European Card Acquiring Forum Announces The Guiding Hand Awards to Honor Payments Visionaries

To pay tribute to leaders and innovators in the card payment sector, the European Card Acquiring Forum will host the second annual Guiding Hand Awards during its annual conference, scheduled this year for Feb. 24-26 in Berlin. 

“Acquirers need to offer a helping hand for merchants to understand the opportunities of the existing and coming payment systems”, says Leon Dhaene, Chairman of the Jury of the Guiding Hand Awards and Benelux Jury Member. “At the same time, acquirers are the visionary who, by understanding what the acceptance markets need and by evaluating what the merchants are willing to support, embrace or discharge innovations to market entry.”

The Guiding Hand Awards will be distributed in the following categories :

– Performance Award

– Channel Award

– Usage Award

– International Award

– Information Award

– Data Security Award

– Loyalty Award

– Acquiring Personality Award

– Merchant Award

– Processing Award

The European Card Acquiring Forum (http://www.europeancardacquiring.com) is one of the most well-respected card events in Europe. The forum gathers a range of prominent speakers and audience in domains such as acquiring banks, independent acquirers, merchants, schemes, processors, payment service providers, consultants and solution providers.

For more information about the European Card Acquiring Forum and Guiding Hand Awards, contact David Vesely at david.vesely@empiriagroup.eu.