Equens Starts SEPAklaar.nl Campaign

Utrecht, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) -

Conversion Services Make SEPA Migration Easy for Businesses and
Organisations

Today payment processor Equens is launching the 'SEPAklaar.nl'
[translated, 'SEPA-ready.nl'] campaign. This campaign is aimed at
medium-sized businesses and organisations that may find themselves
under time pressure in migrating their payment traffic to SEPA before
1 February 2014. 'SEPAklaar.nl' offers companies conversion services
that make the migration quick and easy. Equens' conversion services
use existing formats and reports, which saves businesses and
organisations a lot of time, allowing them to focus fully on mandate
management and implementing the IBAN account number in their
administration and systems. The 'SEPAklaar.nl' campaign will be
discussed in various specialist journals and online media.
Additionally, there will be items on the radio and in social media.

As from 1 February 2014, payment products in Europe must be
harmonised, creating a single euro payments area. In order to be
compliant, every company or organisation that makes or receives
payments must implement changes in its processes and systems.
However, some companies have not yet started the necessary migration,
even though the changes required are generally very extensive.

Through more than 40 years of experience in payments, Equens has
acquired extensive expertise, not only in the Netherlands, but also
in a large number of other European countries. For many years, the
services of Equens have helped to reduce costs and complexity through
the use of standards. Equens' service Zakelijk Betalen en Ontvangen
[Business Payments & Receipt] is based on these standards, and thus
provides a reliable and solid solution for businesses and
organisations.

Zakelijk Betalen en Ontvangen [Business Payments & Receipt]
currently consists of three separate services that businesses and
organisations can purchase either individually or as a package. With
Formaat Conversie [Format Conversion], the current format in the
Netherlands for transfers and direct debits (ClieOp) is converted to
the new SEPA format (PAIN). Transactie Aanlevering [Transaction
Delivery] enables businesses to send transactions to one or more
banks via Equens. The third service offered by Equens is Rekening- en
Verwerkingsinformatie [Account & Processing Information]. This
service complies with SEPA standards and is on a par with the trusted
VerwInfo report. The advantage of this is that businesses can
continue using the same VerwInfo report they have become accustomed
to for their internal processing and payments. This limits costs and
simplifies migration. Now that the market-wide SEPA migration is
nearing, demand for this service seems to be increasing.

Businesses can subscribe to one or more of the services. As from
today, more information for businesses and organisations will be
available at sepaklaar.nl.

Editorial note

About Equens

Equens SE is the first pan-European, full-service payment
processor. As one of the largest payment processors in Europe, it
leads the market for future-proof payment and card solutions. Thanks
to an extensive and competitive range of services, the company
seamlessly meets the requirements and wishes of the European payments
market. Equens supports the development of a single, uniform European
payments market (SEPA), and is dedicated to the standardisation and
harmonisation of European and global payments. With clients and
partnerships in multiple European countries, it offers pan-European
market coverage from offices in five countries - the Netherlands,
Germany, Italy, Finland and the United Kingdom. With an annual
processing volume of 10.4 billion payments and 4.4 billion POS and
ATM transactions, Equens SE has a European market share of more than
12.5%.

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