New Contract Win

RNS Number : 6942T

Proxama PLC

22 July 2015

 

Proxama PLC

("Proxama" or the "Company")

Proxama provides enhanced electronic PIN distribution for major European Payment Processor customer

London, 22 July 2015: Proxama PLC (AIM: PROX), the international mobile commerce Company specialising in proximity marketing and a provider of end-to-end payment solutions for card issuers and processors, is pleased to announce a new contract with a major European Payment Processor customer to provide enhanced secure electronic distribution of card PIN numbers. The contract is expected to generate in excess of £100,000 in the current financial year with the potential to generate further income in future years.

Proxama has been contracted by this customer to implement 'Virtual PIN Pad' (VPP) a significant enhancement to their existing Proxama PIN (personal identification number) Manager solution. The customer currently manages the issuance of credit and debit cards as well as processing card payment transactions on behalf of its banking clients and through them today covers some 10 million existing card holders. The VPP enhancement allows cardholders to securely view and change their PIN through a web browser on a computer or mobile phone.  The solution meets industry standards for secure protection of cardholder PINs and has been designed to be easily implemented into card issuer systems.

Sending out PIN details by post for new payment cards or where cardholders have forgotten PINs represents a significant cost as well as a security weakness, as PIN mailers can go missing. At the same time, waiting for a PIN mailer is inconvenient for cardholders as it delays use of their card and for the same reason, is costly for the issuing bank.

Implementing VPP will bring substantial benefits to the client's bank customers by reducing costs and improving security, at the same time as benefiting bank cardholder customers who can now quickly view and obtain or change their PIN online.

Proxama is engaged with a number of additional prospective clients for its PIN Manager solution, with a particular interest being seen in the USA.  The migration from magnetic stripe to chip (EMV) cards in the USA is causing all payment cards to be re-issued and banks are looking at new options for cardholder security including moving from signature to PINs to authorise payment. Proxama's PIN Manager with the Virtual PIN Pad provides the ideal solution for this market.

Mike Woods, CEO of Proxama's Digital Payments Division comments: "This new contract award builds on our long term partnerships with clients and continues to demonstrate our ability to bring innovative solutions to the payment industry with substantial benefits for payment processors, issuing banks and their cardholders. Approximately 45% of payment cards in circulation today use chip technology. This equates to some 1.5 billion cards in circulation. Increasingly these cards use PINs, instead of the less secure signature, to authorise and protect transactions. We at Proxama are seeing this rapidly expanding adoption of PINs as a major area of growth for our company going forward."

Enquiries:

Proxama PLC Patrick Register EVP Strategic Accounts and Partners	07802 863616
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker)                Richard Kauffer Euan Brown	020 7418 8900
Novella Tim Robertson Ben Heath	020 3151 7008

About Proxama

·   Proxama is an international mobile commerce Company specialising in proximity marketing via mobile and providing end-to-end solutions for card issuers to migrate customers from magnetic stripe credit and debit cards to contactless mobile payments.

·   The technology to support mobile payments is now in place. 90% of the world's smartphones have technology to make mobile payments and in 2015 30 million contactless mobile payments are expected to be made compared to 3 million in 2014.

·    Proxama has been at the forefront of this market for the last 10 years. Today, Proxama's solutions are used by banks, financial institutions, loyalty companies, media owners, stadium owners, retailers and brands. Current clients include: Fiserv, Nets, Navy Federal Credit Union, Exterion Media, Harrods, Ubisoft, Gala and Argos.

·   The proximity marketing division focuses on connecting consumers to brands and retailers via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon technology. Proxama establishes and owns beacon networks in high footfall locations such as City Centres, stadia, shopping malls and retail outlets, which are then able to communicate to consumers via messages to mobiles when the consumer is in close proximity to a beacon. The technology platform at the heart of this division is TapPoint®

·   The payments division manages end-to-end credit and debit cards solutions on behalf of financial institutions in the United States, Europe and the Middle East and specialises in enabling the migration of cards from magnetic stripe cards, to chip and pin cards and from contactless chip cards to mobile devices. The technology behind this division is Proxama's Digital Enablement Platform.

In December 2014, Proxama acquired Aconite Technology Limited:

·   Aconite has been delivering advanced payment solutions to card issuers, processors and service providers for more than ten years

·    Aconite established itself as a highly respected source of chip card management expertise in payments and other sectors, such as transport and ticketing, and as a specialist in the field of migrating credit cards from magnetic strip to contactless

·    Aconite's software portfolio now forms the core of Proxama's Digital Enablement Platform that delivers end-to-end support for EMV deployment to cards, contactless and mobile payments.

 

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