SIA key figures (at 31 December 2010)

Total transactions:

7.5 billion of which:

- debit and credit card operations

4.9 billion

- payment and collection operations

2.6 billion

Volume of data transfers:

11.1 terabytes (1 terabyte = 1,000 billion bytes)

Transactions on financial markets:

9.2 billion

SIA Group employees

Around 1,520

Payment Cards: Presence

12 countries

Total cards managed

62.4 million

Debit and credit cards operations

over 4.9 billion

Merchants managed:

Over 1 million

POS terminals managed:

81,998

ATMs managed:

952

Payment systems: EBA STEP2

408 million transactions processed

Commercial collections:

527 million

Capital Markets: Financial brokers and traders who adopted compliance and surveillance systems:

over 100 (in 19 countries)

Transactions managed

2.5 billion

Quotes managed per day:

more than 50 million

Network Infrastructure: Active network nodes:

582 nodes (of which 80% in Italy and 20% abroad)

Volume of data transfers:

11.1 billion bytes

Messages managed:

498 million

Infrastructure availability:

99.999%