In July 2006, Voca implemented Europe's most advanced payment platform, capable of handling the entire European automated payment volume in under four hours. Voca also demonstrated the platform's SEPA Clearing and Settlement capability at SIBOS in Sydney some three months later and is now developing additional services to offer Format Conversion facilities, Routing, Corporate Access and Exception Management capabilities for all "R" messages. This new service will enable Voca's SEPA customers to leverage the scale economies of Voca's existing transaction volumes; in excess of 5.5 billion transactions per annum.
The signing of an agreement with EBA CLEARING is amongst the most important elements of Voca's SEPA strategy as it can now guarantee the delivery of SEPA transactions throughout the 31 SEPA countries, through the use of EBA CLEARING's well established STEP2 platform.
The agreement addresses key strategic objectives of both organisations and marks a significant step towards the delivery of the SEPA vision. For EBA CLEARING, this
agreement will further extend its reach and enable wider participation in its services whilst Voca benefits from guaranteed pan-European reach.
Commenting on the agreement, Martin Wilson, Chief Commercial Officer, Voca said "We are delighted to have reached this agreement and we look forward to a partnership which will deliver genuine value for banks and their customers. It is very important for Voca and EBA CLEARING to be able to guarantee the widest possible reach for their customers. The development of connectivity between Voca and EBA CLEARING is now a top priority to ensure that everything will be in place well in advance of 1 January 2008."
For the EBA CLEARING, Gilbert Lichter remarked "it is clear that the realisation of SEPA will be enabled by key players in the market like Voca and EBA working together to provide best value services and the widest reach possible."
The signing of an agreement with EBA CLEARING is amongst the most important elements of Voca's SEPA strategy as it can now guarantee the delivery of SEPA transactions throughout the 31 SEPA countries, through the use of EBA CLEARING's well established STEP2 platform.
The agreement addresses key strategic objectives of both organisations and marks a significant step towards the delivery of the SEPA vision. For EBA CLEARING, this
agreement will further extend its reach and enable wider participation in its services whilst Voca benefits from guaranteed pan-European reach.
Commenting on the agreement, Martin Wilson, Chief Commercial Officer, Voca said "We are delighted to have reached this agreement and we look forward to a partnership which will deliver genuine value for banks and their customers. It is very important for Voca and EBA CLEARING to be able to guarantee the widest possible reach for their customers. The development of connectivity between Voca and EBA CLEARING is now a top priority to ensure that everything will be in place well in advance of 1 January 2008."
For the EBA CLEARING, Gilbert Lichter remarked "it is clear that the realisation of SEPA will be enabled by key players in the market like Voca and EBA working together to provide best value services and the widest reach possible."
About Voca
Voca is the provider of payment services to banks and corporates. Responsible for the technology behind the UK's automated payments, Voca has processed 60 billion
transactions in the last 39 years. Voca is committed to and is actively supporting the introduction of Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Its payment solutions are already well developed to meet the demands of this pan-European programme.
• Voca processes more than 90% of UK salaries, 70% of household bills and the majority of state benefits.
• Voca is recognised as the largest processor of direct debits and credit transfers in Europe, processing 15% of all European bank-to-bank payments.
• During 2006 more than 5.4 billion financial transactions were securely processed, reaching a peak of 80 million transactions on a single day in September 2006.
• More than 100,000 businesses connect to the Voca network, including all of the FTSE 100.
• Voca has four highly innovative payment services – OneVu (online billing), Digital Payments (mobile payments), Immediate Payments (faster payments) and Payport
(international remittances).
• Voca and LINK have announced an intention to merge to create VocaLINK. The company will be one of the leading payments processors in Europe with a forecast
volume of over 8 billion transactions this year. VocaLINK will be able to offer a broad range of SEPA-ready services for both cash machines and automated
payments.
Source : www.voca.com
Voca is the provider of payment services to banks and corporates. Responsible for the technology behind the UK's automated payments, Voca has processed 60 billion
transactions in the last 39 years. Voca is committed to and is actively supporting the introduction of Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Its payment solutions are already well developed to meet the demands of this pan-European programme.
• Voca processes more than 90% of UK salaries, 70% of household bills and the majority of state benefits.
• Voca is recognised as the largest processor of direct debits and credit transfers in Europe, processing 15% of all European bank-to-bank payments.
• During 2006 more than 5.4 billion financial transactions were securely processed, reaching a peak of 80 million transactions on a single day in September 2006.
• More than 100,000 businesses connect to the Voca network, including all of the FTSE 100.
• Voca has four highly innovative payment services – OneVu (online billing), Digital Payments (mobile payments), Immediate Payments (faster payments) and Payport
(international remittances).
• Voca and LINK have announced an intention to merge to create VocaLINK. The company will be one of the leading payments processors in Europe with a forecast
volume of over 8 billion transactions this year. VocaLINK will be able to offer a broad range of SEPA-ready services for both cash machines and automated
payments.
Source : www.voca.com
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