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2004 Business News:
Atos Origin banks on continuity. Cooperation with B+S Card Service
is consolidated – Customer extend contract
Paris Frankfurt/Main – November 24, 2004 ––
Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, is banking on continuity for its
customer relations: the group confirms the extension of the acquiring
processing service contract for B+S Card Service GmbH, one of the leading
service providers of the German card world. In order to offer B+S Card
Service advantages in terms of competition and cost in their Europe-wide
business activities, the terms of the contract have furthermore been expanded
to include the “Foreign currency clearing” service.
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Atos Origin processes the first mini Visa credit card on the German
market
Frankfurt/Main / Paris, November 9th, 2004 - Atos Worldline,
an Atos Origin company, has been processing the first mini-format Visa
credit card in Germany since October 25th, 2004. The "mini smart
card Visa" project was completed as twin cards (mini and normal Visa
card) in only three months in conjunction with the issuers, DaimlerChrysler
Bank and smart, and supported by Atos Worldline at all stages of the project.
The new card, which is to be issued to smart drivers, is now being introduced
onto the market.
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Atos Origin and Sun Microsystems prove the highest performance of
Worldline Pay Front Office Solution
Paris - Frankfurt/Main, November 8th, 2004 - Atos Worldline,
an Atos Origin company, has completed its development of Worldline Pay
Front Office Applications and is starting now a market campaign to offer
the new solutions to payment providers. Atos Worldline and Sun Microsystems
have successfully demonstrated a throughput of a peak of up to 800 transactions
per second processing and checking online card payments in an acquirer
environment.
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Purchasing Card: Four large French banks have chosen Atos Origin to
overhaul their purchasing platform
Paris, November 3rd 2004 – Following the dissolution
of GIE Service Purchasing, four large banks, former members of that grouping,
have entrusted Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, with overhauling
and running their Purchasing Card ebanking platform. The platform uses
the group’s card management software Worldline Pay - IOcard, as well
as its Worldline Invoice e-billing offering. Atos Worldline thus provides
the means to guarantee substantial deployment of this service, which enables
purchasers -companies and local authorities / governments – and suppliers
to arrange non-strategic purchases in the best possible way.
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Atos Origin, a leading card and security technology enabler, to participate
at "Cartes 2004" in France
Paris, October 28th, 2004 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin
Company, will be present at the 19th International Card and IT Security
Forum. At a seminar devoted to Smart Card Systems Security, Atos Worldline
experts will lead a discussion entitled “Fraud : impact of EMV development
in Europe and new methodological and technical solutions” on November
4th, from 11:00 to 11:45 am.
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Atos Origin strengthens its investment in electronic payment
Paris, October 18th, 2004 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin
company, has substantially developed its SIPS flagship online payment
solution and can now offer its clients constantly improving levels of
security. One of the very first solutions of this kind, launched on the
market in 1996, SIPS is now used by about 60% of French merchant sites
and is growing at an annual rate of 80%. By July 2004, SIPS was securing
as many as 2.5 million transactions a month.
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AFAQ ISO 9001:2000 Certification for the Atos Origin MultiChannel
Contact technical platform
Paris, 29 September 2004 – For the fourth year running,
Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, was awarded AFAQ ISO 9001:2000
certification for its production platform dedicated to MultiChannel Contact
applications (voice and Internet services). The renewal of this certification
is a sure sign of the group's ability to maintain its service quality
commitments in the long term.
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Atos Origin wins a new contract with BP for transaction processing
services
Paris, September 29, 2004
Paris, September 20, 2004 – Atos Worldline, an Atos
Origin Company dedicated to IT-related BPO, has been awarded the contract
for the provision of polling and transaction processing services to BP’s
UK service stations. The contract commenced in March 2004 and marks an
extension to the services that the Group has delivered to BP since 1993.
