VocaLink Pledges Support for Oxfam Hong Kong at Sibos 2009

LONDON - VocaLink, the international payments specialist, announced today that it will be supporting the Oxfam Unwrapped campaign at this year’s Sibos conference in Hong Kong. VocaLink aims to donate GBP10,000 (HK $130,000) to Oxfam Hong Kong, an Oxfam International affiliate, to support the work of the office local to the conference. The donation will be split between three Oxfam Unwrapped causes: family learning, school reconstruction and water pipe construction.

Sibos delegates are invited onto the VocaLink stand (3E05) at the conference to pick up a token and vote for the cause they would most like to support. The result will be announced at an afternoon drinks reception at the company’s stand on Thursday 17 September and the total amount raised will be donated to Oxfam at the end of the Sibos week.

Kanie Siu, deputy director of Oxfam Hong Kong, comments: “We are delighted that VocaLink is supporting the Oxfam Unwrapped campaign at Sibos which helps us achieve our mission of working with people against poverty. The donation will enable us to help people of all ages with reading, writing and mathematics through the family learning initiative as well as allowing us to provide better, sturdier school buildings for students in rural China. The water pipe construction gift supports our work in poor communities where sources are far away and fetching water is a time consuming and strenuous task.”

Marion King, chief executive at VocaLink, adds: “Oxfam Hong Kong’s work is vital to supporting impoverished communities across the world. We are hoping that this year’s Sibos delegates will get behind the charity’s work by visiting our stand and voting for the cause they most want to support.”

About VocaLink

VocaLink is a specialist provider of payment services to banks, their corporate customers and Government departments. It processes domestic and international automated payments and provides ATM switching solutions. On a peak day, the VocaLink automated payment platform processes over 90 million transactions and over half a billion in a month. Its switching platform connects the world’s busiest ATM network of over 60,000 ATMs. Its Real-Time Payments platform provides the central infrastructure for the UK Faster Payments service. VocaLink is working with BGC (Bankgirocentralen) to provide outsourced processing for the majority of Sweden’s domestic payments.

Please visit www.vocalink.com for more information

About Oxfam Hong Kong

Oxfam Hong Kong is an independent development and humanitarian organization working against poverty and related injustice. We recognize that much poverty is caused by injustice and that poverty alleviation requires economic, social and structural change. We work with people facing poverty and with partner organisations on development, humanitarian, policy advocacy and public education programmes.

Please visit www.oxfam.org.hk for more information

Source: VocaLink

Contacts: For further information please contact: Scott McLean, Hotwire, +44(0)20-7608-2500 or vocalinkuk at hotwirepr.com . Deborah Souter, VocaLink Limited, +44(0)870-920-8651 or deborah.souter at vocaLink.com .