Press release

October 25, 2005

Banking Production Centre (BPC) is continuing to establish its SmartVista suite of software products as stable and reliable environment for the banks which deploy innovative Financial Kiosks and EMV enabled ATM infrastructure. The main idea of this business model is to supply the clients with unprecedented level of comfort and ubiquitous access to their personal banking services.

In the next release of the SmartVista # 2.2.86 with significantly enriched EMV ATM and Financial Kiosk functionality BPC engineers have introduced a series of updates specifically focused on full scale EMV transactions support, EMV parameters and keys downloading, EMV ATM scenarios downloading and processing.

The same time both EMV and magnetic stripe ATM functionality was substantially updated. Among new features are utility payment services enabled by Bar-code readers. This is yet another highly comfortable service the banks are eager to offer to the customers.

Also, card users have been enabled to execute on-line payments to GSM providers through enriched ATM bill payment interface available for chip and magnetic stripe card users. Cardholders also can now pay for and receive immediately from ATMs the broad variety of prepaid cards and PIN envelopes as well as various paper tickets.

The service was designed and tested on NCR and Wincor Nixdorf ATM platforms and received excellent welcome of retail banking product managers.