A NEW ADDITION TO THE EXPERTS AT MONEYBOOKERS

Moneybookers, the popular European web based money transfer service provider, has selected Tero Pollanen, to act as the chief of its anti-fraud department, one of the many new engagements undertaken by Moneybookers’ to double its workforce since the start of the year 2008.

Before the current undertaking, Pollanen was a senior Manager, employed in the Fraud and Strategy Department at Lloyds TSB, which is one of the UK’s largest high street banks. He will be charged with the onerous task of heading Moneybookers Risk and Anti-Fraud Team, spearheading the steady expansion and accomplishment of fraud deterrence.

Due to an unprecedented escalating expansion, Moneybookers has had to double it’s workforce from one hundred and fifty employees at the beginning of 2008, to close to 300 by March of 2009. There are also plans underway to increase the workforce by an extra 100 recruits, by the end of 2009 to meet the demands occasioned by the exponential online casino business growth. The online money transfer provider has lately posted the highest records so far for 2008, featuring staggering amounts of Euro 2.4 billion in trade volumes, and revenue amounting to Euro 18.7 million. The company is also projecting another great year, by building on that thrust, throughout the current year. This year Moneybookers customer base hit the seven million mark.

The co-CEO of Moneybookers Nikolai Riesenkampff has shown his delight to welcoming to his team Mr. Tero Pollanen, since he believes that he is taking with him lots of experience, which he will be employing to improve the security of the system currently being used. Mr. Riesenkampff also added that Mr. Pollanen will be a welcome supplement to his team of anti-fraud experts, which will be leading the industry, as Moneybookers looks for new ways in which to improve its business.

The online company Moneybookers has been established in London in the year 2001 and the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom is the authority that regulates its processes. It runs a global online payment system offering business an amalgamated access to more than 60 payment choices, in more than 200 countries around the globe.