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Wincor Nixdorf is honored for innovative Mobile Money solution
The 20 innovative companies honoured this year by US magazine Banking Technology News in the 9th annual issue of “The Innovators” have one thing in common: they offer the kind of risk-taking, forward-thinking products and services required by the financial services industry to leave the financial crisis behind and bring the next level of value to customers. Wincor Nixdorf was one of the honored companies, joining a prestigious line-up that includes global leaders in the retail banking and financial services industry.
The new Mobile Money ATM solution powered by Wincor Nixdorf delivers an answer to two challenges facing banks: how to squeeze more functionality out of their ATMs; and how to enable transactions via mobile phones.
Together with Sicap, a leading provider of mobile software solutions and a subsidiary of Switzerland’s leading telecom provider Swisscom, Wincor Nixdorf now offers an ATM designed for a range of Mobile Money services, including deposits and withdrawals. Under the partnership, Wincor Nixdorf delivers the terminals together with the company’s server-based software application, and Sicap designs, customizes and implements the service to meet the individual requirements of mobile network operators worldwide.
The solution also has potential applications for banks. Instead of building out their own ATM networks to offer Mobile Money services, they can use their existing ATMs running the Wincor Nixdorf mobile payment solution PC/E Mobile Transaction Services.
For a cash remittance via an ATM, a sender simply enters the phone number of the recipient and a security PIN (personal identification number) on the terminal’s touch screen and inserts the amount into the machine. The recipient can withdraw cash from any participating ATM. Or a bank customer can send the payment instructions via mobile phone, allowing the recipient to pick up the cash at the terminal.
“Demand for these kinds of services will grow as people become more accustomed to using their mobile phones for payments,” said Nicole Sturgill, research director at TowerGroup.
“Mobile Money is a growth market and of particular interest to banks and mobile network operators at the same time,” said Stefan Auerbach, Executive Vice President Banking at Wincor Nixdorf. “Our innovative, cross-sector solution offers banks an opportunity to play an active role in this new market.”
Wincor Nixdorf commits itself to EPAS: simplifying integration through standards
Wincor Nixdorf is an active member of various standardization committees, in part to meet the goal of ensuring that cashless payment solutions can be integrated in POS software solutions more easily in the future. As a founding member of the non-profit Belgian standardization organization EPASOrg A.I.S.B.L., Wincor Nixdorf contributed significantly to the EPAS Retailer Protocol which – after four years of specification work – was published in February for public consultation on the organization’s official website. For six months now, Jürgen Manske, Solution Manager at Wincor Nixdorf, has been Chairman of the Board of the organization. The Electronic Protocols Application Software (EPAS) project is part of the SEPA activities that were launched to standardize cashless payment transactions in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
Sicap and Wincor Nixdorf unveil new ATM mobile money solutions
Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Sicap, the Swisscom owned mobile solutions pioneer, and Wincor Nixdorf, the leading Automated Teller Machine (ATM) manufacturer and IT solutions provider to the retail banking sector, unveiled ATMs specially designed for unprecedented mobile money services, including cash-in / cash-out transfer facilities. Jointly designed and developed by Sicap and Wincor Nixdorf to install in retail outlets or offsite prime locations, the machines are set to kick-start the usage of ATMs for mobile network operators and mark an important evolution in how mobile customers interact with their operator.
“Being first to market with an m-transaction ATM confirms our pioneering spirit, our server-side expertise and our ability to deliver user-friendly services in their regional context. We are proud to partner with Wincor Nixdorf as a reputed leader in ATM technologies to achieve this.” said Jürgen Samuel, Sicap CEO
Mr. Stefan Auerbach – Executive Vice President of Wincor Nixdorf Banking added that “mobile money solutions powered by Wincor Nixdorf financial services expertise will give operators a clear competitive advantage and customers a consistent and worthwhile service experience. With its expertise in the network operator market, Sicap is an ideal partner for Wincor Nixdorf to expand our successful multichannel software approach to the benefit of mobile carriers.” Read the rest of this entry »
Wincor Nixdorf: New technology automatically means better security and lower cash handling costs
New solution portfolio for cash cycle management
Cash continues to be the number one payment medium. “Nine of ten payment transactions worldwide are made with cash. Our estimates show that this creates more than 300 billion dollars in costs, primarily for banks and retail businesses,” explains Eckard Heidloff, President and CEO of Wincor Nixdorf, at the opening of Wincor World 2010. The number of euro banknotes alone is growing at the rate of nine percent yearly according to the European Central Bank. On the whole, cash handling in Europe costs approximately 50 billion euros every year. Thus Heidloff presented a solution portfolio as the kickoff to Wincor World that makes the most of the common ground in cash handling processes at retail companies and banks, and takes a completely new approach. The portfolio, which Wincor Nixdorf is marketing under the name “Cash Cycle Management Solutions”, enables manual processes to be automated, with the result that bank and store employees no longer come into contact with cash. The results: maximum security, the greatest possible transparency, better processes and cost reductions of more than twenty percent.
Heidloff emphasized that Wincor Nixdorf continues to be a reliable and stable solution partner to banks and retailers. To be sure, the Group’s sales fell by six percent and its EBITA by thirteen percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the new fiscal year 2009/2010. And Heidloff added that Wincor Nixdorf expected sales and operating income to be down somewhat for the fiscal year as a whole, but not by more than in the last fiscal year 2008/2009, when sales fell by three percent and income by thirteen percent. The company’s objective is to remain stable throughout the crisis, while preparing for when the economy recovers in strength. Read the rest of this entry »
First quarter ends with lower net sales and profit – Wincor Nixdorf sees no signs of market recovery yet – Outlook unchanged.
