White Eagle (Europe) Plc, in association with Newcastle Building Society is once again celebrating another win for its award winning migrant prepaid card programme, at The Card Awards 2009. The White Eagle Maestro® Prepaid Card programme was awarded “Best Card Cross-Selling Programme of the Year 2009” for offering a complete financial and telecoms package, tailored to migrant workers living and working in the UK.
White Eagle beat tough competition such as American Express, Barclaycard and Lloyds TSB, being the only prepaid card programme in this category up against major credit and debit card providers.
Features that impressed the judges included the feature of ‘multiple companion cards’ linked to the Primary Card for sharing money with more than one friend or family member, which in itself was an industry first. There is no transfer fee between cards and currently up to 3 companion cards can be added. Another key innovation is the Telecoms package (Eagle Talk™) linked directly to the prepaid account. Eagle Talk offers low cost calls to over 150 countries and its convenient auto top-up facility directly linked to the Primary Card means that the account is kept active and never runs out of credits. Warren Hardy, Founder & CEO of White Eagle commented, “I am delighted to accept this award on behalf of the team at White Eagle. This recognition further demonstrates White Eagle’s innovative approach and commitment to all aspects of customer service. We are passionate about delivering an exceptional customer experience, to be recognised in this way by the ‘Card Industry’ underpins our continuing commitment to the quality of our products.”
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About White Eagle
White Eagle (Europe) Plc was founded in 2007 to become a pioneer and pre-eminent leader in the prepaid market space, and has recently released the ‘Migrant Prepaid Card Programme’, targeted initially at the Polish migrant workers in the UK. White Eagle is also currently developing many new and exciting programmes internally, as well as enabling third parties to launch their own prepaid card programme on the White Eagle infrastructure. For more information, please visit our website at www.white-eaglegroup.com or contact Katrina Bray, Marketing Manager at press@white-eagle.com Maestro is a registered trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated and affiliates. The White Eagle Card is issued by Newcastle Building Society("NBS") pursuant to licence by MasterCard International. NBS is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority as an issuer of e-money(registration no. 156058). NBS subscribes to the Banking Code, copies of the Code are available upon request.