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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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.”
www.babeecard.com
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.
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.”
www.babeecard.com
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.
Altair Financial Services International Plc - Altair Announces Industry Accolades
Altair Financial Services International PlcStore this angel in big sizeAs the arrangement branded prepaid and stored amount agenda industry continues to advance on a all-around scale, so too accept the amount of awards recognising accomplishment in this new payments sector. Altair Financial Services International Plc (Altair), a baton in all-around prepaid agenda programs and transaction processing, accept afresh been honoured with accolade wins and nominations for bazaar arch prepaid programs and beat technology.
Last week, MBNA Europe won the MasterCard 2007/8 Prepaid Award for Best Innovation and Technology for the Manchester City FC MasterCard® Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass™, a ground-breaking reloadable contactless card, candy by Altair. The Prepaid Awards, which were accustomed by MasterCard endure year to recognise arete and addition in the prepaid agenda articulation of the European payments industry, were presented at MasterCard Europe’s additional anniversary Prepaid Conference in Cannes.
According to Altair CEO, Lee Britton, “The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass affairs complex accomplishing of adult processing on a multi-function contactless agenda aural a actual abbreviate aeon of time. This is possibly the a lot of beat agenda on the bazaar today, featuring contactless payments technology, EMV and contactless acceptance ascendancy – all on a individual area of plastic. This allows cardholders to accretion acceptance to the amphitheater utilising the absolute acute agenda technology on bout canicule and to acquirement items central and alfresco the ground.” This is the aboriginal pilot affairs in Europe to affair division admission holders with a reloadable prepaid MasterCard agenda with Tap & Go™ technology.
Altair helped bear the aboriginal amphitheater contactless prepaid agenda in Europe with MBNA, the band-aid integrator and arising bank, Fortress GB who accommodate amphitheater acceptance and associates and Gemalto who accommodate agenda personalisation.
The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass has aswell been shortlisted for the Payment Solution Award at the 2008 European Retail Solutions Awards to be captivated on 25 June 2008 in London. The Awards are accurate by Retail Week and are focused on recognising retailers and suppliers for arete and addition in retail IT, solutions and technology. This is one of the a lot of important dates in the retail technology agenda as over 700 key industry abstracts accumulate to bless the winners.
The BRIT Awards 2008 bound copy MasterCard Prepaid PayPass agenda won the 2008 Élan Awards for Card Manufacturing Excellence, which was awarded to Altair agenda accomplishment partner, ID Data, in Florida this April. The awards recognise the latest advancements in agenda accomplishment arete and are the acme of architecture addition and abstruse accomplishment in the artificial agenda industry.
The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass has aswell been shortlisted as a finalist in the chic of Best New Prepaid Card Launch at the 2008 Cards International Global Awards, to be captivated in Brussels on 19 June 2008. Altair wholly endemic transaction processing arm, Symmetrex, Inc. was has aswell been honoured as finalist in the chic of Best Card Processor of the Year. Symmetrex is the alone certified prepaid MasterCard PayPass arising processor in the UK and was the aboriginal to affair a MasterCard PayPass contactless payments affairs in London endure year.
“Symmetrex and Altair action an chip end-to-end service, from agenda affairs architecture and development to transaction processing. The aggregation always strives to advance avant-garde and new means to advance the affluence of interface with applicant requirements and the transaction processing arrangement appropriately facilitating quicker accumulation of different prepaid agenda programs,” says Britton.
Altair industry experts are aswell accidental to the advance of the prepaid industry by administration their ability at accessible events. Altair business development director, Damian Mifsud, will participate in a annular table altercation at the Prepaid08 Conference in London this June. The annular table altercation will analyze “Why banks charge to butt the prepaid befalling now, or accident disintermediation”. In July, Altair CEO Lee Britton will present on the affair “Prepaid cards: transforming the agenda industry” at the IEA and Marketforce's countdown The Future of Cards and Payments conference.
