ECAF Awards Ceremony
Card payments or transaction acquiring are a part of the payment business which is often underestimated and rarely visible. However, it is an essential part of the value chain, and often critical to the success of payment systems.
The European Card Acquiring Forum is the biggest event in this sector, and by attributing these Awards, the ECAF wants to recognize the key role of acquirers, payment service providers, and processors. The acquiring side was essential in the successful take-up by the general public of all of the recent innovations in payment systems, whether mobile, RFID, digital television, e-commerce, etc…
“Guiding Hand” – this is how the ECAF sees the acquirers in the business: telling issuers, schemes, processors, payment services providers, etc…what is commercially possible, and what’s absolutely not. The ECAF Awards want to acknowledge the important role of the acquiring business, by highlighting the most relevant achievements in various subareas of this business.
All attendees of the ECAF event are invited to participate also in the ECAF Awards Ceremony gala evening, taking place on 25th of February 2010, directly following the second day of the conference.
Parties interested in taking part idependently of the conference, please contact us here.
AWARDS CATEGORIES
Read carefully the category description and make sure that you are entering the most appropriate ones
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INFORMATION Award
Goes to the acquirer who has set-up the best,
most comprehensive (segment penetration), or
efficient information exchange systems with the
issuing banks and cardholders, for instance –
building e-invoicing solutions, corporate expense
management, etc…
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DATA SECURITY Award
Goes to the acquirer who has developed,
implemented, or invested in the most secure, most
effective, or most innovative system, programme,
or procedure to protect the payment system from
being hacked, compromised, etc…
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CHANNEL Award
Goes to the acquirer who was able to offer
innovative or the most complete offering
regarding card acceptance in different channels.
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LOYALTY Award
Goes to the acquirer who has developed,
implemented, or made significant innovations in
offering loyalty programmes to their merchants. |
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USAGE Award
Goes to the acquirer who launched the most
original and best performing campaign to
increase card usage at their merchants.
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INTEGRITY Award
Goes to the acquirer who was best in
communicating, dealing with, and remedying a
compromised operations.
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INTERNATIONAL Award
Goes to the acquirer who did set-up the best offer,
programme, or system, to service international
merchants.
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PROCESSING Award
Goes to the processor who offered the most
innovative services to acquirers (and therefore
ultimately, to merchants).
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PERFORMANCE Award
Goes to the acquirer who, by innovating in new
systems, procedures, or controls, realised a major
reduction of chargebacks. |
MERCHANT Award
Goes to the acquirer who has the best performing
system, as expressed by merchant satisfaction. |
ELIGIBILITY TO ENTER
Read carefully the conditions and definitions of eligibility before submitting your entry for the ECAF Awards
The ECAF Awards are only accessible to a certain type of companies. Eligibility for particular category is described in the "Awards Categories" section above.
Please do submit your application if your company is classified as:
- Acquiring bank
- Non-bank acquirer
- Payment service provider
- Processor
AWARDS COMMITTEE
Read carefully about individual members and workflow of the awards jury responsible for selection of shortlisted companies and final winners
MEMBERS:
- Leon Dhaene, Chairman, n2euro
- Roger Alexander, Chairman, Greenings International
- Peter Jones, MD, PSE Consulting
- Mike Hendry, Payment Systems Consultant
- Adrian Hausser, MD, PayX
- Nathalie Caye, Card & Payment Specialist, e-excellence
- Chris De Smet, MD, De Smet Consulting
- Lars O. Wynia, MD, Wynia Consultancy
- Peter Nitschke, MD, Cardpayment Consulting
- Catherine Gondelmann Bredin, Manager, Explain
TASKS:
The selection of judges consists of internationally recognized experts, consultants from payment area, with extensive knowledge and overview of the acquiring business in Europe. The team is responsible for review process and consecutive scoring of all the entries received within the scheduled timespan. After initial review, their next step is to short-list three entries in each category. Shortlisted companies are announced as soon as the top three candidates in each category become known . The final judging day is January 31, 2010, dedicated to assigning the last votes and counting the total numbers of points for each entry in each category.
CODE OF CONDUCT:
All members of the Awards Committee are bound by a Code of Conduct in respect to confidentiality, contact with entrants and conflicts of interest. All decisions made by the jury are final.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Entries acceptance: October 15 – January 31, 2010
- Entries review process: October 15 – January 31, 2010
- Announcement of winners: February 25, 2010, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Berlin
SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY
Before you start filling in any information, please email us at
awards@europeancardacquiring.com
to let us know which particular award category/categories you wish to enter. We will provide you with specific measurable criteria for that award category/categories in return. You will be asked to enter the information based on that criteria in one of the forms below...
The form below requires you to enter the whereabouts of the company applying for the awards and the company representative responsible for information entry and submission. The details provided in this form may be used by the awards committee to contact you back in case of insufficient or indeterminate information. Also, should you get shortlisted in the selected award category, you will be contacted for further procedure.
All fields in the form are mandatory. Only use corporate email addresses for submitting your company information. Entries coming from freemail addresses will not be considered.
The checkboxes below indicate the categories of your choice. For repetitive overview, see the section "Awards Categories" on top of this page. In total, you can only check three checkboxes as only three categories are allowed to be entered by one company. Choose them carefully. After you tick the desired checkbox, a textbox menu enrolls for you to fill out. Each textbox has to be filled with corresponding information, with guidance displayed directly in it for your convenience. Maximum number of characters per textbox is 500 to make the initial information for awards jury compendious and synoptical. Therefore, use short to-the-point descriptions. In case you decide to change one of the categories while having any of them picked, just untick the particular checbox and tick the desired one. The same also erases all data in that particular category. The last box serves for you to upload any marketing materials to support your product or service entry. Maximum size per file is 3 Mb.
I understand the information sent via this form will be reviewed by the Awards Committee and will serve as basis for considering my company as a candidate for the ECAF Awards. I hereby agree with submitting the information in the form above.