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2007 Business News:

Electronic transactions success. Christmas season scores match up to the expectations.
Brussels, 25 December, 2007 - This year, the electronic transactions, all card payments and withdrawals taken into account, were spread over the three days before Christmas Day. Atos Worldline, the company who manages the Banksys terminals, handled on those three days nearly ten million electronic transactions.
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Venda selects Atos Origin Payment solutions to support aggressive expansion plans across Europe
London, 29 November 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company and major European player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions, is providing its Secure Internet Payment Service to Venda Limited, the European market leader for eCommerce solutions. The Atos Worldline solution is critical to Venda's pan European expansion plans providing direct links to all major European acquiring banks.
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Atos Origin Wins 2007 Sesames Award For Innovative Secure IPTV Payment Solution
Paris, 16 November 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has won the 2007 Sesames Award for Best Banking/Finance/Retail Application for its innovative SIPS IPTV solution. The award recognizes Atos Worldline's success in adapting its market-leading Secure Internet Payment Services (SIPS) solution to enable users to make secure bankcard payments via Internet-protocol television (IPTV).
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Atos Origin to Provide Technical Services For New Prepaid Card from French Bank LCL
Paris/Cartes 2007 Exhibition, 13 November 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has won a contract from LCL to design, deploy and operate a platform for the end-to-end management of the French bank's new "Indépendance" reloadable prepaid debit card targeting the 12-18 youth market.
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Atos Origin showcases its latest innovations at Cartes 2007 Exhibition in Paris
Paris, 8 November 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will participate at this year's international Cartes 2007 event, the World N°1 Exhibition for smart cards and identification, which will take place from 13 to 15 November 2007, at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center. Atos Worldline will showcase the latest innovations of its European solutions in new card applications, Internet Payment, terminal and security solutions, Contactless and payment platform.
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Atos Origin : Security standard ISO27001 certification earned by Atos Worldline for its Banking & Finance Central Europe operations
Frankfurt/Main, 5 November 2007 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has earned ISO27001 certification for its Banking & Finance Central Europe Business Unit, and computer centres, after an eighteen months process. Atos Worldline is one of the few German companies to be certified in accordance with the international security standard, which applies not only to computer centres but also to all of the company's business units.
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POWEO Chooses Atos Origin For Multichannel Customer Relationship Management Project
Paris, 25 October 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been selected by French independent power and gas operator POWEO to deploy its multichannel customer relationship management project. To support its residential services offering, POWEO asked Atos Worldline to develop multichannel CRM tools for both inbound and outbound customer contacts via phone, SMS, fax, mail and email. These solutions allow POWEO to add value to its customer relationships by providing accurate information, innovative solutions and superior service quality.
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Caisse d'Epargne Group selects Atos Origin to run its new electronic vault solution « Webcoffre »
Paris, October 15th, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, hosts and runs the « Webcoffre » virtual vault solution on behalf of Caisse d'Epargne Group. The solution includes certification, time and date stamping processes and ensures long-term secure archiving of electronic documents for Caisse d'Epargne customers.
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Atos Origin Wins 2007 Innovation Award for m-Payment Solution
Paris, October 9th, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has won the 2007 Innovation Award in the "New Uses" category for its mobile payment solution. The awards were organized, for the third year, by Orange Business Services and Syntec Informatique in partnership with French business daily La Tribune. The prize-winning solution enables secure bankcard payments from a mobile phone.
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Atos Worldline Technical Operations in France Earn AFAQ AFNOR ISO 9001:2000 Certification for Seventh Consecutive Year
Paris - October 1st, 2007 -For the seventh year running, the Technical Department of Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has earned AFAQ AFNOR ISO 9001:2000 certification for all of its technical operations in France, thereby demonstrating its ability to guarantee continuously improved service quality for its customers.
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Publicis Net Chooses Atos Origin to Host a New Events Website
Paris - September 20, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company has been selected by Publicis Net, Groupe Publicis' interactive agency, to host an events platform. By choosing Atos Worldline to host the new interactive site, Publicis Net will leverage a platform that is specifically configured for high-traffic event sites.