With bazaar arch addition and technology, a awful developed processing platform, accolade acceptable applicant programs and arch accountable amount experts, Altair are bent to boss the prepaid space.
Altair Financial Services International Plc
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street
London, W1S 2PP
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 (0)20 7659 1140
Fax:+44 (0)207 900 2511
Web: www.altair-financial.com/
Notes to Editors:
For added information, amuse contact:
Steven Phillips, Altair Financial Services International Plc
+44(0) 20 7659 1178 or email steven.phillips@altair-financial.com
About Altair Financial Services International Plc:
Altair Financial Services International Plc (Altair) is a all-around transaction processing company, arising and accepting processor, internet transaction gateway, adaptable payments and stored amount processor. Altair was congenital in 2005 as a all-around provider of bespoke white labelled Prepaid Card programs with added functionality. Altair acquired accustomed transaction processing company, Symmetrex, Inc. in November 2006. Altair is headquartered in London with cyberbanking and processing relationships in UK, USA, Middle East and Africa, 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, and created for corporate, retail/consumer and government use. 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 or alarm +44(0) 20 7659 1140.
About MasterCard Europe:
MasterCard Europe is the article amenable for managing MasterCard Worldwide’s business in Europe, for Europe. With address in Waterloo, Belgium, MasterCard Europe works with 51 European countries organized administratively into three chump areas, accumulation the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), complete markets and the developing markets of Europe, addition as far afield as the eastern apprenticed of Russia. Through its arrangement of bounded offices, MasterCard Europe can accept and accommodated the assorted needs of barter in the actual altered types of markets throughout Europe, enabling humans to do business in their own way in their own language.
Through MasterCard Worldwide, MasterCard Europe offers its European barter and consumers acceptance to arch transaction casework throughout the world. MasterCard Worldwide advances all-around business by accouterment a analytical bread-and-butter hotlink a allotment of banking institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets transaction solutions, processes over 18 billion affairs anniversary year, and provides industry-leading appraisal and consulting casework to banking academy barter and merchants. Through its ancestors of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in added than 210 countries and territories. For added information, go to www.mastercard.com.
Last week, MBNA Europe won the MasterCard 2007/8 Prepaid Award for Best Innovation and Technology for the Manchester City FC MasterCard® Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass™, a ground-breaking reloadable contactless card, candy by Altair. The Prepaid Awards, which were accustomed by MasterCard endure year to recognise arete and addition in the prepaid agenda articulation of the European payments industry, were presented at MasterCard Europe’s additional anniversary Prepaid Conference in Cannes.
According to Altair CEO, Lee Britton, “The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass affairs complex accomplishing of adult processing on a multi-function contactless agenda aural a actual abbreviate aeon of time. This is possibly the a lot of beat agenda on the bazaar today, featuring contactless payments technology, EMV and contactless acceptance ascendancy – all on a individual area of plastic. This allows cardholders to accretion acceptance to the amphitheater utilising the absolute acute agenda technology on bout canicule and to acquirement items central and alfresco the ground.” This is the aboriginal pilot affairs in Europe to affair division admission holders with a reloadable prepaid MasterCard agenda with Tap & Go™ technology.
Altair helped bear the aboriginal amphitheater contactless prepaid agenda in Europe with MBNA, the band-aid integrator and arising bank, Fortress GB who accommodate amphitheater acceptance and associates and Gemalto who accommodate agenda personalisation.
The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass has aswell been shortlisted for the Payment Solution Award at the 2008 European Retail Solutions Awards to be captivated on 25 June 2008 in London. The Awards are accurate by Retail Week and are focused on recognising retailers and suppliers for arete and addition in retail IT, solutions and technology. This is one of the a lot of important dates in the retail technology agenda as over 700 key industry abstracts accumulate to bless the winners.
The BRIT Awards 2008 bound copy MasterCard Prepaid PayPass agenda won the 2008 Élan Awards for Card Manufacturing Excellence, which was awarded to Altair agenda accomplishment partner, ID Data, in Florida this April. The awards recognise the latest advancements in agenda accomplishment arete and are the acme of architecture addition and abstruse accomplishment in the artificial agenda industry.
