BPC Banking Technologies welcomes the industry professionals to meet at the 9^th annual Asian Banker Summit, the pre-eminent gathering of financial services industry professionals in the Asia Pacific which will take place on 16-19 March 2008 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The Asian Banker Summit has convened annually since 2000 and is Asia’s foremost event on transformational issues in the financial services industry. Over the last eight years, the Summit has both reflected and grown with the financial services industry in the Asia Pacific and has matured into an influential community of leaders in financial services from across the region. Today, the Summit is owned and driven by the industry, and is the only global dialogue of its kind held in the Asia Pacific. The 2008 event will feature the following conferences:

• The Risk Management & Governance Conference
• The Technology & Operations Council Annual Meeting
• The Bank - Regulation Dialogue
• The BAFT Asia Conference on Cash, Treasury & Trade
• The Asian Banker Achievement Awards
• The Asian Banker IT Implementation Programme 2008
• Industry Workshops

This year’s event will be held under the slogan “Managing risks in an unchartered age” and will cover the issues of overall security in retail banking business. To support this motto, BPC will present to the industry professionals its SmartVista Suite - a comprehensive family of software products for cards and payments business development fully compliant with all the industry security standards. SmartVista provides special tools for payment card fraud monitoring and prevention combining sophisticated fraud detection technology with real time transaction monitoring to enable financial institutions to timely detect, prevent and block fraudulent activities and to dramatically reduce fraud losses.

More information on the Asian Banker Summit 2008 is available at http://asianbankerforums.com/summit2008/index.php