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American Express
www.americanexpress.com


American Express Company is a leading global payment network and travel company founded in 1850.

American Express is a leader in prepaid consumer products. In addition to the 115-year old American Express Travelers Cheque—the preeminent brand welcomed worldwide—the company issues other prepaid products including the Travelers Cheque Card, Cheques for Two, Gift Cards, Gift Cheques, the Be My Guest dining card, and a range of corporate incentive prepaid products through American Express Incentive Services, a subsidiary of American Express Company.

For more information, please contact:

Henri Cattier
212.640.8695
henri.r.cattier@aexp.com


American Express Incentive Services
www.aeis.com

American Express Incentive Services offers a wide range of business-to-business and business-to-consumer reward solutions that helps clients influence behavior, build loyalty, and increase brand awareness. Our prepaid reward cards, American Express® Gift Cheques, online rewards, and Web-based reward management tools support a broad array of program applications including employee recognition, sales incentives, dealer/distributor incentives, consumer promotions, loyalty, and rebates.

AEIS also gives clients the power to determine exactly where the card can be spent, providing maximum control over the cardholder experience. With our wide portfolio of reward products—or one of our custom reward cards—American Express Incentive Services has the right reward solution for any business need.

AEIS is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

For more information, please contact:
Larry Newman
VP Sales Corporate Incentives
636.226.2050
larry.newman@aeis.com


Baird Holm  LLP
www.bairdholm.com

Baird Holm’s team of attorneys and professionals has the depth of knowledge and practical experience to help your business grow and succeed. Our clients call us when they want solid solutions and creative approaches to the many complex issues within the rapidly growing field of prepaid card services.

We act as counsel to a wide variety of non-bank financial institutions, commonly referred to as money service businesses (MSB), and assist them in addressing a range of issues including:

  • Licensing compliance on both state and federal levels
  • Developing regulatory compliance programs including Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money (AML) laundering and OFAC, record-keeping and reporting, privacy and security, unclaimed property, and consumer protection legislation
  • Contracting with service providers and their agents

We work closely with our clients to analyze their money laundering risks. Once those risks are identified, we help develop and implement appropriate AML solutions and document policies, procedures, and controls in written compliance programs. We also provide guidance and counsel to compliance staff on specific AML issues related to all types of prepaid card programs.

For more information, please contact:

Terrence P. Maher
Partner
402.636.8297
tmaher@bairdholm.com


Bancorp Payment Solutions
www.thebancorppsg.com/ads/nbpca.asp

Bancorp Payment Solutions, formerly BankFirst Stored Value Solutions, is a leader in the network branded prepaid card industry and has been successful for three reasons:

Our partnerships to deliver superior solutions
Our creative and flexible approach
Our experience and innovation in this fledgling market
Our partners enable Bancorp Payment Solutions to deliver on our commitments. By drawing on our common desire to meet the needs of our customers, we can ensure that Bancorp products will meet and exceed customer expectations.

Many banks are capable of providing prepaid card solutions. The primary differentiator for Bancorp Payment Solutions is our creativity and flexibility, which allow us to deliver innovative new products to market. These solutions are developed to meet the growing needs of our clients and their customers in the exciting prepaid card arena.

Bancorp Payment Solutions has been involved in the network branded prepaid card industry since its inception, and we are committed to its success. We see great promise in this market and are developing new payment tools in the existing product verticals as well as emerging markets such as healthcare, insurance, and corporate programs that will take this industry to a new level.

For more information, please contact:

John Barbella
Senior Vice President
952.449.6012
jbarbella@thebancorp.com


BB&T


Blackhawk Network
www.bhnetwork.com

Blackhawk Network is a prepaid and payments network, a market leader in card-based financial solutions and the largest provider of third-party prepaid cards. Blackhawk Network develops unique products in easy-to-use formats and delivers them to consumers through an exclusive retail network of leading grocery, mass, drug, convenience, and specialty retailers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. By the end of 2006, this proprietary network is expected to include more than 60,000 store fronts and reach more than 135 million consumers each week. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Blackhawk Network has offices in New Jersey, Chicago, Toronto, and in the United Kingdom.

