Metavante Technologies Inc

Metavante is the MasterCard® transaction processing partner for Q Card. Metavante Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: MV), is a US$ 1.5 Billion revenue provider of banking and payment technology to over 8,600 financial services firms and businesses worldwide. Metavante provides mission-critical solutions:

• 22 million deposit accounts processed nightly - aggregate of €2.04 trillion in assets
• Leading debit / prepaid card processor with over 80 million active cards
• 200 million bill payment transactions annually
• Manage a nationwide EFT/PIN-debit network of 280,000 ATM’s and 1,5 million POS locations

PayPoint plc

PayPoint provides Q Card Purchase and Top-up Services.
PayPoint plc is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and Ireland, handling in excess of £6 billion in over 470 million transactions annually for more than 5,000 Clients and Merchants. PayPoint is available at 500 retailers in Ireland and 20,000 in the U.K. PayPoint is quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The Company’s current market capitalisation is £407 million.

SmartCentric Technologies International Limited: A world leader in payment card technologies, SmartCentric provides the core application software that supports Q Card. The company is focused on secure payments and transactions and multi-application smart card systems.

SmartCentric's flagship product, SmartCity®, was originally developed by the SmartCentric team in the early 1990’s. SmartCity® is a Multi-Application Smart Card based system which has many wide-ranging uses, such as stored value, loyalty, gift cards, logical access, physical access, biometrics, car parking and ticketing. SmartCity® is based on Global Standards and works with top industry partners to ensure unique, top class solutions.

SmartCity® has been used in over 90 sites worldwide with over 5 million cards issued in sites as diverse as colleges, government offices, military establishments, banks, towns, shopping areas and stadiums.

Kodana: Kodana provides graphic design, user interface and self-service banking expertise. Kodana has designed the Q Card logo and is providing the dedicated Internet Kiosk for self-service access to Q Card Services. Kodana is also exploring the seamless presentation of Q Card products and services across all printed and electronic media, including corporate presentations, technical descriptions, on-line and printed brochure material.

Future Business Intercommunications Limited (Future Business): Future Business is a full-service Internet Solutions Partner successfully providing services to companies in a diverse range of industries. Future Business manages the Q Card web site. Future Business also provides the credit/ debit card authorisation and transaction processing.

Credit Card Systems (CCS): CCS offers full card fulfilment services from its facilities in Dublin. Through a modern facility at Porters Avenue, Coolmine Industrial Estate, Clonsilla, Dublin 15, CCS is capable of high volume card personalisation and card issuing. Q Card has partnered CCS to offer card personalisation and fulfilment services to Q Card clients worldwide.