Merchants’ Choice Markets Hypercom Optimum to 41,000+ Retailers

2009-06-30 15:41:04 -

Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) announced today that Merchants’ Choice Card Services (MCCS), a top ranked merchant service provider also known as Deltacard Services, has Class A certified and will market Hypercom’s high security Optimum T4200 countertop and M4230 mobile payment terminals to its more than 41,000 customers in the United States.

“Hypercom is a superb professional organization with sensible, secure and benchmark-setting products that deliver new levels of security, features and capabilities to the retail countertop,” said Larry Jones, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Merchants’ Choice Card Services.

“Merchants’ Choice Card Services’ selection, Class A certification and roll out of the Optimum payment and digital transaction terminals means that more merchants can quickly and safely conduct business. This leading merchant service provider’s stamp of approval further validates this best-of-breed product family’s advanced security, features and lowest cost of total ownership,” said Heidi Goff, President and Managing Director, The Americas, Hypercom Corporation.

Hypercom’s high security Optimum T4200 and M4200 product family for North America consists of six powerful 32-bit multi-application devices that share the same platform, user interface, and software toolkit to maximize efficiency, application portability, and offer customers a broad range of options to serve any market need.

For further information on Hypercom’s Optimum products, please visit www.hypercom.com/products/ : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. .



About Merchants’ Choice Card Services ( www.mccs-corp.com : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. )

MCCS is one of the nation’s top-ranked Merchant Service Providers, serving over 41,000 clients, processing more than $3.4 billion in annual credit card volume. Established in the late 1980s MCCS has grown with the strength of Woodforest National Bank, a $3.2 billion Houston-based financial institution, as its foundation. With the stability and financial strength of Woodforest, MCCS has built the infrastructure necessary to support growth with state-of-the-art technology.


About Hypercom ( www.hypercom.com : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. )

Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits.
Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally.

Hypercom and Optimum & Design are registered trademarks of Hypercom Corporation. All other products or services mentioned in this document are trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners. This press release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding market acceptance of new products, product capability and performance, product competitiveness, product sales, revenues and profits, market share, and expected acquisition results and benefits. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and beliefs and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include: industry, competitive and technological changes; the loss of, and failure to replace any significant customers; the composition, timing and size of orders from and shipments to major customers; inventory obsolescence; market acceptance of new products and services; compliance with industry standards, certifications and government regulations; the performance of suppliers, contract manufacturers and subcontractors; the ability to successfully integrate the technologies, operations and personnel of acquired businesses in a timely manner; the ability to obtain the expected strategic and financial benefits from acquisitions; risks associated with international operations and foreign currency fluctuations, the state of the U.S. and global economies in general and other risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent 10-K and subsequent 10-Qs and 8-Ks. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and are not guarantees of future performance. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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Hypercom CorporationPete Schuddekopf, 480-642-5383 pschuddekopf@hypercom.com : mailto:pschuddekopf@hypercom.com orMerchants’
Choice Card ServicesAndrea Balfour, 281-583-4420 abalfour@deltacard.com : mailto:abalfour@deltacard.com