NEOVIA announces new bureau service

NEOVIA Financial Plc

NEOVIA Upgrades and Simplifies Merchant Services with New Card Acquiring Bureau

Global payments processing now available through one simple integration

Monday 26 April 2010 - NEOVIA Financial Plc (LSE: NEO), the leading alternative payments business, has made available a significant upgrade to its Merchant Services business that forms part of its NEOVIA Payment Network™. With its recently introduced new bureau service, merchants can directly accept and settle card payments through NEOVIA's NETBANX service without the complexity and cost of managing an additional bank direct acquiring relationship.

The new service provides focused solutions for medium and large businesses including:

·; New MasterCard® and VISA® acquiring and processing without the need for managing a direct bank relationship or Merchant Account;

·; High capacity, fault tolerant processing platform with second physical data-centre location with optional disaster recovery;

·; Multi-channel Cardholder-Not-Present (CNP) service, including Web, IVR and call centre/MOTO;

·; Fully PCI DSS Level 1 compliant and certified service;

·; Additional payment support for global processing of American Express, PayPal, NETELLER, Ukash, and direct-from-bank payments such as iDEAL, Giropay, and Direct Debit;

·; Multicurrency processing and settlement support with multi-lingual checkout pages;

·; A single integration to all payment types; and

·; Pricing that is highly competitive with direct bank processing.

Without this new service, merchants typically have to manage relationships with both a Payment Service Provider (PSP) and bank, including the need to obtain a separate Merchant Account, to accept, process and settle card transactions. This process is both difficult and time-consuming. By working with a Merchant Services provider such as NEOVIA, a merchant can get an easy-to-manage, one-stop payments processing service with competitive pricing.

Dan Starr, Chief Marketing Officer at NEOVIA Financial, said: "With NEOVIA's upgraded merchant services bureau, companies in a wide range of industries can benefit from our best-in-class pricing, simple interface and comprehensive back-office reporting. This service also provides direct marketing channels which help merchants to reach out to customers and increase their revenue."

The NEOVIA Payment Network™ 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 via 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.

For further information on the newly launched bureau merchant service, visit www.netbanx.com or see our online demonstration.

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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 merchant 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. 

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