Press release
16 October 2009

The Customs Payment System, “GREEN CORRIDOR” – a coordinator of the customs payment cards issuing in Russia – has highly estimated the merits and efficiency of its fully fledged processing center, realized in 2009 on the base of BPC’s SmartVista solution. At present over 300 customs posts are equipped with POS terminals accepting GREEN CORRIDOR cards which are supported by SmartVista, while the number of terminals and participating banks quickly increases.

Within the contract BPC acted as a General Contractor and a systems integrator and took responsibility for all the stages of the processing center implementation, including its project management and implementation, and the supply for payment terminals, cards, communication, encryption, personalization and other necessary equipment.

Thanks to the high professionalism of the BPC team, the implementation of the fully functional in-house processing center was realized in a record breaking period – within a 2.5 month term. Currently the cards of the Customs Payment System, “GREEN CORRIDOR”, are issued by tens of banks, with the processing center allowing for online authorization and control of customs duty payments in an around-the-clock mode with online communication with the customs bodies.

“Currently the Customs Payment System, “GREEN CORRIDOR”, using high technology solutions and SmartVista based processing center ensures the timely payment of customs duties, the highest security of the information, payment transparency, and the opportunity to quickly adapt to the customs regulation changes, says Semen Zverev, CEO, Customs Payment System. The improvement of the customs payments through the implementation of a modern software complex on the base of the Customs Payment System, “GREEN CORRIDOR”, has allowed an increase in the efficiency of the custom duty payment processes and an expansion of the list of services available with the use of the customs payment cards in full accordance with the Russian Federal Customs Service strategy”.

“The project for the creation of a modern customs payment infrastructure is a very important step for BPC’s development. It is the first time that BPC has won a tender organized by a commercial organisation to serve Russian state needs. This win has been possible because of the company’s reputation, experience of successful projects realized in the largest Russian financial institutions and partner relationships with the leading providers of hardware solutions for the financial industry which have been persistently built during many years. We highly appreciate the confidence placed in us by the Customs Payment System and will do everything to justify it by contributing to the efficiency of the customs payment technologies. On behalf of our company I would also like to thank our partners – HP and Inpas – for their highly professional assistance in the realization of the project”, commented Vasily Grigoriev, CEO, BPC Banking Technologies.