For more information, please contact:

Talbott Roche
SVP
925.226.9030
talbott.roche@bhnetwork.com


Bryan Cave  LLP
www.bryancave.com


In a world of continuing change, Bryan Cave LLP is strategically positioned to provide our clients with the legal capabilities they need not only to react to change, but to anticipate and benefit from it. Our nearly 800 lawyers practice in a wide range of disciplines from our 13 offices around the world.

Bryan Cave lawyers practice in client service groups that are either specific to an area of law or industry groups. Members of these groups are drawn from various disciplines and offices located around the globe. Our computer and communication technology resources allow these lawyers to work together closely and without regard to geographic location.

Bryan Cave’s practice is built on 130 years of solid performance and dedication to our many clients—a wide array of businesses, financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, government entities, and individual clients.

With nine U.S. offices (St. Louis, Washington, New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Jefferson City (Missouri), Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Irvine), four overseas offices (London, Kuwait City, Hong Kong, and Shanghai), and advanced technology, Bryan Cave can both efficiently and cost-effectively serve the needs of our clients locally, nationally, and internationally.

Firmwide Resources:
Bryan Cave is organized into Client Service Groups through which the firm offers legal counsel and advice in virtually every area of interest to business and entrepreneurial clients including:

  • Antitrust/U.S. Trade Regulation
  • Appellate
  • Banking, Business, and Public Finance
  • Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors’ Rights
  • Class and Derivative Actions
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Corporate Compliance and Defense
  • Corporate Finance and Securities
  • Employee Benefits
  • Environmental
  • Health Care
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Trade
  • Labor and Employment
  • Private Client
  • Product Liability
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory Affairs, Public Policy and Legislation
  • Tax Advice and Controversy
  • Technology, Entrepreneurial, and Commercial Practice
  • Transactions

For more information, please contact:

Judith Rinearson
Partner
212.541.1135
Judith.Rinearson@bryancave.com


Comdata Corporation
www.comdata.com

For nearly four decades, Comdata ® Corporation has been at the forefront of payment innovations. We invented the concept of electronic payments for transportation, and in the process launched the Comdata Card – a payment solution that helped drive an industry. Comdata provides custom solutions for a wide range of industries such as transportation, retail, government services, aviation, construction, service businesses, restaurants and hospitality.

Comdata payment innovations now touch financial transactions of all kinds. Innovative electronic payment solutions range from credit and debit cards, gift and loyalty cards, fleet, fuel, payroll, purchasing and T&E. Our integrated financial solutions are changing the way companies manage data, pay their employees, process merchant transactions, and manage spending on key business purchases from travel to fuel.

As a full-service merchant processor, Comdata’s platforms support both its proprietary and branded card networks, as well as card processing for all card types. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, Comdata employs more than 1,600 people worldwide. Comdata is a wholly owned subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Ceridan Corporation (NYSE: CEN).

For more information, please contact:

Sharon Simon
Director of Business Development
615.370.7424
ssimon@comdata.com


Discover Financial Services
www.discovernetwork.com

Discover Financial Services LLC, a business unit of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), operates the Discover® Card, with more than 50 million loyal Cardmembers who wield a combined $300 billion in spending power, and the Discover® Network with more than 4 million merchants and cash access locations. The Company also operates the PULSE ATM/debit network, which serves more than 4,200 financial institutions and includes nearly 250,000 ATMs and approximately 3.4 million point-of-sale terminals, and offers a wide array of consumer financial products and services through Discover Bank.

Discover Network delivers innovative products and wide acceptance for merchants and issuers. It is the largest proprietary payments network in the United States, supporting a card base of 50 million Discover Cardmembers, as well as other issuers of credit, signature debit, prepaid cards, and commercial cards. Connecting to more than 4 million merchant and cash access locations throughout North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, Discover Network supports transaction processing and offers related tools and services that help merchants run their businesses more effectively and with streamlined efficiencies. A merchant processing agreement with First Data Corp. will help expand Discover Network card acceptance even further with small- to medium-sized merchants. Discover Network Cards enjoy exclusive acceptance at several merchants including SAM’S CLUB, Dollar General, and Kindercare Learning Centers. Additionally, Discover Network Cards are accepted exclusively at the majority of Dollar Tree stores.

