LONDON - Global Payments Europe, provider of processing services to the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced an expected increase in its usage of Level Four Software's ATM Developer solution to strengthen its ATM estate and reach out to new territories.
According to a news release, Global, which already provides cashless-payment services to corporate clients in the Czech Republic, expects to extend its ATM-processing services to Slovakia and Poland. A study commissioned by ACI Worldwide and Financial Insights in 2006 found that Eastern Europe is expected to experience electronic-payment growth rates of 21.6 percent over the next five years. Global says that growth will have an impact on the ATM channel, and it wants to be ahead of the curve. With a network of approximately 1,800 ATMs, ATM Developer has helped Global offer configurations regionally. It now hopes to offer those configurations on an international scale.
Global deployed ATM Developer in 2004. "The ability to react quickly to customer demands and to provide leading-edge business solutions is a key competitive differentiator for banks and processors," said Ian Kerr, Level Four's chief executive. "ATM Developer provides robust end-to-end transaction configuration and testing." ATM Developer provides configuration file management for NDC- and 912-based ATM networks. The solution provides a graphical user interface to manage ATM configuration files, for both screen content and logical transaction flow. It helps ATM deployers respond to changing business and customer needs. Time to market for new ATM content is reduced and the user is shielded from the complexities of ATM protocols, Level Four says.
