MUNICH, Germany, September 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Cooperative Venture With usd.de AG Ensures Compliance With the Highest 
of Security Standards

- Information to Merchants Available With Immediate Effect at
http://www.wirecardbank.com/pci

From the beginning of October 2009, Acquiring clients of
Wirecard AG will have a PCI service portal available to them under the URL
http://www.pci.wirecardbank.com, a portal managed by usd.de and which
provides merchants with support concerning the disclosure and documentation
processes to be complied with. In addition, competent contact persons will be
available to answer questions by phone and e-mail.

The credit card is the most common international method of
payment on the Internet and is also becoming increasingly popular with German
consumers as an online form of legal tender. This development is also being
favored by the increasing spread of prepaid cards (for non-borrowing
accounts) and virtual cards.

To prevent theft and misuse of credit card data in online
trading, in 2005 the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
was initiated by VISA and MasterCard. Nowadays all credit card organizations
of note across the globe require compliance with the PCI DSS by companies or
merchants that store, process or transfer credit card data.

For Wirecard Bank AG, PCI DSS is a key component of its
security policy, by means of which financial and reputation losses of
merchants are to be precluded.

Accordingly, in usd.de AG a competent partner has been
enlisted, a partner who guarantees advisory services for everything to do
with the PCI DSS security standard along with optimum relationship management
services for Wirecard customers and partners.

The company usd.de AG, headquartered in Langen near Frankfurt,
is one of the few original German-speaking companies that have been
authorized by the PCI Security Standards Council to certify companies
throughout Europe in its function as Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and
Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV).

"In usd.de AG we've succeeded in finding an outstanding
specialist partner who pragmatically supports our security objectives," says
Burkhard Ley, Chief Financial Officer of Wirecard AG, adding: "We're going to
use this cooperative venture to give our customers and partners optimum
support in complying with the necessary security requirements."

Manfred Tubach, Management Board member of usd.de AG,
perceives this collaboration as a key step of his company toward further
extending the position of his company in the credit card industry: "The
Wirecard Bank is a valuable partner to us, who shares our objectives in
addressing such issues as security, quality and customer benefits."

With immediate effect, merchants of the Wirecard Bank will be
able to source all the information they need on the subject of certification
under the URL http://www.wirecardbank.com/pci.

About usd.de AG

The company usd.de AG is an SME IT consultancy business focusing on IT
security, headquartered in Langen near Frankfurt/Main. Among its clients are
European enterprises of note, particularly from the airline and finance
industries. Cooperative ventures with leading manufacturers and universities
serve to augment the organization's in-house expertise. Since the beginning
of 2006, usd has been accredited as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and
Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) within the credit card industry. In this role,
the company certifies enterprises across Europe for conformity with the
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Payment
Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS) and thus helps promote the level
of security in the field of payment transactions.

About Wirecard Bank AG:

Wirecard Bank AG, a subsidiary of Wirecard AG, is a Principal Member of
VISA, MasterCard and JCB and provides account and card products both to
business and private customers. As an acquirer, the bank operates in more
than 69 countries across the globe and provides merchants engaged in
brick&mortar and online business with more than 100 transaction and 15 payout
currencies. To complement its credit card acceptance (acquiring) services,
numerous corporate service solutions are also on offer. Thanks to the
combination with currency management or currency accounts, merchants stand to
secure significant liquidity benefits. Within the Wirecard Group and with
external partners, the Bank develops and operates integrated solutions at the
highest technological level with a view to ensuring secure and efficient
processing of credit card payments of its customers at all times.

About Wirecard AG:

Wirecard AG is one of the leading international providers of electronic
payment and risk management solutions. Worldwide, Wirecard supports over
10,000 companies from many and various industry segments in automating their
payment processes and minimizing cases of default. Wirecard AG is listed on
the Frankfurt Securities Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE0007472060, WDI).

http://www.wirecard.com

http://www.wirecardbank.com

http://www.mywirecard.com

Wirecard Media Contact:
    Wirecard AG
    Iris Stöckl
    Phone: +49(0)89-4424-0424
    e-mail: iris.stoeckl@wirecard.com