BPC Banking Technologies has sponsored the 13th annual Cards & Payments Asia 2008 conference and exhibition, one of the leading card industry events in Asia, where the company showcased its SmartVista solution for card and payments management and presented its opinion on the importance of the technological platform choice for successful payment card business development.

Asia has a rapidly growing market for smart card infrastructure thanks to the many successful programmes that have already been implemented across industries in this region. The annual Cards Asia conference and exhibition is the region’s most prominent international showcase of the latest Smart Chip and Card technologies and applications.

This year the event traditionally covered such segments of the payment card industry as biometrics, e-commerce, R.F.I.D. technologies, e-payments and retail solutions. Having attracted leading card industry vendors from across the world, the event offered a unique opportunity for Asia Pacific’s financial companies to learn the industry’s recent innovative solutions for all aspects of card and payments business and get a complete and up to date picture on developments in Asia Pacific.

During the Cards Asia 2008 BPC presented its SmartVista suite, a family of closely integrated software applications designed to meet the needs of organizations involved in the processing of electronic payments based on plastic cards, smart chip cards and other payment tools.

At the Prepaid Card Summit, part of Cards and Payments Summit Rajan Narayan, Director BPC Asia Pacific, delivered a speech “Strategic imperative: Using responsive technology to enhance your prepaid business” making special emphasis on such card business issues as the criticality of time-to-market advantage, IT costs discouraging influence on productizing creativity, and the power of flexible parameterization to support various forms of line item transactions.

“Cards Asia is definitely one of the comprehensive grounds for new product introduction and the largest gathering of smart card industry in Asia Pacific”, says Rajan Narayan, Director Asia Pacific Operations, BPC. “This event allows us to communicate and strengthen our market presence in the cards and payments sector in Asia Pacific and to present BPC SmartVista solutions to the leading industry professionals. The BPC team thanks alliances, partners, customers and payment card business representatives who have visited BPC stand at Cards Asia 2008 and is looking forward to further successful cooperation”.