HONG KONG, 22 Aug, 2012 - 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) was awarded membership by ACT Canada on June 20, 2013.

ACT Canada is an international knowledge resource and empowerment advocate for the smart card industry, especially in payment and secure identity aspects. In addition to facilitating market information exchange among its stakeholders, it organizes annual awards for innovation in payment technologies, and industry conferences, among others. One of its conferences, Cardware, is an annual event for payment industry players to showcase products, network with colleagues and share latest information on relevant issues.

At Cardware 2013: Payment Insights on 19-20 June, Catherine Johnston, President and CEO of ACT Canada, presented a membership certificate to ACS. Accepting membership on behalf of ACS was Bob Merkert, President, Americas.

"ACS values the opportunity to connect with an extensive network of smart card industry players," commented Bob. "To help drive the growth of the industry, companies such as ours have to participate in activities that facilitate the flow and expansion of knowledge, improve industry practices, and create new opportunities. ACT Canada has enabled such activities, and we are confident that it will continue to do so in the coming years."

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, as well as the winner of the Product Quality Leadership Award for Smart Card Readers from Frost & Sullivan. One of the companies on Forbes Asia's 2010 "Best Under a Billion" list, a prestigious list of 200 top-performing companies with sales between US$5 million and US$1 billion, selected from 12,930 publicly listed enterprises in Asia Pacific, 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. Visit ACS at http://www.acs.com.hk/.

About ACT Canada

ACT Canada is a non-profit association, federally-incorporated in 1989. As an educator, enabler, influencer and advocate for members, ACT Canada is the internationally-recognized authority, trusted knowledge resource and catalyst for change in payments and secure identity. We build bridges and break down barriers to support our members in their quest for competitive advantage in the payments, authentication and identity management space. We are the go-to resource for issuers, acquirers, merchants, regulators, brands, networks, governments, technology providers, integrators, industry associations, security specialists, gateways, processors, integrators, loyalty companies, transit systems, secure identity solution providers and many other stakeholders.http://www.actcda.com.

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