UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
September 22, 2009
SINO PAYMENTS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Unit T25, GF Bangkok Bank Building
18 Bonham Strand West
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)
(203) 652-0130
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Pay Sourcing Agreement
On September 22, 2009, the Registrant signed a pay sourcing agreement with PAY.ON Asia, Ltd., a Hong Kong Company (PAY.ON) whereby PAY.ON and the Registrant have agreed that Registrant shall have the right to use and incorporate PAY.ON technologies relating to the handling of services related to payment and fraud control in the operation of Registrants business. Such technologies shall be provided to the Registrant at a minimum monthly price of EUR 1,500 and a maximum monthly price of EUR 1,800. The agreement is for a term of 12 months. The pay sourcing agreement is attached to this Current Report as Exhibit 10.01.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 above is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure
On September 22, 2009, Sino Payments, Inc. announced that it had entered into the pay sourcing agreement.
A copy of the release is attached as Exhibit 99.1. This information shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act 1934, as amended, and is not incorporated by reference into any filing of the company, whether made before or after the date of this report, regardless of any general incorporation language in the filing.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Pay Sourcing Agreement between Sino Payments, Inc. and PAY.ON Asia, Ltd., dated September 22, 2009 (without exhibits) |
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A copy of the Press Release dated September 22, 2009. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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SINO PAYMENTS, INC. |
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Date: September 25, 2009 |
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/s/ Matthew Mecke |
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Matthew Mecke |
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Chief Executive Officer |
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Exhibit 10.01
PAY SOURCING PRODUCT AGREEMENT
between
PAY.ON Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong)
21/F ICBC Tower, Citibank Plaza
3 Garden Road
Hong Kong
- hereinafter PAY.ON -
and
Sino Payments, Inc. (USA, Nevada; OTCBB: SNPY)
Hong Kong Office: 12th Floor, Des Voeux Commerical Bldg.
212-214 Des Voeux Road Central
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
- hereinafter CLIENT -
Preamble
PAY.ON is specialized in the offer and operation of payment technologies for payment providers and financial institutions. PAY.ON has developed software products for these and operates a hardware infrastructure. PAY.ON itself does not act as a payment service provider.
The CLIENT (among other things) provides payment and/or fraud control services for retailers, service providers and end customers and for these purposes maintains contractual relations with retailers, as well as with, for example, banks, acquirers, wallet providers, clearing houses or risk management providers (hereinafter also referred to as CONTRACT PARTNERS).
The CLIENT is seeking technologies which facilitate the handling of services related to payment and/or fraud control processes and intends to provide services for its CLIENTS with the assistance of PAY.ON product technologies.
Now therefore the Parties have agreed as follows:
§ 1 Subject Matter of the Contract
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PAY.ON shall provide to the CLIENT the services detailed in the Product Specifications (Appendix A to this agreement) based on this contractual agreement, which is comprised of the following:
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this Pay Sourcing Product Agreement,
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the Pay Sourcing Product Specification in its currently valid version (Appendix A to this agreement),
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the Pay Sourcing Product Pricing (Appendix B to this agreement),
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General Terms and Conditions of PAY.ON in their respectively applicable version at the moment of signing this agreement; the currently applicable version can be viewed at www.payon.com/terms,
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the Pay Sourcing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) (Appendix C to this agreement),
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further components are the Connectors list and the interface description in each case in the version valid at the time of the contracts conclusion.
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The above parts of the contract apply in the case of possible conflicts in the very order as listed.
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The services include within the contractually agreed scope in particular services on the grounds of the processing software (payment and fraud control), its Business Intelligence Platform (configuration, monitoring, analysis and billing) and the Support Communication Center (support, account management).
§ 2 Availability of Service
The availability of services owed by PAY.ON within the framework of Application Service Providing (ASP) or Software as a Service (SaaS) depends on the agreed range of services.
The PAY.ON service is deemed available if the servers via which the agreed services of PAY.ON are running, are connected via an access node with the Internet (TRANSFER POINT) and the services run free of major defects, as well as during potential power-downs within the framework of the agreed maintenance windows (see below). In this context, shall be deemed major defects those of error categories 1 (Blocker) and 2 (Major) according to Item 8 of the SOP.
