Wirecard and Sisal Group - through SisalPay - enter strategic cooperation to drive digital payments in Italy

Aschheim (München) (ots) -

- With more than 15 million customers and 200 million transactions
per year, SisalPay is Sisal Group's payment services brand
- Wirecard and Sisal Group signed agreement to collaborate in the
field of contactless payment solutions for the brand SisalPay

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial
technology, and Sisal Group, through its brand SisalPay, have signed
an agreement to partner in the field of digital payments.

With more than 200 million transactions per year, 40,000 points of
sale and 15 million customers, SisalPay already offers one of the
most successful payment services in Italy and is regulated by the
Italian central bank, Banca d'Italia. Users can access more than 500
individual services, including utility bills payments, tax payments,
mobile phone top-ups, and subscriptions to digital TV services. The
target of the new cooperation between Wirecard and the Sisal Group is
to make contactless payments as simple and user friendly as possible.

"With the aim of guiding people towards new innovative consumption
experiences, concretely contributing to the digital evolution of the
country towards a cashless society, we constantly invest in people,
skills and technology. SisalPay's growth strategy is based on
innovation and cutting-edge technologies. In this regard, with
Wirecard we have found the ideal partner who shares our vision of an
innovative payment universe and helps us to further digitize Italian
society where 50% of payments are already contactless," said
Francesco Maldari, Head of Payment Services Business Unit at Sisal
Group.

"With the help of Wirecard, SisalPay can unlock the potential of
digitization and offer customers new integrated solutions to offer
consumer maximum flexibility. We are delighted to contribute our
global expertise in digital payments to SisalPay's business strategy
and expect a further expansion of the strategic partnership," added
Julian Weste, Vice President Sales Financial Institutions and FinTech
Europe at Wirecard.

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 and
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 SisalPay:

SisalPay is the brand that has been simplifying the lives of
Italians for over 10 years, improving and making everyday payments
safer. SisalPay's offer is exclusively dedicated to payments, and
available within a widespread network of retailers, online and on
smartphone. SisalPay represents today an added value for any
consumers, who can now pay utilities and taxation, top-up their
mobile phones and pre-paid credit cards in a safe and comfortably
way. With over 15 million customers, more than 40,000 points of sale,
about 200 million of transactions per year, 500 payment services, and
partnerships with more than 100 companies, SisalPay generates value
and improves the level of service to citizens. This is confirmed by
the fact that SisalPay is today the favorite channel for payments to
the Public Administration, through the PagoPA system.

Contact:
Wirecard contact:
Iris Stoeckl
Tel.: +49 (0) 89-4424-1424
Email: iris.stoeckl@wirecard.com
http://www.wirecard.com
ISIN DE0007472060
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SisalPay contact:
Sisal Group S.p.A
Tel.: +39 02 8868971
Email: sisalcomunicazione@sisal.it

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