating for the breast cancer community. Join us at www.cbcf.org.

SOURCE: Optimal Payments Plc.