2009年12月16日星期三

Altair Financial Services International Plc - Altair Experts Present the Future of Prepaid Cards at a Series of Leading Industry Events

Lee Britton, CEO of Altair presenting at the Prepaid Card Summit 2008Store this angel in big sizePrepaid agenda experts at Altair Financial Services International Plc (Altair), a arch prepaid agenda business solutions provider, accept featured as speakers in a amount of arch industry conferences accoutrement prepaid cards, all-around money remittance and ticketing systems for sports stadiums over the endure quarter.

With a awful developed processing platform, accolade acceptable applicant programs and arch accountable amount experts, Altair abide to accomplish cogent accomplishments in prepaid payments amphitheatre through bazaar arch addition and technology.

In his a lot of contempo presentation to assembly at the Prepaid Card Summit 2008 in October, Altair CEO, Lee Britton, covered the topic, “The Integration of Contactless and M-Payments with Global Prepaid Programmes: Will innovations in prepaid transform the payments landscape?”

The presentation included analytic at absolute innovations in contactless and adaptable payments and means to drive contactless payments to boilerplate acceptance. “Over the next period, I anticipate we will see a altered mural in payments,” says Britton. “For instance, I can see in the not too abroad approaching a individual area of artificial to beset abounding accounts, with abounding banks. One area of plastic, one chip, which will accredit you to get amount from any one of your ten accounts, and the aforementioned agenda can be acclimated for carriage and ticketing. I anticipate avant-garde abstruse developments about adaptable buzz payments will aswell aid chump adoption. It is analytical for the chump to accept acceptance to their balance, and the adeptness to amount and forward funds application their adaptable phone. We see this as a key disciplinarian and we see adaptable buzz assimilation as one of the better aids to the M-Payments market.”

There are a amount of catalysts that will accept an appulse in authoritative contactless payments a boilerplate product. Primary a allotment of these in the UK is the contactless amphitheater access prepaid agenda action that is already underway. Britton continues, “We are already accepting a lot of absorption from above football clubs in this area. We can now see a bearings in the next two years, decidedly in the Premier League, area clubs go contactless and cashless. The allowances are there for all parties, for the football clubs it’s about throughput; it’s aswell a bigger acquaintance for the consumer, area checkout time is key.” Britton highlights that added above catalysts will be in transit, area the Oyster Card has already accurate a bazaar for contactless payments and ticketing to be accumulated on a individual product, and retail, area trials accept already created cogent interest.

Speaking at the Money Transfer London (MTL08) appointment endure week, Sarah Francis, Altair Client Services Director, alien the admirers to the growing abeyant that prepaid cards and M-Payments (Mobile Payments) action the money remittance sector. “Pay as you go has enabled around anyone to accept a adaptable phone,” says Francis. “But why just accumulate barter on a proprietary arrangement like that? It would be bigger to move to a prepaid MasterCard or Visa that happens to be able to pay for airtime, but you aswell can use it to forward money, book a flight, accept your bacon paid assimilate it and buy on the internet. The aftereffect is inclusive, enabling and empowering. The agenda links to a adaptable phone, and with it, the chump can absorb at abutting to 30 actor retail locations and acceptance banknote at over a actor ATMs. Customers can aswell forward money by SMS (text) to a almsman anywhere in the world, in absolute time, after even abrogation their home, as continued as they both accept a card.”

“It costs a telco on boilerplate 6% to get banknote over the retail counter. It costs a atom of that for banknote accumulating assimilate a prepaid card. The telco saves about 4% in banknote top-up fees anon to their basal line. The telco aswell allowances from added acquirement streams from the agenda including interchange, absorption and fees. The telco aswell knows added about the customer, not just the blast numbers barter ring and when, but the recency, abundance and value, authoritative the chump ‘sticky’ and added loyal. Everything is auditable, which is acceptable for the regulators, the telco and banks, and absurd for the chump too.”

At Rugby Expo 08, the world’s aboriginal appointment and exhibition committed to rugby, Richard Wray, Altair Head of Business Integration, alternate in the console altercation “Ticket to the future: Ticketing systems for today and tomorrow”. The console discussed how the accession of prepaid agenda functionality can add ample allowances to sports clubs and stadiums. Implementing a multi-application (stadium entry, associates and adeptness to accomplish cavity and PIN and contactless payments central and alfresco a stadium) prepaid Seasoncard not alone offers clubs the account of demography banknote out of the system, convalescent about-face and dispatch up chain times, but aswell provides the ability to animate adherence a allotment of supporters.

Acquiring a bigger compassionate of their supporters’ spending behaviour alfresco of the amphitheater area enables the club to bigger apparatus adherence and accolade schemes that absolutely account their audience. The console aswell recognised the functionality as a agency of converting access ascendancy and ticketing from a amount to a acquirement breeding opportunity.

Cardholders aswell adore several advantages from application a contactless prepaid Seasoncard. With ‘Tap and Go’ functionality, cardholders absorb beneath time in acknowledgment queues. The agenda is acceptable to use, added defended than banknote and has advanced accepting alfresco the stadium.

For added advice on Altair, appointment the website: www.altair-financial.com

Altair Financial Services International
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About Altair Financial Services International Plc
Altair Financial Services International Plc was congenital in 2005 as a all-around provider of Prepaid Card solutions with added functionality. Altair acquired accustomed transaction processing company, Symmetrex, Inc. in March 2007. Altair is headquartered in London with cyberbanking and processing relationships in UK, USA, Asia Pacific and throughout the Latin America and Caribbean regions and facilitates arising on account of MasterCard® and Visa.

Altair solutions are advised to be adjustable abundant to accommodate companies with about any blazon of prepaid agenda functionality, including accessible and bankrupt bend programs. Through its accord with MasterCard all Altair cards issued in Europe are based on Chip & PIN technology and are EMV standards compliant. Altair is certified to plan with issuers and provides transaction processing of contactless (MasterCard® PayPass™) prepaid cards in the United Kingdom. For added information, appointment www.altair-financial.com

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