For more information, please contact:

Laura Clark
Prepaid Channel Sales Executive
800.229.0058, ext. 597
lauraclark@discoverfinancial.com

Brian Green
Prepaid Channel Sales Executive
800.229.0058, ext. 511
briangreen@discoverfinancial.com


ECOUNT, Inc.
www.ecount.com
Ecount, a Citi company, provides customized prepaid programs for corporations looking for a simple, convenient and cost effective way to deliver payments. Leveraging Citi's extensive payment platform and Ecount's experience and proprietary prepaid technology, corporations have access to an unmatched solution that enables comprehensive communication and unique brand extension, coupled with more immediate, economical payment delivery. With solutions ranging from incentives to compensation to specialized rewards, Ecount programs empower corporations looking to influence and motivate consumers, employees and partners. Over 1,200 leading corporations, including more than one third of the Fortune 100, rely on Ecount's prepaid solutions to gain a strategic market advantage. For more information, please visit ecount.com.

For more information, please contact:

Andrew Newcomb
EVP Corporate Development
877.326.8681
Sales@ecount.com


Extrameasures
www.extrameasures.com
Extrameasures offers unparalleled expertise in developing and implementing Bundled, Turnkey, Stored-Value Solutions for Rebate, Incentive, Promotion, Rewards, Loyalty, Win-Back, Employee Incentive and Refer-a-Friend Programs.

Established in 1996, Extrameasures was among the first companies to recognize the strength of an association (Visa) branded GiftCard that customers can redeem anytime, everywhere Visa debit cards are accepted, without the delay and hurdles of having to deposit a check. In essence, customers could finally experience instant gratification and enjoy instant rewards.

Extrameasures first introduced a consumer-purchased GiftCard to the general public in 1996. Quickly realizing the tremendous appeal of prepaid GiftCards as a marketing tool to incent and retain customers, Extrameasures approached a handful of companies with the idea of a GiftCard co-branded with the MasterCard® or Visa brand mark and the client's name/logo. Extrameasures also helped to pioneer the acceptance of online "virtual" GiftCards. In 1998,

Extrameasures introduced its first B2B incentive product for a major Telecommunication company's customers, replacing an unwieldy, ineffective $25 bill-credit with a simple Reward Card. The positive feedback from customers, as well as the client savings, were astounding. Today Extrameasures is a recognized leader in the development of innovative Reward, Rebate and GiftCard programs.

For sales inquiries, please contact:

Ken Murray
kpmurray@extrameasures.com


Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
www.fidelityinfoservices.com

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE: FIS), a Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, is a leading provider of core processing for financial institutions; card issuer and transaction processing services; and outsourcing services to financial institutions and retailers. FIS has processing and technology relationships with 40 of the top 50 global banks, including nine of the top 10 and was ranked the number one banking technology provider in the world by American Banker and the research firm Financial Insights in the 2008 FinTech 100 rankings. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., FIS maintains a strong global presence, serving more than 14,000 financial institutions in more than 90 countries worldwide. For more information about Fidelity National Information Services, please visit www.fidelityinfoservices.com.


First Data Corporation
www.firstdata.com


First Data Corp. is a leading provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions for businesses worldwide. With operations in 38 countries, First Data serves over 5 million merchant locations, 1,900 card issuers and their customers. It powers the global economy by making it easy, fast and secure for people and businesses around the world to buy goods and services using virtually any form of payment. The company's portfolio of services and solutions includes merchant transaction processing services; credit, debit, private-label, gift, payroll and other prepaid card offerings; fraud protection and authentication solutions; receivables management solutions; electronic check acceptance services through TeleCheck; as well as Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions. The company's STAR Network offers PIN-secured debit acceptance at 2 million ATM and retail locations. For more information, visit www.firstdata.com.


First National Merchant Solutions
www.smartonesolutions.com

Fully customizable and used anywhere Visa debit cards are accepted- smartOne Prepaid Products are the perfect solution for businesses of any size. smartOne Prepaid Products are perfect for employee gifts, sales incentives, company promotions, payroll programs, or any need where reimbursement checks are used.

