- SIGNAL IDUNA selects Wirecard as payment service provider to
improve its online and mobile offering
- Thanks to Wirecard, customers can now seamlessly take out and
pay for insurance policies online
ASCHHEIM, Germany, Feb. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Wirecard, the
global innovation leader for digital financial technology, today
announced that it is helping German financial services giant SIGNAL
IDUNA extend its online and mobile services with new payment
methods. Consumers will be able to take out and pay for insurance
online. Wirecard processes the payments as well the payouts in the
case of successful claims. The company – that provides insurance
policies for health, travel, household and more – also famously
sponsors the Borussia Dortmund football stadium, the largest in
Germany.
Founded over a hundred years ago and like many organizations in
the financial services arena, SIGNAL IDUNA is currently going
through a digital transformation. Digitalization is transforming
the insurance market. The lines between channels are blurring and
competition is intensifying all over the world. To avoid being left
behind, savvy insurers are needing to create a seamless
personalized experience for policy holders across all their
channels. Wirecard offers everything insurers need to enable secure
payment processing and an optimal checkout experience. Besides
being quick and easy to integrate into existing systems, Wirecard's
solutions can help insurers systematically boost customer
loyalty.
Through working with Wirecard, SIGNAL IDUNA has been able to
integrate new payment methods seamlessly into an intuitive
interface where customers can access its various solutions
24/7.
SIGNAL IDUNA offers powerful insurance and financial products as
well as exclusive offerings for private and corporate clients,
which are available online. In addition, the company has its own
tailor-made app, which is available both in the App Store and in
Google Play, so that customers can undertake all their insurance
needs on the move.
"We want to provide a quick and targeted service to our
customers. The cooperation with Wirecard is a further step in
adapting to increasing digitalization and meeting the needs of the
digital lifestyle. Thanks to an intuitive payment page based on the
Wirecard platform, we can minimize friction and ensure an optimal
experience for our customers," explained Arne Boysen, Head of the Collections Department
and Project Manager for the 'alternative payment options' project
at SIGNAL IDUNA. "The wide range of payment methods as well as the
uncomplicated and fast integration were determining factors in
choosing to work with Wirecard. Moreover, Wirecard meets our
extremely high security requirements."
"Wirecard is ideally placed to assist organizations such as
SIGNAL IDUNA with their digital transformation to ensure they can
differentiate themselves in a rapidly morphing marketplace," added
Christian Reindl, EVP Retail &
Consumer Goods at Wirecard.
About Wirecard:
Wirecard (GER: WDI) is one of the world's fastest growing
digital platforms in the area of financial commerce. We provide
both business customers 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 the areas payment & risk, retail
& transaction banking, loyalty & couponing, data analytics
& conversion rate enhancement in all sales channels (online,
mobile, ePOS). Wirecard operates regulated financial institutions
in several key markets and holds 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 @wirecard.
About SIGNAL IDUNA:
The SIGNAL IDUNA Group can be traced back to small health
support funds founded by craftsmen and tradesmen in Dortmund and Hamburg over 100 years ago. Today, SIGNAL
IDUNA offers the entire spectrum of insurance and financial
services for all target groups. The Group serves more than twelve
million customers and contracts and generates premium revenues of
around €5.9 billion. You can find further information about the
SIGNAL IDUNA Group at www.signal-iduna.de.
Wirecard media contact:
Wirecard AG
Jana Tilz
Tel.: +49-(0)-89-4424-1363
Email: jana.tilz@wirecard.com
SIGNAL IDUNA media contact:
SIGNAL IDUNA Group
Edzard Bennmann
Tel.: +49-(0)-231-135-3539
Email: edzard.bennmann@signal-iduna.de