Boku and Optimal Payments Partner to Offer Carrier Billing on NETELLER
21 May 2015 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Stored value account top-up through mobile
phone billing
Boku, the global leader in carrier billing-based mobile
payments, announces that its technology will now be offered by
Optimal Payments Plc (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online
payment solutions provider. This will be offered through the
NETELLER® service: a fast, simple, secure platform for businesses
and individuals to move money online. NETELLER customers can now
top-up their stored value accounts by charging the purchase amount
for goods and services directly to their mobile phone bill.
As of today, Boku’s carrier billing top-up is available to any
merchant that uses reloadable payment mechanisms to enable
purchases through the NETELLER service or Net+® Card stored value
offering. Customers will now be able to make purchases across the
entire NETELLER merchant network. With no need to share any credit
card or bank details in order to top-up an account, the new service
provides both merchants and users with an added layer of security.
This partnership gives NETELLER account holders the ability to make
deposits in the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland, with more
markets opening in the near future.
“NETELLER accountholders now have a frictionless method to
deposit funds into their stored value accounts in seconds, using
nothing more than their mobile phones,” said Jeremy Arnold, EMEA
Senior Director for Boku. “We are excited to bring our carrier
billing solution to NETELLER merchants and look forward to
continuing our partnership with Optimal Payments as more markets
come on board.”
“Our merchants have been requesting a carrier billing solution
and the one offered by Boku is an ideal answer to a difficult
problem,” said Lorenzo Pellegrino, executive vice president
NETELLER, Optimal Payments. “It is simple and convenient for
customers, and it opens up new markets of potential mobile phone
users who were unable, or chose not to, top-up their accounts using
other payment methods in the past.”
Boku’s e-money license, allows carrier billing to operate
throughout Europe and the UK as a regulated, Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA)-approved payment product. Boku is the only provider
of its kind to receive an e-money license from the FCA, which makes
it a unique carrier billing solution capable of providing regulated
stored value account top-up functionality through mobile phone
invoicing.
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
multilingual and multicurrency 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 market, with a ticker symbol of OPAY. Subsidiary
company Optimal Payments Ltd is authorized 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 subscribe at
http://www.optimalpayments.com/media/email-alerts or Twitter.
About Boku:
Boku, the leading carrier billing mobile payments company,
brings bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together,
creating a trusted, accessible platform for consumers, merchants,
and carriers alike. Based in San Francisco with offices in Europe,
Latin America, and Asia, Boku reaches 4 billion consumers worldwide
across 67 different countries and more than 250 operators. Boku
partners with global merchants including Facebook, Google, Sony,
and Electronic Arts. Leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and
venture capitalists fund Boku including Andreessen Horowitz,
Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures,
and NEA.
For more information visit: www.boku.com
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Media Contact:For Boku, Inc. in the United StatesKevin
Brown, +1 512-917-8744kevin@drsmedia.comorFor further information
on Optimal Payments please contact:Media Contacts –
Canada:Zenergy CommunicationsErin Cudmore, +1
416-591-5461opay@zenergycom.comorMedia Contacts – United
Kingdom:Tavistock CommunicationsAndrew Dunn/Simon Fluendy,
+44 20 7920 3150optimal@tavistock.co.uk
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