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Monoprix to Sell Mobile Phone Top-Ups at Cash Registers for France's Leading Mobile Phone Operators Using Atos Origin's e-Voucher Solution
Paris - September 12, 2007 -Atos Worldline, a subsidiary of Atos Origin, has been chosen by the Monoprix retail chain to sell mobile phone top-ups in all of its nearly 300 stores across France. Used to transmit passwords to prepaid services, Atos Worldline's e-voucher solution enables retailers to print a voucher from an electronic payment terminal, cash register or computer-linked printer that customers can then use to top up their mobile phone account or access a similar prepaid service.
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Atos Origin launches pre-pay roaming top up and international pre-pay top up transfer solution
Paris, London, 8 August 2007 -Pre-pay roaming top ups and international pre-pay top up transfers are now a reality, thanks to Global Recharge - Remittance Solution, a new offering from Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company and major European player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions.
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XENTEO® Launched in France - Certification and commercial introduction of the new Banksys unattended payment terminals in France
Brussels, 17 July 2007 - Atos Worldline, Atos Origin company, announced the launch today of the XENTEO®, the latest of its Banksys line of unattended payment terminals. Featuring excellent security and robustness, this terminal replaces the C-ZAM/SPIN, currently implemented in numerous applications in France as well as other many other countries.
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The electronic health card is taking an online hurdle
Aachen/Hamburg, 9 July 2007. It is something you cannot see, feel or touch, but the electronic health card would be nothing without what is known as the "master insurance data service". Today in Aachen, the die was cast: a system that will in future make all changes to the data of those insured possible online, the heart of tomorrow's electronic world of healthcare. The Federal health minister, Ulla Schmidt, personally made sure on the spot today that the online updating of the cards at the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) was already working under laboratory conditions. "I am pleased that the essential foundations have laid here in Aachen for the next step in an networked healthcare system," she stated, "and I would like to see it tried out soon in the test regions under live conditions.
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Future of mobile payment hinges on bank and mobile operator collaboration, claims Atos Origin
Paris / London, 6 July 2007 -Banks and mobile operators must collaborate to secure the long-term future of mobile payment, according to a new whitepaper from Atos Origin. The report, entitled Breakthroughs in the European Mobile Payments Market, asserts that only through co-operation and joint initiatives will banks and mobile operators be able to offer consumers a compelling, secure and easy-to-use solution. The paper argues that stakeholders will also be able to offset the significant product development and marketing costs by pooling resources.
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Atos Origin adds PayPal to its Secure Internet Processing Services (SIPS) platform
Paris, July 5, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has included PayPal in its Secure Internet Processing Services (SIPS*) platform. With this partnership, Europe's leading online payment processor gives SIPS-equipped commercial sites the ability to offer PayPal in their payment options. There are some 35 million PayPal account members in Europe.
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Go North East announces UK's first mobile ticketing service for buses with Atos Origin
System is first implementation of new white-label mobile payment service from Atos Worldline London, 4 July 2007 -Go North East, the region's leading bus operator, has named Atos Origin, an international IT services company, its preferred supplier to manage a new mobile ticketing service that is set to make paper ticketing a thing of the past. The new service, which is expected to be launched in the autumn, will allow passengers to securely purchase bus tickets using their mobile phone.
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GE Money Bank Selects Atos Origin as its Visa Card Processor
Frankfurt am Main - June 28, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, has been processing GE Money Bank's Visa cards in Germany using its proprietary SEMPRIS®core management system since early 2007. GE Money Bank chose Atos Worldline for its range of products aligned with current market needs and its ability to deliver a broad array of highly complex, synergistic services in a record turnaround time of less than three months.
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Atos Origin showcases new solution for cross-border mobile payments
Simplifying charging phone credits and transferring money across borders
Frankfurt/Main, 26.06.2007 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, today launches Global Recharge - Remittance Solution (GRS), providing a simpler way to charge up phone credits and transfer money across borders. The new solution will be demonstrated for the first time at the banking conference "M-Payment and M-Banking, The Rise of Mobile Payments", taking place in Atlantic City in the USA on 27 and 28 June. It will also be shown at the "Prepaid Mobile Asia” and “Mobile Roaming Asia” conferences on 26 July in Singapore.
