Kazan 2013 volunteers thank MasterCard for partnership. Part 3
An extended conference of MasterCard's banking partner services took place in Moscow today. The meeting summed up the results of promoting the MasterCard Worldwide payment system in the Russian Federation.
The plenary session of the conference was attended by the Tatarstan delegation headed by First Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatisation of the Republic of Tatarstan, Yury Bagrov, and Director of the Retail Business Department at Ak Bars Bank, Marat Ganeev.
The key topic of the first part of the event was the successful experience of using the innovative MasterCard PayPass contactless payment technology, which was introduced in the build-up to and during the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan.
Director of the Volunteer Department of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate, Alexander Karpov, was also invited to take part in the conference as a special guest. In a joint report, presented together with the coordinator of the Competence Centre, Vice-President of Master Card, Galina Ganeeva, he talked about the successful experience of promoting the PayPass technology among the people of Tatarstan, guests and participants of the Summer Universiade through the 20,000-strong army of Kazan 2013 volunteers who were trained to provide details on how to use the Paypass card to all those interested.