HPS selects Integri for e-payments platform testing in Middle East and Africa

Brussels, 18 June 2008 – Integri, a leading provider of test tools and services for payment, ticketing and mobile applications, today announces that HPS, a provider of electronic payment processing solutions active in the Middle East and on the African continent has selected its technology for testing payment host and terminal connections.

To guarantee a correct functioning of debit and credit payment transactions, it is of key importance that data connections between issuing banks and acquirers are running faultless. With an extensive range of Integri test suites, HPS Middle East & Africa customers are now being offered a flexible and robust instrument to verify a correct data exchange as well as compliance to the HPS proprietary protocols SID and PPWM. The tools are built on the field-proven open Platform INQ®, a test tool development platform enabling easy customization and test script editing.

HPS endorses Integri tools within local banks and acquirers in the Middle East and Africa. The partnership will possibly be extended to a larger region in a next stage.

Abdeslam Alaoui Ismaili, EVP Sales & Customer Care at HPS said: “As a trusted supplier of payments processing software, we have been very demanding throughout the process of selecting a testing business partner, as recommending third party technology can seriously impact our image. However, Integri successfully passed an in-depth quality check and was able to meet our most rigorous requirements.”

Jan De Meester, General Manager at Integri commented: “This partnership enables banks to benefit from a complete offering that combines a payment processing solution with the matching off-the-shelf test tool. We see an increasing demand from the industry for such end-to-end packages as it leads to a shortened time-to-deploy and optimizes cost-efficiency.”

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About Integri
Integri specialises in test tools and test services for payment, ticketing and mobile applications. Alongside the open INQ platform, Integri offers a number of dedicated platforms for specific applications, each with a number of Off-the-Shelf Test Suites. These test suites are fully prepared solutions that include simulation and test scripts and are based on international open standards. Integri employs 45 staff, has +150 customers and sold +2000 licenses in 35 countries since its inception in 1992. Integri is located in Belgium, France and the US. Integri’s clients are mainly financial institutions, smartcard manufacturers, terminal manufacturers, ticketing operators, mobile operators and system integrators active in e- or m-business.

Integri is a wholly owned, autonomous business unit of Clear2Pay, an international financial technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. Clear2Pay operates from 13 international offices and currently employs over 400 staff.

More information is available on http://www.integri.com/ and http://clear2pay.com/

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About HPS
HPS is one of the leading providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. HPS mission is to build, develop and maintain comprehensive, innovative and modular solutions used by more than 300 institutions in 50 countries, including leading banks, national and regional payment switch centers, telecom operators, oil companies and e-government projects. Certified by international institutions such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club and JCB, HPS solution ‘PowerCARD’ is appropriate for any business that processes electronic payment transactions: cards issuing (private or international debit cards, credit cards, prepaid cards, loyalty cards, etc.), transactions acquiring, national/regional and international switching and other innovative card-based offerings.

Learn more about HPS solutions and references on http://www.hps-worldwide.com/.

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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.

Cetecom and Integri link up and launch new test solution for German Payment market

Companies add value to marketplace by offering most flexible test tool equipped with enhanced usability

4 March 2008, Brussels, Belgium and Saarbruecken, Germany – Integri, leading provider of test tools and services for payment, ticketing and mobile applications, and CETECOM ICT Services, leading provider of testing and certification services, announce a collaboration and launch joint solution for the functional testing of German Network Service Providers (NSP). 

With the GICC NSP Test Suite, German Network Service Providers can test a correct data exchange of their GICC¹ connection to acquirers such as First Data, Citibank, American Express and B+S. Acquirers accept or refuse credit card transactions at stores and point-of-sales and it is therefore imperative that connections between the different players are running faultless. To guarantee optimal functioning, acquirers have defined host type approval test cases to which network operators should comply.

CETECOM will use the PC-based tool in their test laboratory to certify German network service providers prior to connection to an acquiring host. The Network Service providers can use the tool’s acquirer host simulator to prepare for official approval tests in laboratories such as CETECOM. Zentraler Kreditausschuss (ZKA), the German Bank Association, which is responsible for regulating electronic payment applications in Germany, qualified the test bench.  

The solution, onto which CETECOM ICT Services built the respective test suite for the GICC NSP Testing, is based on Integri’s open INQ® platform and thus customizable and future-proof. The simulator is adaptable and can be configured to any specific requirements. Besides, more than 1000 possible test scenarios, covering all possible circumstances, are readily available and included. Additionally, it is easy to run a test environment in automated mode ensuring a considerable gain of time. Integri has developed the simulator whilst CETECOM built the different host type approval test cases.

“This collaboration answers an existing need of the Network Service Providers on the German market” says Jan De Meester, CEO at Integri. “They can now use a flexible, qualitative test solution for pre-certification guaranteeing official certification, thus preventing costly modifications”

“CETECOM and Integri are both strong players in the testing market” confirms Gerhard Schirra, Member of the Executive Board at CETECOM. “Combining field-proven testing technology and local knowledge has amounted to a value-added and unique service facility adapted to the German market.”

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GICC¹ is the protocol based on ISO8583 used in Germany to exchange messages between the Network Service Provider host and the acquirer host. The protocol allows a Point-of-Sale System (POS) of a credit card acceptor to communicate with credit card authorization and data capture hosts.

About Integri
Integri specializes in test tools and test services for payment, ticketing and mobile applications. Alongside the open INQ platform, Integri offers a number of dedicated platforms for specific applications, each with a number of Off-the-Shelf Test Suites. These test suites are fully prepared solutions that include simulation and test scripts and are based on international open standards. Integri employs 45 staff, has +150 customers and sold +2000 licenses in 35 countries since its inception in 1992. Integri is located in Belgium, France and the US. Integri’s clients are mainly financial institutions, smartcard manufacturers, terminal manufacturers, ticketing operators, mobile operators and system integrators active in e- or m-business.

Integri is a wholly owned, autonomous business unit of Clear2Pay, an international financial technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. Clear2Pay’s operates from 12 international offices and currently employs over 400 staff.

More information on http://www.integri.com/ and http://clear2pay.com/

Media contact Integri
Steve Lacourt
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About CETECOM
CETECOM supports her customers in launching telecommunications equipment and radio systems to the world markets, by providing testing, certification and consulting services. CETECOM’s customers are manufacturers, distributors and operators of communications networks as well as service providers. CETECOM tests interfaces, protocols and functionality in all fields of telecommunication and radio. In her SmartCard laboratory CETECOM tests readers and network components on compliance with the requirements of credit card issuers as well as the specifics of German banking cards (ZKA). The testing of electrical safety, impacts of environmental effects and electromagnetic capability as well as certification and support of market access completes the one-stop-shopping-offer.

Due to CETECOM’s active participation in international standardisation and in new technology forums, CETECOM possesses up to date expert knowledge in the field of innovative telecommunications technologies. With the framework of technical consulting, CETECOM would like to put this know-how at your disposal.

CETECOM ICT Services GmbH is a company fully owned by the CETECOM GmbH, Essen. The CETECOM GmbH, Essen affiliates to the RWTÜV Group in Essen. The world-wide CETECOM network has locations in Germany, France, UK, USA, China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

More information about CETECOM ICT Services GmbH is available under http://www.cetecom-ict.de/

Digital Identity Standards (DIS) Group publishes guidelines for Belgian electronic identity cards (eID) applications

IT, Audit and Consulting companies facilitate development and implementation of eID applications

The DIS Group was constituted in 2006 and initiated by L-SEC, a networking organization uniting over 40 leading IT and security companies in Belgium. The book has been presented to the public 28 Februari at the L-SEC Identity Management and eID Congress.

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