VeriFone honours Epic Lanka as ‘Innovative Solutions Partner’

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Epic Lanka was honoured as ‘Innovative Solutions Partner’ by VeriFone Inc. at its prestigious Partner’s Forum held recently in Vietnam. Over 130 partner firms from the Greater Asia region attended this forum organised by VeriFone Inc., the US based world leader of electronic payment devices. Established in 1981, VeriFone operates in 150 countries with over 20 million systems installed globally.

“The Innovative Solutions Award we won shows our quest for excellence,” said Epic Lanka Group Chairman/Managing Director Nayana Dehigama. “Our talent pool always looks for innovations to add more value to the end-users and to do so you got to be ahead of others in terms of knowledge and creativity. This is how we retain our position as a technology leader recognised by our clients as well as globally-renowned technology leaders,” he added. After receiving the award, Epic Lanka Director/CEO Viraj Mudalige emphasised how they transformed a mere payment device to be a fully-fledged mobile bank that offers almost all banking services online, real time. “It took us several years as we started our innovations with postal banking using EDC POS terminals to reach where we are today. Our creations offer any financial institution the capability of replicating hundreds of branches in no time to reach customers cost effectively. We appreciate the assistance we received from our Principals, VeriFone relying on our technological capabilities. Even at the early stages of our innovations VeriFone allowed us to co-brand their terminals in recognising our talents. It inspired us to develop Asia Pacific’s most innovative banking solution and to go beyond,” he concluded. With an impeccable track record of 16 years serving the banking and financial services industry, Epic is regionally renowned for innovative software solutions that have changed the competitive landscape of the banking industry. In addition to the state of the art software development centre named Epic Techno-Village they operate in many other countries in the region through subsidiaries and collaborations.