Vipera Regulatory News (VIP)

For immediate release 4 June 2013

Vipera - Equens partnership

Vipera, the specialist provider of mobile financial services, today announces that Equens (www.equens.com ), the largest pan-European payment processor, and who leads the market for future-proof payments and card processing solutions, has recently started to offer Motif, the Vipera product, to its customers. This follows an in depth evaluation conducted together with one of their German bank customers, who has now progressed to conducting a trial implementation of Motif. 

Commenting on partnership, Vipera Chief Executive Officer Marco Casartelli said:

"This new partnership reinforces Vipera's position as a growing provider of mobile financial services. The strategic endorsement by a European brand leader in payment processing comes at an exciting time. Like Vipera, Equens is working with leading players to ensure that future mobile payment technologies are as easy, simple and secure as card-based transactions are today."

"Providing a trusted platform to allow banking and payments via mobile is key to Vipera aspirations and we are delighted by the role we are playing in making that happen. Financial institutions demand resilient and robust infrastructure and Vipera's credentials in this arena are now starting to give it increased traction in many business segments."

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Notes to Editors

Equens SE is one of the largest payment processors in Europe, leading the market for future-proof payment and card solutions. With clients and partnerships in multiple European countries, the company offers pan-European market coverage from offices in four countries - the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Finland. And with an annual processing volume of 9.7 billion payments and 3.9 billion POS and ATM transactions, Equens SE has a European market share of more than 12.5%.

Vipera provides software and services to banks and financial institutions, primarily through its Motif platform, to enable mobile access to personal financial services. Additionally Vipera's software enables Government and corporate entities to allow their services and consumer transactions to take place on mobile platforms. All products within the Motif suite share market leading security models, a consumer friendly interface and support for different devices and languages.

Vipera's partnership with Equens, provides an extensive set of mobile financial services, from cross-bank mobile banking to money transfer and real time financial transaction alerting. Vipera has also integrated additional functionalities such as airtime top-up, QR-code and NFC payment, couponing and loyalty schemes.

Vipera's headquarters are in Milan and it listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: VIP.L). For further information, please visit www.vipera.com