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PayUp to enter the electronic bill payment market in Romania

Tuesday 15 July 2008 00:22 CET | News

Netherlands-based electronic payments processor PayUp plans to invest EUR 6 million by end of 2009 in order to install 6,000 devices of electronic bill payment in Romanian stores. The company estimates that the electronic bill payment market in Romania brings about EUR 5.8 billion yearly issuing over 180 million bills.

PayUp intends to sign agreements with banks, in order to supply financial services, including credit and debt cards, gift cards, micro credits or money transfers. As part of the project, the stores will have POS installed for citizens to be able to pay their bills to the utility companies, telephony operators and other service companies.According to the procedure, the client comes with the bill and the partner store and the code for the payment operation is to be introduced in POS, releasing a receipt.Contracts with energy and natural gas distributors are to become operational as of September 2008.PayUp currently holds operations in Poland, Serbia, Spain and Portugal.


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