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September 2004VeriFone Confidential1 A Success Story from Greece Panos Halkias Sales Director Printec Group p.halkias@printecgroup.com
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About Printec Group
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential3 Printec History & Evolution 1988: Establishment of Printec Greece 1992: Establishment of Printec Bulgaria 1995: Establishment of Printec Cyprus 1999: Acquisition of NCR’s business entities & operations in Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia and Romania; NCR distribution rights for the Balkans 2002: Establishment in Serbia, (Printec representative office) 2004: Establishment of Printec Bosnia and Printec Serbia. 2005: Establishment of Printec Albania
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential4 Market Footprint Printec Branches Printec Partners
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential5 Group Human Resources 340 Employees – January 2006
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential6 Group Financial Data (in million Euro) Annual Turnover 1997-2005
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential7 Group Products & Solutions Transaction Automation E-payment Systems Branch Automation Banking Software Card Applications Integrated IT Solutions Secure Document Printing Solutions
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential8 Transaction Automation – Partners Chip Vendor Program Member Chip Consultancy Update Program Member
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential9 A long history with Verifone Printec has been one of the first VFI partners in the region, more than 15 years relationship Have been through good times (Tranz 460) and bad times (HP) together After 2000, we expanded cooperation to all Balkan markets and built a strong market share together
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential10 Verifone & Printec Today, together, we are the undisputed market leader in our region, increasing our market share every year, although Eastern Europe is a key emerging market where everyone focuses Indicative data: 65%+ market share in Greece (120.000+ terminals) 85%+ market share in Bulgaria (20.000+ terminals ) 90%+ market share in Cyprus (15.000+ terminals) 50%+ market share in Romania (20.000 + terminals) Several successful launches of new products: 3750 Vx510 Vx610 etc
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go Latest success story: National Bank of Greece “ go National” project
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential12 The customer National Bank of Greece is the largest bank in Greece Network of 750 branches Leading bank in card issuing and card acquiring Strong presence in Eastern Europe countries Recently announced the acquisition of Finansbank in Turkey, for a reported 4.5 bill. Euro amount Good Printec customer for many years, however the bank has traditionally been on a dual vendor policy regarding POS terminals (Verifone and Axalto)
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential13 The environment Greek acquiring and issuing markets are mature. Issuing keeps growing, acquiring is relatively stable in number of locations Multiple terminals and acquiring banks per merchant Merchant fee wars Cardholder fee wars Subscription-free cards 6 month 0% interest for balance transfers card to card Decrease in revenue per cardholder and per merchant, leading banks to attempt portfolio expansion by acquiring riskier segments of the market Uniformity of card products offered to the market among banks
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential14 The requirement NBG wanted to strongly differentiate their offering to merchants and cardholders, by: Making payment experience more rewarding for the cardholder Providing a benefit for the cardholder to use NBG cards instead of other banks’ cards Create alliances with key merchants based on card products NBG needed a global, reliable, tested multi merchant loyalty platform, combining: Capability to be deployed on multiple terminal types Capability to be deployed on multiple smart card types Approval and acceptance from VISA and MC Launch of the new platform would be combined with EMV migration (issuing and acquiring) and new card brand creation Due to competitive pressure, NBG was looking for the quickest possible overall implementation time
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential15 go The “ go National” project After reviewing several solutions in the marketplace, NBG decided to use the Welcome RT XLS loyalty platform Project assigned to Printec as WRT distributor for the region, in July 2005 WRT XLS was only part of the overall project, which included: EMV migration of NBG terminals, including testing with Int’l organizations EMV issuing, including purchase of the cards and creation of an entire new card range and brand Selective re-terminalization, including purchase of new terminals XLS deployment Dec. 15 2005!! Kick off August 2005, targeted launch date Dec. 15 2005!!
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential16 go The “ go National” project Printec has provided to NBG: The Welcome RT XLS platform Vx510 terminals, application development on Vx510, including latest EMV application and XLS loyalty applet, as well as tailor made customizations GemShare cards from GemPlus Installation and project management services Consulting services on: Card design and perso preparation Loyalty system launch and promotional strategy Merchant sales & placement strategy Back office design and operation
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential17 go The “ go National” project The project was finished on-time. 4 months deployment for all components of the project. Fastest WRT XLS deployment ever Already 250.000 new cards in the market with the “go” brand 134 merchant chains already enrolled in the program
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential18 What made the difference? A. Printec Several teams working 24/7 for weeks Extreme SW capabilities Field services for placement, training and support Project management Gained the trust of the top management by providing reliable input in their strategy design
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential19 What made the difference? B. Verifone Verix and Vx environment capabilities, and especially VMAC, allowed for quick integration of the loyalty applet and the EMV payment application Screen capabilities and ATM keys made merchant training easier Vx coupled with Printec Terminal Management System allows extreme flexibility in remotely managing and updating the terminal and the merchant campaigns Axalto still has not finished integration of XLS on their terminals, meaning that at the moment NBG is only deploying VFI terminals!
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September 2004VeriFone Confidential20 go The “ go National” project – The Future Bank will continue deploying terminals, VFI being their preferred platform We will soon attach VFI skins to the terminals to increase brand awareness Planning to launch Mx870 as card synchronization station and cardholder info- point inside bank branches and major retailers Planning to start using other Vx terminals (610, 670) Other initiatives to follow: Deployment on ATMs Deployment of Bill Pay Machines etc
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