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In an era marked by concerns over data privacy and cybersecurity threats, the establishment of reliable and robust defences in a systematic and consistent manner is paramount. ISO 27001:2022 offers a highly relevant, up-to-date, and comprehensive framework that empowers organizations to address the pervasive risks associated with today’s widespread online interactivity.

Commenting on the achievement, Fintan Byrne, CEO CR2 said, “ISO certification serves as a clear demonstration that our organization and management system consistently adhere to internationally recognized standards. It reassures our customers, prospects, partners, and suppliers that we are an organization committed to quality and information security.“

The ISO 27001 certification, initially applied to CR2’s Dublin office, signifies the culmination of a transformative business journey and process innovation that engaged the entire company. The newly certified management system establishes a solid foundation and management framework for continual improvement, risk reduction, and enhanced resilience, contributing to an elevated CR2 information security posture.

About CR2

CR2 is a leader in digital banking and payments. The business powers over 90 successful bank implementations in more than 50 countries across the world. BankWorld, their core digital banking and payments platform, offers the broadest capabilities in market and uniquely integrates their Digital Banking, Digital Wallet and Payments Hub (Card Issuing, ATM Driving, Merchant Acceptance). In addition, CR2’s Partner Ecosystem combines the confidence of BankWorld with access to easy plug-in, third-party Fintech innovations.

CR2 helps financial service providers to build around their consumers with technology that supports both customer experience and an ability to consistently deliver.

If you think financial services cannot innovate quickly, THINK again.

For more information. www.cr2.com

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CR2 empowers banks to deliver on the potential of digital banking and payment solutions for both consumers and SME/Business banking customers. The platform drives significant customer innovation as it integrates with any core banking platform seamlessly. Once implemented, the platform frees banks from expensive and time-intensive changes to their core banking stack. CR2 provides all the building blocks to launch products, services, and enhanced customer experiences from one platform across all channels.

Fintan Byrne, CEO of CR2, commented, “We are delighted to be chosen by two progressive banks in Africa and the Middle East. The MEA market is exciting at present. Banks continue to respond to increased competition from both within and outside of the banking sector. At CR2, we believe there are excellent opportunities for banks to innovate and take leadership positions in both consumer and business banking markets through innovative digital banking and payment solutions. In addition, population growth, together with increases in digital adoption and mobile phone penetration, will continue to create opportunities for rapid growth within our existing and new banking partners”.

CR2’s innovative digital banking and payments platform is unique in several ways:

• Breadth of Channels – the platform supports the largest channel selection, from innovative digital wallet solutions to more established USSD, self-service, and internet solutions. This provides banks with strategic channel choice depending on the needs of the customer at any point in their lifecycle, technology choice and helps banks differentiate and optimize at the same time.
• Native Payment Capability – reduces complexity and number of partners needed in the bank’s ecosystem to deliver innovative services to customers.
• Local implementation excellence – innovation delivers value through successful implementation. CR2 combines global innovation with local market and regulatory knowledge through years of successful delivery with excellent reference customers.

The business continues to invest in innovation, including the successful launch of a Digital Wallet solution last year. This payment account, delivered on mobile is an easy-to-deploy proposition for banks to drive customer recruitment at scale, as well as the ability to pay via card or pay from account solutions.

Kieran Kilcullen, Chief Commercial Officer, CR2 commented, “We continue to build on our track record, with successful implementations that deliver real value. Innovation that caters to the market needs is crucial, for example, our Digital Wallet proposition enables banks to deploy without costly changes to core banking systems. It provides a powerful solution that can be scaled, where consumers benefit from reliable, secure, and convenient 24/7 banking and payments. These new bank signatures are part of a strong 12 months for CR2, with new business in markets as diverse as Uganda, Eswatini, Mauritius, Iraq, Nigeria and Ethiopia, further demonstrating the power of our proposition and our reputation for successful delivery.”

About CR2

CR2 is a leader in digital banking and payments. The business powers over 90 successful bank implementations in more than 50 countries across the world. BankWorld, their core digital banking and payments platform, offers the broadest capabilities in market and uniquely integrates their Digital Banking, Digital Wallet and Payments Hub (Card Issuing, ATM Driving, Merchant Acceptance). In addition, CR2’s Partner Ecosystem combines the confidence of BankWorld with access to easy plug-in, third-party Fintech innovations.

In simple terms, CR2 helps financial service providers to build around consumers with technology that supports both customer experience and an ability to deliver consistently.

If you think financial services cannot innovate quickly, THINK again!