The Manchester City FC Prepaid Seasoncard with PayPass has aswell been shortlisted as a finalist in the chic of Best New Prepaid Card Launch at the 2008 Cards International Global Awards, to be captivated in Brussels on 19 June 2008. Altair wholly endemic transaction processing arm, Symmetrex, Inc. was has aswell been honoured as finalist in the chic of Best Card Processor of the Year. Symmetrex is the alone certified prepaid MasterCard PayPass arising processor in the UK and was the aboriginal to affair a MasterCard PayPass contactless payments affairs in London endure year.
“Symmetrex and Altair action an chip end-to-end service, from agenda affairs architecture and development to transaction processing. The aggregation always strives to advance avant-garde and new means to advance the affluence of interface with applicant requirements and the transaction processing arrangement appropriately facilitating quicker accumulation of different prepaid agenda programs,” says Britton.
Altair industry experts are aswell accidental to the advance of the prepaid industry by administration their ability at accessible events. Altair business development director, Damian Mifsud, will participate in a annular table altercation at the Prepaid08 Conference in London this June. The annular table altercation will analyze “Why banks charge to butt the prepaid befalling now, or accident disintermediation”. In July, Altair CEO Lee Britton will present on the affair “Prepaid cards: transforming the agenda industry” at the IEA and Marketforce's countdown The Future of Cards and Payments conference.
With bazaar arch addition and technology, a awful developed processing platform, accolade acceptable applicant programs and arch accountable amount experts, Altair are bent to boss the prepaid space.
Altair Financial Services International Plc
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street
London, W1S 2PP
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 (0)20 7659 1140
Fax:+44 (0)207 900 2511
Web: www.altair-financial.com/
Notes to Editors:
For added information, amuse contact:
Steven Phillips, Altair Financial Services International Plc
+44(0) 20 7659 1178 or email steven.phillips@altair-financial.com
About Altair Financial Services International Plc:
Altair Financial Services International Plc (Altair) is a all-around transaction processing company, arising and accepting processor, internet transaction gateway, adaptable payments and stored amount processor. Altair was congenital in 2005 as a all-around provider of bespoke white labelled Prepaid Card programs with added functionality. Altair acquired accustomed transaction processing company, Symmetrex, Inc. in November 2006. Altair is headquartered in London with cyberbanking and processing relationships in UK, USA, Middle East and Africa, 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, and created for corporate, retail/consumer and government use. 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 or alarm +44(0) 20 7659 1140.
About MasterCard Europe:
MasterCard Europe is the article amenable for managing MasterCard Worldwide’s business in Europe, for Europe. With address in Waterloo, Belgium, MasterCard Europe works with 51 European countries organized administratively into three chump areas, accumulation the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), complete markets and the developing markets of Europe, addition as far afield as the eastern apprenticed of Russia. Through its arrangement of bounded offices, MasterCard Europe can accept and accommodated the assorted needs of barter in the actual altered types of markets throughout Europe, enabling humans to do business in their own way in their own language.
Through MasterCard Worldwide, MasterCard Europe offers its European barter and consumers acceptance to arch transaction casework throughout the world. MasterCard Worldwide advances all-around business by accouterment a analytical bread-and-butter hotlink a allotment of banking institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets transaction solutions, processes over 18 billion affairs anniversary year, and provides industry-leading appraisal and consulting casework to banking academy barter and merchants. Through its ancestors of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in added than 210 countries and territories. For added information, go to www.mastercard.com.
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
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street
London, W1S 2PP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7659 1140
Web: www.altair-financial.com
For added advice amuse contact:
Altair Financial Services International Plc - Steven Phillips: 0207 659 1178
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
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
3rd Floor, 37 Maddox Street
London, W1S 2PP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7659 1140
Web: www.altair-financial.com
For added advice amuse contact:
Altair Financial Services International Plc - Steven Phillips: 0207 659 1178
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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