Banca Ifis is a company, with approximately 1.800 employees, dealing in specialty financing. Its main areas of business involve credit services and solutions for enterprises and acquisition/management of non-performing loan portfolios. Banca Ifis has a solid, sustainable and diversified business model. It does business mainly on the Italian market, without the use of traditional branches, collecting funds via on-line deposits. Founded in 1983 by Sebastien Egon Fürstenberg, the current Chairman, Banca Ifis has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (STAR segment) since 2003.
SIA Central Europe Zrt. (former GIRO Bankcard cPlc.) was founded in 1992 to set up and operate IT systems supporting domestic bankcard issuing and acquiring and settlement of transactions.
Since July 2007, SIA Central Europe Zrt. is owned by the Italian company SIA, one of the leading European financial service providers, operating in 40 countries throughout Europe, Africa and on the Brazilian market as well.
SIA Central Europe is the hub of the SIA Group in Central and Eastern Europe, is a "competence center" for ATM and POS terminal management and transactions switching.
The activities of SIA Central Europe focus on full processing (issuing and acquiring) of card transactions (debit/credit, prepaid, loyalty, gift and fuel cards), terminal management and value-added services, compliance and reporting for surveillance of operations on financial markets for major banking groups and network services for connectivity and messaging via the SIAnet broadband infrastructure.
The company employs the staff of about 50 people and has a portfolio of around 60 customers. In 2013 SIA Central Europe processed 207 million transactions which represents a 7,8 % growth compared to the 192 million transactions processed in 2012.
SIA Central Europe cPlc.. operates as an independent service provider, offering multibank services for:
► Financial Institutions: for issuing and acquirer banks
► Corporates: for savings co-operatives and health care funds, retailers (POS, ATM management)
► Central Institutions
► Public Sector
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