With our in-house embossing and fulfillment group, we use leading technology to digitally print fully customized cards on demand, which sets us apart from other programs. With graphic designers on staff, we can customize cards with a company logo and creative to enhance loyalty and brand awareness, all in less than two weeks.

smartOne Prepaid Solutions is a brand of First National Merchant Solutions. First National Merchant Solutions is a top 10 payment processor with more than 50 years of experience providing first-rate services and solutions to businesses across the nation. With the combined resources of parent company First National Bank of Omaha and a dedicated, experienced team of industry professionals, First National Merchant Solutions provides complete in-house processing with unparalleled customer service every day to meet the long-term needs of our customers.

For more information, please contact:

Scott McCormack
402.964.8474
smccormack@fnni.com


FSV Payment  Systems, Inc.
www.fsvpaymentsystems.com

Houston-based FSV Payment Systems is a leading provider of host-based stored value and prepaid card solutions. Founded in 1999, the company offers host-based prepaid cards and automated ePayment solutions, including applications for payroll, employee benefits, gift cards, travel and promotions, loyalty, and incentives.

For more information, please contact:

George Sanchez
SVP Business Development
800.881.1945
George.Sanchez@fsvp.com

Jim Garvey
VP Sales – Healthcare
813.417.2256
Jim.Garvey@fsvps.com


Galileo Processing






GE Money

With more than $200 billion in assets, GE Money, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is a leading provider of retail banking and credit services to consumers retailers and auto dealers in 55 countries around the world. With more than 130 million global customers, GE Money, headquartered in London, UK offers a range of financial products, including private label credit cards, private label reloadable prepaid cards, network branded gift cards, personal loans, bank cards, auto loans and leases, mortgages, debt consolidation, home equity loans and credit insurance. More information can be found at http://global.gemoney.com.

GE is Imagination at Work - a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and industrial products, we serve customers in more than 100 countries and employ more than 300,000 people worldwide.


Green Dot  Corporation
www.greendotcorp.com

Green Dot Corporation invented the retail prepaid debit card product and is today the largest company providing such products and services. With nearly 50,000 stores nationwide selling its products, Green Dot Corporation maintains a commanding market share of the retailer-sold debit card category.

Additionally, Green Dot Corporation owns and operates the Green Dot Financial Network (GDFN). GDFN is the largest domestic cash-acceptance network of its kind offering prepaid card reloading and other cash collection services to America’s leading banks and financial services companies.

For more information, please contact:

Mark Troughton
VP Sales
626.775.3400
mtroughton@greendotcorp.com


i2C Inc.
www.i2cinc.com

i2c Inc. is an experienced and trusted payments solution provider that helps card issuers and program managers deliver profitable prepaid programs. With MCP (My Card Place), i2c’s flexible, feature-rich, Prepaid2.0-ready processing platform, clients have complete control of their programs in real time.

With its value-added services, rewards and loyalty options, cardholder communication tools, and extensive analytics, MCP empowers clients to increase revenues, improve efficiency, reduce costs, and build a loyal cardholder base. i2c enables clients to launch new products faster, tailor programs for specific segments, and offer a variety of vertical solutions.

i2c holds ISO 27001-2005, CMMI, ISO 9001, PCI-DSS, and SAS70 certifications. i2c has headquarters in Redwood City, California, and more than 300 employees and five sales and support offices worldwide. Its customer support provides 24x7x365 service to its clients, which include companies in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe. For more information, please visit www.i2cinc.com.

For more information, please contact:

Ed Kelley
Vice President, Business Development
+1 650.480.5276
sales@i2cinc.com


InComm
www.incomm.com

InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor and technology innovator of stored value gift and prepaid products, using its state-of-the-art point-of-sale transaction technology and payment solutions to revolutionize retail product sales and customer experiences. With more than $5 billion in retail sales transactions processed in 2006, InComm is the nation's largest provider of gift cards, prepaid wireless products, prepaid debit cards, digital music downloads, games, software, and bill payment solutions. InComm partners with consumer brand leaders around the world to provide more than 145,000 retail locations the products and services their customers demand.

