Wirecard and Orange Bank enable mobile payments for even more French consumers

Aschheim (Munich) (ots) -

- Leading French online bank Orange Bank optimizes its service
offering thanks to Wirecard
- Enhanced mobile banking app is based on Wirecard technology and
now also enables payment with Google Pay
- 200,000 Android users expected to activate Google Pay via Orange
Bank

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and
Orange Bank are expanding their successful cooperation and now offering all
Android users in France convenient mobile payment with Google Pay. Thanks to
Wirecard, Orange Bank has already established itself as the market leader for
mobile payments in France - 17% of such payments were made via the Orange Bank
App in 2018(1). The addition of Google Pay should increase this figure
enormously.

Google Pay is a mobile and secure payment method that can be used for
contactless payment at the checkout, online shopping and payments within apps.
Thanks to Wirecard's technology, Orange Bank customers can now pay quickly and
easily with any Android smartphone with NFC functionality. All they have to do
in shops that offer Google Pay as a payment method is hold their mobile device
to the POS terminal and unlock the screen of their device, without opening the
app.

With Wirecard's support, every Orange Bank customer now benefits from the
advantages of cashless payment: even before the corresponding Orange Bank credit
card arrives, customers can use the app to pay online or in-store. All it takes
is a simple registration process. Thanks to innovative security functions,
cashless payment via app is still possible even if the card is lost or stolen.

According to an eMarketer study, France is one of the leading nations in mobile
banking with a mobile access rate to bank accounts of around 70 percent. In
addition, about 6.6 million people or 15.6 percent of smartphone users in France
pay at least once every six months with their mobile phone in stationary retail
stores. Orange Bank recognized this trend early on and, together with Wirecard,
developed an innovative mobile banking solution that enables, among other
things, contactless payment by mobile phone, the dispatch of money by instant
message or instant bank balances(2).

"We already had very good experiences with Wirecard when we first launched
Orange Bank. We were therefore delighted to be able to count on the support of
our experienced partner for this project as well. Every Orange Bank customer
with a NFC smartphone can now benefit from the advantages of cashless payment,
something they greatly appreciate along with checking their balance in real time
and sending money by SMS," said Stéphane Vallois, Deputy CEO at Orange Bank.

"Together with Orange Bank, we are continuing to make our vision of a cashless
society a reality. France in particular is a very interesting market, as the
adoption rate in the mobile banking sector is already very high there," added
Philippe Laranjeiro, Head of Sales, Digital & Telco 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 Orange:

Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with sales of
41 billion euros in 2018 and 148,000 employees worldwide at 30 September 2019,
including 88,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 268
million customers worldwide at 30 September 2019, including 209 million mobile
customers and 21 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 27
countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication
services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services.
In March 2015, the Group presented its new strategic plan "Essentials2020" which
places customer experience at the heart of its strategy with the aim of allowing
them to benefit fully from the digital universe and the power of its new
generation networks. Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the
New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). For more information on the internet and
on your mobile: www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com or to follow us on
Twitter: @orangegrouppr.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material
are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services Limited.

Orange Bank - public limited company (société anonyme) with a capital of
EUR659,775,712 - 67 rue Robespierre - 93107 Montreuil Cedex - Bobigny Trade and
Companies Register n°572 043 800 - Orias n°07 006 369 (www.orias.fr)

Orange - public limited company (société anonyme) with a capital of
EUR10,640,226,398 - 78 rue Olivier de Serres - 75015 Paris - Paris

Trade and Companies Register n°380 129 866 - Exclusive agent for Orange

Bank banking transactions and payment services - Orias n°13 001 387.

(1) Source: Groupement des cartes bancaires
(2) See conditions on the website: www.orangebank.fr

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

Orange media contact:
Tom Wright
Email: tom.wright@orange.com

Emmanuel Gauthier
Email: emmanuel2.gauthier@orange.com
Tel.: +33 1 44 44 93 93

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OTS: Wirecard AG
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