Press releases
27-09-2007
Equens and ICBPI Group join forces
Milan - Utrecht, 27 September 2007 - Equens and Seceti – a wholly owned subsidiary of the ICBPI Group in Italy – intend to establish a joint new company under Equens' current holding structure: Equen
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14-09-2007
Equens Nederland contracts Eurofiber
Equens Nederland B.V. has contracted Eurofiber for the construction of a reliable and secure glass fibre network. The network will be used for online data communications between Equens data centres i
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14-09-2007
New: Prepaid Pluscard
Following a successful pilot conducted with the Dutch BNG bank for over a year, Equens will expand its Prepaid Services in November 2007 with the new Prepaid Pluscard. Prepaid Pluscards bring several
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14-09-2007
Release of Interoperability Framework 3.0
On Friday, 31 August, EACHA, the European Automated Clearing House Association, authorised version 3.0 of the EACHA Taskforce Report, 'Technical Interoperability Framework for SEPA-compliant Giro Pay
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10-08-2007
Annual eBIF conference 15 & 16 November 2007
The CEN/ISSS e-Business Interoperability Forum will hold its third annual conference under the title: "Accelerating process improvement and innovation via eBusiness standards” on 15 & 16 November 200
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28-08-2007
Large pilot for mobile payments started
After the earlier announcement the large pilot for mobile payments has started yesterday, the 27th of August in Rotterdam. The pilot is the result of the co-operation of Payter, Intersolve and Equens
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02-08-2007
Equens involved in large pilot for mobile payments
News travels fast. Today several Dutch media announced the start of a large pilot for mobile payments. The pilot will start in a few weeks in Rotterdam and is an initiative of Payter. Payter is an in
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13-06-2007
Dutch banks introduce new system for urgent payments succesfully
Milestone and first step for the use of European infrastructures This weekend the Dutch banks have successfully introduced new infrastructures for urgent payments. With this introduction an important
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06-06-2007
Equens will join SWIFT SEPA Testing
Brussels - SWIFT announced today that six Automatic Clearing Houses (ACHs) - processing the majority of retail payments in Europe - will test compliance with SEPA standards using the SWIFT Testing
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06-06-2007
EBALink extended to SEPA
Today Equens announced it will extend its EBALink service to SEPA. This means that through Equens, Dutch banks will be able to send and receive SEPA payments (Credit Transfer and Direct Debit) to and
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01-06-2007
Equens and Italian Seceti collaborate on SEPA
Milan/Utrecht, - Equens N.V. and Seceti S.p.A. - a hundred percent subsidiary of the ICBPI Group in Italy - agreed on collaborating to clear their SEPA 'cross community' payments via Equens and Secet
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16-05-2007
Equens expands business to Finland
At the 6th international EPCA Conference Michael Steinbach, Chairman of the Board of Directors announced the opening of Equens' first representative office in Helsinki, Finland. Equens signed a contr
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16-05-2007
Equens processes the first V PAY transaction
On Friday 4 May, Equens successfully processed the first online V PAY transaction in the Netherlands. V PAY is a functionality with which debit card transactions can be conducted in the Netherlands a
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09-05-2007
Single platform for pan-European payments’ data exchange
Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), recently announced that Equens has implemented the Sterling Multi-Enterprise Finance Gateway™ to consolidate its payments and data exchange thro
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02-05-2007
1st Equens Annual report published
We proudly present Equens' first Annual report 2006. We chose 'Pursuing mutual benefits' as theme for our Annual Report, reflecting our aim to make the most of a promising future, together with our c
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19-04-2007
Equens at EPCA
On 15-16 May 2007 the 6th international EPCA conference will take place in Frankfurt. The theme of this conference is 'Reshaping the European payment landscape: the realistic scenarios'. The conferen
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27-03-2007
Outsourcing mainframe services and office automation to Atos Origin
Equens has started two outsourcing projects in the Netherlands in which parts of the automation are outsourced to Atos Origin, an international IT services company. These outsourcing contracts have c
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06-03-2007
WorkSphere outsourcing partner for building maintenance and management
Equens aims to optimise the yield on systems and buildings by introducing effective operational management. On 1 February 2007, Equens officially appointed WorkSphere BV to carry out maintenance on a
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06-03-2007
The Netherlands and Germany connect payment systems
In mid-2006, Equens started a project to make a direct connection with Germany for the processing of bank card transactions of German cardholders in the Netherlands. As a result the authorisation, cl
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21-02-2007
SAS 70 Type II report proves ensured quality
On 15 January 2007 KPMG certified the Type II SAS 70 report for Equens Nederland. This report officially states that Equens Nederland complies with the described control measures with regard to relia
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19-02-2007
KPN outsourcing partner for Equens’ telephony
Recently Equens Nederland B.V. signed an agreement regarding the outsourcing of its telephony services to telecom operator KPN. This outsourcing agreement was concluded under the supervision of the c
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14-02-2007
eBIF and EIC signed Collaboration Agreement
The eBusiness Interoperability Forum (eBIF) and the Enterprise Interoperability Center (EIC) strive towards the same goals for the benefits of eBusiness in Europe. In particular these are to promote
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26-01-2007
ABN AMRO chooses Equens for SEPA cards payment services
On Friday 12 January ABN AMRO and Equens signed an agreement at ABN AMRO headquarters to provide SEPA debit card processing services to ABN AMRO for a period of five years with effect from 1 January
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09-01-2007
Michael Steinbach appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors
On 1 May 2007, Ben Haasdijk (1943) will step down as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Equens. His successor will be Michael Steinbach, currently Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Su
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20-12-2006
eBIF conference press release
The annual international eBIF conference was held on 11 and 12 December 2006. This event was organised by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) in collaboration with Equens, with the suppo
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12-12-2006
Establishment of Equens officially completed
Utrecht, 12 December - On 30 November 2006 the legal formalities between the Dutch company Interpay Nederland B.V. and Germany’s Transaktionsinstitut für Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen AG (Transakt
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28-11-2006
Advisory Report on Electronic Patient Record well received
The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has expressed its satisfaction with regard to Equens’ Advisory Report ‘ICT-BEVEILIGING in de zorg’ (ICT SECURITY in the healthcare sector). The report
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03-12-2007
Large number of St Nicholas payments processed
Last weekend the Netherlands made its St Nicholas* purchases en masse. Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all very busy. Saturday, 2 December was the busiest day, with a total of 7,008,675 online bank
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15-02-2006
Interpay and Transaktionsinstitut sign Memorandum of Understanding to establish merger
Intended partnership will create leading payment processor in Europe Frankfurt/ Utrecht - 15 February 2006. Interpay Nederland B.V., payment processor based in the Netherlands, and Transaktionsinstit
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