This innovative product has strategic value for banks that are putting an emphasis on attracting and servicing clients through the Internet and mobile applications.

Mobile and internet channels are becoming more and more popular as the first choice of cardholders for the way they get service. This is a serious reason to re-examine the approach to providing retail banking services. The WAY4 Wallet solution makes it possible for banks to attract other banks' clients and get fee revenue from servicing their cards through mobile phones and the Internet. Client service is possible not only through the bank's Web portal or application on a client's mobile device, but through any Internet spaces or social networks.

Moreover, thanks to WAY4 Wallet, a visitor to the portal or mobile phone owner can become a bank client without even setting foot in a financial institution: this is done online in a matter of minutes while observing a high level of security.

Thanks to the built-in mechanism for target marketing and cross-sales, the bank is able to approach current and potential clients directly, offering them new products and services. In the virtual personal office, clients can manage their cards, make payments and transfers, receive targeted offers from the bank and respond to them, all from a single point of entry. Using state-of-the-art channels - Internet and mobile phone - WAY4 Wallet can acquire any card: prepaid, credit or debit regardless of the issuing bank.

WAY4 Wallet can be used as a personal office in which cardholders can associate their cards, obtain virtual cards and manage them, make financial operations, create any payment templates and receive personal messages from the bank.

Wim Pardon, Managing Director of OpenWay EMEA, comments: "When developing solutions for working with new service channels, the first thing we do is analyse the demands and expectations of clients actively using these channels. Our multi-channel solution was initially based on the concept of a payment ecosystem, and this approach has totally lived up to expectations. It is now time to take the next step. This means even new clients can easily be registered online, it means expansion of financial space by servicing all the client's financial instruments and moving into social networks and a lot more that allows companies using WAY4 to be attractive to an audience that is used to good service in the virtual dimension."