asknet Partners with omba on eCommerce Payment Solutions

Global eShops Provider partners with international Payment Service Provider to expand global offering on payment methods.

Karlsruhe/Berlin – October 6, 2011 – asknet, a leading provider of global eCommerce solutions that increase sales and expand markets for software and digital media companies, today announced a partnership with the international Payment Service Provider (PSP) omba. The strategic relationship allows asknet to offer additional payment options for its customers’ commerce sites including Sofortbanking, one of the most often used E-payment systems in Germany, as well as Postfinance.

“The international payment expertise of omba paired with asknet’s industry knowledge complement each other in an optimal way for our customers,” said Michael Konrad, Co-CEO of asknet AG. “The partnership with omba works well with the asknet philosophy to always strive to offer our customers a wide variety of payment methods, which can be a challenge for merchants in the highly dynamic eCommerce market. With omba, we now offer our customers a more expansive choice of payment options.”

Thomas Tittelbach, Managing Director of omba GmbH, looks forward to the success of the relationship. “We are excited to work with asknet to expand its ePayment offerings with local payment methods. This alliance demonstrates our ability to provide payment methods for both established markets and new ones.”

In addition to well-established payment options, omba’s portfolio is constantly growing with local payment methods in emerging markets such as Latin America, Russia and China.


About asknet:
asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become a leading independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest platform for downloads of standard software. In 2010, asknet posted sales of approximately EUR 72.7 million. asknet´s clients include numerous providers of specialty software such as F-Secure, IS3, Nero, NetObjects, Norman, and Panda Security. The company also supplies software products to around eighty percent of German universities.

About omba:
Omba is an international Payment Service Provider for merchants that process international transactions. The company focuses on international markets with above-average growth rates. Based in Germany, omba offers various payment methods via a unified interface to support the further revenue growth of merchants.

Press contact omba GmbH:
Thomas Tittelbach
Stendaler Str. 4
10559 Berlin
Email: thomas@ombapay.com
www.ombapay.com

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