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 Game Developers Conference 2008

AUSTIN, Texas--(AllPayNews.com)--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 Systems is the leading provider of Billing and Customer Life Cycle management, and offers the only "monetization platform" encompassing the full spectrum of subscription, primary and secondary market capability. The "monetization platform" offers clients the on-demand billing industry's most flexible tool for accelerating revenue capture, optimizing cash flow, and enabling actionable market intelligence while significantly reducing operating costs throughout each phase of the customer lifecycle. Acknowledged as the SaaS billing leader in terms of experience and execution, Aria manages and maintains more than 1 million accounts and has processed more than 1 billion transactions since it began operations in 2003. With Hummer Winblad and software billing icon Dave Labuda as investors, the company is based in Media, Pa. (metropolitan Philadelphia), with offices in the San Francisco bay area as well. For more information, visit www.ariasystems.com.

About BSG (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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