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AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK LTD. |
 The world's favorite card. More than 57 million cards in circulation and growing! Around US $ 123 billion was spent last year through American Express Cards and it is poised to be the world's No. 1 card in the near future. In a regressive US economy last year, the total amount spent on American Express cards rose by 4 percent. American Express cards are especially popular in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia and are used widely in the retail and everyday spend categories.
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Carte Blanche was a minor credit card that was acquired by Citibank and phased out of service. In 2000, the Carte Blanche name was revived when Diners Club, which was also acquired by Citibank, introduced an upscale version of its card: the Diners Club Carte Blanche Card . It is an upper-level charge card on par with the American Express Platinum card. The card carries a US$300 annual fee and offers an extensive menu of perks geared toward affluent travelers. It is accepted wherever regular Diners Club cards are accepted and is very popular with the corporates.
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| Citibank eCards |
Citibank has launched a new initiative Citibank eCard to promote safe and secure E-shopping. Like a regular credit card but without a physical plastic, it is India 's first web credit card. The Citibank eCard can be used for all types of Internet shopping and transactions through telephone and mail order. You can also do all transactions available on Internet Banking, including utility bills and ordering a demand draft.
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Diners Club International |
 The world's No. 1 Charge Card. Diners Club cardholders reside all over the world and the Diners Card is an old corporate favorite. There are more than 8 million Diners Club cardholders. They are affluent and are frequent travelers in premier businesses and institutions, including Fortune 500 companies and leading global corporations.
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 Discover® Network is a business unit of Discover Financial Services LLC. It is the largest independent Credit Card Network in the United States. It supports a proprietary card base of 50 million Cardholders, as well as other third party issuers of credit, signature debit, prepaid cards and commercial cards connecting with over 4 million merchant and cash access locations throughout North America and the Caribbean.
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 JCB (Japan Credit Bureau), which launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding overseas in 1981, is an international brand and the largest card issuer and merchant acquirer in Japan. Its merchant network of 7.96 million spans 183 countries, and serves more than 38 million cardholders worldwide. These cardholders spend US$ 42 billion annually on their JCB cards. More information about JCB can be found at www.jcbinternational.com.
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| MasterCard |
 MasterCard International is a global payments company with one of the most recognized and respected brands in the world. With 32 million acceptance locations, no payment card is more widely accepted globally than MasterCard. Last year, MasterCard handled transactions worth US Dollar 285 billion.
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| VISA |
 The world's most preferred card. There are more than one billion cards in circulation, with unsurpassed acceptance in more than 150 countries. Visa-branded cards generate US Dollar 2.4 trillion in annual card sales volume. Nearly half of this in US alone.
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| Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. |
 Amadeus Global Travel Distribution S.A. is the largest global distribution system (GDS) provider, serving over 200 markets around the world. It has a comprehensive data network and database of more than 67,000 travel agencies, 10,500 airline sales offices, 58,000 hotels and 50 car rental companies. It also serves other companies including ferry and rail services, cruise lines, tour operators and insurance agencies.
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 DUN & BRADSTREET (NYSE:DNB) is the world's leading provider of business information, enabling business-to-business commerce for 160 years. D&B's information and technology solutions help businesses reduce credit risk, find profitable customers and manage vendors efficiently. Avenues, the owner of the website www.ccavenue.com is globally registered with worldwide DNB numbers – i-934-40364 (USA), 894-834-824 (Singapore) and 91-843-3652 (India). The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification sequence, which provides unique identifiers of single business entities, while linking corporate family structures together. In today's global economy, the D&B D-U-N-S Number has become the standard for keeping track of the world's businesses.
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| Expedia.com |
 Expedia by Pegasus, is an online travel agent, offers thousands of negotiated-rate hotels to supplement those supplied by Worldspan , the global distribution system (GDS) that links it to hotel, air and car suppliers worldwide. By combining these hotels with airfares, it can provide some competitively priced packages that are suitable for business travelers with relatively fixed itineraries.
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| Galileo |
 Galileo , owned by the Cendant Company, is one of the world's leading GDS providers. Its core business is providing electronic global distribution services for the travel industry through its computerized reservation systems, leading-edge products and innovative internet-based solutions. It also is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel agencies and corporate customers, and through them, expanding traveler choice. It connected to approximately 43,500 travel agency locations to 460 airlines, 23 car rental companies, 58,000 hotel properties, 430 tour operators and all major cruise lines throughout the world. (as of 2005)
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| Hotel Booking Solutions |
 Hotel Booking Solutions develops and provides unique, revolutionary solutions to connect and manage bottom-line results for the hospitality industry. Its premier product, hobooBox TM , is a channel management software which increases hotel occupancy, minimizes labor costs and increases the efficiency of hotels' reservation systems, by allowing hotels to manage multiple distribution channels seamlessly from their PMS or CRS.
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| Hotwire.com |
 Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel web site for airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Launched in 2000, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel suppliers to help distribute their excess inventory. Hotwire is a wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI).
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Korvac International Systems (S) Pte. Ltd. |
 Founded in 1999, Korvac's vast experience in financial payment technologies & solutions as catapulted it into a pre-eminent position in the payment & financial services market. Based on a highly flexible & secure payment platform, Korvac's solutions & services cater to three key channels;e-Commerce, m-Commerce & Physical Payment.
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| MERCHANT FRAUD SQUAD INC. |
 Merchantfraudsquad.com: The Merchant Fraud Squad is a not-for-profit organization founded in September 2000 by American Express and other e-commerce leaders. It provides education about fraud prevention techniques and encourages businesses selling online to adopt best practices and anti-fraud technologies. The Network's merchant focus distinguishes this group from others that are trying to combat this problem. This Worldwide E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Network seeks to significantly reduce merchants' exposure to online fraud and promote the growth of e-commerce through enhancement of consumer confidence.