For more information, please visit www.cr2.com

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Zeina Abu Saada – Product Marketing Manager, CR2 zeina.abusaada@cr2.com

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A significant achievement as CMS platforms continues to develop and offer an extensive array of advanced features for numerous use cases. This includes support for multi-product, multi-language, multi-currency, multi-scheme, and a wide spectrum of payment scenarios, including contactless, QR code, in-app payments, tokenization and more

Over the last 12 months CR2 has continued to invest in innovation. Their CMS has a strong history of successful implementations and native digital capabilities. CR2’s API driven approach to prepaid card issuing enables faster regional deployment of cards with a focus on strong API enablement for KYC and AML. CR2 cards can also be instantly issued into mobile through a successful tokenised payment partnership with Entrust.

Commenting on the recognition, Cormac Duncan, Head of Products, CR2, said, “It is great to be externally recognised as a leader in Card Management Systems. The CR2 CMS is an integral part of our Digital Banking & Payments Platform. This offers banks an unrivalled opportunity to deploy card payment journeys, for example, mobile tap & pay, across digital channels. A key differentiator for the banks we work with. In addition, our CMS provides enhanced consumer card management: for example, unblock card when traveling abroad, set personal limits, report lost & stolen. This enhances the end customer experience while removing a lot of unnecessary traffic and cost from the banks where we have deployed.”

“The market size of global cards market is expected to reach US$390.54Bn by 2027 at a CAGR of 7.6%”, According to Cards Global Market Report 2023.

About CR2

CR2 is a leader in digital banking and payments. The business powers over 90 successful bank implementations in more than 50 countries across the world. BankWorld, their core digital banking and payments platform, offers the broadest capabilities in market and uniquely integrates their Digital Banking, Digital Wallet and Payments Hub (Card Issuing, ATM Driving, Merchant Acceptance). In addition, CR2’s Partner Ecosystem combines the confidence of BankWorld with access to easy plug-in, third-party Fintech innovations.

In simple terms, CR2 helps financial service providers to build around consumers with technology that supports both customer experience and an ability to deliver consistently.

If you think financial services cannot innovate quickly, THINK again.

For more information, please visit www.cr2.com

About Quadrant:

Quadrant Knowledge Solutions is a global advisory and consulting firm focused on helping clients in achieving business transformation goals with Strategic Business, and Growth Advisory Services.

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The Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards promote and recognise business’ performance from every perspective. A detailed judging process precedes the recognition, evaluating the entire management team and business strategy. The judges look beyond financial performance at areas such as a company’s environmental, social and governance standards, strategic planning and talent strategy as part of the process.

Commenting on the award, Paul Geraghty, CFO, CR2, said: “Our technology solutions enable banks to deliver excellent customer experiences. Each day we power millions of bank interactions across some of the most exciting markets in the world. This award is great recognition of the progress we are making as a business. The last 12 months has been our most successful to date with new business wins in new countries together with strong business growth across our existing customer base. This can only happen when we deliver as a team, when we do lots of small things consistently well. We are proud to be recognised three years in a row, it provides great motivation to continue to get even better.”

Brian Murphy, Lead Partner for Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Awards Programme at Deloitte Ireland said: “This year we’re celebrating 15 years of the BMC programme and the incredible companies that have qualified. Even though this year’s cohort faced into another challenging period, over the past 15 years we’ve seen how indigenous Irish businesses find opportunities in change. Strengthening governance and recognising the value of specialist expert advice on critical areas such as ESG were key discussion points in the coaching sessions. We also saw companies increasingly focused on innovation driving internationalisation. Despite the uncertainties of the past few years, the confidence of Irish businesses is clear as more and more are scaling their market reach internationally”.

About CR2

CR2 is a leader in digital banking and payments. The business powers over 90 successful bank implementations in more than 50 countries across the world. BankWorld, their core digital banking and payments platform, offers the broadest capabilities in market and uniquely integrates their Digital Banking, Digital Wallet and Payments Hub (Card Issuing, ATM Driving, Merchant Acceptance). In addition, CR2’s Partner Ecosystem combines the confidence of BankWorld with access to easy plug-in, third-party Fintech innovations.

CR2 helps financial service providers to build around their consumers with technology that supports both customer experience and an ability to consistently deliver.

If you think financial services cannot innovate quickly, THINK again.

For more information –  www.cr2.com

International History of Best Managed Companies Programme

The Best Managed Companies Programme originated in Canada in 1993, where it has been run successfully ever since and is the country’s leading business awards programme. In addition to Ireland and Canada, the programme is currently run in a total of 48 countries including China, The US, Southeast Asia, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Mexico and Chile.

About Deloitte

At Deloitte, we make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, our profession, and in the wider society by delivering the solutions and insights they need to address their most complex business challenges.

As the largest global professional services and consulting network, with over 312,000 professionals in more than 150 countries, we bring world-class capabilities and high-quality services to our clients.

In Ireland, Deloitte has approximately 3,000 people providing audit, tax, consulting, risk advisory and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. Our people have the leadership capabilities, experience and insight to collaborate with clients so they can move forward with confidence.

