Europe visa presents/displays the future of cards with technology without contact in a new edition of Cartes 2006

03 of November, 2006 Madrid

Europe visa will within the framework present/display a great variety of innovating solutions in methods of payment without contact or contactless of the card fair of greater international reputation, Cartes 2006, that will be celebrated in Paris between the 7 and the 9 of November.

Europe visa tries to approach this way the technology without contact our daily lives. For this reason, and during the duration of Cartes 2006 several payment product examples will be able to be seen in his stand as much Visa with applications already available for movable telephones as for other devices contactless.

Sandra Alzetta, Director of Marketing Europe Visa indicates. “Cartes is an excellent forum to be able to show the successes achieveed in the card industry. The payments without contact are a segment clearly led by Visa and this year we want to demonstrate that the cards Visa can be accepted in a great number of new situations providing greater rapidity and comfort to the payments that we do of daily way�?.

Stand of Visa will have three areas of demonstration based on daily experiences:

A zone in that demonstrations will become of the different innovating forms through which a card Visa can facilitate the daily trip of a worker from its house to the office
A prototype of BMW 530i that incorporates the high tech more will illustrate how a card Visa contactless with microcircuit emitted by BMW Financial Services can be used to activate an ample range of customized functions in the automobile. Examples of conceptual applications will be offered as the purchase of music through Internet later to unload it in the stereo sound equipment of the car
In one third zone of stand will be the benefits to use a card Visa when it is traveled. For example, how a card Visa or a movable telephone with technology can be used contactless (NFC) in a hotel to obtain a room, to buy entrances of sport or cultural events (that can virtually be kept in the card or the telephone), to invoice the suitcases for a next flight, to receive discounts or to buy and to lower digital content

In addition, Visa will show to a great variety of technologies and solutions related to cards contactless. For example, how with a card ticket for a spectacle can be bought and be stored that, later, it is possible to be printed in the front door of that same spectacle. Also one will be how a moving body can be customized with an application of payment and data of the account.

The new card of debit Visa V PAY, that fulfills the requirements established by KNOWS (Unique Zone of Payments in Euros) also will be present in the fair of Paris as well as some examples of the calls “intelligent posters or pósters�? that can interact with telephones NFC providing exclusive information on discounts, coupons and access to purchases.

Sandra Alzetta stands out: “The idea of being able to travel, to buy, to receive up-to-date information when you travel or to enjoy customized adjustments in your car your card Visa or the moving body could seem science fiction. Nevertheless, thanks to the technology multi-application without contact, many of these advances can become reality with all the advantages that it supposes so much for the consumers as for the retailers as far as rapidity, comfort and efficiency�?.

Visa will be located in the corridor J, stand 14 (J4J014)

On Visa

In Europe it has more than 315 million cards Visa of credit, debit and of companies. In the 12 months until June end of 2006 those cards they were used to realize distant purchases and of cash by a total volume of more than 1.19 trillions of Euros.

Visa is an association formed by members, an organization under property and control of its 4,500 European financial organizations member, which allows him to quickly take care of the specific needs of the European financial organizations and their clients - titular and commerce and to fulfill with the aim of the European Commission to create a true inner market of payments. Europe visa is Visa co-owner the International, the organization who guarantees the global interoperability of her products as well as the management of the mark Visa.

Visa is one of the payment marks leaders in the world and counts on a level of matchless acceptance that includes approximately 24 million acceptance points which they include more of a million automatic tellers.

For more information it visits www.visaeurope.com/es