Measuring the availability of the servers connection with the Internet is carried out by an external monitoring service, i.e. watchmouse.com.
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The following availability times are agreed on (please check as appropriate):
□ Offer for Premium Availability Level
Average monthly availability of servers and data paths up to TRANSFER POINT of 99.0% (7.299 hours downtime/month); at a monthly price of EUR 2,000.
□ Offer for Standard Availability Level
Average monthly availability of servers and data paths up to TRANSFER POINT of 98.0% (14.599 hours downtime/month); at a monthly price of EUR 0.-.
To maintain the quality and security of PAY.ON services the Contract Parties agree to a total scheduled downtime (maintenance windows) of a maximum three hours per month during which the system according to schedule will not be available. During these maintenance windows the service is deemed available despite the interruption (cf. para. 2). The scheduled maintenance windows will be announced at least two weeks prior to the scheduled power-down on the Website of www. trust.payon.com and via eMail to the indicated eMail-address (cf. Item 11 SOP).
§ 3 Liability of PAY.ON in the Event of Availability Downtimes
The Contract Parties are aware of the fact that processing payments via the Internet bears specific risks which can only be insured against on a limited scale or which can not be insured within an economically viable scale; this applies, among other things, to damage in conjunction with availability downtimes. On the other hand, the parties involved in the commercial transactions are interested in having services rendered within this context at reasonable conditions, so as to keep the transaction cost of payments via the Internet also in the interest of end customers as low as possible.
It is against this background that the Parties, in derogation from Item 11 of PAY.ON Terms and Conditions agree the following limitation of liabilities:
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Cause of Damage: This limitation of liabilities only applies to damages based on availability disturbances caused by PAY.ONs slight negligence.
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Type of Damage: This limitation of liabilities covers all damages of the CLIENT
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concerning CLIENTs lost profits
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resulting from the fact that CLIENTs CONTRACT PARTNERS claim lost profits vis-à-vis the CLIENT or
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that the CLIENT suffers due to claims raised by his CONTRACT PARTNERS that rely on lost profits suffered by any eventual member of anther supply chain of the CONTRACT PARTNERS.
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PAY.ONs liability for damages pursuant to lit. a) or b) occurring in a calendar month is overall limited per calendar month to the amount that corresponds to the average monthly invoice amount to pay by the CLIENT according to this contract. Reference time for the calculation of the average invoice amount are the three last months before the damaging event; if such reference time cannot be determined because the current contractual relationship does not exist since three months, it shall be referred to the remuneration claims of PAY.ON arisen and extrapolated accordingly; if no remuneration claims of PAY.ON has arisen, and therefore the average amount to be paid by the CLIENT cannot be determined, the liability according to phrase 1 is limited to the fixed sum of EUR 1000.--.
The aforementioned liability restriction also applies to vicarious agents of PAY.ON.
All other damages are regulated according to Item 11 of PAY.ON Terms and Conditions.
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§ 4 Clients Duties
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The CLIENT shall forward the following documents or information to PAY.ON:
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a trade register excerpt,
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a copy of a valid personal document from its representative, that contains the actual valid home address of the latter, and
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its VAT identification number.
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The CLIENT shall provide all documents required for the handling of this agreement.
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The CLIENT shall enter contractual relations with CONTRACT PARTNERS provided that these are required for the application of the Processing Software and shall provide all information to PAY.ON that is necessary to perform this contractual agreement.
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The CLIENTs billing thru PAY.ON will start on October 01, 2009.
§ 5 Term
This agreement comes into effect upon signing of the same for a contractually fixed term of five years. This agreement shall extend by a respective two years unless cancelled by either Contract Party at 12 months notice prior to the expiration of the respective term.
§ 6 Separability Clause
If any provision of this Agreement is declared invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the other provisions of this Agreement that can be given effect without the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall not be affected. If any provision of this Agreement does not comply with any law, ordinance or regulation, such provision to the extent possible shall be interpreted in such a manner to comply with such law, ordinance or regulation, or if such interpretation is not possible, it shall be deemed to satisfy the minimum requirements thereof. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterpart copies, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall constitute the same agreement.
§ 7 Governing Law and Venue
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong, without regard to any conflicts of law rules.
