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Merchant Payments Ecosystem, B2B Platform for Payment Acceptance Professionals, Announces the 'Guiding Hand' Awards Winners for 2013
For the fourth year, these Awards bring a tribute to those payment acceptance companies and individuals who were instrumental in pushing the payment system beyond the next level. They also recognize innovations which were relevant to the success of acceptance business today and in the near future.
The recent MPE Awards ceremony took place on the evening of February 13 , following the second day of the conference. The respective winners in total of 11 categories were:
"Online shopping is growing fast in Turkey . Payment volume through internet in Turkey has reached 17 billion USD in 2012 and is increasing 32% (CAGR). We, as BKM (Interbank Card Center of Turkey ), are also making a contribution for online card shopping with BKM Express, which forms one of the main building blocks of our 'Cashless Payments in 2023' objective. BKM Express is a digital wallet, which users can store their card securely and make online payments easily without sharing card details with merchants. Winning Ecosystem (MPE) Best Channel Award for BKM Express is a great honor for us and Turkish Banks. This award shows that BKM's digital wallet platform is a globally accepted solution for today's mobile and online connected world. BKM's new digital wallet has been selected as the winner among new payment products from European and International companies."
Soner Canko , CEO, BKM (Interbank Card Center of Turkey )
Phil McGriskin , Chief Product Officer
Mark Roberts , VP and GM, Taxi and Media Solutions, VeriFone
Robert Moerland , VP Business Development, Loylogic/PointsPay.
Dixon Raj Daniel , CEO & Founder of Novalnet.
Paul Stanley , CEO at ReD
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Hubert O'Donoghue, CEO and co-founder of OmniPay, said
global says Roelant Prince , Adyen's COO.
says Mark Latham , VP International Mobile Products at Elavon Merchant Services.
Neira Jones , Head of Payment Security, Global Payment Acceptance, Barclaycard
Christian Deger (MD Sales & Business Development): "
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
More information about the MPE Awards can be found here: http://www.merchantpaymentsecosystem.com/en/MPE/MPE-Awards/MPE-Awards-overview.alej
Merchant Payments Ecosystem is a premier European conference and expo where merchants meet financial and non-financial payments acceptance providers.
More information about this annual event can be found here:
http://www.merchantpaymentsecosystem.com
PRESS CONTACTS:
Marketing and media communication of the organizer:
David Vesely, call +421-245-248-931 or mail to david.vesely(at)empiriagroup(dot)eu
CHAIRMAN OF THE AWARDS:
For interviews with Leon Dhaene , Chairman of the MPE Awards: call +32-473-642249 or mail to leon.dhaene(at)n2euro(dot)com