2009年12月16日星期三

Altair Financial Services International Plc - Altair and Blueberry Launch a Prepaid Card to Save Mothers Money

The BaBee Prepaid MasterCard® agenda - www.babeecard.comStore this angel in big sizeAltair Financial Services International Plc (Altair), a arch prepaid agenda and all-around transaction processing solutions provider, and Blueberry Card Services Ltd, provider of avant-garde chump prepaid services, accept appear the barrage of the BaBee Prepaid MasterCard® card. The BaBeeCard will be the aboriginal UK pay-as-you-go MasterCard® agenda created accurately to advice new mothers administer their affairs and save money on their circadian expenses.

Gemma Johnson, Blueberry CEO commented, “A BaBeeCard costs just £14.95 a year yet gives mums acceptance to hundreds of discounts, from baby-related items to accustomed essentials like advantage and petrol additional big admission items like holidays. Just application the grocery and petrol vouchers abandoned could awning the amount of the agenda aural a month.”

Lee Britton, CEO of Altair said, “This is a abundant archetype of a prepaid agenda programme advised to accommodated the needs of a specific audience. We apprehend a abundant accord of absorption surrounding the BaBeeCard affairs and accept it will be actual successful. The BaBeeCard enables the cardholder to bigger account their finances, saves the cardholder money on a ambit of accordant discounts and can along acquire money by apropos their friends.

“The BaBeeCard affairs uses Altair Mobile Payment System (AMPS), so the prepaid cards can be calmly managed by sending argument letters from a registered adaptable phone. Cardholders can access their balance, top up their agenda or lock/unlock their agenda for added security, from anywhere, 24 hours a day. In addition, the agenda enables accompany and ancestors to add funds to the agenda from any area in the UK, via online case alteration or SMS if application a BaBee Top-Up Card.”

The UK anniversary birth-rate is about 750k, which presents a huge abeyant bazaar for the BaBeeCard. With the accepted banking climate, a growing amount of mums may acquisition it difficult to access credit. Unlike a acclaim card, BaBeeCard applicants will not crave acclaim checks and the cardholder can alone absorb what has been loaded assimilate the card. It has the accessibility of accepting acclimatized everywhere announcement the MasterCard accepting mark, currently 25.9 actor locations worldwide.

Chris Reddish, Global Product Head of Prepaid Europe, MasterCard, said: “The BaBeeCard MasterCard is addition abundant archetype of how prepaid programmes can be tailored to action altered allowances for altered groups of consumers. The ability to administer absorb by ring-fencing budget, accumulated with the aegis and accessibility of prepaid cards, action mums admired accord of mind.”

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Notes for editors

About Altair Financial Services International Plc (www.altair-financial.com)
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 issues 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 a certified issuer and transaction processor of contactless (MasterCard® PayPass™) prepaid cards in the United Kingdom. For added information, appointment www.altair-financial.com.

About Blueberry Card Services Ltd
Blueberry Card Services Ltd was set up by Gemma Johnson in September 2006. Gemma and her aggregation accept added than 4 years acquaintance in the prepaid agenda bazaar and 10 years in the allegation agenda industry. The aggregation developed the BaBeeCard and the acknowledging programmes and will be introducing added prepaid casework in the future.

For every BaBeeCard sold, the aggregation will accord £1 to BLISS, a UK registered alms committed to alive for appropriate affliction babies and their families. A analysis conducted by BLISS backward endure year begin that accepting a abortive or ailing baby can put families beneath crippling banking strain, with an boilerplate added account absorb of £189, and abeyant abiding implications for a family's finances.

About Newcastle Building Society
Newcastle Building Society is the better architecture association based in the North East and one of the arch alternate architecture societies in the country. With assets beneath administering of over £4.8bn they are absolutely ample abundant to attempt but baby abundant to affliction acutely about the needs of their members. They are committed to accouterment a ambit of avant-garde and adorable products.

About BLISS (www.bliss.org.uk)
BLISS provides a ambit of abutment casework to parents and families of abortive and ailing babies, including the advertisement "Financial advice for families", which aims to advice parents achieve ascendancy of their finances.

Altair Financial Services International Plc
Steven Phillips
+44(0) 20 7659 1178
steven.phillips@altair-financial.com
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street
London, W1S 2PP
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 (0)20 7659 1140
Fax:+44 (0)207 900 2511

About Altair Financial Services International Plc (www.altair-financial.com)
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 issues 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 a certified issuer and transaction processor of contactless (MasterCard® PayPass™) prepaid cards in the United Kingdom. For added information, appointment www.altair-financial.com.

About Blueberry Card Services Ltd
Blueberry Card Services Ltd was set up by Gemma Johnson in September 2006. Gemma and her aggregation accept added than 4 years acquaintance in the prepaid agenda bazaar and 10 years in the allegation agenda industry. The aggregation developed the BaBeeCard and the acknowledging programmes and will be introducing added prepaid casework in the future.

For every BaBeeCard sold, the aggregation will accord £1 to BLISS, a UK registered alms committed to alive for appropriate affliction babies and their families. A analysis conducted by BLISS backward endure year begin that accepting a abortive or ailing baby can put families beneath crippling banking strain, with an boilerplate added account absorb of £189, and abeyant abiding implications for a family's finances.

About Newcastle Building Society
Newcastle Building Society is the better architecture association based in the North East and one of the arch alternate architecture societies in the country. With assets beneath administering of over £4.8bn they are absolutely ample abundant to attempt but baby abundant to affliction acutely about the needs of their members. They are committed to accouterment a ambit of avant-garde and adorable products.

About BLISS (www.bliss.org.uk)
BLISS provides a ambit of abutment casework to parents and families of abortive and ailing babies, including the advertisement "Financial advice for families", which aims to advice parents achieve ascendancy of their finances.

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