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NEOVIA to Provide Payment Processing for IPTV Streaming of Channel 4's Big Brother

Perform chooses NEOVIA's NETBANX payment gateway

Monday 7th June 2010 - NEOVIA Financial Plc (LSE: NEO), the leading alternative payments business, has announced that it will provide payment processing to Perform for live streaming to PC (IPTV) of the final series of Channel 4's Big Brother show. This follows NEOVIA's recent announcement that it is handling payment processing for the SeeSaw Video on Demand platform.

The 11th series of Big Brother will start with a live show on Wednesday 9th June and will broadcast on Channel 4 and E4 throughout the summer. "Big Brother is a major TV event that has a massive online audience, and with NEOVIA's NETBANX gateway I'm confident we have chosen a robust, secure platform that can handle any demands we ask of it," said Oliver Slipper, Group CEO at Perform.

"Following our recent win with SeeSaw, this is another leading merchant that has chosen to use NEOVIA in the media and IPTV market," said Dan Starr, Chief Marketing Officer at NEOVIA Financial. "This proves the suitability of our NEOVIA Payment Network for this kind of application, and the trust that our customers have in the platform."

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.

About Perform

Perform is the world leader at broadcasting and commercialising sport in digital media. Through industry leading production, technical and commercial solutions, Perform maximises the returns for sports associations, rights holders, football clubs, content publishers, bookmakers, media groups, mobile operators and broadcasters around the world. Perform currently streams over 15,000 live events each year and has developed over 240 web, video broadband and mobile sites for clients including the ATP, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, FIBA, FEI, PSA, FLi and Chelsea FC, that serve over 17 million monthly unique users. www.performgroup.com

About NEOVIA Financial Plc

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 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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