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Oxygen-Finance choose Atos Origin Private Label Services
Enabling organisations to more effectively manage expenditure
London, 21 June, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is providing its Private Label services to Oxygen-Finance, a private held company that helps clients manage and control procurement activity. The Atos Worldline solution is critical to Oxygen-Finance's innovative solution that enables organisations to track procurement spend as revenue rather than cost. This in turn enables them to more effectively manage expenditure and so increase contract compliance with preferred suppliers.
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Lyonnaise des Eaux Chooses Atos Origin to Manage Multichannel Automated Call Center for Outbound Customer Calls
Paris, June 18, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company has won a contract to upgrade, manage and operate the automated call system of Lyonnaise des Eaux, a unit of the Suez Group. Previously used to generate outbound calls to alert customers in the event of a public health crisis, the system's capabilities will now be extended to communications campaigns targeting both consumer and business customers. Selecting Atos Worldline to deploy and develop the new solution will allow Lyonnaise des Eaux to broaden its range of services by offering customers fast, reliable, useful information 24/7.
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Artilium and Atos Origin launch new future-proof and modular hosted services for MVNO market players
Platform enables real-time control of subscriber creation, fraud detection, crediting, rating, revenue control and SIM cards, branding, marketing and customer care operations
11 June 2007 - Artilium, a provider of Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) for telecom companies, and Atos Origin, an international IT services company, today announced the global launch of a new solution for the telco market, a hosted MVNO/MVNE (MVNx) service delivery platform. Atos Origin is utilising the technology of Artilium to offer Mobile Virtual Network Operators and Mobile Virtual Network Enablers (MVNO and MVNE) a 'future-proof' step-in platform for hosted telecom services. Atos Origin will be present at the MVNO World Congress taking place in Berlin from 12 - 14 June 2007.
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TechnOlympiades 2007
Atos Origin associe défis technologiques et esprit sportif pour une journée de recrutement nédite en région Nord-Pas de Calais
Seclin, le 07 juin 2007 -Atos Origin organise le 9 juin les premières TechnOlympiades 2007 dans ses locaux de Seclin (Nord). De 13h30 à 21h, cette journée de découverte organisée autour du concept des Olympiades vise à faire découvrir aux candidats - jeunes diplômés et profils juniors - l'expertise, la culture et l'environnement de travail d'Atos Origin. Une rencontre recrutement 100% innovante animée par les collaborateurs du groupe et qui associe défis technologiques et esprit sportif.
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Banksys and BCC become Atos Worldline
Consolidated position for the European leader in payment services Paris/Bruxelles, As of 1 June 2007 - Banksys and BCC will operate under one single name: Atos Worldline.
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Atos Origin Optimizes Call Center for French Police Mutual Insurance Association
Paris - May 24th, 2007 -Atos Origin subsidiary Atos Worldline has been awarded a contract by Mutuelle Générale de la Police (MGP, the French Police Mutual Insurance Association) covering IT maintenance on the call center platform that serves MGP members and representatives. The service now has a single call number with an interactive voice response system and telephone applications designed to improve call qualification, distribution to agents and processing. Atos Worldline's solution is based on the Worldline Smart Contact virtual call center management application.
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EPCA 2007: Atos Origin to present innovative acquiring solutions and scenarios for online banking-based electronic payment processes in the SEPA age
Frankfurt/Main, 15 May 2007 -As a sponsor of the EPCA (European Payments Consulting Association) Conference 2007, Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, will be setting up an Information Stand at the Hotel Intercontinental in Frankfurt on 15 and 16 May, where the company will present its new payment transaction solutions and visions for implementation of SEPA and the era beyond.
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More revenue-generating opportunities for banks with the new Atos Origin card debit concept
Frankfurt/Main, 7 May 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, announces that it has developed processing facilities for various new card products, through the combination of "debit acceptance at the point of sale" and "credit functionality for the cardholder". Card-issuing institutions can take customers' needs into account on an individual basis and expand their business scope and revenue-generating opportunities.