In this press release references to Deloitte are references to Deloitte Ireland LLP. The information contained in this press release is correct at the time of going to press. Deloitte Ireland LLP is the Ireland affiliate of Deloitte NSE LLP, a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”). DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL and Deloitte NSE LLP do not provide services to clients. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.

Media Contacts:

Murtough Ware – Marketing Campaign Manager, CR2.

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كما ستتضمن الشراكة أيضًا تطوير تطبيق مصرفي عبر الهاتف المحمول للمصرف الدولي الاسلامي، والذي يتوافق مع احتياجات العملاء ويوفر خدمات مالية بسيطة ورقمية مثل تحويل الأموال والدفع الإلكتروني. ستمكن هذه الحلول المصرفية المحمولة المبتكرة العملاء من إدارة حساباتهم والوصول إلى مجموعة واسعة من الخدمات المصرفية مباشرة من هواتفهم الذكية.

بالإضافة إلى ذلك، ستعمل هذه الشراكة على تطوير منتجات وخدمات جديدة تلبي احتياجات السوق المصرفية العراقية الحالية والمستقبلية. تهدف الشراكة إلى زيادة الاعتماد على الخدمات التكنولوجية الرقمية بين قاعدة العملاء الحالية، وتوسيع قاعدة العملاء الجديدة من خلال تحسين خدمات الأعمال المصرفية.

تأتي هذه الشراكة استجابةً لرؤية البنك المركزي العراقي للخدمات المصرفية الرقمية، وتهدف إلى تعزيز التحول الرقمي في الخدمات المصرفية من خلال توسيع الوجود الرقمي للمصرف الدولي الاسلامي في العراق.

وعلّق كيران كيلكولين، الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة CR2  “يسعدنا توقيع هذه الشراكة مع المصرف الدولي الاسلامي لتقديم حلول الابتكار الخاصة بالخدمات المصرفية الرقمية. أنها خطوة مهمة في تلبية احتياجات العملاء، ونحن فخورين جداً بالفرصة بالدور الذي نلعبه في دعم المصرف بخبرتنا وابتكارنا من الأسواق في جميع أنحاء العالم.  يستمر المشهد المصرفي والمدفوعات في التغير، ونرى العديد من الفرص أمام البنوك التي تتولى مواقع قيادية باستخدام حلول رقمية مبتكرة وآمنة وسهلة الاستخدام تمكن عملائها من النجاح”.

وعلقت السيدة سها الكفائي, المدير المفوض للمصرف الدولي الاسلامي “من المهم أن نستمر في تطوير وابتكار المصرف الدولي الاسلامي. ستوفر لنا هذه الشراكة مع CR2 لتطوير المنتجات المصرفية. فنحن سعداء للغاية بهذه الفرصة التي ستتيح  على الحلول المصرفية الرقمية والمصرفية المستقبلية، وفقًا لما يحدث في جميع أنحاء العالم. ستضمن هذه العلاقة أن يصبح المصرف الدولي الاسلامي طرفًا رائدًا في إيجاد حلول رائدة لعملائنا سواء في القطاع الأفراد أو في قطاع الأعمال”.

نبذة عن CR2

تعد شركة CR2 رائدة في مجال الخدمات المصرفية والمدفوعات، وتقديم حلولاً مصرقية رقمية مبتكة لأكتر 100 بنك في 60 دولة حول العالم. . تتميز الشركة بخبرتها في تقديم الخدمات المصرفية الرقمية مثل إصدار البطاقات وأجهزة الصراف الآلي، وتوفر حلولًا متقدمة من خلال منصتها “بنك وورلد. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، وإمكانية الوصول إلى حلول التكنولوجيا المالية من خلال شركائها الخارجيين وحضورها العالمي الواسع.

وتهدف الشركة إلى تعزيز التحول الرقمي في صناعة الخدمات المصرفية وتحسين تجربة العملاء وتسهيل الوصول إلى الخدمات المالية عبر القنوات الرقمية. لمزيد من المعلومات يرجى زيارة الموقع الإلكتروني www.cr2.com.

نبذة عن المصرف الدولي الاسلامي

تأسس المصرف الدولي الإسلامي ككيان مالي مستقل، يُقدم مجموعة واسعة من الخدمات التي تُلبي احتياجات الافراد والمؤسسات والشركات، إضافة الى الخدمات الاساسية تتمثل بالحسابات الشخصية والتجارية والمرابحات الاسلامية والتمويلات الاستثمارية وفتح الاعتماد المستندي والعمليات الائتمانية وخطابات الضمان اون لاين اضافة الى الخدمات الالكترونية المتعددة.

