Integri and ICON enter into a partnership agreement

Companies will focus on Italian electronic funds market (EFT) with a comprehensive test platform and easy-to-use test solutions

12 November 2007, Zaventem, Belgium – Integri, leading provider of test tools and services for electronic transactions, today announces the agreement with ICON, qualified Italian consulting and solutions provider, to specifically address the Italian EFT market.

Under the terms of the agreement, both companies will work closely on joint offerings. The combination of Integri’s test products and extensive know-how in testing electronic transactions and ICON’s local knowledge is expected to create a win-win situation for both companies as well as for the Italian banks.

The partnership will strengthen ICON’s Banking and e-Payments competence by adding test solutions for prototyping, simulation, functional and stress testing requirements to their product range. The agreement expands Integri’s global footprint, enabling to provide customers local-based quality and shorter time to market.

“With ICON, we can now bank on a reliable partner on the promising Italian market.” said Jan De Meester, CEO at Integri. “As the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) deadline approaches, our collaboration will guarantee financial institutions a seamless migration to this new standard with a complete set of test tools supported by dedicated services.”

"Integri is an extremely professional and well-known worldwide leading provider focused on testing solutions specifically designed for Banking, e-Payments and Smart Card market. This is a strategic area where the players can get quality improvement and can achieve new standard specification compliance as easy as it looks. " commented Erminio Viscardi, Managing Director at ICON. "Thanks to the ICON and Integri partnership, our solutions based on Integri's test platform will fulfil the Italian market requirements.

About Integri
Integri NV was established in 1992 and is headquartered in Zaventem, Belgium. Integri is the leading global provider of IT solutions for testing and simulating electronic transactions. It offers a wide range of products, services and consulting for testing smart cards, terminals and hosts. For more than 15 years, Integri has led the market with its smart card (payment and SIM card) test tools. Its INQ Platform provides a fully integrated test and prototyping solution for testing smart card compliance, payment transactions, EMV (L1&L2) applications, GSM/UMTS SIM and handset, terminals and hosts.

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About ICON
I.CON. Srl was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Vimercate, Milan – Italy. For more than 10 years ICON has helped its Customers to implement ICT projects by providing competence for innovative hardware and software technologies. ICON high quality service approach, establish a long lasting relationship reaching together with the customer the common defined business objectives. ICON is an active player on the Electronic Payment Systems Italian market with a specific business solution unit.

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Note to editors: The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative for the European financial infrastructure involves the creation of a zone for the Euro in which all electronic payments are considered domestic, and where a difference between national and intra-European cross border payments does not exist.