Panini Teams With Telefonica at Premier Latin American Financial Technology Conference

Company to Showcase New Partnership at Felaban CL@B 2014


TORINO, ITALY and DAYTON, OH--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2014) -  Panini, a global payments technology provider, will join partner Telefónica at the Felaban CL@B Annual Conference in Panama City, Panama. Panini will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of check truncation technologies including state-of-the-art solutions for branch image capture (BIC), remote deposit capture (RDC) and software for the management and security of deployed capture devices. Telefónica will feature Cloud Check, a modular solution for check payments covering the entire value chain including devices, communications, installation & maintenance, communications, cloud processing and customer care. It includes remote deposit via mobile and check scanner via POS or traditional PC connection. Exclusively featuring Panini capture devices, Telefónica Cloud Check is now available for financial institutions, merchants and business customers.

"We are pleased to attend CL@B, a strategic conference for the LATAM payments industry. It is important for us to participate in the event with our partner Panini, in consideration of the outstanding efforts and achievements we are accomplishing in the Latin America financial industry. During CL@B we will offer a live demo of our solutions and share our experience through dedicated speaking sessions," says Jorge Carabias -- Global Financial Services Director Telefónica Global Solutions.

"Our new and exclusive relationship with Telefónica will result in total solutions for check and document dematerialization for our joint customers, and CL@B is an ideal event to showcase these capabilities," says Rodrigo Assis, General Manager, Panini Limitada. "We are looking forward to sharing our market expertise and experience with conference attendees while discussing how Panini capture solutions can enable and extend the value of check truncation." 

Panini will feature its full range of check capture solutions from their continuous innovation portfolio including the Panini Vision neXt™, their newest platform for the most demanding and time sensitive teller capture environments; the market-leading Vision X®; the I:Deal®, designed specifically to support low volume capture environments and the Panini wI:Deal™ which is capable of consolidating and automating a wide range of transactions including full page documents and rigid ID cards.

Moreover, combining innovation and ease-of-use with wired or wireless connectivity to POS terminals, and mobile platforms, the Panini mI:Deal™ offers the most reliable and economical capture of checks in a wide variety of retail, branch and mobility capture applications. In addition to their market-leading check scanners, Panini will also showcase Avantor™; a state-of-the-art device management software platform that provides comprehensive capabilities in the areas of asset management, performance optimization, and payment device security.

In partnership with Telefónica, Panini's extensive solution portfolio for branch capture, remote deposit capture, and device management will be exhibited at Booth #41 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Convention Center in Panama City, Panama on September 10-12, 2014.

About Panini
Founded in Turin, Italy, Panini has enabled clients to capitalize on shifts in the global payments processing market for more than sixty years. Panini has a rich history of technology innovation, and Panini's market leading solutions are based on state-of-the-art research & development and ISO-9001 quality certified production. Panini offers capture solutions that enable customers to fully realize the advantages and efficiencies available with the digital transformation of the paper check, resulting in the world's largest deployed base of check capture systems, now approaching one million devices. Panini's scalable capture solutions digitize checks and payment related documents and transactions to address the complete range of distributed check processing opportunities including teller capture, back-counter capture, remote deposit capture, point-of-sale capture and remittance processing. The company provides solutions on a global basis, and has direct subsidiary operations in the United States covering North America and in Brazil covering Latin American markets. For more information visit: www.panini.com.

About Telefónica Global Solutions
Telefónica Global Solutions manages globally the multinational, wholesale and roaming business within the Telefónica Group. Global Solutions delivers integrated fixed, mobile and IT services to some of the world's top multinationals and corporations. It also provides global telecommunication services for fixed and mobile carriers, ISPs and content providers. Telefónica Global Solutions develops an integrated and competitive portfolio for carriers and corporations that include international voice, IP, bandwidth capacity, satellite services, mobility and global solutions, with service reach in more than 170 countries. Global Solutions is a multicultural organization, with more than 1400 employees, working in over 40 countries and speaking more than 15 languages.