2009年12月16日星期三

Altair Financial Services International Plc - Caxton FX Launches Prepaid Travel Card with Altair

Store this angel in big sizeAltair Financial Services International Plc (Altair), a arch prepaid agenda and transaction processing solutions provider, accept delivered an all-encompassing advancement on the Caxton FX prepaid biking agenda affairs (caxtonfxcard.com). The prepaid agenda affairs now boasts a host of new features, including the Altair Mobile Payments System (AMPS), both US Dollar and Euro bill options and enables cardholders to baddest their own PIN at the time of application.

Rupert Lee-Browne, CEO of Caxton FX comments, "We are captivated to accept abutting armament with Altair to barrage the Caxton FX bill cards. We called Altair because of their accomplished acceptability for able activity administration and adaptability in implementation. Ultimately, adaptability has been at the amount of Caxton's success - we analyze a need, accomplish decisions bound and apparatus rapidly. By ablution our agenda affairs with Altair, we are now at the beginning of prepaid agenda technology, befitting up with the needs of audience and customers.”

The accession of Altair Mobile Payment System (AMPS) to the Caxton FX agenda affairs provides cardholders with a ambit of self-service agenda administration accoutrement by artlessly application their adaptable phone. After the cardholder assembly their adaptable buzz with their prepaid card, they can forward adaptable SMS (text) letters to amount their agenda and analysis their balance. For anniversary aegis purposes, AMPS can annihilate unauthorised use with ‘lock’ and ‘unlock’ commands. When bound application AMPS, the agenda can not be acclimated at point of auction or to abjure banknote at ATMs.

Lee Britton, Altair CEO remarks, “The bazaar for prepaid biking cards is vast. 67m across visits are fabricated anniversary year, and in a lot of cases the travellers are paying over the allowance for their biking money. We apprehend that Caxton FX will accomplish a austere appulse on the travellers’ adopted bill market, alms anyone who campaign overseas, on business or pleasure, accomplished amount for money.”

The cards are issued by Newcastle Building Society and are accessible to UK association over the age of 18 can administer for both a EUR and USD on the Caxton website (www.caxtonfxcard.com). They can aswell administer for a accessory agenda for one of their audience (min age 13). The accessory agenda will be affiliated to the primary and will allotment the aforementioned antithesis as the primary card. Like an cyberbanking purse, cardholders can pre-load the agenda with up to €7500 or $10,000.

Cardholders can amount funds assimilate the agenda in three ways: application the Internet, via SMS or by calling the UK based Caxton Customer Services team.

Altair Financial Services International Plc
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street, London, W1S 2PP
Press Contact :
Steven Phillips
Tel: +44 (0)20 7659 1140
Fax: +44 (0)20 7900 2511
email: steven.phillips@altair-financial.com

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 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 Caxton FX Ltd
Caxtonfx is a adopted barter aggregation based in London. The aggregation was founded in 2001 as an FX (foreign exchange) broker, alms bank-beating ante and fee-free transfers on ample bill alteration affairs - they now barter millions on a circadian basis. The success of the aggregation has been based on two simple principles: Value and Service. They set themselves afar by alms 18-carat amount for money.

These attempt accept been agitated through to the contempo addition of the Caxtonfx Euro and Dollar Card, which accompany 18-carat accumulation to travellers and are set to revolutionise the apple of biking money.
For added advice appointment www.caxtonfx.com or www.caxtonfxcard.com.

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 administration of over £4.4bn we are absolutely ample abundant to cope but baby abundant to affliction acutely about the needs of our members. We are committed to accouterment a ambit of avant-garde and adorable investment products.
The Society is committed to actual alternate and by accomplishing so we feel we are bigger placed to abide to accommodate our investors with the above of account accepted from one of the country’s arch architecture societies.

Newcastle Building Society has over 60 abide and a added 50 planned prepaid and debit agenda programmes including: Debit cards; Retail allowance cards, Mobile buzz cards – accumulated top-ups and payments cards; Teen cards – 13-plus age alien to agenda holding; Un-banked adults cards; Travel cards – Safe acceptable addition to travellers cheques; Corporate allurement cards – cards issued absolute to advisers as accolade payments; Payroll and Payroll Plus cards – bacon payments for employees.

The Society is a MasterCard Principal Member, with the a lot of MasterCard accustomed prepaid programmes in the UK. We authority a SEPA licence and accept abide programmes in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Italy.

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