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Banksys launches the PCI PED-certified XENTEO® Unattended Payment Solution At Kiosk Europe Expo, Stand 2B.17
Brussels, 3 May 2007 -XENTEO, the newest unattended payment terminal from Banksys, introduces a user-centred design that promotes self-payment to the cardholder through its backlit display and ergonomic keypad. Virtually any application can run on the terminal, in any type of self-service environment: vending machine or kiosk, petrol stations, dispensers, self-check-out, or unattended countertop. The terminal will yield maximum added value in sectors of high-value payments, where a PIN is required.
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Atos Origin renews Premier Travel Inn contract agreement
Business - to - Business Account Card Services provided by Atos Worldline
London, 30 April 2007 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announced that it's contract agreement with Premier Travel Inn (in the name of Whitbread PLC) has been renewed for a further five years. The scope of the new agreement includes Premier Travel Inn's Key Premier Accounts which Atos Worldline will account manage in relation to the production and delivery of all services.
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Atos Origin Showcases Latest Multichannel CRM Innovations at SECA 2007
SECA European Help Desk Exhibition, April 3-5, 2007 Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles - Hall 4 - Booth E40/F39
Paris - April 2nd, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is partnering the 11th SECA European Help Desk Exhibition at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, from April 3-5, 2007. The event offers an opportunity for Atos Worldline to showcase its latest innovations, including interactive video for contact centers, email contact management, mobile Internet services and a "mid-sourcing" approach to interactive voice response. Atos Worldline client Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse des Travailleurs Salariés (CNAV TS) will take part in the SECA seminar on the benefits of new technologies for customer relationship management processes.
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Banksys, BASE, Mobistar and Proximus launch payments by GSM
Brussels, 20 March 200 -Banksys, BASE, Mobistar and Proximus launch secure payments by GSM. This service is accessible to anyone having a Bancontact/Mister Cash bank card and a GSM operating on one of the three Belgian mobile telephone networks.
This is a new step forward in the development of GSM technology: GSM users can carry out secure financial transactions as if they were using their bank cards! Because in today's world the GSM has become a powerful tool, offering a host of facilities, Banksys, BASE, Mobistar and Proximus have decided to make life easier for those who move with the times. GSM payments are easy, quick and, above all, risk-free.
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Atos Origin supports France's Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse des Travailleurs Salariés to optimize its call service
Paris, March 19th, 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, has been selected by the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Vieillesse des Travailleurs Salariés (CNAV TS) to implement and manage its call services and thus improve the quality of its services to insured people and companies. The solution implemented by Atos Worldline is based on the introduction of virtual technologies for regional call services, and interactive voice services supported by a Voice XML platform with a mid-sourcing approach.
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Distribution de recharges téléphoniques dématérialisées : Atos Origin présente les évolutions de sa solution e-voucher+ sur le salon Expopresse
Paris, le 16 mars 2007 - Atos Worldline, filiale du Groupe Atos Origin, sera présente à Expopresse les 17 et 18 mars 2007 au CNIT-Paris La Défense, et présentera les dernières évolutions de sa solution de distribution de codes de rechargement de services prépayés sur TPE : e-voucher+. Expopresse réunit les acteurs de la filière Presse en France et accueillera plus de 180 exposants et 10 000 visiteurs. Atos Worldline proposera aux librairies et points presse de découvrir les nouveautés et les avantages de la vente de recharges de téléphonie mobile, via sa solution e-voucher+.
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Multi-channel customer relationship management: Atos Origin presents its mid-sourcing voice solutions at Vocal Expo 2007
Paris, 13 March 2007 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, is a partner of Vocal Expo 2007, the leading voice technologies exhibition, held at the CNIT-Paris La Défense on 13 March 2007. The group will be presenting its range of voice services that integrate Voice XML and SIP industry standards, and in particular the mid-sourcing voice service, natural language voice recognition and the voice video service. Atos Worldline will also participate at two round tables and a conference on the subjects of customer relations and voice applications.
