Sponsors and Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsor

MasterCard Worldwide


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 18 billion transactions each year, and provides industry-leading analysis and consulting services to financial institution customers and merchants.  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 www.mastercard.com.

Prepaid
Prepaid card market expansion across the world is being driven by specialist prepaid card providers and issuing banks who recognize the business opportunities created by the surge in consumer demand in this area. MasterCard aims to partner with these businesses to help them maximize the revenue potential of the European market - one of the most innovative and creative marketplaces in the world. MasterCard is able to present one of the industry's most exciting card and feature portfolios to help the bank succeed to capture this prepaid potential - with independent research showing that by 2010, people across Europe will have a grand total of no less than 360 million prepaid payment cards in their pockets at any one time*.  For more information go to www.mastercard.co.uk/prepaid.

*according to PSEL Research in May 2006

Gold Sponsor

Visa


At Visa we are passionate about prepaid. Our brand, our product platforms and our global acceptance network offer some definite advantages. And these are backed up by a dedicated team of prepaid specialists who have the expertise and enthusiasm to help develop and deliver winning prepaid solutions.

• Market development – wherever and whenever people pay, or need to be paid, we believe Visa Prepaid has a valuable role to play. Early attention has focused on the most immediate opportunities (such as gift cards, general purpose, internet and travel cards). We work with issuers to identify and pursue many more opportunities, with a particular eye on those that promise to deliver tangible value or achieve real scale.
• Products and propositions – we’ve got everything covered, from consumer to commercial, youth to travel, corporate incentives to government benefits, remittance to disbursement. In every case, we have the brand, the platforms, the acceptance and the expertise to make the difference.
  Investment and innovation – the prepaid market thrives on innovation. It’s at the root of new propositions.
• It enables new features and functionality. And it’s coming from many different directions. We bring together banks, programme managers, processors and vendors to create distinctive, attention-grabbing prepaid propositions.

Brand Sponsors

Bank Zachodni WBK



Bank Zachodni WBK is the universal bank, providing the services as well as to individual like corporate customers. Our bank is one of 3 the biggest banks in Poland – its own funds exceed PLN5bn and assets equal PLN59bn. The branch network of Bank Zachodni WBK includes 513 branches. Bank offers to its customers the possibility to use the 1032 its own ATM’s, which places the bank at the leading position according to the number of the own ATM’s in Poland.

Bank Zachodni WBK was established in mid June 2001, the majority shareholding – 70,5 % – belongs to the biggest bank in Ireland – Allied Irish Bank. BZWBK is one of the biggest companies quoted on Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Bank Zachodni WBK offer includes credits, loans, attractive packages for SM, business advisory, professional asset management and advisory related to investment banking. Through its subsidiaries Bank Zachodni WBK provides leasing, factoring and brokerage services, offers insurance packages that are adjusted to individual needs of the customers and sells units of ARKA funds.

epay



epay, a Division of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), is a global business with a retail network of approximately 232,000 locations across a number of international markets including the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Poland, Romania, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland. epay enables service providers to deliver electronic payment products and services to consumers through an extensive worldwide retail network. epay’s proprietary payment technology is backed by a cash collection service that manages the payment of funds back to the service providers and a range of marketing solutions to assist both the retailer and service provider to maximise their sales opportunities.
There are more than 14,000 points of sale in over 9,000 retail locations across Poland.
In 2008 epay processed over 700 million payment transactions with a total face value of $11 billion. epay’s product portfolio includes top-up or recharge services for prepaid mobile airtime, prepaid debit cards and e-wallets; payment services for bills, road tolls and money transfer; and marketing and distribution services for gift cards, digital content and transport tickets. epay’s commitment to customers is supported by a strong roadmap of innovative new epayment products to bring to market. For more information please visit www.epayworldwide.com.

PayMate



PayMate is a mobile payments pioneer operating the largest and most comprehensive mobile payments ecosystem in India along with significant offerings in other countries. PayMate enables wireless transactions connecting banks, switches, merchants and consumers in a simple, secure and seamless manner with its unique platform. PayMate solutions enable consumers to transact using their mobile wallets, merchants to save money on all electronic payments, banks to expand their customer base, and mobile operators to expand their solution offerings and ARPU. The company has 25+ banking partners and is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital companies KPCB, Mayfield, and Sherpalo. www.gopaymate.com



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