Panini Launches New Blog & Web Site to Extend Engagement with Payments Industry

Company continues aggressive investment to serve extensive global customer base

Torino, Italy (June 30, 2010) - Panini, the global market share leader in distributed capture, is leveraging their experience and industry commitment by facilitating a blog for the payments industry. Hosted on the Panini website, www.panini.com, and written by Chief Marketing Officer, Michael Pratt, the blog is designed as a discussion platform allowing participants to comment on and discuss current industry trends. The new blog is one of many recent changes the company’s making to facilitate engagement with their extensive, global customer base. Additional company innovations include the launch of a new, international website, new product development, and several new hires.

Panini’s new website, available in four languages, was designed to make content more relevant and accessible to company stakeholders around the world and offers many new, valuable resources for the international payments community. The blog is one of these resources. “Part of the communications opportunity on the web is the context for bi-directional information exchange,” states Michael Pratt. “If our website is a one way street, we have missed the opportunity to interact with our stakeholders.”

Pratt’s first blog entry, OCR Only, Oh My!, addresses a current hot topic in the distributed capture industry – remote deposit capture (RDC) check scanner risks – and is now posted for discussion. Participants can subscribe to the blog, receive email updates when a new blog entry or comment is posted, and share the content via multiple social networking platforms. http://www.panini.com/marketing-center/panini-blog .

At a time when many companies are tightening budgets and riding out the recession, Panini also continues to invest in R&D and grow with new employees. This year, the company has made multiple hires in sales, marketing, leadership, human resources, services and support in the United States, Italy and Brazil.

Additionally, Panini recently announced a new product to the Brazilian payments community at Ciab FEBRABAN 2010 and will release the product, along with other new solutions, to the global payments community this fall.

“We’re very fortunate to be in a position where we can make these investments to enrich and extend the value we offer to our global community of customers and partners” notes Pratt.

Visit www.panini.com to view the Panini Blog and more information about these exciting company changes.

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, leveraging the company’s expertise in research & development. Panini’s market leading solutions are based on state-of-the-art engineering resources and ISO-9000 quality certified production. Panini offers check capture solutions that enable customers to fully realize the advantages and efficiencies available with the digital transformation of the paper check. Panini’s scalable check capture solutions address the complete range of distributed check processing opportunities including teller capture, back-counter capture, corporate capture, merchant back office conversion (BOC), cash vault, microfilm replacement and remittance processing. For more information please call 937.291.2195 or visit www.panini.com.