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CeBIT 2007: Atos Origin presents new processing solutions for the health card and electronic invoicing
Frankfurt/Main, March 7th 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, will once again participate at this year's CeBIT in Hanover from 15 to 21 March 2007. Present on Bitkom Partner's booth (Hall 9, Booth C52), Atos Worldline will showcase new solutions and concepts, including its upgraded card management system for processing the electronic health card, in association with the integrated security solution in the telematics infrastructure, along with the use of signature cards in its electronic invoicing offering "Worldline eInvoice".
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Atos Origin manages InterContinental Hotel Group’s new payment card scheme
London, 1 March 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, announces the signing of a five year contract with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to develop, operate and manage its new business-to-business payment card for use by IHG hotels in the United Kingdom.
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Atos Origin acquires UNI-MEDECINE
Paris, 14 February 2007 - Atos Origin, an international IT services company, announced the acquisition of UNI-MEDECINE Group, through its Atos Worldline subsidiary. UNI-MEDECINE is the French leader of internet applications dedicated to the transfer and exchange of health data, ...
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Atos Origin and B+S Card Service extend their Service Agreement
Frankfurt/Main, 7 February 2007 - Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin company, and B+S Card Service (B+S), an associated company of Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, announced today the extension of their long-term partnership in the card business until 2009.
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Atos Origin prepaid solution offers customers significant long-term profits
Frankfurt/Main, 31 January 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, presents its dual strategy for the development of processing solutions for prepaid cards: offering the settlement of prepaid cards for private customers, for example gift cards, in addition with solution models for prepaid card transactions in the business-to-business sector. Its new solution "Prepaid Recharge System" enables companies from various branches such as banks, to configure the internal transaction processes more simply and cost-effectively, to gain customers' loyalty through service innovations, to reduce payment risks and generate profit.
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Banksys showcases its SSL-enabled payment terminals for secure transactions sent over the Internet at EuroCIS 2007
Brussels, Belgium, 31 January 2007 - Banksys, an Atos Worldline company dedicated to electronic payment services, will showcase its SSL-enabled XENTA countertop payment terminals at its stand 1C04 at EuroCIS in Düsseldorf, from 27 February to 1st March 2007. The solution offers security, fast transaction speeds and a low communication cost. Pilots of the SSL-enabled terminals have been deployed in Germany since July 2006.
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Eptica et Atos Worldline awarded by the "Observatoire de la Relation Grandes Entreprises-PME Innovantes" for their successful partnership.
Paris, 25 January 2007 - Eptica et Atos Worldline ont été désignés lauréats de l’Observatoire de la Relation Grandes Entreprises-PME Innovantes, organisé par l’IE-Club pour récompenser l’exemplarité de leur relation et la création de valeur autour de ce partenariat. Ce prix vient saluer trois années d’étroite collaboration et de succès mutuel pour les deux partenaires.
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Atos Origin and Landesbank Berlin extend their processing agreement
Frankfurt am Main, 23 January 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, today announces the extension of its contract with Landesbank Berlin AG (LBB), to process, for a further five years, the German bank's entire card portfolio, using Atos Worldline's own card-management system SEMPRIS®core. The portfolio covers 1.7 million active credit - and private label cards, including co-branding cards, plus products and extra functionality newly-developed with Atos Worldline. In extending the contract, both partners are continuing their almost 20-year business relationship to carry out innovative joint projects in the future.

Atos Origin is presenting an application for electronic signature with Worldline Invoice
Frankfurt/Main, 16 January 2007 -Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company will be present at OMNICARD (17 - 19 January 2007) in Berlin and will showcase the use of electronic signature with its electronic invoicing offer Worldline Invoice. This solution, developed by Atos Worldline, enables electronic invoicing between buyers and sellers over a common Internet portal. The paperless exchange of invoices enables savings of around 50%, and optimises the entire invoicing process chain. Thanks to the additional use of an electronic signature, there is no longer any need for a handwritten signature. With digital signatures via chip cards, not only the authenticity of the invoice creator, but also the integrity and completeness of the invoice's contents are guaranteed in a legally binding manner.
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