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Our unique cardless cash-withdrawal solution
Even though
the world is going digital, there are some places where you still need cash. In
such convenient times where you can pay with just a tap, withdrawing cash now
seems almost unnecessary.
For those
occasions when you need cash, wouldn't it be great to use just a smartphone?
Now, you can withdraw your cash on ATMs, with no card but just a smartphone.
How?
Our unique
solution is not just frictionless but also customizable and secure.
It can be fully integrated and tailor made for specific business needs.
It can also be fully customized to meet the Issuing bank requirements,
from number of code digits, to code validity time and anti-guessing timers to
prevent malicious attacks on the ATM network.
10th anniversary
On April
10th, ten years ago, Intesa Sanpaolo Card was established and
seven years later it transformed into Mercury Processing Services
International. It has been a road full of successes and challenges, but we are
heading forward without stopping to lead the payment processing game.
Thanks to
our peoples’ contribution we have built a solid and stable company and entered
as such the new business era. Nevertheless, our scope didn’t change. We
remained dedicated to providing high-quality card processing services and we
continued relying on our technological expertise as the main driver for
innovations we have been providing in the payment industry.
From the
first big change onwards, we just kept growing. Now a slightly bigger planet in
the payment galaxy, we were recognized by even bigger ones. Merging and
consolidation of payment processing companies entered our space, but it became
an ongoing phenomenon in the whole industry. Our owners decided to
consolidate with the newly formed Concardis Payment Group so
Mercury Processing Services International now stands among other great
companies in the new Group.
Soon after,
Concardis Payment Group finalized their merger with Nets, Scandinavia’s
top payment provider. We were and are still excited to be a part of this because
we as companies are leveraging on each other’s strengths and thus emerging as a
true European payment leader.
From here
on, the possibilities are just piling on the horizon and we are bravely
accepting the future challenges.
FERSec & JobFair
We are
still continuing our collaboration with faculties and attending job fairs. It
was our honor to attend two student events in the first half of the year -
FERSec and JobFair.
FERSec is
an Information Security Workshop that has been held for a third year in a row.
It gathers security enthusiasts and professionals, but everyone is welcome. The
event lasted for a whole week and it included presentations, workshops, and
finally a Hackathon! We participated as sponsors, presenters, and server
donors.
The
workshops and presentations were held from the 5th to the 14th
of April at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,
Zagreb, where professors and outside experts in the fields talked about
computer forensics, reverse engineering, exploit writing, static
unpackers, threat hunting and Cyber Security Capture The Flag.
There was
also a "mention" of a particular topic of our interest and that is
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
Nikolina
Maras, our
Information Security Expert, familiarized the young audience with the security
requirements behind PCI DSS compliance, a regulatory pillar of all our
business operations, after Željka Antol, our Product Expert, provided
a concise overview of our IT business.
The first
part finished in a competitive manner - a 24-hour-long Hackathon where
teams of students had to defend their servers and attacks others’, sharping
both their hacking and security mindsets.
Then
came the JobFair - one of the most frequented events in
Croatia where students come to seek and eventually find their future careers.
We were also there on the 15th and 16th of May, to
provide young minds with the opportunities offered by our company and to invite
them to join is in our mission to lead the payment industry.
As students
kept coming in, it seemed there was infinity of people for a moment. The number
of companies wasn't small either. In total there were 115 companies with their
booths and some with presentations.
Even though
the students were mostly from FER, they also came from other cities in Croatia
to attend this spectacular fair. And it seems they weren't disappointed. Our
booth alone accommodated hundreds of students who circulated and asked us
questions about our company and our work.
One of the
most interesting facts to them was that we played a big part in bringing
Google Pay to Croatia. Payment processing isn't exactly a well-known
topic among general public, so it was pretty interesting to explain all of the
interesting parts of our work relating to the IT area.
It was also great to see how everyone was
immediately focused on our astronauts and the strong message "Study
fast and prosper in an interplanetary company".
After two
days of plenty of talking and meeting new students, we left with all the
student internship brochures handed out and with a big smile on our faces. We hope
that we touched their minds because they touched ours too.
security as a pillar
Our company was recognized as among Top 10 Multi-Factor Authentication Solution Providers in Europe - 2019 by Enterprise Security Magazine.
Our Head of Strategic Projects and Innovation, Giovanni Cetrangolo gave an interview for the magazine where he spoke about our unique standing point as a payment processor. He emphasized one of our strongest points and that is our long-standing end to end knowledge of the whole payment process because of which we can provide a reliable and customizable solutions to our clients.
We are always proud to be recognized for being at the forefront of emerging trends but always in line with the security, a paramount element in the payment process.
Read the magazine here: https://www.enterprisesecuritymag.com/magazines.
LEGAL TRULY MATTERS
The head of our Legal Affairs and Company Secretary, Ante Šućur, was featured in one of the most prestigious magazines in the legal world called CEE LEGAL MATTERS. The spotlight of the April issue was, as the editor Radu Cotarcea said himself "the in-house lawyers in CEE, whose hard work often goes unnoticed since it only rarely – and in many cases never - involves the execution of a huge deal."
To us in the company, nothing goes unnoticed and especially not the legal affairs. In that spirit, Ante talked about how such things work in a company like ours dealing with payment processing in the article headlined "Get Out There to Make That Deal Happen".
He also spoke a great deal about how lawyers are perceived by the general public which could be summed up in his great quote from the magazine:
"I think we need to work on shifting our attitudes and learn to put ourselves out there. I look at some historical figures and find it funny to see that few people realize that people like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela were actually lawyers – and that speaks, in part, to how people perceive us." (CEE LEGAL MATTERS).
Read the magazine here: https://ceelegalmatters.com/magazine.