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August 30, 2004 - Crédit Lyonnais selects Atos Origin to overhaul
its sub-participants’ eBanking service
Paris, August 30, 2004 – Atos Worldline, an Atos
Origin company, was selected by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais,
to complete a major overhaul of its sub-participants management eBanking
service. This was achieved through the introduction of an innovative,
leading-edge technological solution that includes new bank standards such
as EMV. Users access it from a web interface.
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June 9th, 2004 - Atos Origin new credit card authorisation software
Frankfurt / Paris - June 9, 2004 - Since mid-March
2004, Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has been authorising Visa
and MasterCard credit card payments with a new routing and switching system.
"Sira" is an in-house development by Atos Origin and has replaced
the previous authorisation system, "UM20". As a standard product,
it guarantees cost-effective use for Atos Worldline customers. It is also
user-friendly due to its web-based graphical environment. The new system
meets all card organisation security requirements associated with the
changeover to the EMV standard (MasterCard/Visa) and changes in business
and bank infrastructures. The high system flexibility and configurability
ensure that, with "Sira", it will be possible to respond rapidly
to market changes in the future.
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June 2nd, 2004 - Atos Origin takes care for "fit" employees
Frankfurt/Main, 2 June 2004: With the motto "Let's
go Olympic - Fitness with Atos Worldline", at the beginning of May,
Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin group company, started its first ever health
week for employees. A daily programme of extensive training activities
was offered to prevent potential problems arising from imbalanced physical
stress. Courses on Tai Chi and Qi Gong, yoga and back training were provided
along with jogging, cycling tours, advice on health and the cost of fitness
and tips on healthy eating.
May 10th, 2004 - Atos Worldline takes over Commerzbank's credit card
processing
Frankfurt/Main - May 10th, 2004 - Atos Worldline,
an Atos Origin Company dedicated to IT-related BPO, has been awarded the
contract for processing Commerzbank's credit cards. The company will thus
be able to extend its services already provided to Commerzbank since 1998.
From the first quarter of 2005, the approximately 450,000 credit cards
will be transferred to Atos Worldline own processing platform.
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May 6th, 2004 - Atos Origin Quality Process Certified AFAQ ISO 9001:2000
Paris - May 6th, 2004 - The entire range of Atos
Origin's payment and card processing services delivered through Atos Worldline
are now ISO 9001:2000 certified, thereby completing a process initiated
in 2000. The certifications demonstrate the company's commitment to continuously
improving the quality of its services and illustrate the effectiveness
of its management system.
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April 21st, 2004 - Atos Origin creates Atos Worldline An Atos Origin
Company dedicated to IT-relate.
Atos Origin, April 21, 2004 - Atos Origin has announced
the formation of a dedicated IT-related Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
division, Atos Worldline. This will create a leading European provider
of IT-related BPO, dedicated to services and solutions covering the whole
process of payment and information flows.
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March 23rd, 2004 - Atos Origin Successfully Implements Latest Generation
Check Guarantee Solution for Speedy.
Paris - March 23, 2004 - Speedy, a leading European
chain of fast-fit auto centers, uses Chèque Service Plus in France,
Atos Origin's most advanced solution for the prevention of check fraud
and reimbursement in case of detection failure. Chèque Service
Plus offers Speedy greater security thanks to its automated, remote management
of points of sale and personalized handling of their specific check fraud
situations.
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February 10th, 2004 - Atos Origin at CeBIT '04: New products and
services for Payment and Processing
Stuttgart / Frankfurt/Main, February 10, 2004 - Atos
Origin GmbH, a leading IT- and eBusiness service provider, and Atos Origin
Processing Services GmbH, a leading processor in the German card market,
are together presenting their products and services covering the entire
payment transaction process in hall 18 EG, booth A24.34 / Sonderschau
Bank-Finanz-Systeme on the basis of the new "Worldline Pay"
generation: system solutions, card processing and business process outsourcing
for banks, financial services providers, telecoms and retailers.
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