Since 1992, InComm's patented technology has made the buying process easier for consumers, while streamlining the selling process for product and retail partners. InComm provides the technology and product expertise that enables the nation's leading retailers to offer their customers the leading brands of open-loop (third-party) and closed-loop gift cards, reloadable debit cards, prepaid wireless, digital music, gaming, postpaid subscriber services, bill payments, cash payment options, loyalty programs, and more. InComm offers Vanilla Visa® Gift Cards and Vanilla MasterCard® Gift Cards as well as other gift cards from American Express and Discover. InComm's technology has defined the evolution of card-based products at retail. For a retailer, a connection with InComm provides a gateway to the nation's leading product providers in a number of categories. For a product provider, a connection with InComm provides access to the nation's largest retail distribution network, featuring most of the top retailers in the big box, grocery, convenience, chain drug, discount, electronics, office supply, and other retail categories.

To learn more about InComm, visit www.incomm.com or call 1.800.352.3084. InComm is headquartered in Atlanta with offices in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Colorado, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Oregon, Arkansas, Alabama, Minnesota, and Mississippi.

For more information, please contact:

Mike Wells
Senior Director Financial Services Business Development
770-289-6547
mwells@incomm.com


Key Bank
www.key.com

Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $94 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. Find out more information at www.key.com.

For more information, please contact:

Jason Reeves
Lead Consumer Product Manager
216-813-7963
jason_e_reeves@keybank.com


Meta Payment Systems
www.metapay.com

Meta Payment Systems®, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a leading provider of prepaid, credit, debit and emerging payments solutions as well as the largest sponsor of ATMs in the United States. Meta Payment Systems, a division of MetaBank™, delivers innovative financial products that change the way people use, borrow and manage money. Meta Payment Systems brings money to LIFE. Meta Financial Group, Inc.® (NASDAQ Global Market®: CASH) is the holding company for federally-chartered savings bank MetaBank. For more information visit www.metapay.com.

For more information, please contact:

Mick Conlin
605.275.9555
mconlin@metapay.com

Ian Stromberg
605.275.9555
istromberg@metapay.com


NetSpend
www.netspend.com

NetSpend Corporation is one of the premier providers of innovative, accessible prepaid debit cards which empower consumers with the convenience, security and freedom to be self-banked. We achieve our mission by serving our customers anytime and anywhere, being trustworthy, reliable, and delivering innovative high value products and features. NetSpend’s proprietary processing platform enables us to support prepaid card programs end-to-end from customer acquisition and card fulfillment through customer service and risk management. The NetSpend® Prepaid Card Network includes over 65,000 U.S. locations consisting of leading alternative financial service centers, retailers, and consumer brands serving the un-banked and under-banked markets; and strategic relationships with leading card issuers, EFT networks, and payment card associations.


Parago, Inc.
www.parago.com

Parago has a simple goal of helping our clients build relationships with their customers. We design, develop and manage marketing programs aimed at attracting new customers, establishing strong relationships, and encouraging long-term loyalty.

Each of our programs-from traditional rebates and referrals, to complex sales channel incentive and loyalty programs-helps our clients collect consumer data and use it to grow their rebate business through smarter customer interactions. We take the guesswork out of managing the customer lifecycle, so our clients can focus on finding great customers and keeping them for a lifetime.

Parago combines creative problem solving, technology innovation, and sound business strategies to deliver complete solutions that actually solve real marketing problems. And because we believe price should be tied to performance, our clients always know they're getting a solid return on their marketing investment. It's a fresh approach to an old problem: Creating customer-focused marketing programs that are successful and cost-effective.

For more information, please contact:

Juli Spottiswood
CEO, Parago
972.538.7319
juli.spottiswood@parago.com


PreCash
www.precash.com

PreCash ® is an innovative provider of convenient, real-time payment systems that convert cash into electronic payments. This payment process was designed for use by the more than 65 million Americans who do not have access to traditional payment methods such as credit cards or bank accounts. The PreCash system gives these consumers access to a range of services, such as cellular phone and satellite television accounts and more, previously available only to credit-based users. PreCash also offers branded, prepaid MasterCard and Visa products that enable consumers to receive the benefits of shopping with a card, without use of traditional credit or debit methods.

PreCash was founded in 1998 with the vision of providing payment options and opportunities not served by the traditional credit and debit card models. Today, payments on the nationwide PreCash network total more than $3 billion and are processed at over 35,000 retail locations worldwide. This network allows PreCash to offer many benefits to cash-paying customers, while also providing retailers and service providers access to this growing market segment.

