Press Release

Paris, April 8th 2014

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL CHOOSES HIPAY TO HANDLE ALL PAYMENTS FOR THEIR NEW ONLINE STORE

Paris - April 8th 2014 Franklin & Marshall, the prestigious brand of casual and sportswear famous for its high quality Italian design, has chosen HiPay, part of the HiMedia Group dedicated to digital payments, to process Italian and International transactions on their newly re-designed website.

To handle the complexity of the different payment methods in use throughout Europe and the rest of the world through a single point of contact, Franklin & Marshall chose the support of HiPay. Leading player in online payment HiPay owns two European licenses: Payment Institution and Electronic Money Issuer. An additional guarantee and testimony of the reliability of the platform.
"Being able to offer all our customers around the world the opportunity to pay with the method that they consider "habitual" is certainly a big plus for our e-commerce site. For this reason we chose to collaborate with a solid partner like HiPay with a deep international expertise in the local payments" says Daniele Stella, IT Manager of Franklin&Marshall.
HiPay manages online payments for Franklin & Marshall in the 60 countries where the store ships goods providing both local currencies and sensibility to local fraud issues.
Thanks to an extensive knowledge of the local payment preferences and purchasing habits, HiPay has guided Franklin & Marshall to select the most relevant payment methods in each country (Sofort in Germany, iDeal in The Netherlands …). HiPay solution offers online buyers the choice of how to pay and online merchants the benefit from a single integration and a simplified transactions reconciliation.
As Bruno Gloaguen, Director Europe HiPay affirms: " Being selected by a major international brand such as Franklin & Marshall proves that our R&D engineers managed to develop the product that totally meets the e-tailers' needs. Innovations in terms of access and retrieval of the data (Business Intelligence, Financial Reconciliation Fight against Fraud...) simplify the daily work of teams dedicated to online transactions management".

About HiPay

With over 10 million transactions processed every month, HiPay is an expert in online payments. It offers online publishers and e-retailers the most relevant payment solutions to leverage their businesses. HiPay owns two European licenses: e-money issuer and payment institution.

HiPay is a company of HiMedia Group. The group acts as a global partner supporting its clients in their online strategy optimization operating in two business areas, digital advertising - HiMedia - and online payment - HiPay.


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The group employs approximately 470 people worldwide and generated sales of €185 million in 2013.

Independent since its creation, the company is listed on the Euronext Paris Compartment C.

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2014 before market opening.

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