EPCA/ECR
Excellence in Payments Innovation
Awards 2006
EPCA/ECR awards – the 2006 winners
Jesper Schioller, director, Laan & Spar Bank, and
his
staff receive one of the EPCA/ECR Awards from Henning N. Jensen,
PlusCON, Chairman of the Award Committee.
The EPCA-ECR awards for ‘Excellence in Payments Innovation’ celebrated their third year on May 15 at the 6th international EPCA conference in Frankfurt, ‘Reshaping the European Payment Landscape,’ which was arranged by Innopay, the Dutch member of the EPCA network.
The awards are supported by ECR, with the adjudication process handled exclusively by EPCA members. The four 2006 prizes were awarded to companies which the panel of EPCA consultants judged to have made an outstanding contribution to Europe’s payments business during 2006.
In order to qualify, eligible products had to be innovative and totally new in their concept, to use new technology or processes to provide a competitive edge, to present radically improved offers to consumers, and to substantially improve the efficiency of the payment process.
EPCA and ECR consider that the awards are continuing to grow in stature and are looking forward to the 2007 awards. These will be presented at the next EPCA conference, in May 2008. Entry forms and the deadline for submissions will be publicized on the ECR and EPCA websites later this year and promoted at Cartes 2007 in Paris.
Category 1:
The most innovative retail or corporate payments
product/service
Winner: OneVu Ltd, UK, with with ‘Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment’
Short-listed: Banksys, Belgium, with ‘Pay2Me’ – a
product for self-employed people and merchants
Permanent TSB Bank, Ireland, with ‘3V/Visa disposable prepaid vouchers’
Category 2:
The most innovative and advanced payment software/hardware
product
Winner: SmartSoft Information Technologies, Turkey, with ‘Instant Smart Card issuing with fully functional EMV cards from Visa and MasterCard’
Short-listed: Giesecke & Devrient, Germany,
with ‘Instant
Issuance of Picture Card’
XPonCard, Denmark, with ‘Issuance of individual photo cards’
Category 3:
The most innovative and advanced payment processing
solution
Winner: Laan & Spar Bank, Denmark, with ‘A combined loyalty and discount scheme on a co-branded MasterCard chip-platform’
Short-listed:
VocaLink, UK, with the ‘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
Winner: Ingenico, France, with ‘IngeTrust’ which injects keys locally on a cryptographic link between terminal and terminal management system.
Short-listed: euroConex, UK, 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’
NEW
EPCA Award information
From: Henning N. Jensen, PlusCON
E-mail: hnj@pluscon.dk
Sent: 5. May 2007
Topic: EPCA Award information
Dear Applicants for the 2006 EPCA/ECR Awards.
First of all we would like to thank all applicants for their interest in the "EPCA/ECR Excellence in Payments Innovation Awards for 2006" and their great work with the documentation, which this year exceeded all previous entries for the Awards.
The 2006 Award Committee has now finalised the list of twelve Nominees for this years Awards and they are:
Category 1:
The most innovative Retail or Corporate payments
Product/Service.
A) Banksys, Belgium with "Pay2Me" - a product for self-employed people and merchants
B) OneVu Ltd, U.K. with "Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment"
C) Permanent TSB Bank, Eire with "3V / Visa disposable prepaid vouchers"
Category 2:
The most innovative and advanced
Payment Software/Hardware Product.
A) Giesecke & Devrient, Germany with "Instant Issuance of Picture Card"
B) XPonCard, Denmark with "Issuance of individual photo cards"
C) 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.
A) Laan & Spar Bank A/S, Denmark with "A combined loyalty and discount scheme on a co-branded MasterCard chip-platform"
B) Voca Limited, U.K. with their "new automated payment infrastructure for UK"
C) Citibank, Poland with "Micropayment service for Public Courts"
Category 4:
The most innovative and advanced Bank Retail
or Corporate Solution.
A) EuroConnex, U.K. with an "Automated POS tax-free solution with Dynamic Currency Conversion"
B) SmartSoft Information Technologies, Turkey with "Instant Smart Card issuing with fully functional EMV cards from Visa and MasterCard"
C) Ingenico, France with "IngeTrust" which injects keys remote 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 programme for 15th May and there will be a Diploma to all Nominees.
Launched 18 months ago, the EPCA/ECR awards for ‘Excellence in Payments Innovation’ celebrated their second year on April 3 2006 at the conference in Amsterdam on ‘Payment Innovation Beyond SEPA,’ which was arranged by Innopay, the Dutch member of the EPCA network.
The awards are supported by ECR, with the adjudication process handled exclusively by EPCA members. The five 2005 prizes were awarded in Amsterdam to companies which the panel of EPCA consultants judged to have made an outstanding contribution to Europe’s payments business during 2005. According to panellist Peter Jones, director of the UK’s EPCA member, Payment Systems Europe: “All the submissions were to a very high standard and as a result agreeing the shortlist has been extremely difficult.”
In order to qualify, eligible products had to be innovative and totally new in their concept, to use new technology or processes to provide a competitive edge, to present radically improved offers to consumers, and to improve the efficiency of the payment process substantially.
EPCA and ECR consider that the awards are continuing to grow in stature and are looking forward to the 2006 awards. These will be presented at the next EPCA conference, which will be arranged by Innopay in Frankfurt on May 15-16 2007.
EPCA/ECR Excellence in Payments Innovation Awards 2005 - Final List of Winners:
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Award 1: |
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| 1st | The iDEAL Consortium | iDEAL |
| 2nd equal | Advanced Payment Solutions | cashplus prepaid MasterCard |
| 2nd equal | CitiBank Handlowy | Visa Electron Social Benefit Cards |
| Highly Commended | Garanti Payment Systems | Bonus Business |
| Award 2: most innovative and advanced payments software/hardware product launched in 2005 |
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| 1st | Aconite Technology | EMV Script Processor |
| 2nd | Level Four | ATM TrueTest |
| Highly Commended | Collis | EMV Personalisation Validation Tool |
| Highly Commended | Gemplus | GemSense Instant Issuance |
| Award 3: most innovative and cost-effective payments processing solution launched in 2005 |
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| 1st | Brighterion | iPrevent |
| 2nd | fun Communications | fun SmartLine |
| Highly Commended | Turk Ekonomi Bankasi | Internet Banking Service |
| Highly Commended | SNS Bank | Bill |
| Award 4: most innovative and advanced payments service launched in 2005 |
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| 1st | Travelex | Remote Drafts |
| 2nd | Ingenico | NFC Communication System |
| Highly Commended | Digital Payments | Prepay Mobile Top-up |
| Award 5: most innovative terminal solution launched in 2005 |
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| 1st | Banksys | XENTISSIMO |
| 2nd | VeriFone EMEA | MX870 |
| Highly Commended | Ingenico | i8550 |
