Abbrevia

Abbrevia is an innovative provider of leading-edge test tools with a global customer base spanning four continents. We provide our customers access to best-of-breed products through exclusive alliances with international market leaders.

At Abbrevia, we realise that today's payments strategies focus on flexibility, teamwork and technology to meet the challenges of the ever-changing business environment. We appreciate that payments providers' success hinges on their ability to cultivate an innovative, efficient, responsive, customer oriented and quality conscious culture.

Abbrevia’s products and services covers POS Acquiring solutions, Mobile Secure Authentication, testing and quality assurance of the full electronic payments value chain including EMV Card Management System (credit, debit and virtual cards issuing), merchant management, clearing / settlement, and payments switch (payment channels, device drivers, national and international card scheme network interfaces for acquirer and issuer processing). Abbrevia provides industrial grade test and certification simulators based on the SIMplicity ATM simulator, PIVOT Card Personalisation Validation Tool and the ASTREX POS/Network simulator (Visa, MasterCard and AMEX) covering both acquirer and issuer processing.

Abbrevia has proven experience in providing POS terminal application products, Mobile Secure Authentication solutions, EMV project management, technical implementation, test and certification services covering all aspects of the EMV processing value chain including the following areas:

- Delivering Mobile payments and services secure authentication based on a unique token per transaction scheme

- Providing Multi-vendor, Multi-scheme, Multi-technology (Magnetic Stripe, EMV Contact, EMV Contactless) terminal application development platform and Terminal Management System
ICC chip card specifications, personalisation and quality assurance for both VSDC and MChip applications

- ATM and POS terminal application integration, testing and certification including both ADVT and TIP services

- Network interface certifications including Visa SMS, Visa BaseI, MasterCard MDS, MasterCard CIS and MasterCard Network Interface Validation (NIV)

At Abbrevia we pride ourselves in providing end to end consultancy by partnering with our customers, understanding their issues and problems, defining business strategies and technology road maps followed by development of required RFPs, evaluation of responses, recommendation and implementation of appropriate solutions to address customer needs.