ننطلق وفق رؤية مصرفية اقتصادية مركزة نحو تقديم الابتكار والتكنولوجي ديجيتال (بانكنك) في ادارة الاموال عن بعد عبر كادر اداري متخصص في مجال تقنية ادارة المعلومات المصرفية وخلق بيئة مصرفيو رقمية متكاملة تأتي عبر نتاج دراسة حالات التطور العالمي (للحوكمة) ممزوجة بحاجة السوق وادارة الاعمال للنهوض باقتصاد مصرفية رقمي محكم في السوق العراق والمنطقة والعالم. كما اننا نفتخر بحصولنا على تقييم ٩١ ٪؜ لجودة الخدمات من البنك المركزي العراقي، وشهادة تقييم بنسبة 4/5 لممارسات (الحوكمة) والابتكار المؤسسي، وبعض الجوائز الدولية المهمة، منها جائزة أفضل مصرف في تنوع الخدمات والمنتجات في العراق عام 2022 من قبل الاتحاد الدولي للمصرفيين العرب، وغيرها من الجوائز والمشاركات.

انضم إلينا لنشكل مستقبل البنوك في العراق.

لمزيد من المعلومات يرجى زيارة الموقع الإلكتروني  :  www.imtb.iq

للإعلام:

زينة أبو سعدى – مديرة تسويق المنتجات، CR2

zeina.abusaada@cr2.com

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The collaboration between CR2 and International Islamic Bank will deliver secure and enhanced digital banking services for both Retail and Business customers with excellent user experience, simple payment processes, and access wide range of banking services anytime, anywhere.

This partnership will also introduce a new mobile banking channel for IMTB, that responds to trends toward mobile banking across the world.  This innovative mobile banking solution will empower customers to perform transactions, manage their accounts and access a wide range of banking services directly from their smartphones.

Built on CR2’s flexible platform – BankWorld, the partnership will also provide the agility to introduce new products and services that meet local market needs both now and in the future. This strategic advantage will drive digital adoption among the existing customer base, attract new Retail customers seeking innovative banking solutions, and better serve the Business Banking segments.

Aligned with the vision of Iraq’s Central Bank for digital banking, International Islamic Bank is taking a leading position to drive digital transformation by expanding its digital banking footprint.

Kieran Kilcullen, Chief Commercial Officer, CR2 commented, “We are delighted to sign this partnership with International Islamic Bank to deliver their new digital banking experience. We welcome the opportunity to share our experience and innovation from markets across the globe. The banking and payments landscape continues to change, we see a lot of opportunities for banks that take leadership positions with innovative, secure, user-friendly digital solutions that empower their customers to succeed.”

Commenting on the partnership Suha Al-Kifaee, IMTB CEO, “It is important that we at International Islamic Bank (IMTB) continue to develop and innovate on behalf of our customers. This partnership with CR2 will provide the platform to do this at scale. We see the demand for digital and mobile banking solutions increase, in line with what is happening across the globe. This relationship will ensure that IMTB creates leading solutions for both our Retail and Business customers.”

About CR2

CR2 is a leader in digital banking and payments. The business powers over 90 successful bank implementations in more than 50 countries across the world. BankWorld, their core digital banking and payments platform, offers the broadest capabilities in market and uniquely integrates their Digital Banking, Digital Wallet and Payments Hub (Card Issuing, ATM Driving, Merchant Acceptance). In addition, CR2’s Partner Ecosystem combines the confidence of BankWorld with access to easy plug-in, third-party Fintech innovations.

In simple terms, CR2 helps financial service providers to build around consumers with technology that supports both customer experience and an ability to deliver consistently.

If you think financial services cannot innovate quickly, THINK again.

For more information, please visit www.cr2.com

About International Islamic Bank

The International Islamic Bank was established as an independent financial entity, offering a wide range of services that meet the needs of individuals, institutions and companies, in addition to the basic services represented in personal and commercial accounts, Islamic Murabaha, investment funding, opening credit letters, credit operations and on-line guarantee letters, in addition to various electronic services.

We proceed based on a concentrated economic banking vision towards providing innovation and digital technology (banking) in managing funds remotely through an administrative staff specialized in the field of banking information management technology and creating an integrated digital banking environment that comes through the case study outcome of global development (governance) mixed with the need of the market and business management for promoting an advanced and solid digital banking economy throughout the Iraqi market, the region and the rest of the world.

We are also proud of obtaining a 91% assessment for the quality of services from the Central Bank of Iraq, a certificate of evaluation of 4/5 for (governance) practices and institutional innovation, and some important international awards, including the award for the best bank in the diversity of services and products in Iraq in 2022 by the International Federation of Arab Bankers, and other awards and participations.

Join us to shape the future of banks in Iraq.

For more information visit www.imtb.iq

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Zeina Abu Saada – Product Marketing Manager, CR2 zeina.abusaada@cr2.com

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