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2010 Voice Commerce becomes first UK Payments Institution to be accepted as a Pricipal Member of Visa Europe
2009 Voice Commerce Limited becomes a Regulated Payment Institution  (PSD)
2009 Operational Centre opened in Cambridge UK
2009 Perpetual Payments acquired
2008 VoiceTransact network launched
2007 Develop Cashflows Salary Card
2007 Develop Call recording on Engage
2007 VoicePay launched
2007 Introduce IP billing to Engage
2006 Engage platform launched
2006 ViewText SMS and MMS messaging services launched
2006 WhitePhone Publisher launched
2006 Launch WhitePhone integrated Voip Browser
2006 Launch CastAlive! Integrated Video and Audio Voip Broadcast system
2005 Voice Commerce Group formed
WOW Talk! goes live with www.cd-wow.com
WhitePhone launched

Hello launched. WhitePhone business and consumer products developed to support multiple rich messaging capabilities
2004 Launched Busta as a true B2B VoIP services company and Launched On4 as a C2C Voip communications company
2003

Start development work with On Instant to explore broadband computing opportunities and extend knowledge of wallet based payment systems and B2B payment requirements
Established software development team in Dubai Internet City, UAE


2002 Work on the Vodaphone M-Pay mobile payment wallet

WorldPay acquired after hostile takeover by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group - the fifth largest banking group in the world

Nick Ogden is a finalist again in the UK Entrepreneur of the Year competition for his achievements at WorldPay
2001 Finalised a global agreement with American Express to aggregate Amex Payments with Visa and MasterCard transactions

WorldPay's single and multi-currency processing system wins eCommerce Application of the Year at Computing Magazine's Awards for Excellence. WorldPay wins Publishing Magazine Editor's Choice for providing outstanding products and services to the publishing industry

Invented the WorldPay Payments Guarantee program and provided additional payment protection to Internet merchants before Visa and MasterCard
2000 Establish Regional centre in Singapore for WorldPay and commence negotiations with American Express and JCB

Finalise an agreement with National Data Corporation in Atlanta for Payment Processing I the US marketplace

Sold 13.6% of WorldPay to NatWest Bank for £23.6M, NatWest subsequently acquired by RBS

Nick Ogden is a finalist in the UK Entrepreneur of the Year competition for his achievements at WorldPay MasterCard and Visa endorse the WorldPay processing model
1999 WorldPay processes and systems approved by NatWest Bank internal risk policy group.

NatWest Bank approach WorldPay to invest in the business

Commence work with Richard Branson and launch Virgin Biznet
1998 Realised that banks could not deliver timely risk approval and conceived the direct merchant acquisition model

Purchased £100m of credit insurance to underwrite risk exposure on credit card processing
1997

Invented the word WorldPay and developed Internet multi-currency capabilities in conjunction with NatWest Bank
Provided payment processing services for the Princess Diana Memorial Fund


1995 Barclays Bank endorses our secure payment systems and opens UK's first electronic shopping mall 'Barclay Square'
1994 Designed and Built the Wine Warehouse, believed to be Europe’s first online shop offering secure transactions
1993 Worked with the first Electronic Cash Purse trials in Europe, called Jersey Card
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