Wirecard digitizes intermodal transport with Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures Qixxit

Aschheim (Munich)/Berlin (ots) -

- The mobility platform currently has around half a million users
- Qixxit users can now pay for their cross-country trips directly in
the app
- By integrating Apple Pay, Wirecard offers all Qixxit users more
flexibility in digital payments

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial
technology, is driving the digitalization of the travel industry and
enabling digital payments for the Qixxit mobility platform. Qixxit is
part of Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures GmbH and is an intermodal
mobility portal. Within seconds, Qixxit compares the three main
methods of transportation for trips - train, long-distance bus and
plane - in a search query and combines the connections to create a
correlated journey chain. Thanks to Wirecard, customers can use Apple
Pay as a new payment method for in-app payments. By integrating Apple
Pay, Wirecard offers all Qixxit users more flexibility in digital
payments. Currently, around 500,000 people already use the Qixxit
service on a regular basis.

The organization and booking of trips via browser or app is
becoming increasingly popular. Worldwide, the eTravel market is
expected to grow by over 30 percent to a total sales volume of almost
one billion euros by 2023. In this context, the online mobility
services segment currently holds the largest share with more than 400
million euros worldwide.

"We have continuously developed our travel app over the last few
months and geared it to the needs of our users and their feedback.
Travelers want a service that offers everything in one place: smart
connections, transparent fares and tickets. Together with our new
partner Wirecard, we are proud to be one of the first eTravel
providers to offer Apple Pay as a digital payment method," says
Stefan Kellner, CEO of Qixxit.

Jan Rübel, Head of Sales Travel & Transport at Wirecard, adds, "We
are excited to partner with Qixxit to offer hundreds of thousands of
users an innovative and convenient booking experience. The topic of
intermodal mobility is setting a trend for the entire industry.
Mobility services providers can benefit from Wirecard's platform, in
order to digitize more and more processes in the travel industry."

About Wirecard:

Wirecard (GER:WDI) is one of the world's fastest growing digital
platforms in the area of financial commerce. We provide both business
customers and consumers with a constantly expanding ecosystem of
real-time value-added services built around innovative digital
payments by using an integrated B2B2C approach. This ecosystem
concentrates on the areas payment & risk, retail & transaction
banking, loyalty & couponing, data analytics & conversion rate
enhancement in all sales channels (online, mobile, ePOS). Wirecard
operates regulated financial institutions in several key markets,
holds issuing and acquiring licenses from all major payment and card
networks. Wirecard AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DAX
and TecDAX, ISIN DE0007472060). Visit us on www.wirecard.com, follow
us on Twitter @wirecard and on Facebook @wirecardgroup.

About Qixxit:

The digital travel planner Qixxit connects long-distance buses,
trains and flights to make a correlated route and creates an
individual travel plan. For the first time, travelers receive
everything in one place: smart connections, affordable and accurate
fares and tickets. An international team works at the Berlin startup
to make travel easier for everyone. Qixxit is part of Deutsche Bahn
Digital Ventures GmbH. More under www.qixxit.com.

Contact:
Wirecard media contact:
Wirecard AG
Jana Tilz
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 4424 1363
Email: jana.tilz@wirecard.com

Qixxit media contact:
QT Mobilitätsservice GmbH
Stefan Kellner
Tel.: + 49 (0) 170 91 56 921
Email: press@qixxit.de

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