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BSG and Aria Systems Deliver Gaming Industry’s Most Comprehensive Risk Management Solution

Combined, turnkey solution prevents fraud, protects gamers and the game experience.

Austin, Texas - September 17, 2008 — Game Developers Conference — BSG, a provider of advanced payment services for digital media merchants, and Aria Systems, a provider of billing and life cycle management solutions to monetize games, today announced the delivery of the most comprehensive, global risk management solution specifically designed for gamers. Ensuring safe and secure transactions is a key determining factor in protecting paying gamers from a negative experience. This solution enables game publishers to prevent fraud from occurring and reduces charge backs and revenue loss, while maintaining a fair and positive experience for their gamers.

The joint solution combines Aria System’s proprietary gamer billing and CRM data with BSG’s Advanced Payment Gateway data to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive analysis of gaming transactions in real-time. No other solution analyzes gamer membership profiles, forum, guild participation and unique registered user profiles to determine the types of gamers who could pose a risk to other customers. By identifying those gamers who have an ongoing and trusted relationship with publishers via third-party channels, and then customizing the solution by geography, genre and industry experience, BSG and Aria Systems enable publishers to proactively protect gamers and the game experience, as well as their revenue streams.

“Working with Aria Systems, we’re able to distinguish those pockets of suspect users from good users so that game publishers can reduce the incidence of fraud, charge backs and other forms of revenue loss,” said Greg Carter, CEO of BSG.

“We understand how important it is for game publishers to protect gamers and their experience,” said Ed Sulivan, CEO of Aria Systems. “By combining the analysis of BSG’s payment data with our experiential customer data, we’re able to deliver a best-in-class fraud prevention solution that ensures game publishers can do just that.” 

About Aria Systems

Aria is the market leader in subscription and recurring billing solutions. Since 2003, Aria has managed over one million accounts in more than 195 countries. Aria’s Billing Platform is the billing industry’s most reliable, flexible and scalable on demand tool for accelerating revenue capture while significantly reducing operating costs. Additionally, having achieved end-to-end Level 1 PCI Compliance and SAS70 Certification, Aria Systems leads the market in security and compliance. Backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Venrock Associates and Dave Labuda, Founder and former CEO of Portal Software, Aria’s team of SaaS and billing experts are part of a company that billed over 2.5 million customers for $1 billion a year in transactions. Aria Systems is headquartered in Media, PA (metropolitan Philadelphia) and has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo, CA). Aria Systems has been ranked as the 5th fastest growing, privately held company in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia 100. For more information about Aria Systems, visit http://www.AriaSystems.com or call 1-877-755-2370.

About BSG (http://www.bsgclearing.com)

Established in 1988 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, BSG Clearing Solutions is a leading and trusted provider of advanced payment services for digital media, communications providers and eCommerce merchants.  BSG’s comprehensive, multi-channel payment solutions optimize merchant revenue by encompassing full service credit card merchant acquisition, integrated financial risk management, and unique, alternative payment options such as Bill2Phone™ that reaches more than 350MM consumer wireline and wireless phone bills.  BSG Clearing Solutions is an operating subsidiary of Billing Services Group Limited, which is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) under the ticker symbol BILL.

 

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