The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, provider of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services is pleased to announce an extension of services with its existing client Moneybookers.

Moneybookers, recently recognised by Deloitte as being the fastest growing private-equity backed company in the UK[1] and one of Europe’s largest online payment systems, has been a client of The Bunker for the last eight years. Moneybookers handles over €4.5 billion in transaction volume every year. In 2008, revenue doubled to €34.5 million, making it one of the fastest growing international technology companies and most successful global payment companies. Over 13,000 customers sign up for an account every day.

As an online payment gateway, Moneybookers has a requirement for secure and available data storage and over the past eight years has worked with The Bunker to shape an effective and scalable business solution. As internet usage continues to increase and online businesses see a rise in e-commerce, Moneybookers has seen a sharp increase in online payment transactions passing through its payment system.

As a result of this increased demand, Moneybookers has extended its services with The Bunker, reaffirming its satisfaction with The Bunker as one of Europe’s most secure data centres. This is a relationship that has been further strengthened by The Bunker’s recent ISO 27001 and PCI DSS security accreditations and continued synergies between the company’s stances on data security.

Nikolai Riesenkampff, Co-CEO at Moneybookers, comments “Moneybookers specialises in online payments and money transfers. Our customers demand security, our business demands non-stop availability, and our infrastructure demands capacity and scalability. We find all of these at The Bunker, one of the most secure and robust data centre facilities in Europe.”

Simon Neal, Chief Operating Officer at The Bunker, comments, “Moneybookers became a Bunker client in 2002 and have expanded year on year. The Bunker has always offered secure scalable solutions and continued investment in our facilities has seen us gain both ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accreditation – both international standards in information and online transaction security. The Bunker enjoys working with Moneybookers and strives continually to improve its service, offering peace of mind as Europe’s most secure data centre”.

Footnotes:
[1] Source; The Sunday Times Buyout Track 100 2010 (http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/bt100programme.html )

About Moneybookers
Moneybookers is one of Europe's largest online payments systems and among the world's leading eWallet providers with over ten million account holders. The simple eWallet enables any customer to make online payments conveniently and securely without revealing personal financial data, as well as to send and receive money transfers cost-effectively simply by using an email address. Moneybookers’ worldwide payment network offers businesses access to over 80 payment options in over 200 countries through just one integration. More than 60,000 merchants use Moneybookers’ payments service, including global partners such as eBay.com, Skype and Thomas Cook.

Moneybookers was founded in 2001 in London and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom.

In February 2010, The Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100 league table ranked Moneybookers as the Number 1 fastest growing private equity-backed company in the UK based on profits. This followed its September 2009 naming in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table as the sixth fastest growing technology company in the UK based on sales growth. Moneybookers was also recognised for the quality of its management, international expansion and growth strategy with two awards at the 2009 UK Media Momentum Awards.

You can also follow Moneybookers on Twitter at www.twitter.com/moneybookers

About The Bunker
The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Outsourced IT and Data Centre solutions from within Europe’s most secure Data Centre.

Our Data Centres, which are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London, are ex-military Nuclear Bunkers purpose built to house the UK's air defence systems. We run 24/7/365 and our NOC monitors systems both nationally and internationally and is staffed around the clock by system and network engineers and security staff.

The Bunker team includes recognised experts in security and cryptography renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accredited and follows ITILv3 best practice and Prince 2 management standards. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner. We use Open Source software where appropriate as we believe it can offer great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between our sites and the Internet.

The Bunker works with over 150 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security.

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