services founded 2007 headquarters oakville ontario canada area served worldwide key people brian semkiw ceo wayne clarke cfo rui mendes cto products merchant services prepaid solutions transaction processing host card emulation cloud and secure element tokenization data security . number of employees 75 2012 website www.cartaworldwide.com carta worldwide is a canadian software company that offers digital transaction processing specializing in mobile and prepaid transactions . in addition to their canadian headquarters carta has offices in london dubai san francisco and casablanca . carta operates internationally providing financial technology and mobile payment software . carta s clients include vodafone 1 banco sabadell 2 westpac nz 3 and novum bank . 4 the company also partners with mastercard 5 and dcr strategies trucash 6 carta was the world s first processor to complete integration to mastercard motaps enabling rapid deployment for nfc programs . 7 their charlottetown pei data centre is the only secure third party issuer processing data host for financial services in canada . 8 contents 1 history 2 awards 3 references 4 external links history edit carta was founded in 2007 in oakville ontario . 9 carta s ceo brian semkiw is the co founder of rand worldwide which had 1500 employees and had secured revenues of approximately 500 million by the time it was privatized in 2007 . 10 profit magazine named semkiw entrepreneur of the year in 1996 . 11 on september 15 2014 carta worldwide closed the first tranche of a 12 million series d venture round . led by toronto based merchant bank difference capital and dc thomson uk the 7 million investment adds to the more than 50 million the company has invested in its digital transaction processing platform . 12 13 in 2015 carta partnered with visa inc. and vodafone to enable contactless bank card payments . 14 the vodafone wallet uses a hybrid of a hardware sim card and cloud based tokenization . 15 awards edit year nominee work award result 2013 carta worldwide nfc virtual prepaid platform best virtual campaign payment exchange prepaid & payments awards 16 won 2014 carta worldwide best contactless solution emerging payment awards 17 won 2014 carta worldwide best payment technological innovation emerging payment awards 17 nominated 2014 paywith carta worldwide best virtual or mobile program payments exchange prepaid & payment awards 18 won 2014 carta worldwide host card emulation hce with remote secure element rse for nfc best prepaid & payments innovation payments exchange prepaid & payment awards 18 nominated 2014 bread4scrap payment card solutions carta worldwide boundary buster paybefore awards europe 19 won 2015 dcr strategies trucash wallet mastercard & carta worldwide breakout company of the year paybefore awards 20 won 2015 dcr strategies trucash wallet mastercard & carta worldwide got ta have mobile app of the year paybefore awards 21 won 2015 by the booth carta worldwide mobile payments commercial 22 marketing product video ava digital awards platinum 23 won 2015 by the booth carta worldwide mobile payments commercial 22 marketing product video hermes creative awards platinum 24 won 2015 carta worldwide contactless bank card payments enabled on vodafone wallet oct 2015 25 nominated 2015 raphaels bank carta worldwide visa vodafone mobile payments solution of the year payments awards nov 2015 26 nominated 2015 raphaels bank carta worldwide visa vodafone best contactless payments project payments awards nov 2015 26 nominated references edit contactless card payments enabled on vodafone wallet with visa and carta worldwide vodafone.com march 30 2015 . clark sarah . banco sabadell picks carta for hce payments trial nfc world . march 4 2014 . westpac tests nfc enabled mobile payments using hce in new zealand july 22 2014 . novum bank selects carta worldwide as processing platform for prepaid card and debit card portfolios march 31 2014 . act canada june 2014 action newsletter mastercard and dcr strategies collaborate to launch user friendly prepaid reload service in canada . act canada . retrieved 14 august 2015 . dcr strategies trucash and carta worldwide partner on next generation mobile payments . debit credit rewards . retrieved 14 august 2015 . carta worldwide completes a world first with mastercard mastercard newsroom may 10 2011 . carta worldwide setting up shop in charlottetown cbc news september 10 2014 carta worldwide . the canadian business journal . retrieved 14 august 2015 . official carta website retrieved september 2 2014 . brian semkiw p. eng . executive profile bloomberg businessweek retrieved september 3 2014 . waddell nick . difference capital leads first tranche of 12 million series d in carta worldwide cantech letter september 15 2014 dorbian iris . difference capital and dc thomson back carta reuters pe hub september 16 2014 boden rian . vodafone combines tokens and sims for nfc payments in europe nfc world . march 30 2015 . retrieved april 14 2015 . balaban dan . vodafone seeks to revamp wallet with tokenization and apple pay technology model . nfc times . retrieved 14 august 2015 . payments exchange announces results of the 2013 px prepaid & payments awards payments exchange june 13 2013 . a b previous winners . emerging payments awards . retrieved 14 august 2015 . a b winners prepaid & payments awards . payments exchange . retrieved 14 august 2015 . paybefore announces winners for european awards . paybefore . retrieved 14 august 2015 . 2015 paybefore awards breakout company of the year . paybefore . retrieved 14 august 2015 . 2015 paybefore awards got ta have mobile app . paybefore . retrieved 14 august 2015 . a b projects carta worldwide . by the booth . retrieved 14 august 2015 . 2015 platinum winners . ava digital awards . retrieved 14 august 2015 . 2015 platinum award winners . hermes creative awards . retrieved 14 august 2015 . 2015 finalists . emerging payments awards . retrieved 31 august 2015 . 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