April 13, 2005

Banking Production Center (BPC) will participate in Cards Middle East 2005 conference and exhibition, which is being held from 15 to 18 May 2005 at Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, Dubai, UAE. In its sixth year this respected annual event will bring together senior decision-makers from banking, government, and major corporations from across the Gulf and the Middle East.

The conference will offer attendees a comprehensive series of keynote addresses, case studies and panel sessions, covering critical issues in card business development and technology. This year conference program will feature speakers from MasterCard, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, National Bank of Kuwait, Mashreq Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Burgan Bank, Jordan Bank and many more.

This year BPC will traditionally take part in Cards Middle East exhibition that offers excellent opportunities to see and to display the latest technology solutions for financial sector. BPC will showcase its products together with its business partner — Gulf Business Machines (GBM), distributor of selected IBM Products and Services in the Gulf countries, which also markets and supplies SmartVista suite of products under the agreement with BPC.

At BPC's booth No. 28 attendees will be able to see a live demo of BPC's flagship SmartVista suite of software products for transaction processing and card management and to discuss the prospects of cooperation in the region.

More information about the conference and exhibition is available at http://www.worldofcards.biz/2005/cme/.