Nominees

The EPCA/ECR Awards Nominees of 2006 are ...

Category 1: The most innovative Retail or Corporate payments Product/Service.

• Banksys, Belgium with “Pay2Me” - a product for self-employed people and merchants
• OneVu Ltd, U.K. with “Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment”
• Permanent TSB Bank, Eire with “3V / Visa disposable prepaid vouchers”

Category 2: The most innovative and advanced Payment Software/Hardware Product.

• Giesecke & Devrient, Germany with “Instant Issuance of Picture Card”
• XPonCard, Denmark with “Issuance of individual photo cards”
• SmartSoft Information Technologies, Turkey with “Instant Smart Card issuing with fully functional EMV cards from Visa and MasterCard”

Category 3: The most innovative and advanced Payment Processing Solution.

• Laan & Spar Bank A/S, Denmark with “A combined loyalty and discount scheme on a co-branded MasterCard chip-platform”
• Voca Limited, U.K. with their “new automated payment infrastructure for UK”
• Citibank, Poland with “Micropayment service for Public Courts”

Category 4: The most innovative and advanced Bank Retail or Corporate Solution.

• EuroConnex, U.K. with an “Automated POS tax-free solution with Dynamic Currency Conversion”
• SmartSoft Information Technologies, Turkey with “Instant Smart Card issuing with fully functional EMV cards from Visa and MasterCard”
• Ingenico, France with “IngeTrust” which injects keys locally on a cryptographic link between terminal and terminal management system.

The winner of the Award in each category will be announced and celebrated on the 6th International EPCA Conference in Frankfurt as the closing of the program for 15th May and there will be a Diploma to all Nominees.