PreCash is a privately owned company headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Portland, Oregon. The PreCash Board of Directors includes current and former senior executives from First Data Corp, Bank One, and Hambrecht & Quist, all of whom bring a deep knowledge of and a strong commitment to the financial payments industry. PreCash's growing staff has many years of experience in both the prepaid phone industry and the credit card-acquiring business, with expertise in building financial transaction solutions.

For more information, please contact:

Sam Avoian
VP National Sales and Account Manager
713.600.2219
Sam.Avoian@precash.com


Paybefore
www.paybefore.com

Paybefore is the leading provider of information to the rapidly growing network branded prepaid and stored value card industry. Paybefore's family of media properties is branded PaybeforeTM and includes: the Paybefore NewsTM, Paybefore UpdateTM, and Paybefore LegalTM email newsletters; the Paybefore.comTM online portal; and the Paybefore MagazineTM print publication. Paybefore also produces the Paybefore Buyers GuideTM, Paybefore DataTM, and Paybefore AwardsTM -- all of which are incorporated across its various media properties. As the network branded prepaid and stored value card industry continues to emerge and grow, Paybefore serves as a trusted partner.

Steven Casco, President
655 Boston Road, Unit 4
Billerica, MA 01821
Phone: 617 671 1142
scasco@paybefore.com


PDNB Electronic Banking Solutions

PDNB Electronic Banking Solutions (EBS) is a division of Palm Desert National Bank, a nationally chartered financial institution with nationwide services in electronic transaction banking. The EBS division was established in 1994 with a mission to provide premier electronic banking services throughout the United States for a variety of product line services. EBS has taken the lead in a number of electronic products and continues to lead the industry in electronic fund banking including Network Merchant Processing, Prepaid Stored Value Cards, Network Sponsorship Services, and Automated Clearing House (ACH) services.

EBS has issued and sponsored millions of prepaid stored value cards to the direct clients of our ISOs through our principal membership in Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Our client list includes a cross-section of the industry’s largest distributors and retailers, in all service product lines. PDNB is a respected leader with a well deserved reputation as an innovator, a history of successful electronic banking programs and a corporate culture committed to premier service for our customers and our industry. We provide industry representation to lobby on behalf of our customers within the various national and regional electronic fund transaction networks and governmental regulatory bodies, and take prominent leadership roles in a number of industry organizations.


Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
www.srz.com

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP provides sophisticated legal counsel and representation to leading banks, financial institutions, financial services companies, private equity firms, hedge funds, prepaid card issuers and program managers, payment processors, money transmitters, and consumer finance businesses. With approximately 450 lawyers and offices in New York and London, the firm is well-equipped to advise on financial, legal, and regulatory matters and to provide innovative, effective solutions to business challenges. The firm's regulatory and transactional attorneys have handled a wide range of matters, from providing general advice concerning prepaid cards and other financial products to organizing and licensing entities to offer these products, and are frequently called upon to counsel buyers and sellers of payment and other licensed financial services companies.

For more information, please contact:

Donald J. Mosher
Partner
212.756.2187
Donald.mosher@srz.com


Simon Property Group
www.simon.com

 

Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest public U.S. real estate company. Simon is a fully integrated real estate company, which operates from five retail real estate platforms: regional malls, Premium Outlet Centers®, The Mills®, community/lifestyle centers, and international properties. It currently owns or has an interest in 380 properties comprising 257 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe, and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. Simon Property Group, Inc. is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Company's Website at www.simon.com.

Simon Brand Ventures (SBV), Simon's business-to-consumer arm, is pioneering the transformation of shopping centers into a medium where consumer brands can build relationships with Simon shoppers who make over 2.8 billion visits each year. Simon's vast franchise of market-leading shopping centers nationwide provides SBV the foundation to monetize the distribution system through numerous consumer ventures. SBV has engaged in a number of consumer business initiatives, including the Simon Visa Giftcard®; launch of Simon platform programs such as Simon DTour Live®, Simon Kidgits Club® and Simon Super Chefs Live!®; a national media delivery channel including static, digital and experiential marketing and advertising vehicles, including the OnSpot Digital Network; and multiple national and local marketing alliances with Coca-Cola, Visa U.S.A. and Cingular Wireless, among others.

