Uniteller Platform Uniteller Pre-Processing Settlement Center (PRC)

Uniteller is a processing company operating in Russia, CIS countries, the EU, as well as in Nigeria. For 2018, it provides all types of acquiring services, including traditional cash solutions for retail, accepting bank cards in self-service systems and Internet acquiring.

The company received the status of a resident of the most famous innovation centers in Russia - Skolkovo (Moscow) and Innopolis (Kazan).

The company's service is used in various commercial, state and social projects, including government service portals, air agencies, online stores, travel and airline companies, non-operator gas stations, transport payment systems, parking lots, toll roads.

The company's clients for 2018 are Rostelecom, Petersburg Metro, Avtodor Group of Companies, Platon charging system, Russian Railways, Sheremetyevo Airport, etc.

The Uniteller Processing Center complies with the PCI DSS 3.2 payment card industry data security standard, and the company's solutions are certified in accordance with PCI PA-DSS requirements.

History

2021: Goznak bought Uniteller for 380 million rubles

On March 22, 2021, Goznak announced the purchase of Uniteller at a price that the companies did not disclose. Later in April, the value of the transaction became known - 380 million rubles. Under the terms of the agreement, Goznak will receive 50% plus one share of Pre-Processing Settlement Center JSC (PRC - a legal entity for Uniteller).

As part of this transaction, Goznak and PRC plan to jointly develop products in the field of digital payment services and solutions. The parties also expect an additional synergistic effect from the merger of existing Goznak products with digital payment services of the PRC.

Goznak promises to maintain the current Uniteller team, as well as contribute to the preservation and development of key areas of activity in the traditional markets for the processing company.

Goznak acquired Uniteller

I am sure that the decision to acquire a share in this company by Goznak is strategically correct for both parties. This association will allow us to both enter new markets for Goznak and qualitatively update offers for existing customers, "said Arkady Trachuk, General Director of Goznak .

The head of the PRC Alexei Bogatkin, in turn, expressed the opinion that combining the capabilities of companies will create new products for the fintech sector and scale up existing solutions in Russia and in international markets.

We see great development potential for both parties involved in the deal. Goznak is a reliable state structure, the experience and expertise of which are obvious. Uniteller has repeatedly confirmed its level of professionalism in the payment solutions market both for many commercial organizations and for large state projects, he said (quoted by the Goznak press service).

The companies are long-standing partners: since 2017, Goznak and PRC have been acting as a consortium in the market for processing non-cash payments, forming strategic cooperation.^[1]

2018: Entering Kyrgyzstan's Internet Acquiring Market

Uniteller, together Optima Bank with in January 2018, announced the launch online payments of Internetacquiring self-service devices in the Kyrgyz Republic on the market. Now the entire list of services can be paid online using bank cards. Visa

Optima Bank (Optima Bank) is a bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, a key partner of the processing company Uniteller in the Internet acquiring and self-service market in Kyrgyzstan.

Each year, the online sales market increases by more than 20%. The entire market of Central Asia for e-commerce is 27.3 million people, where Kyrgyzstan accounts for about 7%, and this is more than 2 million people. Growth in the number of Internet users is also steadily growing. According to analysts, the number of Internet users in Kyrgyzstan at the beginning of 2017 reached 5.24 million, which is more than 85% of Kyrgyz. The total number of bank payment cards in circulation in Kyrgyzstan is increasing by about 37% every year, Uniteller said.

The volume of Internet acquiring and self-service devices of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan is growing dynamically every year. And we were glad to find partners in the person of Optima Bank to offer our services to the consumer in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan: all modern types of payments on the Internet and self-service devices, providing a personal account, fraud monitoring and much more, - said Niyaz Sharipov, Director of Regional Development at Uniteller.

The service of the processing company Uniteller is an innovative product. We have accumulated significant experience both in the field of private business and public sectors, which allows us to apply this experience for digitalization in the markets of other countries. The development of innovative payment products and access to international markets are part of Uniteller's global strategy, "said Alexey Bogatkin, CEO of Uniteller.

2017: Work on a contactless payment project for electric vehicle charging services

On August 28, 2017, Uniteller signed a cooperation agreement with. MIP "Klintek" The parties agreed to work together on a project for contactless payment of charging station services for electric vehicles. The agreement was signed as part of the foundation's business mission Skolkovo in. Kaliningrad

MIP Klintek is developing a line of stations for refueling electric vehicles (EZS) - street, home and corporate (220V 16A schuko - 3.3 kW; 380V 32A Mode 2 - 22 kW; 380V 32A Mode 2 - 22 kW). As of August 2017, issues were worked out on the interface with control functions, monitoring carried out by electric charging stations, billing with an interactive map with ESV applied to it, as well as data exchange between the car, ESV and the user.

According to Uniteller, recently the relevance of this type of service has been increasing due to the state policy of encouraging the development of electric transport and the impending widespread introduction of electric refueling at gas stations, as well as due to the widespread use of such small forms of electric transport as electric scooters, gyro scooters, sigways. The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has formed a draft program for the development of electric transport until 2025, which provides for monetary and non-monetary measures to support and stimulate the use of such transport.

Meanwhile, the problem of many charging stations, especially Russian-made ones, is the imperfection of payment systems. In Russian charging stations, as a rule, RFID-card technology is used, the inconvenience of which is that these cards must be purchased somewhere in advance. Previously, the possibility of embedding a regular payment terminal was considered, but this is also not entirely convenient, since theoretically any attacker with a bank card can pay for a charging session, unlock and steal a vehicle.

As a result, cashless payment for electric charging included in one common application is recognized as the best way. The joint development of such a project by Klintek and Uniteller will allow electric stations to gain competitive advantages associated with increasing convenience for users and the inclusion of refueling points in a single Internet of Things system .

The advent of contactless payment for electric vehicle charging stations is a serious and innovative step for the industry. We monitor trends in the field of electronic payments, strive to quickly provide modern services to our customers and create optimal conditions for their work in Russia. Contactless payment technologies, we hope, will be able to give impetus to the development of cashless payments, and in particular transport infrastructure, - said Alexey Bogatkin, CEO of Uniteller.

2016: Uniteller supports contactless Mir card settlement technology

Uniteller was among the first to receive a certificate of testing terminal software for receiving contactless cards of the national payment system "Mir" NSPK and NFC devices supporting this technology.

2011

In 2011, Uniteller provides:

• processing of bank cards of international payment systems VISA International, MasterCard Worldwide, JCB International and Diners Club International in self-service systems and the Internet,
• processing payments using electronic money,
• mobile commerce services.

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