Sponsors

KPMG

KPMG LLP is the Canadian member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 140,000 professionals, including more than 7,900 partners, in 146 countries. KPMG provides Audit, Tax, and Advisory services.

We work closely with clients to put their business issues in context. Our industry teams have the experience, technical skills, industry focus, and global resources to help clients address and overcome their business challenges. KPMG is focused on providing informed perspectives to help navigate change and take advantage of opportunities – from value creation to realization.

www.kpmg.ca

Sybase

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (an SAP company; NYSE: SAP), is the global leader in enabling mobile information services for mobile operators, financial institutions and enterprises. We provide our customers with the widest offering in SMS, MMS, GRX, IPX interoperability, end-to-end mobile commerce solutions, innovative mCRM, mobile marketing and content delivery services. Sybase 365 processes more than 1.8 billion messages per day, reaching 900 operators and 5.5 billion subscribers around the world. For more information, visit: www.sybase.com/365. Read our blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

MasterCard WorldWide

MasterCard Worldwide advances global commerce by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide. As a franchisor, processor and advisor, MasterCard develops and markets payment solutions, processes approximately 22 billion transactions each year, and provides industry-leading analysis and consulting services to financial-institution customers and merchants. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network and through its family of brands, including MasterCard®, Maestro® andCirrus®, MasterCard serves consumers and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. For more information go to www.mastercard.com.

MNP

In addition to being one of the largest chartered accountancy and business consulting firms in Canada, MNP is now home to Canada’s largest dedicated AML practice, offering a wide array of AML compliance solutions. For more than 65 years, MNP has proudly served and responded to the needs of mid-market clients in both public and private sectors. Through partner-led engagements, MNP provides a knowledge-driven approach to doing business and personalized strategies to help clients achieve their goals.

MNP is a member of Praxity, an international alliance of independent accounting firms with expertise across a wide range of industrial and business sectors. Leveraging this collection of experience and knowledge, our team is able to develop enterprise wide and risk-based compliance programs to satisfy international and local standards, conduct international AML compliance reviews and coordination of regulator-ordered remediation in multiple jurisdictions.

Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint is a world–class provider of branded investment, collectible and secure payment products and services that connect people and inspire celebration. The Mint is a for–profit Crown Corporation with a mandate to produce circulation and non–circulation coins (for Canada and other countries), manage the domestic coinage system, and provide advice to the Minister of Finance on all matters related to coinage. It also extends to the production and marketing of bullion and related refinery products and services for profit. Legislation which establishes the Mint is clear that the corporation is to conduct its businesses "in anticipation of profit". That fundamental object has shaped the history of the Mint.

CIBC

CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with a market capitalization of $30.1 billion and a Tier 1 capital ratio of 14.7%. Through our three major businesses – Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Wholesale Banking – we provide a full range of financial products and services to 11 million individual, small business, commercial, corporate and institutional clients in Canada and around the world.

Kony

Kony is a mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps and the KonyOne™ Platform which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere –– across all smartphones, feature phones, tablets, kiosks and desktops, seven operating systems and multiple deployment modes, including HTML5 and mobile web, hybrid, native, and mixed–mode.

Telepin Software

Telepin Software is a leading provider of mobile transaction platforms, providing mobile operators the most efficient and cost-effective way to control their distribution network, maximize revenues from mobile financial services, and deliver innovative mobile financial applications. Telepin’s Cayman Transaction Platform enables a full suite of electronic, transaction-based applications for mobile subscribers to recharge their mobile airtime without the use of physical cards or vouchers, facilitate P2P money transfers, allow for electronic bill payments, and more, using multiple channel interfaces. Telepin’s customer base includes tier-one operators in the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.telepin.com or www.mobilemoneytransactions.com.

ACT Canada

ACT Canada is the internationally–recognized authority, trusted knowledge resource and catalyst for change in payments and secure identity. We serve stakeholders from around the world, to shape the future of mobile, NFC, loyalty, leveraging EMV and secure payments. For 22 years, ACT Canada has been providing members with insights, networking opportunities and visibility in this ever–changing market. ACT Canada supports our members, protects their interests, and helps them grow the market and their business.

Mobile-Financial.com

Mobile-Financial.com is the leading online Mobile Financial Services industry news, collaboration, and community portal.

We enable industry practitioners to access breaking news, conduct market research, and connect with colleagues from Mobile Network Operators, Financial Institutions, Software Vendors, Venture Capitalists, and Industry Analysts.

To get connected today, please visit http://www.mobile-financial.com/.

The Paypers

The Paypers (www.thepaypers.com) is the leading independent source of news and analysis for professionals in the global payments industry. Our products are created by payment professionals and cover all significant developments in financial transactions, with a special focus on online payments, online banking, mobile payments,e-invoicing, e-identity and SEPA.

The Paypers targets a very specific readership: the global payments professional. Payments professionals including analysts, CEOs, CFOs, treasurers, business managers, consultants, product managers, business development managers, sales and marketing professionals in over 120 countries already stay up to speed by reading news and analysis by The Paypers.

For more information contact us at info@thepaypers.com

The Smart Sense

The Smart Sense, www.thesmartsense.com, is a dedicated news platform that published news, articles and interviews regarding “smart technologies”. With smart card, mobile, identification and contactless technologies concerning payments anchored as our forte, our readers and contributors include industry high profiles (C–Level Executives), market movers, decision makers, associations and end–users that shape the industry. Like the sixth sense, come and experience the smart technology industry in a whole new way!

Contact us at info@thesmartsense.com

Hassard Fay

Hassard Fay designs and runs sophisticated, long-term thought leadership programs – expressed through magazines, conferences, documentaries, themed websites, and other media – for corporations seeking to differentiate themselves by being at the forefront of their own industry’s thinking or by changing minds about a cause, and for non–profits that want to achieve and maintain long–run influence by leading the public debate on issues that matter to them. For more information, please visit www.hassardfay.com