For more information, please contact:

Jerald D. Leuthold
Director, Giftcard Business Development
317.263.8174
jleuthold@simon.com



Springbok Services

www.springbokservices.com

Headquartered outside of Denver, Springbok Services, Inc. is a next-generation prepaid processor built with a vision to serve an emerging and evolving marketplace. We exceed our clients’ expectations through a combination of industry experience, speed and agility as a processor, and the unique capabilities and distinctive attributes of a Certified MasterCard Provider for Card Production and Personalization.

Background and Experience
Springbok was established as “The Best Present Company” in 1998 and issued our first prepaid cards with Key Bank and MasterCard in 1999. We are privileged to directly or indirectly serve more than 4,000 clients including nearly 200 of the Fortune 500.

One of the earliest providers of prepaid programs, our perspective derives from our experience as a program marketer using third-party processing and fulfillment and as direct processor that also provides onsite card personalization and fulfillment services.

Value Proposition

“Delivering what our clients want when they want it”

Whether your order is large or small; requires standard or custom designs; or you need your cards tomorrow, next week, or next month, Springbok can deliver a prepaid card solution that meets your needs. Leveraging the speed, agility, and other distinctive attributes of the Springbok is what it’s all about.

“One size does not have to fit all”

MasterCard and KeyCorp are recognized leaders in providing financials services. Springbok is privileged to have the experience, strength, and commitment of these two organizations as cornerstones in our product offerings.

For more information, please contact:

Tim Birk
EVP, Sales and Marketing
303.397.4254
tbirk@springbokservices.com


StoreFinancial
www.storefinancial.com
StoreFinancial is an international payment systems processor, program manager, and an industry leader in prepaid card programs specifically designed for unaffiliated merchant groups. Currently, StoreFinancial provides specialty prepaid solutions to more than 380 clients around the globe. StoreFinancial combines unparalleled customer service, the most current technology applications, and industry unique products and services to meet your business objectives and ensure your success!

StoreFinancial is an industry leader in private label programs and is committed to its clients through various value-added and industry unique solutions. StoreFinancial prides itself in providing excellent service, enabling you to create a successful prepaid program that greatly exceeds your expectations.

StoreFinancial services include:

  • Processing
  • Program Management
  • Implementation
  • Client Support
  • Reporting

As the prepaid industry continues to grow, StoreFinancial will expand its gift card programs to new markets. Currently, StoreFinancial provides gift card solutions to:

  • Shopping Centers
  • Downtown Districts
  • Casinos
  • Resorts

Synovus
www.synovus.com


Synovus (NYSE: "SNV") is a financial services holding company with approximately $33 billion in assets based in Columbus, Georgia. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 37 banks, 440 ATMs, and other Synovus offices in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee. The company focuses on its unique decentralized customer delivery model, position in high-growth Southeast markets and commitment to being a great place to work to ensure the delivery of unparalleled customer experiences.

For more information, please contact:

Millie Patrick
706.644.0100
milliepatrick@synovus.com


TSYS
www.tsys.com/prepaid/

TSYS (NYSE: TSS), is a leading global provider of Visa® and MasterCard® turnkey, customized prepaid card solutions. The company is a leader in the prepaid market servicing of financial institutions, corporations and millions of end consumers in the United States and abroad. With more than a decade of experience in processing prepaid applications, TSYS Prepaid powers some of the most expert and client-centric solutions in the market.

Global financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, big–box retailers and large fulfillment houses look to TSYS Prepaid’s industry–leading solutions because of its real–time, multi–purse, multi-currency large–scale processing capabilities that are coupled with best–in–class client management. The flexibility, strength and reliability of our Web–based processing engine means the possibilities for prepaid applications are endless. TSYS Prepaid has launched some of the largest and most innovative card portfolios in the market. The company’s extensive product suite includes consumer incentives and promotions, general purpose reloadable, retail, private label payroll, corporate incentive, rewards, travel and insurance claims.

