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Optimal Payments - Online payments processor riding growth of e-commerce

November 2013

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Shopping online and through mobile devices is becoming big business these days with a forecast US$1.4 trillion of US retail sales expected to be conducted via the web by 2015, which is just over half the overall total. If anything, this trend is only going to accelerate on the back of strong growth in the number of global smartphones, which make shopping altogether a more efficient and sophisticated experience. For companies in the right place at the right time these trends can facilitate blistering growth and one firm that is riding the crest of this wave is Optimal Payments, which helps customers use credit and debit cards online by processing them through a technology system that is designed and managed by the company. Even whe ...

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