Ebix Wins Coveted Contract to Deploy its Forex Exchange Services at World's Busiest Airport - Dubai International Airport

JOHNS CREEK, Ga., Nov. 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-governance and healthcare industries, today announced that Dubai international Airport has selected Ebix to deploy Forex Exchange services at two of its airport terminals.

Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic, while handling approximately 88 million passengers a year. While employing approximately 90,000 people, Dubai International Airport is estimated to indirectly support over 400,000 jobs, contributing over US$26.7 billion to the economy, which represents around 27 per cent of Dubai's GDP and 21% of the employment in Dubai.

Ebix's Forex Exchange services were selected by the Dubai Airport after a thorough competitive evaluation process involving more than 15 competitors of EbixCash. The Airport selected EbixCash to deploy its services across Terminals 1 and 2 of the Airport.  

EbixCash WorldMoney is Ebix's Foreign Exchange Division that will be implementing this multi-million-dollar contract for the Dubai International Airport. This marks a big international win for EbixCash WorldMoney, the undisputed Leader in India's Foreign exchange and outward remittance markets.

EbixCash WorldMoney is an Omni-channel exchange that offers a variety of Foreign exchange and outward money remittance products targeting niche sectors like leisure travel, corporate travel, overseas education related remittances, airport money exchange including duty free shops, tour cost remittances of travel agents, disbursement of crew wages to ships docked on Indian shores, immigration related remittance, retail and wholesale currency markets. EbixCash WorldMoney is one of the few named players in India with the requisite AD-II and FMCG regulatory licenses to conduct these businesses through a vast network encompassing 165 outlets spread across 55 cities, 200+ franchisee partners, 2,000+ travel agents, 50+ banks and financial institutions, 1000+ SMEs, and 150+large corporate clients.  

EbixCash WorldMoney Forex Exchange has an approximate 70% market share of India's airport Foreign Exchange business encompassing 24 international airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata International airports, while conducting over 1 million transactions per annum. The EbixCash WorldMoney Exchange also has a 15% market share in India's fast growing $1.5 Billion education outward remittance business.

About Ebix, Inc.

With 50+ offices across 5 continents, Ebix, Inc., (NASDAQ: EBIX) endeavors to provide On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare and e-learning industries. In the Insurance sector, the Company's main focus is to develop and deploy a wide variety of insurance and reinsurance exchanges on an on-demand basis, while also, providing Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") enterprise solutions in the area of CRM, front-end & back-end systems, outsourced administrative and risk compliance, across the world.

With a "Phygital" strategy that combines 260,000 physical distribution outlets in many Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") countries, to an Omni-channel online digital platform, the Company's EbixCash Financial exchange portfolio encompasses leadership in areas of domestic & international money remittance, Forex, travel, pre-paid & gift cards, utility payments, lending etc., in an emerging country like India. The Company's Forex Exchange has an approximate 70% market share of India's airport Foreign Exchange business encompassing 25 international airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata International airports, while conducting over 1 million transactions per annum. EbixCash, through its travel portal Via.com, is also one of Southeast Asia's leading travel exchanges with over 110,000 distribution outlets and 8,000 corporate clients processing over 24.5 million transactions every year. For further details, visit www.ebixcash.com

Through its various SaaS-based software platforms, Ebix employs thousands of domain-specific technology professionals to provide products, support and consultancy to thousands of customers on six continents. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.ebix.com

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