Optimal Payments expands European operations
May 23, 2013
New Sofia office to support continuing growth in NETELLER Stored
Value business
Optimal Payments Plc (LSE: OPAY) (“Optimal Payments”
or the “Company”), a leading international online payments
provider, is pleased to announce the expansion of its European operations
with the opening of a new office in Sofia, Bulgaria, to support
its increasing activities in Europe, particularly in the NETELLER
Stored Value business.
With rapid growth in the NETELLER eWallet over the past year, the
new Sofia office will augment existing customer service operations
in Calgary, Canada. Optimal Payments (Bulgaria) EOOD started operations
in April. The Optimal Payments office will be located in brand new
space in the Sopharma Business Towers, central Sofia. Optimal intends
to have substantially grown its resources in the new location, which
will be headed up by Iliyana Tarnina, a highly experienced local
executive, formerly with Microsoft and PartyGaming in Bulgaria,
by the end of 2013.
The NETELLER eWallet is an online stored-value account that millions
of consumers have used to add, withdraw and transfer funds to and
from over 3,000 NETELLER merchants. Available in over 200 countries,
13 languages and 19 currencies the NETELLER eWallet offers customers
the choice of nearly 100 deposit options. With the NETELLER eWallet,
customers also get access to one of the most successful prepaid
card programs on the market. The Net+ card program allows consumers
to spend safely online and in person at millions of MasterCard®
point-of-sale locations, as well as at ATMs worldwide. Also available
through the NETELLER eWallet payment account is NETELLER Money Transfer,
a free alternative to traditional methods of sending money.
Optimal Payments has a strong record of delivering innovative technology
solutions to its merchants, in both online payment processing and
risk and fraud management. With its NETBANX payments gateway, NETELLER
online wallet and NET+ prepaid card business, Optimal Payments is
focused on the rapidly growing markets of multi-channel e-Commerce
and mobile payments.
“We are thrilled to be opening this new office in Sofia and
welcome Iliyana to the Optimal Payments team” said Danny Chazonoff,
Chief Operating Officer of Optimal Payments. He added “The
continuing growth of our NETELLER Stored Value business supports
our expansion and Sofia represents a high quality and cost effective
location. We will continue to invest in delivering the best product
and providing the highest levels of customer support and this expansion
represents a key part in our strategy to achieve this.”
