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2006 Business News:
Atos Origin selected by the IGN for the technical management of the 1st national Geoportal in Europe
Paris, 11 December 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, announced today that it has signed a 4 year contract with the IGN (The French National Geographical Institute) for the second phase of the Géoportail project, the 1st portal providing unique access to French geographical information. As part of this ambitious project, Atos Worldline, in partnership with technical expertise from GeoConcept, EEE-i.g.o and Sequoia, is carrying out the development and enhancement of the Géoportail, its operation, the new graphical charter and the portal’s ergonomics, as well as the overhaul of the institutional website at www.ign.fr.
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Creating a European Leader in Payment Services: Atos Origin Acquisition of Banksys and BCC Completed
Paris/Brussels, 7 December 2006 -Atos Origin, a leading international information technology services company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Banksys and Bank Card Company (BCC) from Fortis, Dexia, KBC, ING and other Belgian banks, following European Competition Authorities’s approval of the deal on September 29th 2006. The acquisition will create a European Leader in Payment Services, with combined pro forma 2006 revenues of EUR 630 million.
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Atos Origin selected to manage Cineworld’s loyalty scheme
London, 29 November 2006 Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been awarded a three year contract by Cineworld, the UK cinema chain, to manage its frequent visitor scheme – "Unlimited". The scheme allows members to see as many films as they like, any day, any time and at any Cineworld Cinema across the UK, Jersey and Ireland for a monthly subscription fee.
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Atos Origin supports the SNCF in the roll out of its new Tikefone service
Paris, 21 November 2006 -Atos Origin, a leading international IT services company, has been selected by the Marketing department of the Public Transport division of the SNCF (French Railways) to host its new Tikefone service. This service enables regional railway network tickets to be sold and distributed through mobile phones. Atos Origin also provided a development service under the supervision of the SNCF's Innovation and Research division.
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Atos Origin brings its expertise to movo, the first French service enabling individual customers to send and receive money with their mobile phone launched by the Caisse d´Epargne
Paris, 30 October 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will be handling the introduction of movo, the first French solution, developed by the Caisse d´Epargne, for transferring money by SMS between individuals customers. Atos Worldline processes the flows on its technical platform and places at the disposal of the Caisse d´Epargne tools for managing the transactions, notably monitoring and security indicators.
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Atos Origin technology partner of La Tribune for its new Mobile Internet service
Paris, 26 October 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been selected by La Tribune to design, develop, host and operate on its technical platform its new Mobile Internet service « La Tribune Mobile ». This mobile version of La Tribune.fr offers readers of the daily newspaper an opportunity to find - even when they are on the move - a service ranging from the quick consultation of financial news and stock market prices to the management of personalised portfolios. This offer strengthens the paper´s position on the market of online financial information.
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Atos Origin showcases its innovative card and identification solutions at Cartes 2006 Exhibition in Paris
21st edition of Cartes 2006 from November 7th to 9th, 2006 Parc des Expositions de Villepinte-Paris
Paris, 23 October 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will participate at the international Cartes 2006 event, the World N°1 Exhibition for smart cards and identification. Atos Worldline will showcase its entire range of Card Management services and solutions, with a focus on the challenges and innovations around the card convergence, online payment and services.
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Atos Origin offers banks the processing of instalment credit for the first time on the German market
Frankfurt/Main, 9 October 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is the first service provider on the German market to offer banks the processing of instalment credits for credit cards. Through this new credit option, banks can now increase the profits per card and further expand their instalment volumes. This new functionality has been developed in cooperation with Atos Worldline bank partners and will be first implemented at Landesbank Berlin AG.
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Atos Origin and Euronext sign a web hosting agreement
Paris, 5 October 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, announces the signature of a three-year contract with Euronext. As a long-standing client of Atos Origin, Euronext will be entrusting Atos Worldline with the hosting, operating and technical maintenance of its web sites aimed at both members of the public and professionals as well as with its corporate intranet. Euronext aims at responding to increases in traffic volumes and optimising its operating costs.
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Atos Origin offers German banks the processing of 'Instant Cards' Frankfurt/Main, 25 September 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is the first service provider on the German market to offer card issuing banks and their commercial partners the processing of “Instant Cards”. With these new Visa or Visa Electron cards products, banks can offer their customers a faster, cost effective and easy to use card payment option.
