Visa presents/displays the first service of safe payments for movable telephones in Europe

Verified by Visa is the first system of safe payment for transactions realized with movable telephones

20 of Julio of 2006 Madrid

Europe visa has sent to its new Verified service by Visa to realize safe payments from movable telephones, increasing the security of the purchases by movable telephone at a level without precedents and guaranteeing at the same time as the holders of their cards can realize purchases of easy and comfortable form.

Switzerland is the first European country in which Visa offers Verified by Visa for movable telephones, allowing the consumers to pay from its moving body with its cards Visa. In order to be able to offer this service Visa it has reached an agreement with two from his partners, Cornèr Bank and Telekurs Multipay, both leaders in the Helvetic country in bank online and adquirencia, respectively. On the other hand, Sunrise to musicfinder is the first commerce in Europe in offering to its clients this new service.

Verified by Visa is a system of authentication of the identity of the holder by means of password when a payment with card is realized Visa in Internet. With the launching of this system for movable telephones, Visa, along with Cornèr Bank, Telekurs Multipay and Sunrise is taking to the purchases through moving body to a new era, thus responding to the new habits and exigencies of the present consumers. For the first time in Europe, the card holders Visa will be able to realize a complete process of purchase with their movable telephone, from the product selection to the payment, using Verified by Visa to guarantee the security of each transaction.

“The present consumers wish to be able to buy at any time without mattering where they are. In Visa we are it jeopardize with making reality the universal commerce, causing that the payments through movable telephones are so easy and safe as through Internet. Verified by Visa is an open platform of software that already is available for all the card holders Visa in Switzerland and the rest of Europe�? indicates Jon Prideaux, Vice-president Ejecutivo de Marketing de Visa Europe.

Cornèr Bank continuously develops new and innovating products combined with the best services and technologies. “From the introduction of Verified by Visa in the Swiss market in 2002, our holders have been able to become familiar quickly with this new standard of security and now they have the opportunity to enjoy the advantages of this new solution for the safe payment by moving body�? has affirmed Alessandro Seralvo, Card Chief of a main directorate of Payment of Cornèr Bank.

Cornèr Bank is the first European card emitter Visa in offering to its holders the Verified service by Visa for its movable telephones and Telekurs is the first organization purchaser in Europe in processing transactions realized from movable telephones with the new service of Visa security. “Turning us into the first purchaser who offers safe payments through moving body we have taken another important step in the service to our clients�? has affirmed Niklaus Santschi, Person in charge of Sales and Marketing of Telekurs Multipay.

With its store to musicfinder, Sunrise has become the first supplier of services of telecommunications in offering a platform for purchases through moving body in which the users can realize safe purchases thanks to Verified by Visa. Now the clients of Sunrise to musicfinder not only can look for songs through their movable telephone but also they can pay them at that same moment of comfortable and safe form with its card Visa.

The service of global security Verified by Visa was developed to be able to realize payments through Internet of safe form. In all Europe already they use 11.7 million card holders Visa in more than 54,000 commerce than at the moment they offer Verified by Visa. This extension to the call “movable commerce�?, it will allow to those who buy through movable telephone to enjoy the same level of security and comfort that to do those who it through Internet.

On Visa

In Europe it has more than 308 million cards Visa of credit, debit and of companies. In the 12 months until March end of 2006 those cards they were used to realize distant purchases and of cash by a total volume of more than 1.17 trillions of Euros. Visa is one of the payment marks leaders in the world with more than 1,400 million cards that generate a volume of sales superior to 3.41 trillions of Euros (4.14 trillions of dollars) annual. Visa has a level of matchless acceptance that includes 24 million acceptance points which they include more of a million automatic tellers. Visa is an innovating association that a fundamental paper in the world-wide industry of payment means carries out, developing products and technologies that benefit so much to their 21,000 financial organizations member, as to its holders. For more information, it visits www.visaeurope.com/es

On Cornèr Bank Ag

Founded on Lugano in 1952, Cornèr Bank is a private and independent Swiss organization financial. It was the first organization in sending in Switzerland the credit card Visa in 1975 and one became one of the banks that always gave form to the industry of cards of payment in the country to the vanguard of the innovation. On many years of experience and a good number of services of added value, Cornèr Bank counts on the confidence of more than 600,000 card holders. Cornèr Bank is recognized today like one of the pioneers of the bank by Internet. He was one of the first European banks in introducing the standards of security of electronic commerce and has continued fomenting the development of the use of the credit cards in the commerce through Internet and of the movable telephone. For more information, it visits www.cornercard.ch and www.cornerbanca.com

SobreTelekurs Multipay Ag

Telekurs Multipay is part of the Telekurs Group, with soothes in Zurich. It is a company of sales and marketing with more than 150 employees than provides acceptance and processing of operations with card. Telekurs Multipay offers a solution of payment without cash without it has importance the quantity of the transaction. In 2005 it processed 57.2 million transactions of credit cards and 167.9 million transactions of debit cards, besides 19 million CASH transactions, adding a total volume of 24,600 million Swiss francs. For more information, it visits www.telekurs-multipay.com