Venue of any suit arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall exclusively be in the proper courts of Hong Kong. The parties hereby consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of those courts.
The parties hereby waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non-conveniens. Process may be served on either party in the manner authorized by applicable law or court rule.
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Sino Payments, Inc. (US, Nevada; |
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Dr. Tschangiz Scheybani |
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Mr. Matthew Mecke |
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(Managing Director Asia) |
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Exhibit 99.1
September 22, 2009 (Hong Kong) Sino Payments, Inc. (OTCBB: SNPY) today announced that it has concluded a referral agreement for physical IP credit and debit card ecommerce processing in Asia with PAY.ON Asia, Ltd. in addition to a services agreement for international ecommerce servicing. PAY.ON Asia is a fully owned subsidiary of PAY.ON AG of Germany.
The global payment technology and transaction processing of PAY.ON enable Sino Payments to serve clients worldwide by integrating solutions that specifically meet domestic and international payment demands. The PAY.ON technology is a fully PCI-certified payment platform that enables online payments by classical as well as alternative payment methods, thus enhancing the market penetration rate for its client.
Sino Payments will utilize the PAY.ON payment platform PaySourcing to process ecommerce transactions from its customers worldwide in multiple currencies including US dollar.
CEO of PAY.ON, Robert Kuzelj stated: We are delighted about the closure of the agreement between Sino Payments and PAY.ON. With Sino Payment we were able to win a further international partner for our payment technology, and to further strengthen our position in the Asian market. We have once more shown that our technology is truly global and meets local payment demands anywhere in the world.
Sino Payments President and CEO Matthew Mecke added, "This agreement and service relationship will enable Sino Payments to deploy ecommerce processing solutions worldwide without the need for Sino Payments to deploy offices and technical systems around the globe. I am looking forward to rolling out Sino Payments processing services for our merchants as a result of this agreement with PayOn.
About Sino Payments, Inc. ( www.sinopayments.com )
Sino Payments is a Nevada incorporated US Company with offices in Hong Kong and Macau. Sino Payments proprietary IP transaction processing system (SinoPay GPP) was designed to convert transaction processing systems from old type dial up point of sale systems connected to sophisticated check out terminals to a modern seamless IP transaction process, thereby reducing credit and debit card transaction processing times by half at checkout. Sino Payments focuses on providing IP credit and debit card processing services to large retail chains in China and throughout Asia including supermarket chains and large regional multinational retailers.
About PAY.ON ( www.payon.com )
PAY.ON AG is an internationally leading supplier of global online payment and risk management technologies, and processor of online payment transactions. The Company offers the core competencies of global outsourcing services and routing for monetary transactions, wallet solutions, risk management and monitoring services, as well as various technical back-end solutions. The global payment technologies and transaction processing of PAY.ON enable clients to serve their customers worldwide by integrating solutions that specifically meet domestic payment demands. Typical clients of PAY.ON are leading payment service providers (PSP), payment scheme suppliers, acquirers, remittance providers and clearing houses as well as risk management providers. The technology and services of PAY.ON are fully integrated into the clients' corporate design as white label. As a technology provider and expert, the Company does not serve merchants.
The two core technologies of PAY.ON are PaySourcing™ ( www.paysourcing.com ), a modular platform for global payment outsourcing, and PayPipe™ ( http://www.paypipe.com ), an e-gateway for global payment routing.
The technologies of PAY.ON are fully PCI-certified and occur online payments by classical as well as alternative payment methods. The system has connectors at more than 100 third-party systems and supports all major payment methods and currencies worldwide. New connectors are continuously integrated into the PAY.ON platform; on average 3-4 connectors every 4-6 weeks.
PAY.ON was established in 2004 by a group of payment experts. The corporate headquarter is in Munich. The Company has subsidiaries in Salzburg, Hong Kong and Manila.
Contacts:
Sino Payments, Inc.
Matthew Mecke
Chairman & CEO
ir@sinopayments.com
FORWARD-LOOKING-STATEMENT:
Except for factual statements made herein, the information contained in this press release consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including the effect of changing economic conditions, competition within the credit and security industry, customer acceptance of products and other risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and Sino Payments, Inc. results could differ materially from those contained in such statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and Sino Payments, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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