XCOM Group decisively involved in the successful implementation of pension payments via SEPA within the Postbank Group

Köln / Willich. The Willich-based software development company XCOM AG was involved in key areas of the successful implementation within the Postbank Group of making pension payments using the SEPA system.

Managed by the software development centre in Zwickau, XCOM AG developed and implemented a completely new payment transactions platform for Deutsche Post AG’s pension service in a record time of just over four months.

Significant advantages have been achieved for the pension service thanks to the new software developed to implement pension payments using the SEPA system. The new technology fulfils the highest safety criteria based on the XCOM Group’s well-established eBanking systems and, thanks to the modular design of the payment transaction suite, is highly flexible with regards to expandability. Furthermore the receiving banks benefit from significant cost and synergy advantages.

Dr. Rainer Fuchs, Board Chairman of XCOM AG: “The cooperative and very sophisticated project with Deutsche Post's pension service and the Group's Postbank division, presented us with a range of great IT-related challenges. The performance of our systems in particular had to fulfil significantly higher requirements once again. We are very pleased that we didn’t simply fulfil them, but were able to achieve a quality standard that was certainly crucial for the success of the SEPA Postbank project.”

Although banks in Germany have been providing SEPA transfers since 2008, only a few customers use the standard SEPA system for their transactions. A good 0.4 percent of the three billion transfers carried out in Germany in the second half of 2009 were SEPA transfers. The restructuring of 1.9 million pension payments per month is a welcome boost to the spread of the SEPA system within Germany.

In addition to being the market leader in Germany for payment transactions, BCB, one of XCOM AG’s co-operation partners, which developed payment transactions for Postbank as well as other large banks, also took over as the market leader for SEPA payment transactions.

As part of an initiative of Deutsche Post AG’s pension service – which is responsible for the payment of the state pension in Germany – Postbank AG, the pension service and XCOM AG came together in a joint project to prepare to restructure pension payments to fit the SEPA system. After extensive, successful tests, 1.6 million pensions were sent without difficulty at the end of April 2010 to national recipients using the SEPA format. State pensions made up 1.3 million transactions and the rest consisted of company pensions and pension supplements.

SEPA stands for Single Euro Payments Area. In the future domestic and cross boarder payments made in this area such as transfers, direct debits and card payments will be subject to communal standards and legislation. Thanks to this harmonisation, bank customers can process their payment transactions for the entire Euro Zone using a single account at any bank connected to the SEPA system.

About XCOM:

The XCOM group is a specialist in the area of system development and system integration at banks and financial service providers both domestic and abroad.

The company is one of the leading providers for e-business and e-banking solutions in Germany. The main focus of the company is the development and continuous support of future-proof and efficient solutions in sectors such as stock exchange, stock trading, electronic banking, data logistic and communication. Another focus is the positioning of the company as a full service provider of business process insourcing.
More than 200 banks and financial service providers, including all major banks, have been working with XCOM for many years and are confident of the group's benefits. In the last years XCOM realized strategic cooperations with companies such as HP, SAP, the Betriebscenter für Banken AG and other institutions.
The company was founded in 1988. Today XCOM has 200 employees in 7 locations. For further information please visit www.XCOM.de

XCOM AG
Bahnstraße 37
D- 47877 Willich
Germany

Contact:

XCOM AG
Dr. Rainer Fuchs
Member of the board
Phone +49 2154-9209-70
Mail kontakt@xcom.de

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