Bank of the Philippine Islands Selects Hypercom

Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced that Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), one of the leading financial institutions in the Philippines with more than 800 branch offices across the country, has selected Hypercom for its card payment systems. BPI will begin deploying thousands of Hypercom Optimum payment systems to merchants across the country over a three-year mass rollout.

"BPI’s selection of Hypercom is a vote of confidence for our company, speaks of our products’ competitive advantages and reinforces our footprint in this important market,” said Jacques-Herve Maupin, Managing Director, Hypercom Asia Pacific.

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About Bank of the Philippine Islands

Bank of the Philippine Islands serves more than 3 million individual customers and has a network of over 800 branches and 1,649 automated teller machines in the entire archipelago. It has been consistently cited and awarded globally for its above-average profitability, sufficient capital/assets, low cost funding base, and manageable non-performing loan levels.

About Hypercom

Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products, software solutions and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, self-service and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally.

Hypercom and Optimum and Design are registered trademarks of Hypercom Corporation. All other products or services mentioned in this document are trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners.

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