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Labelexpo Europe 2007

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Dates: September 26 - 29, 2007
Venue: Brussels Exhibition Centre
Location: Brussels, Belgium
URL: www.labelexpo-europe.com/
Contact: Labelexpo Europe 2007 Contacts, Contact Page

Description: Labelexpo Europe is the world’s largest event for the label, product decoration, web printing and converting industry and will take place 26-29 September at Brussels Expo.

Facts from the 2005 event:

• Number of visitors: 23,126
• Number of exhibitors: 438
• Number of countries represented: 110
• Estimated value of label printing machines sold: €350 million

Research and Markets announced the addition of a report concerning the latest state of the Polish contactless payment market.

Entitled “Polish Contactless Payments Market 2011: Issuance, Transactions and Innovations” the report presents detailed analysis based on surveys carried out among all banks issuing contactless payment instruments and acquirers that operated contactless payments on the Polish market.

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la Caixa and Visa Europe have begun rolling out their contactless payment system in Barcelona. The bank is set to make all cards and point-of-sale across Barcelona contactless, requiring the distribution of 1 million cards and more than 15,000 new POS terminals.

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In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com

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Hitachi partnered with Turkey-based banking company Isbank to bring biometric identification authentication to roughly 3,400 ATMs in Europe.

While the new network of biometric ATMs, which utilize Hitachi’s finger vein scanning technology, is the largest in Europe, it is far from the largest worldwide where Japan has embraced the technology and installed more than 75,000 finger vein-based ATMs.

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Visa Europe has announced that six of Germany’s leading banks are launching Visa payWave contactless services in 2012.

BW Bank, comdirect, DKB, Landesbank Berlin, TARGOBANK and Volkswagen Bank have all confirmed their plans to roll out payWave technology by the middle of next year.

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Visa Europe is anticipating a big year for contactless and NFC payments, with issuance projected to leap from 30 million in 2011 to 50 million in 2012.

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