Leading European Card Issuers, Merchants, Schemes, Processors and others involved in card issuing will meet for a three day event to discuss the latest thinking on cost cutting, credit card profitability, co-branding, corporate cards, fuel cards and more.

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The main aim of this event is to start an open discussion and engage all parties in order to understand different perspectives and share best practices in order to decide on future business models.

The first day of the event will be focused on the relationship that banks have with retailers. Senior experts from IKEA, Eurocommerce and the British Retail Consortium

will offer their insights as to what value propositions retailers are looking for and which new trends seem promising. The questions regarding Mobile payments, prepaid cards, contactless cards will be discussed and evaluated in more detail.

There will be sessions devoted to New Card Schemes, Transaction Processing, Outsourcing vs. Inhousing, Overcoming Credit Aversion, Profitability of Credit cads, Co-Branding, SEPA and many more. The conference will host a series of panel discussions involving the audience and experts coming from different parts of the Card Issuing Value Chain.

More information can be found on the internet site of the conference: www.EuropeanCardIssuing.com

Speakers will include senior representatives from KBC, Raiffeisen Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Finansbank, Banco Popular Espano, Citi Handlowy, Deutsche Bank AG, Nordea, UniCredit Clarima Banca, ABN AMRO, TRAVELCARD etc.

The European Card Issuing Forum to be held in Rome on October 1-3, 2008

Leading European Card Issuers, Merchants, Schemes, Processors and others involved in card issuing will meet for a three day event to discuss the latest thinking on cost cutting, credit card profitability, co-branding, corporate cards, fuel cards and more.