April 21, 2015

HONG KONG, 21 April, 2015 - Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), Asia Pacific's top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers (Source: Frost & Sullivan), will be participating in Cards & Payments Asia 2015. This conference and tradeshow will be held in Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore on 22 to 23 April. ACS will be in Booth G24.

The event's seminars are divided into four sessions: Cards, Digital Identification & Retail; Future Bank; Payments; and Retail, e-Commerce & Cash Handling. In the Payments session, Michael Chan, Assistant Product Marketing Manager, will present a talk entitled, "What Makes Migration to EMV a Smart Bet for the Banking Sector." The talk will be on 23 April, 15:40 PM. It will include security framework comparisons of EMV and other card standards; statistics on EMV deployment, adoption, and impacts; and opportunities and challenges arising from EMV.

ACS will unveil its smart card reader modules, which are designed to be integrated into embedded systems like ATM machines, gaming machines, and so forth. This new product line comes in contact and contactless interfaces. The contactless smart card reader modules are: ACM1252U-Y3, a USB NFC reader module with detachable antenna board; ACM1281U-C7, a USB contactless reader module; and ACM1281S-C7, a serial contactless reader module. Contact module readers include: ACM38U-Y3, a CCID reader module; and ACM38U-Y6, a module with SAM slot support.

Cards & Payments Asia 2015 is described as Asia's largest and most established cards and payment expo. For more information about the event, visit www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/cards-asia. For more information about card and payment technologies, email info@acs.com.hk.

About ACS

Advanced Card Systems Ltd. (ACS, wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., SEHK: 8210), founded in 1995, is Asia Pacific's top supplier and one of the world's top 3 suppliers of PC-linked smart card readers. ACS is the winner of the Product Quality Leadership Award for Smart Card Readers from Frost & Sullivan. In 2010 and 2014, ACS was listed in Forbes Asia's "Best Under a Billion", an inter-industry list comprised of 200 top-performing publicly listed companies in the Asia-Pacific, with sales between US$5 million and US$1 billion. ACS develops a wide range of high quality smart card reading/writing devices, smart cards and related products and distributes them to over 100 countries worldwide.http://www.acs.com.hk/.

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