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Atos Origin supports 1euro.com in the deployment of its new eCommerce payment solution
Paris, 21 September 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been selected by 1euro.com to help it deploy its solution that supports immediate financing dedicated to eCommerce, with secure on-line payment and user account management.
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Atos Origin presents its electronic invoicing offer at the European EXPP Summit 2006
Frankfurt/Main, 20 September 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will be present at the EXPP Summit 2006 from 25thto 27th September 2006 in Berlin, Germany. At this event which gathers key solutions, latest technology developments, offerings and players of the E-invoicing business in Europe, Atos Worldline will showcase the latest developments of its e-invoicing solution Worldline Invoice.
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The Louvre Museum selects Atos Origin to operate its website
Paris, 13 September 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been chosen by the Louvre Museum for the operation and application management of its website www.louvre.fr, developed using the Blue Martini software suite. With Atos Worldline, the Louvre Museum now benefits from hosting, development and maintenance services for its on-line interface from a single provider.
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Atos Origin is organising the 7th Poseidon Forum on payment terminals
Frankfurt/Main, 7 September 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is organising the Poseidon Forum on payment terminals for the seventh time. This year the event will be held in the Hotel Dolce in Bad Nauheim on 20th September 2006. On the agenda are themes such as “The organisation of electronic cash on SEPA with Track2/EMV migration” and “New features on Poseidon ZVT 4.0, the latest release of the German protocol for payment terminals”.
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Atos Origin creates new traineeships in Aachen
Frankfurt/Main, 30 August 2006 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, announces today the creation of new traineeships for Mathematical-Technical Assistants. The first two applicants will begin their training at the Aachen site in September 2006. Atos Worldline is committed to increase the number of traineeships, thus demonstrating a high level of social responsibility for the region.
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Atos Origin takes responsibility for processing the first German combined debit and credit card program with bonus miles
Frankfurt/Main, 24 July 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has been selected to process a new payment card for Landesbank Berlin AG and its co-branding partner Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG. This first combined debit and credit card on the German market combines MasterCard and ec-/Maestro-Card and allows cardholders to earn Air Berlin top bonus air miles through ec-/Maestro extended acceptance.
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Creating a European Leader in Payment Services: Atos Origin Acquisition of Banksys and BCC
Paris / Brussels, 20 July 2006 -Atos Origin, Banksys and Bank Card Company (BCC), as well as the four major shareholders of Banksys and BCC (Dexia, Fortis, ING, KBC), announce the agreement of the acquisition of Banksys and BCC by Atos Origin, an international information technology services company. This new partnership will allow Banksys and BCC to play a key role in the current international market and it will allow Atos Origin to become a European leader in payment services. The agreement, for an undisclosed amount, was signed on Wednesday 19 July 2006 and the acquisition is expected to be finalized by the end of 2006, subject to approval by the European Competition Authorities
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Atos Origin signs a contract with Wm Morrisons for Fuel Card Management
London, 11 July 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announced that it has been awarded a five year contract by Morrisons Supermarkets to provide support and business account services for its new Business Fuel Card. It is the first card in the UK retail fuel market to be EMV compliant and Chip & PIN based.
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Atos Origin is modernising the call management solution for Société Générale’s employee savings subsidiary
Paris, 28 June 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been chosen by Société Générale to overhaul its interactive voice response (IVR) and its call distribution system, known as ESALIA, for its employee savings branch. The modernisation of call management allows Société Générale to meet the needs of its customers more quickly and more efficiently.
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Atos Origin through its technological expertise facilitates the European deployment of the electronic invoicing service “IATA InvoiceWorks”
Paris, 12 June 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has been selected to ensure compliance with the regulations on electronic invoicing for IATA’s (International Air Transport Association) electronic invoicing service “IATA InvoiceWorks.” Established by IATA, this service enables airline companies and their suppliers to exchange and process electronic invoices. Atos Worldline facilitates the use of IATA InvoiceWorks by European airlines and suppliers through the provision of digital signature and secure archiving capabilities to meet the European regulatory requirements related to electronic invoices
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Atos Origin chosen by Club Avantages to overhaul and host its customer loyalty programme
Paris, 6 June 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announced the renewal of its contract with Club Avantages, for a three-year period, to manage the overhaul and hosting of its multi-partner customer loyalty programme. Atos Worldline will manage, in addition to customer loyalty applications, all of Club Avantages multi-channel applications: mail, e-mail, telephone, SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and the Internet, thus enabling Club Avantages to enrich the personalisation of its customer relations
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Atos Origin obtains Visa and Mastercard PCI-DSS certification for its fully secure online payment platform
Paris, 23 May 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announces that it has been awarded PCI-DSS certification (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard) for its fully secure online payment platform. After 10 years of continuous growth, Atos Worldline platform is the first in France to be certified to the highest requirements of the standard set by Visa and Mastercard. This project has been carried out by Atos Worldline on CEDICAM Group’s request - Payment Flows and Systems subsidiary of Crédit Agricole bank.