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Nets Singapore |
 Founded by Singapore 's leading banks in 1985, Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS) pioneered the concept of convenient cashless payments in Singapore . NETS' offers a range of payment solutions suited to different lifestyles and transactions. Its products give consumers the freedom to choose the best payment method for their lifestyle, control over their expenses. Moreover, customer can make payments from different devices and locations with a guarantee of security and reliability.
NETS services are available with more than 12,500 merchants across 30,000 points of access, including retail outlets, educational institutions, government establishments and car parks.
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| Orbitz |
 Orbitz, Inc. is an Internet travel company based in Chicago , and owned by the Cendant Corporation. Orbitz also operates portals for business purchasers of travel and travel vendors, and is a partner of Hotwire.com. Orbitz differs from competitors in that it neither consolidates inventory (such as Priceline.com) nor provides a gateway to a GDS. Orbitz searches directly for room inventory in from the computer reservation systems (CRSs) or inventory management systems of travel suppliers such as airlines. As such, it searches the entire inventory of available prices simultaneously, rather than retrieving a representative subset.
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| Priceline.com |
 Priceline.com, the leading Internet-based travel auction website is powered by the Worldspan . Priceline.com offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. Priceline.com owns and operates the retail travel Web sites Travelweb.com, Activereservations.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com.
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 Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus' customers include a majority of the world's travel agencies and more than 60,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus' services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing representation services, including the consumer Web site, hotelbook.com™. The company's representation services, including Utell by Pegasus™ and Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by nearly 7,000 member hotels in 140 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry's largest third-party marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 18 offices in 13 countries, including regional hubs in London , Scottsdale and Singapore . For more information, please visit www.pegs.com.
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| Sabre Inc. |
 Sabre Inc. is a leading provider of technology for the Travel Industry. It provides a broad range of innovative products that enable travel e-commerce and services, and enhance airline, supplier and travel agency's operations and their ability to serve the traveler. Sabre connects to more than 50,000 travel agencies worldwide, approximately 400 airlines, 55,000 hotel properties, 52 car rental companies, 9 cruise lines, 33 railroads and 229 tour operators. It also owns Travelocity.com (an online travel service), Sabre Travel Network (an electronic network for travel buyers and sellers), and Sabre Airline Solutions (providing services to optimize airline operations and reduce costs).
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| Travelocity |
 Travelocity is an online travel agency that pulls most of its hotel rooms through the GDS operated by parent company Sabre . Travelocity is the sixth-largest travel agency in the US In addition to its primary US consumer site, Travelocity operates a full-service business agency, Travelocity Business, and comparable websites in Canada , Germany , France , the Scandinavian countries, and the UK , and is a partner in Asian travel hubs Tabini and Zuji. Other brands include Site59.com, World Choice Travel, and Showtickets.com.
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| TravelWeb |
 TravelWeb is owned by Priceline.com, and powered by the Pegasus . Travelweb offers specially negotiated published-price accommodations for thousands of quality hotels around the world, including those owned and affiliated with Travelweb's founding hotel partners: Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood and Pegasus Systems.
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 VERISIGN INC.(Nasdaq:VRSN) is the world's leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers and individuals. Verisign provides to CCAvenue the critical Web identity, authentication and transaction infrastructure to conduct secure ecommerce transactions and communications.
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| Worldspan |
 Worldspan is a GDS that provides software used by travel agents to book airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, etc. It was formed in early 1990 when Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and Trans World Airlines decided to merge their reservations systems into a single system. It is currently connected to 16,000 travel agencies in nearly 90 countries and territories, 421 airlines, 210 hotel companies, 40 car rental companies, 39 tour and vacation operators and 44 special travel service suppliers.
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| Hacker Safe |
 ScanAlert, Inc. is headquartered in Napa, CA, It is the world's largest web site security certification authority, protecting over 75,000 web sites in 40 countries through the HACKER SAFE certification program. The certification mark indicates that these sites protect the personal data of millions of shoppers every day by meeting the highest federal and industry web site security standards. The certification mark also indicates Payment Card Industry compliance and meets the requirements of Visa's CISP and AIS, MasterCard's SDP, American Express' DSS, DiscoverCard and JCB. ScanAlert was selected by Visa International to be the exclusive provider of Visa-branded PCI / AIS validation services over 70 countries. Over half of the Internet Retailer TOP 500 use HACKER SAFE certification because it is the recognized independent authority of assurance that consumers respond to.
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| PCI Security Standards Council |
 Consumers have enjoyed using credit and debit cards for many years.
However, sophisticated thieves have been able to extract credit and debit card information from unsecured databases and other means. This has resulted in a higher incidence of identity theft, a crime that affects merchant companies, financial institutions, e-commerce companies and individuals.
Because of these security breaches, the major credit card companies - American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa - decided to create regulations to help prevent theft of consumers' data. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards were created by MasterCard and agreed to in 2004 by the four major credit card companies. Each of the credit card companies has its own term for these standards. On June 30, 2005, the regulations took effect.
The American Express program is called Data Security Operating Policy (DSOP); the Discover program is called Discover Information Security and Compliance (DISC);The MasterCard program is called MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP); and the Visa program is called Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP).
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| Pacific Asia Travel Association |
Founded in 1951, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is the recognized authority on Asia Pacific travel and tourism. It provides leadership and advocacy to the collective efforts of nearly 100 government, state and city tourism bodies, more than 55 airlines and cruise lines, and hundreds of travel industry companies.
PATA's mission is to enhance the growth, value and quality of Asia Pacific travel and tourism for the benefit of its membership. It is a not-for-profit organization.
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