Wirecard enables Chinese mobile payment methods on board Tallink Grupp ships

Aschheim, Munich/Tallinn (ots) -

- Around 500,000 tourists benefit from fully digital payment
solutions on Tallink Grupp's vessels
- By providing innovative digital payment solutions to one of the
leading transportation providers in the Baltic Sea region, Wirecard
further strengthens its position in the travel industry

Wirecard, the global innovation leader in digital financial
technology, is enabling Tallink Grupp to accept the most popular
Chinese payment methods, such as Alipay, onboard its fleet. Tallink
Grupp is the leading passenger and cargo transportation service
provider in the Northern region of the Baltic Sea and operates 14
vessels on seven different routes. The growing share of passengers
from the Far East will benefit greatly from this cooperation to pay
for goods and services onboard with their preferred payment methods.
The integration was realized together with Wirecard partner Cimple
Marketing.

In 2018, Tallink Grupp carried a total of 9.8 million passengers.
Asian tourists are one of the largest customer groups for the
company, with the number of Chinese passengers growing steadily over
the last few years.

Paul Noorkõiv, Tallink Grupp's Vice CIO, said, "It is important
that we take our Chinese customers' shopping preferences into
account. According to our customer value proposal to offer an
enjoyable travel experience, we make it as comfortable as possible
for our guests to pay for goods, offering them the same options they
are used to from back home. The collaboration with Wirecard allows us
to deliver a seamless payment process to enhance the guest experience
onboard."

Jan Rübel, Head of Sales Travel & Transport at Wirecard, added,
"When traveling abroad, Chinese tourists are most likely to spend
their money on duty free and retail shopping. Studies show that this
target audience will buy even more if they can use their preferred
payment methods." Stephan Ritzenhoff, Head of Partner Management,
Travel & Mobility at Wirecard, said, "Together with Cimple Marketing,
we are pleased to help the Tallink and Silja Lines tap into this
potential by enabling them to accept popular Chinese digital payment
methods onboard their ships."

The partnership benefits Chinese customers who can pay cashless on
Tallink's ships as if they were in their home country, without the
need to exchange cash into a foreign currency. In addition, they can
also take advantage of special offers and coupons. By introducing
such a comprehensive payment approach, fully digitized payment
methods are also lucrative for merchants and suppliers.

About Wirecard:

Wirecard (GER:WDI) is one of the world's fastest growing digital
platforms in the area of financial commerce. We provide both
corporate clients and consumers with a constantly expanding ecosystem
of real-time value added services built around innovative digital
payments by using an integrated B2B2C approach. This ecosystem
concentrates on solutions in the areas payment and risk, retail and
transaction banking, loyalty and coupon programs in addition to data
analytics and conversion rate enhancement across all sales channels
(online, mobile, ePOS). Wirecard operates regulated financial
institutions in several key markets, in addition to holding issuing
and acquiring licenses from all major payment and card networks.
Wirecard AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DAX and
TecDAX, ISIN DE0007472060). Visit us on www.wirecard.com, follow us
on Twitter @wirecard and on Facebook @wirecardgroup.

About Tallink Grupp:

AS Tallink Grupp is the leading passenger and cargo transportation
service provider in the Northern region of the Baltic Sea. The
company owns 14 vessels and operates under the brands of Tallink and
Silja Line on 7 different routes. AS Tallink Grupp employs more than
7,400 people in the region and nearly 9.8 million passengers
travelled on its ferries in 2018. AS Tallink Grupp is listed on the
Tallinn Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq Helsinki.

Wirecard media contact::
Wirecard AG
Jana Tilz
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 4424 1363
Email: jana.tilz@wirecard.com

Tallink Grupp media contact:
AS Tallink Grupp
Katri Link
Tel: +372 53 042 121
Email: katri.link@tallink.ee

Original-Content von: Wirecard AG, übermittelt durch news aktuell