These solutions have proven effective in TSYS Prepaid’s years of experience as a full service provider of prepaid solutions. We offer world–class processing services; customer service; legal and compliance counsel; risk management including auto-queuing and alerts, automated instant issue, customized card branding, accounting services and sponsor bank relationships. What sets TSYS Prepaid apart is its longstanding expertise, global presence and client services. TSYS was built on the foundation that the customer always comes first. Clients notice that kind of service. At TSYS, our product is service.

TSYS Prepaid Services is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA
For more information, please contact:
prepaidsales@tsys.com


TxVia
www.txvia.com

TxVia offers the most advanced processing systems for prepaid cards. Some of the world’s largest bank issuers and program managers have selected TxVia to enable their prepaid card programs. We provide unparalleled product and service quality, product manageability and configurability, platform performance and operations, client control, and cost savings.

Our clients realize significant scalability, reliability, time-to-market, economic, security, transparency and other benefits, overcoming the risks and product and service degradation associated with other processing options.

We pioneered the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model for card payments. With PaaS, we rapidly and cost-effectively create highly customized and fully segregated prepaid card processing platforms for our clients. This approach soundly manages the complexities of prepaid across the various products, verticals, organizations, geographies and channels that encompass the industry.

With our implementation of PaaS, issuers and program managers can outsource processing to TxVia completely or bring all or a part of their requirements in-house, allowing them meaningful control over their processing--from functionality and release timing to infrastructure and service levels. Regardless of the configuration, PaaS users do not share a platform with other organizations and products, and are able to redefine the prepaid card value chain to their specific needs.

TxVia offers complete services to support clients, including hosting and platform services, managed services, switch services and professional services.

For more information, please contact:
sales@txvia.com



U.S. Bank
www.usbank.com/prepaid

U.S. Bank is the largest Visa® prepaid debit card issuer in the nation and is uniquely positioned to provide a skilled and powerful partnership. U.S. Bank’s prepaid card programs give consumers, businesses, and government agencies a new and more efficient way to manage funds transfer and prefunded spending. These innovative card solutions can be customized to meet almost any market need. There are cost and convenience benefits for the funding party and cardholders. Everyone enjoys the advantages of a U.S. Bank relationship.

Consumer – Making life easier with prepaid solutions for teen spending, gifts, travel and more.

Businesses – Reducing funds-transfer expenses and increasing efficiency for a broad range of applications, including payroll, incentives, promotional rewards, rebates, employee travel and petty cash.

Government Agencies – Providing secure and cost-effective distribution to agency recipients in programs like child support and unemployment insurance benefits

For more information, please contact:

Rick Pileggi
Vice President
404.603.9114
richard.pileggi@usbank.com


VIPGift
www.vipgift.com

VIPGift is a leading provider of corporate and consumer incentive programs and prepaid card solutions to Fortune 500 companies.  VIPGift has distinguished itself by providing one-stop customized incentive solutions and technologies to help drive growth and achieve strategic corporate objectives for its customers. 

Clients use VIPGift’s products and services for customer acquisition and loyalty programs, employee incentive and retention programs, marketing initiatives, sales channel incentives and consumer rebate programs.  VIPGift’s wide array of customized rewards – including points, merchandise, and prepaid card based programs – have helped position the company as a market leader in the incentives industry. 

The Company is backed by Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital growth fund with more than $11 billion in capital, and Bridgescale Partners, a private equity and venture capital fund focusing on late-stage, technology-enabled companies.   VIPGift was founded in 2000 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee with offices throughout the US.   

Sales Contact:

Vicki Church
Vice President of U.S. Sales
770.552.9839
vchurch@vipgift.com


Visa, Inc.

Visa Inc. operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network providing processing services and payment product platforms. This includes consumer credit, debit, prepaid and commercial payments, which are offered under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink and PLUS brands. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world, and Visa/PLUS is one of the world's largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in more than 170 countries.

Visa has built a highly flexible prepaid platform that includes industry-leading guidelines, product standards, and enhanced technology infrastructure. Combined, they provide Visa partners with the flexibility to develop applications with the product features best suited to their markets and customers. Visa’s position as a marketplace leader in the electronic payments industry, combined with our pioneering innovation, product expertise and strategic approach, have been a driving force in the development of the prepaid category.

For additional information: http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/prepaid/



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