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Atos Origin increases its capacity for processing European electronic invoices
Paris, 22 May 2006 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has enhanced its electronic signature platform with Utimaco Safeware AG’s secure signature solution. This enables Atos Worldline's e-invoicing platform to securely process the German invoices of its international clients and to offer them a highly secure signature solution that complies with German tax regulations. Atos Worldline thus increases its capacity for processing European electronic invoices.
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Atos Origin chosen to operate platform for new online payment standard 'iDEAL' in the Netherlands
Standard can be adapted for Europe to facilitate standardised implementation using a Single European Payment Area (SEPA)
Frankfurt, 4 April 2006 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company was selected to operate the acquiring platform for the new online payment standard "iDEAL" on behalf of the major banks ING Bank N.V., Rabobank Nederland and Fortis Bank in the Netherlands. The new payment standard was introduced in October 2005 in order to offer buyers and retailers on the Internet, greater security with regard to online payments. Today over 10 % of all e-commerce transactions in the Netherlands are already done via "iDEAL".
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Atos Origin is presenting a new processing solution for the German health card at CeBIT 2006
Frankfurt/Main, March 7th 2006: Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, will once again be exhibiting new solutions and concepts at CeBIT 2006 in Hanover. From 9th to 15th of March, the company is presenting payment transaction solutions and its “Worldline eGK KAMS”, a card management system for processing the electronic health card. The solution was introduced for the first time in January of this year as the highlight of the OMNICARD exhibition in Berlin, and will be presented at CeBIT 2006 at the partner booth of Sun Microsystems in Hall 9 (booth E40).
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Seventh Card Forum discusses new trends and other card-related topics
Frankfurt/Main, 10 February 2006: The card business continues to be exciting. Whether at the point of sale or over the Internet, credit cards are increasingly being used instead of cash or bank transfers. If this trend continues then several questions will have to be answered to the satisfaction of everyone involved in payment processing. These questions concern disputed aspects such as payment and data security as well as unifying payment methods across Europe.
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SFR selects Atos Origin to launch its new SFR TV-Video service
Paris, 1 February 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been chosen by SFR to assist in the launch of its SFR TV Video service: the mobile “zapper”. Atos Worldline has developed and hosts the technology platform for this innovative service which offers customers immediate and smooth access to TV channels and video programs from their 3G mobile phones. By providing this service, SFR is the first French operator to make TV and video access available to its customers on their mobile phones.
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Seventh Card Forum held by Atos Origin and B+S Card Service
Frankfurt, 30 January 2006 - On 9 February 2006, Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Compagy, and B+S Card Service will hold the "Seventh Card Forum" at the Congress Centre Exhibition Hall in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Various issues and concepts such as the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), secure internet payments and the use of new online payment processes will be discussed. Other talks will focus on the design of EMV, the MasterCard/VISA chip technology, and the further systematic development of the security standard PCI (Payment Card Industry).
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Atos Origin is porting the market-leading POS network node system to Hewlett Packard’s Integrity NonStop Server
Frankfurt, 17 January 2006 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announces that it has successfully adapted the current version of its market-leading POS network node system for cashless payments in Germany, Poseidon OLTP (Release 3.9), for the new Integrity NonStop Server hardware from its technology partner Hewlett Packard (HP). The main benefits for users of the new solution are improved response time and reliable system performance. Kölner Bank-Verlag, first customer to integrate the new system into its existing IT environment, has been running it in its production environment since the beginning of January 2006.
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Atos Origin presents its settlement solution for health cards at OMNICARD 2006
Frankfurt, 17 January 2006 -At the 2006 Omnicard (18–20 January 2006) in Berlin, Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will showcase for the first time its electronic health cards solution for the settlement of health cards. Besides the application of payment-flow issues such as PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security), the company will present the common security standard used by credit card companies for the uniform application of rules for safer data storage, as well as the new versions of Worldline Pay Front Office (Front Office Release 3.1) and Back Office (Back Office Release 3.19).
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