CCV uses highly flexible Authentic platform to improve quality of
payments services for 200,000 retail customers across ten European
countries
ARNHEM, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2015--
NCR
Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction
technologies, announced today that European payments provider CCV
is using Authentic, an intelligent payments platform from Alaric, an NCR
business. CCV plans to implement Authentic across Europe to support a
new state-of-the-art payments processing solution it has developed for
its customers, due to go live in December 2015. With the ability to
access two synchronized, active processing systems, the payments
platform aims to have zero down-time, thereby improving quality of
payments services for its 200,000 retail customers across many European
countries.
Authentic
software is a generalized payment platform that can be used as a
consumer payment services hub, payment gateway or device driving
application, in addition to conventional card-related switching and
authorization. Authentic was chosen by CCV as it provides a flexible
payments processing platform on which CCV staff can develop their
specific solution.
CCV is a payments provider that, with annual turnover of €130 million,
is active in many countries across Europe, including Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary and
France. CCV processes millions of payments daily for over 200,000
retailers across the region. This includes small and large businesses,
from international chains to independent stores, in markets that include
hotels, restaurants, public transport, parking and vending.
“E-commerce and m-commerce are growing rapidly throughout Europe as
consumer behaviour is changing. In addition, the current separation
between in-store and online shopping is disappearing as we evolve
towards an integrated physical and virtual brand experience,” said Enny
van de Velden, Group Managing Director at CCV. ”As these trends
converge, the consumer of today is heading for an omni-channel shopping
experience. To help enable this our retail customers require a zero
down-time payment solution. NCR’s Authentic platform proved the most
flexible development environment in which we could create this payment
solution.”
Authentic software is used by customers around the world, including some
of the world’s largest financial institutions, processors and a global
card scheme. It is proven to be highly scalable and robust, achieving in
excess of ten thousand transactions per second in performance tests.
“European retail businesses, both large and small, depend on reliable
payment services to support their omni-channel shopping strategies,"
said Maarten Bais, Director Financial Services, Northern Europe at NCR.
“CCV recognised that, to achieve this, a payment solution must
incorporate redundancy and have an active secondary system in case of
any problems. Authentic has enabled CCV to develop such a solution for
retail customers across Europe by providing a highly flexbile
development environment for the CCV team.”
Authentic is a high-performance EFT authorization and routing system,
which can handle transactions from all channels across the enterprise
from ATM and POS to ecommerce and mobile. Unlike other traditional
payments processing solutions, Authentic enables change. It has been
designed from the very first release to deliver unrivalled flexibility,
with message mapping, processing workflow and business logic - all user
configurable. Authentic software enables clients to have total strategic
control of their system, and to perform or maintain their own
customizations.
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is the global leader in consumer transaction
technologies, turning everyday interactions with businesses into
exceptional experiences. With its software, hardware, and portfolio of
services, NCR enables more than 550 million transactions daily across
retail, financial, travel, hospitality, telecom and technology, and
small business. NCR solutions run the everyday transactions that make
your life easier.
NCR is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia with over 30,000 employees and
does business in 180 countries. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in
the United States and other countries.
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NCR Europe Public Relations
Andy Phillips, +44 2077258248
andy.phillips@ncr.com