This year, CARTES 2011 attracted close to 20 000 visitors to the exhibition, confirming its position as the event of reference for the industry. From the World Card Summit to the SESAMES Award, to the conferences and booths, this year’s event was able to meet all exhibitors’ needs.
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The Exhibition is closing.
CARTES & IDentification team wishes to thanks all who have participated to CARTES2011!
We hope you have enjoyed the exhibits, démos and conferences.
We'll soon share with you a review on this edition along with stats and pictures.
On your side, don't hesitate to share with us innovations or applications that you thought particularly interesting.
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Best from the team.
Contribution from the Datacard Group present at booth 3D055
In recent years, there has been an emerging trend towards instantly issuing and personalizing financial payment cards at the branch or retail location, providing an alternative to the traditional central issuance distribution model.
According to the 2010 Debit Issuer Study sponsored by Discover Financial Services’ Pulse electronic funds transfer network, “Instant issuance is growing sharply. Banks and other issuers said they are increasingly handing out debit cards in the branch as they sign up new customers, to facilitate immediate use and to eliminate the expense of having to replace cards lost or stolen in the mail. And, 35 percent of debit-card issuers offered instant issuance in 2009, up from 28 percent in 2008. Those considering it jumped to 36 percent, from 26 percent, in the same time period.
What does that mean for the industry ?
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This year, Turkey is the country of Honor at Cartes, the reason is the exponential growth in terms of credit and debit card usage, making Turkey the largest ATM market in Europe and one of the most advanced in terms of implementing new technologies such as a National ID card which includes EMW payment functions.
