eServices breaks into profit and announces ambitious plans

"The profit will not be high, but it is just the beginning. I believe it will be much better in the future," stated Jakub Kiwior, the director of business department at eService. The company, which is the second largest domestic authorization center, will establish 10,000 POS terminals to service payment card transactions, which means that at the end of the year the company will own 28,300 such terminals. "This gives us a 30% share of the terminals market. We roughly have a 25% share of the value of payment card transactions. Our ambition is to achieve a 40% stake in the POS market and over 40% share in the transactions value," revealed Kiwior. In order to achieve this aim the company wants to install 6-7,000 new terminals next year. eService is also preparing to introduce the possibility of servicing microchip cards in its network. "In the future, PKO BP may have the largest share in chip cards," declared Kiwior. (Puls Biznesu, p. 14) E.B.