VRL partners with some of the industry's leading companies. See
below for information.
Platinum and Research Sponsor
About MasterCard Worldwide
MasterCard Worldwide advances global commerce by providing a
critical economic link among financial institutions, businesses,
cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and
advisor, MasterCard develops and markets payment solutions,
processes over 22 billion transactions each year, and provides
industry-leading analysis and consulting services to
financial-institution customers and merchants. Powered by the
MasterCard Worldwide Network and through its family of brands,
including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus®, MasterCard serves
consumers and businesses in more than 210 countries and
territories. For more information go to http://www.mastercard.com/.
Gold Sponsor & Awards Table Host
Sponsor
SIA-SSB, European leader in Information &
Communication Technology, provides services and solutions to the
international financial community in the areas of credit and debit
card processing, payment systems, capital markets and network
services for connectivity and messaging. Created from the merger
between SIA (Società Interbancaria per l’Automazione) and SSB
(Società per i Servizi Bancari), SIA-SSB Group currently operates
in 30 countries and has subsidiaries in Belgium, Hungary and South
Africa.
With 7.2 billion transactions annually –
relating to cards, collections and payments – over 61 million cards
managed and 2.5 billion deals processed on financial markets,
SIA-SSB carries more than 9.9 thousand billion bytes of data on the
network.
SIA-SSB Group is made up of seven companies: the parent company
SIA-SSB, the Italian subsidiaries Kedrios (back-office and
reporting services), RA Computer (solutions and applications for
banks, businesses and P.A.) and TSP (systems and services for
companies and P.A.), SiNSYS (card processing) in Belgium, Perago
(infrastructures for central banks) in Switzerland and South
Africa, and GBC (card processing and ATM/POS terminal management)
in Hungary.
Silver Sponsor
PayFair is launching a new European card brand
and scheme in the European Market. This will give more
independence to Europe which, unlike the other regions of the
world, is lacking its own card payment scheme.
PayFair is an industrial project -bank and
retailer independent- that aims at bringing more choice and
innovation to consumers, merchants and banks in the new emerging
Single European Payment Market (SEPA). During the last 18
months, PayFair has moved from an ambitious idea to a market
reality: PayFair is being rolled-out to the market since October
2009 and is now systematically mentioned as one of the serious
candidates to become the European Payment Scheme.
Back Seat Cover Sponsor
Global Payments Europe is the largest, indirect payment
processor in the Czech Republic and has a well-established
reputation for outstanding customer service and superior
technology. From its strategic location in Prague, Global Payments
Europe serves financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe
with a comprehensive package of payment solutions including ATM,
POS and card issuing transaction processing, ATM and POS
development and support, card database management and
personalization, and value added products such as gift and loyalty
cards. Global Payments Europe is a wholly-owned division of Global
Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), one of the world’s largest card payment
service providers, with operations in the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Branding Sponsor
Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), founded in 1980,
delivers integrated outsourcing solutions in technology, business
process and analytics to help companies optimise technology
investments. Syntel Europe has been providing technology and
business services to leading organisations since 1997, including
some of the largest card processors and card companies across the
globe.
Syntel provides a full spectrum of cards
& payments solutions covering origination, issuing, processing,
merchants, transaction capture, POS, prepaid cards, combating risk
and fraud and more. In addition, Syntel has a formed several
strategic alliances with niche product companies to provide
solutions around the critical issues of fraud & risk
management and anti-money laundering.
Syntel has more than 13,600 employees
worldwide, is assessed at Level 5 of the SEI's CMMI, BS 7799-2:2002
as well as ISO 9001:2000 certified. Syntel Europe is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Syntel, Inc.
Serverside Group
Serverside Group is focused on driving
efficiencies into the way financial cards are designed, marketed
and delivered globally. We offer choice to the consumer, drive
extraordinary ROI to issuers and reduce the risk and cost of
fulfilling cards that have been mass customized.
Our technology spans from the front-end card
designer to the back-end reconciliation and marketing of customized
payment cards. As the market leader, we understood early the
various inventions that together form the ultimate card
customization process that reduces cost and effort to the issuer
and results in greater choice and satisfaction to the
cardholder.
International Business Wales
International Business Wales – Investing in
your Success!
Wales supports an innovative and growing Cards
market - from start up businesses through to institutional
organisations. Your company can access a highly
competitive operational cost base with opportunities to achieve
significant businesses efficiencies and profitable growth.
International Business Wales (IBW), a division
of the Welsh Assembly Government, assists your business in key
areas: Site and property identification, information technology,
business process improvement, links with higher/further education,
skills development as well as staff relocation services.
Importantly, we support the costs of relocation, business
improvement and business development through the most beneficial
financial assistance packages in Europe.
