London – February 24, 2011 – HSBC Merchant Services LLP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Payments Inc, has won the coveted ‘Merchant Award’ at the European Card Acquiring Awards for the second year in a row.
The ceremony was held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Berlin last night and brought together prominent cards and payments professionals from across Europe to celebrate the top performers in the industry.
This is the second award HSBC Merchant Services LLP has won in the past month for its launch of Commidea’s Ocius Sentinel solution in the UK. Earlier this month, the company claimed the prestigious ‘Best Security or Anti-Fraud Development’ Award at the 2011 Card & Payments Awards in London for the third time in the last four years.
The award-winning new solution supports a major advance in security and a step-change in the ease of PCI DSS compliance for merchants who take in-store transactions. It has also become the first end-to-end encryption card payment solution to achieve Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) approval.
Ocius Sentinel uses dual-layered encryption of card data, which provides a high level of protection on all card data. This dramatically reduces the work that merchants need to do to become PCI compliant.
Chris Davies, Managing Director of HSBC Merchant Services said: ‘We are thrilled to receive this second award for our work with Commidea. We are pleased to see that the hard work being done to assist our merchants with the issues of security and fraud is being recognised within the industry.’
Ian Rutland, Director of Marketing and Communications at Commidea said: ‘The praise our solution is receiving within the cards and payments industry is very flattering and hope that this increased awareness will help us to work with even more merchants to improve their security throughout 2011.’
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About HSBC Merchant Services
HSBC Merchant Services LLP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global Payments Inc.
Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) is a leading provider of electronic transaction processing services for merchants, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), financial institutions, government agencies and multi-national corporations located throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Global Payments, a Fortune 1000 company, offers a comprehensive line of processing solutions for credit and debit cards, business-to-business purchasing cards, gift cards, electronic check conversion and check guarantee, verification and recovery including electronic check services, as well as terminal management.
Megan Rex
Fleishman-Hillard
Tel: +44 (0)20 7395 7049
E-mail: megan.rex@fleishmaneurope.com
Alan O’Sullivan
Fleishman-Hillard
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7395 7017
E-mail: alan.osullivan@fleishmaneurope.com
About Commidea and Point International
Commidea is part of the Point International Group of companies. Point is the leading European provider of electronic payment solutions and supports over 300,000 customers in the Nordic, Baltics and the UK through the provision of innovative and secure card payment solutions. Every day more than 7 million secure card transactions are handled through Point solutions. The Group manage more than 450.000 payment devices and customers range from large high street retail names to small independents, award winning e-commerce sites and many leading mail order companies. Point also operates an installed base of more than 5000 ATMs in the region. The Group is present in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and employs over 600 staff.
Commidea has built a reputation for reliability, innovation and excellence and has developed Ocius, a Chip & PIN solution which is pre-certified by the banking community that has set new standards within the industry. Ocius Sentinel, is the first UK certified solution to offer complete end-to-end encryption enabling fast and secure processing.
Working with a network of business partners throughout the UK, Commidea delivers a managed, PCI DSS compliant, multi-channel payment solution to all sizes of business. Commidea also supports many of the country’s leading specialist distributors and system integrators.
www.commidea.com and www.pointinternational.com
Nikki Scrivener or Liam Collis
Fourth Day PR
Tel : +44 (0) 20 7403 4411
Email : nikki@fourthday.co.uk or liam@fourthday.co.uk
