BPC Banking Technologies Signs Global Payments Alliance with HP

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BPC Banking Technologies Signs Global Payments Alliance with HP

BAAR, Switzerland, May 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

            BPC's SmartVista solution for high performance payments selected by HP

    BPC Banking Technologies [http://bpcbt.com ], the leading provider of Open System
payment solutions for the global financial industry, announced today that it has signed a
new agreement with HP, the world's largest technology company. BPC has been selected by HP
as one of its strategic high performance payments solution worldwide and under the terms
of the agreement, BPC's SmartVista payments solution will be offered by HP on an
outsourced basis to its customers worldwide.

    SmartVista [http://www.bpcbt.com/products/smartvista ] is a scalable, secure and
integrated suite of sophisticated applications covering every aspect of electronic
payments processing. Using a visionary design to deliver unrivalled flexibility SmartVista
also provides high performance authorization switching and routing, full ATM and POS
management, comprehensive card management, advanced fraud prevention, loyalty program
definition and management, card personalization and production. SmartVista also provides
flexible billing and merchant management, integrated internet and mobile banking. The
solution supports a full range of cards, including credit, debit, prepaid, gift,
corporate, instant issue, virtual, contactless, loyalty cards and more.

    BPC has worked together with HP for many years and they have many joint customers
ranging in size from niche players with small ATM networks to organizations running tens
of thousands of ATMs. In fact one of the largest switch deployments in the world runs
SmartVista on HP processing in excess of 1,500 TPS (transactions per second) at peak
volume. In addition BPC supports the full range of HP platforms from Linux and HP-UX
machines through to HP NonStop. In 2013 BPC achieved a world record breaking performance
[http://bpcbt.com/resources/press-releases/smartvista-achieves-record-breaking-performance-on-hp-nonstop-using-sql ]
of over 6,100 TPS with SmartVista on HP NonStop using SQL/MX.

    "At BPC, we focus on delivering outstanding service to our customers - combining the
latest technologies to ensure they can deliver the products and services their customers
demand. HP shares the same focus on customer service and the same values in terms of
leveraging the latest technologies for customer advantage. This partnership increases our
market opportunity by further opening up opportunities that require a lead systems
integrator, hosting company or processor solution. We are delighted to take our
partnership to the next level and we are certain that, together, we will offer a uniquely
compelling proposition," said Daragh O'Byrne, CMO BPC Banking Technologies.

    "Our customers are looking for reliable, flexible payments solutions and need the
right combination of functionality and performance," said Katherine Garcia, Senior Vice
President, HP Enterprise Services. We have worked with BPC for many years and HP will
offer BPC's SmartVista payments solution on an outsourced basis to our customers
worldwide. By working together, HP and BPC will offer a compelling payments solution, with
the right global delivery model to modernise the industry."

    About BPC Banking Technologies

    BPC is the leading global provider of Open Systems payment solutions for the global
financial industry. It provides SmartVista, a single integrated solution for transaction
processing and card management. The company's customer base includes the largest and most
progressive retail banks across five continents - currently BPC has 120 clients in 41
countries. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://www.bpcbt.com

    About SmartVista

    SmartVista is a scalable, secure and integrated suite of sophisticated applications
covering every aspect of electronic payments processing. Using a visionary design to
deliver unrivalled flexibility SmartVista also provides high performance authorization
switching and routing, full ATM and POS management, comprehensive card management,
advanced fraud prevention, loyalty program definition and management, card personalization
and production. The solution supports a full range of cards, including credit, debit,
prepaid, gift, corporate, instant issue, virtual, contactless, loyalty cards and more.
SmartVista delivers high performance and high availability processing across all channels,
including ATM, POS, kiosk, self-service devices, branch, internet and mobile. SmartVista's
broad range of capabilities effectively support and manage payments across all channels,
including POS, branch, Internet, and mobile applications. Not only does SmartVista handle
tomorrow's payment challenges today, but it does so with a speed and ease of use that is
unmatched in the industry.

BPC Banking Technologies

CONTACT: Maria Egorova, m.egorova@bpcbt.com, +353-(86)-8592674.

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