Exhibitor
VocaLink
powers the world’s busiest ATM network. We connect over 60,000 ATMs
in the UK and process over 300 transactions per second on behalf of
the LINK scheme. Our
card services are trusted by financial institutions, independent
ATM deployers and the Government.
Our service capabilities extend from core ATM networking to
value-added services such as
mobile phone top-up, multicurrency ATMs and a
managed ATM service.
All of our customers benefit from the scale of our operation,
steadfast reliability and continual investment in technology
allowing us to process over 3 billion transactions per year. We
have the right experience, technology and people to facilitate
profitable expansion with minimal capital outlay.
Awards Table Host Sponsor
Finansbank was established by leading Turkish banker Hüsnü
Özyeğin on October 26, 1987. The bank increased its number of
branches to 461, and the number of employees to 10,107 by the end
of 2009.
Finansbank established Finans Portfolio
Management and Finans Real-Estate
Investment Trust in 2000. Internet and telephone banking
systems were launched the same year, in response to the
ever-increasing number of consumer banking customers. The bank has
made continuous efforts to improve its internet and telephone
banking services, and as a result, its telephone banking service
has been chosen Europe's best call center in the European Call
Center Awards in 2003.
Having a market capitalization around 16 billion dollars, NBG
operates 568 branches in Greece. Excluding Greece and Turkey, the
bank is active in another twelve countries, where it controls seven
banks and nineteen financial institutions. The bank is known as an
active player especially in Southeast Europe and Eastern
Mediterranean. 46.2% of its shares are held by foreign
institutional and private investors. The remaining shares are owned
by local institutional and private investors, certain local pension
funds and public institutions in Greece.
The merger combines NBG's leading position in Southeast Europe
with Finansbank's high growth potential in Turkey. The resulting
synergy is expected to drive growth and profitability.
Awards Table Host Sponsor
BBVA
is a financial services group with more than €535 billion in total
assets, 48 million clients, 7,466 branches and 104,000 employees in
more than 30 countries. BBVA provides its customers around the
world with a full range of financial services. The BBVA Group
maintains a leadership position in Spain, Mexico, Latin America and
the Sunbelt Region of the United States. BBVA is also developing
strong operations in Asia specifically in China.
As of December, BBVA has a market
capitalization of €48 billion and it is listed in the main
international stock exchanges, London NYSE and Madrid, among
others. BBVA reported in 2009 recurrent attributable profit of €5.2
billion, excluding one-offs. BBVA is one of the top leading Euro
zone banks in terms of ROE and efficiency.
Awards Table Host Sponsor
Visa Consulting and Analytics is the
consulting arm of Visa Europe which helps its members establish
innovative and value creating payment solutions. We tailor our
advice to each individual business situation and work alongside the
organisation. Our emphasis is on delivering expertise and sharing
our industry knowledge, so that our members can continue to apply
and benefit from it in the years to come.
Visa Consulting has done projects covering the full spectrum of
payments services. We apply a proven methodology to benchmark best
practice, assess the current position, identify opportunities and
help plan for successful change.
Our track record reflects our client focus: project approval
ratings which consistently exceed 85% and a reputation which has
led 100% of our clients to say they would like to work with us
again.
Visa Consulting and Analytics. Passionate
about Payments.
Awards Table Host Sponsor
Official Partner
TNS is the world’s largest custom research
agency delivering actionable insights and research-based
business advice to its clients so they can make more effective
business decisions. TNS offers comprehensive industry
knowledge within the Consumer, Business & Services, Technology,
Finance, Automotive, Media and Political & Social
sectors, supported by a unique product offering that stretches
across the entire range of marketing and business
issues, specialising in product development and innovation,
brand and communication, stakeholder management, retail
and shopper, and qualitative research. Delivering
best-in-class service across more than 70 countries, TNS is part of
Kantar, the world’s largest research, insight and consultancy
network. Please visit http://www.tns-global.es/ for more
information or contact Rosa Peña, Finance Sector Head – rosa.pena@tns-global.com.
Official Airline Partner
Official Association
PIF is a not-for-profit trade association
established in 2007 to represent all parties participating on a
commercial basis in the prepaid economy.
It is dedicated to the progression of prepaid
commerce around the world and acts as a principal point of liaison
between the prepaid economy and government agencies, regulators,
consumer bodies and the media. It is focused on the entire prepaid
world and facilitates the development of cross-industry guidelines
and codes of practice.
PIF has attracted a global membership of over
60 prepaid product issuers, programme managers and suppliers of
products and services to the prepaid commerce industry spanning
five continents. The reach of PIF has expanded across and beyond
Europe with firmly established Chapters serving the UK and Europe,
Brazil, India and Australia/New Zealand.