Wincor Nixdorf AG closed its first quarter of the current fiscal 2009/2010 with net sales and operating profit (EBITA) down 6% and 13% respectively on the same period in the preceding fiscal 2008/2009. Net sales for the Group, which specializes in IT solutions for the branch operations of banks and retailers, fell in the first three months to EUR607 million (previous year:
EUR646 million). EBITA was also lower at EUR49 million (EUR56 million). The EBITA margin fell accordingly to 8.1% (8.7%), while profit for the period declined 6% to EUR33 million (EUR35 million). Looking ahead at the rest of the fiscal year, President & CEO Eckard Heidloff pointed to the continued impact of the economic and financial crisis. “In the short term at least we expect the worldwide environment to remain challenging. Developments in the market and in our business are still difficult to predict,” he explained.
Against this background he sees the probability of fluctuations in business performance during the year and within regions. For fiscal 2009/2010 as a whole, Wincor Nixdorf anticipates a further decline in its net sales and operating profit, albeit no greater than that experienced in the last fiscal year (2008/2009: net sales – 3%, EBITA – 13%).
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Wincor World 2010: Cash Cycle Management Solutions in Focus
The topic of cash cycle management will be the focus of Wincor World 2010, which will take place in Paderborn from January 26 to 28. At this event, Wincor Nixdorf invites IT decision-makers from all over the world to join in the discussion on IT solutions that enable the optimization of branch and store processes at retail banks and retail companies. The company and many of its partners will present solutions for hardware, software, service and professional services across an area of some 10,000 square meters. As in years past, a prominent feature of the event is the targeted transfer of know-how through a program of presentations.
The circulation of cash – which continues to be the leading payment medium – is the source of extensive manual work and high processing costs in addition to posing security risks. For this reason, Wincor Nixdorf is placing solutions for cash management at the heart of this year’s Wincor World. With its innovative, significantly expanded Cash Cycle Management Solutions portfolio, Wincor Nixdorf is presenting itself as an end-to-end supplier for the design of intelligent cash processes. A number of solution scenarios demonstrate how the redesign and automation of cash processes through innovative technologies can significantly increase efficiency, transparency and security. As a result, savings of more than twenty percent in the costs of cash processing can be achieved. Wincor Nixdorf’s approach rests on streamlining cash management in retail stores and banks, but beyond that it intelligently connects cash processes across sectors. The company will therefore present not just concrete solutions for cash processes in bank branches and stores, but also concepts for cross-sector cash cycle management. Read the rest of this entry »
Wincor Nixdorf awarded contract to provide site systems hardware as part of Shell's Global Site Systems Program
Wincor Nixdorf awarded contract to provide site systems hardware as part of Shell’s Global Site Systems Program Wincor Nixdorf has extended its relationship with Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (Shell), an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
The IT solutions provider has been selected to equip Shell service stations internationally with a new hardware solution platform in a move to further standardize large sections of the global service station network.
“Shell is pleased to announce that Wincor Nixdorf has been awarded the
contract to provide site systems hardware such as point-of-sale (POS)
terminals and peripherals as part of Shell’s Global Site Systems Program,” said David Moss, General Manager Global Site Systems, from Shell. The program will be rolled out over the next five years and benefit a significant proportion of Shell’s retail operations. The contract was awarded following a rigorous nine-month selection process. As a key partner to the Global Site Systems Program, Wincor Nixdorf will also be responsible for hardware deliveries – POS systems and peripherals – to Shell over the life of the program.
Wincor Nixdorf`s comprehensive i-SERVICE STATION solution consists of Namos software and Beetle POS hardware, which have set a new standard for combined service station – convenience retail operations.
The high-performance, scalable POS terminals combine the latest PC standard technology with tried-and-tested, POS-specific features. The product portfolio offers a wide choice of system units, peripherals and extension options for customized sector-specific configurations in international retailing and the service industry. A high-level of reliability, ease of use, integrated data security and service/management concepts, as well as controlled further development and availability of the products, secure
customer investments.
“We are delighted to have been awarded this extremely important project by Shell which has reinforced our key role in the Shell Global Site Systems Program,” said Horst von Wels, Director Service Stations International at Wincor Nixdorf. Five of the world’s top 10 mineral oil companies trust in Wincor Nixdorf as their global solution provider. “With Namos software and Beetle hardware, Wincor Nixdorf offers a complete site systems solution deployable in all countries.”
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Global IT solutions provider Wincor Nixdorf acquires Siemens Inc. subsidiary in the Philippines
Wincor Nixdorf, a leading provider of hardware, software and services technology to banks and retailers, has acquired Siemens Inc.’s Information Technology Products & Services (ITPS) Division. The Manila-based company will now be named as Wincor Nixdorf Philippines Inc. and will operate as a full-fledged legal entity under the umbrella of the Wincor Nixdorf Group. The acquisition was effective June 1, 2009.
“Wincor Nixdorf is pleased to become the owner of this business after many years of cooperation with Siemens Inc.’s ITPS Division and is excited about expanding our business and solutions offerings to such a strategically important market,” says Lim Khoon Hong, Asia Pacific President and Executive Board Member at Wincor Nixdorf. Read the rest of this entry »