For more information please contact:
Diane Brocklebank, Head of Member
Relations
T: +44 (0) 203 008 8423
E: diane.brocklebank@prepaidforum.org
Media Partners
Banking Automation Bulletin
Banking Automation Bulletin is an international
subscription newsletter focused on key issues in self-service
banking, branch automation, cards and payments. The Bulletin is
published by Retail Banking Research (RBR) and draws extensively on
RBR’s renowned industry research and analysis. The Bulletin is
valued by senior executives in over 90 countries worldwide for
providing independent and insightful, news, opinions and
information on issues of core interest.
www.rbrlondon.com/bulletin
Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Great
Britain
The main function of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Great
Britain is to promote business relations between Spanish and
British companies, provide our associates with contacts within
their desired sectors as well as commercial channels that could be
of interest to them. The Chamber offers Spanish and British
companies commercial promotion opportunities through a wide range
of services, including information, consultancy, as well as
logistic and administrative support. Events organised by the
Chamber allow both member and non-member companies to develop the
professional contacts they need within the Anglo-Spanish business
world. In addition, we give companies access to essential
information regarding the various markets in Spain and in the
United Kingdom, and they can also take advantage of the technical
and logistic support the Chamber has to offer.
Card World
Card World is
the highly respected international newsletter that has been
providing in depth information on the global card industry for over
20 years.
Bringing the card industry to life
Card World searches out the stories you won't
find elsewhere. It features interviews with industry experts and
CEOs, plus detailed country reports with Card World-sourced
data.
Card World covers all industry sectors
including mobile and internet payments. As well as these core
subjects, through its association with sister publications Fraud
Watch and Loyalty, Card World also provides coverage of card fraud,
data security, loyalty, marketing and customer analytics.
A subscription to Card World includes an
online daily news service with email alerts, a published newsletter
every month, access to our Source Book and special reports.
For more information visit http://www.cardworldonline.com/
or email maxine@cm-media.net
European Payments Council
The European Payments Council (EPC) is the
coordination and decision-making body of the European payments
industry. The purpose of the EPC is to promote the Single Euro
Payments Area (SEPA). The EPC defines common positions for the
cooperative space of payment services, provides strategic guidance
for standardisation, formulates rules, best practices and standards
and supports and monitors implementation of decisions taken. The
EPC consists of 76 members representing banks, banking communities
and payment institutions. More than 300 professionals from 32
countries are directly engaged in the work programme of the EPC,
representing all sizes and sectors of the banking industry within
Europe.
The EPC develops the payment schemes and
frameworks necessary to realise SEPA. SEPA is an EU integration
initiative in the area of payments designed to achieve the
completion of the EU internal market and monetary union. SEPA is
the area where citizens, companies and other economic participants
can make and receive payments in euro, within Europe, whether
within or across national boundaries under the same basic
conditions, rights and obligations, regardless of their location.
SEPA is currently defined as consisting of the EU 27 member states
plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Monaco.
For further information on the EPC please
contact secretariat@europeanpaymentscouncil.eu or visit http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/.
NFC Forum
The NFC
Forum, http://www.nfc-forum.org/, was
launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004. The Forum’s
mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication
technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability
among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC.
NFC technology is supported by the world’s
leading communication device manufacturers, semiconductor
producers, network operators, IT and services companies, and
financial services organizations. NFC is compatible contactless
cards and readers deployed worldwide.
The Forum's 150+ global member companies are
developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture,
and protocols for interoperable data exchange and
device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device
capability.
The NFC Forum's Sponsor members that hold
seats on the Board of Directors include: HP, MasterCard
International, Microsoft Corp., NEC, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo Inc., NXP
Semiconductors, Panasonic, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Sony
Corporation, and Visa International.
Payments Card & Mobile
Payments Cards & Mobile-more than a magazine
Payments Cards & Mobile has extensive
experience of reporting on the card payments industry together with
nine years of covering the cutting edge technology of M-Payments,
Contactless payments, M-POS and M-Commerce.
We also offer Research and Consultancy. If you
need help evolving your product or business in the payments market,
we can provide all the services you need.
Tel:+44 1263 711800
http://www.paymentscardsandmobile.com/
Global Prepaid Exchange
Cardmag
ardmag is a czech
independent technical paper in sphere of payment cards. Quaterly it
comes up with information about marketing, technologies, security,
legislation, statistics from home and abroad and also about
project SEPA. Cardmag brings out comments, glossary and
analyses related to payment cards. Furthermore, you can find there
original reports right from domestic market, profiles of regions,
companies and personalities from the world of payment cards.
For more information visit http://www.cardmag.cz/
Contact : Roman Kotlan |
editor&publisher | m : + 420 604 727 501 | e :
roman.kotlan@cardmag.cz