HSBC has named Mrs Shameema Bervin as the United Arab Emirates winner of the MasterCard “Together Wherever” travel promotion launched by MasterCard in June earlier this year. The promotion entitled MasterCard cardholders to enter a monthly raffle draw for every transaction charged to their MasterCard card, from 7 June to 30 September 2005. Mrs Bervin received US$20,000 credited to her HSBC MasterCard card account.
“We are delighted that a credit cardholder from HSBC has won MasterCard’s regional promotion,” said Mrs Kamala Iyer, Regional Manager Business Development, Credit Cards HSBC. “Credit Cards from HSBC offer significant added value to cardholders, together with convenience and financial flexibility for they can be used at more than 23 million outlets around the world.”
“MasterCard is pleased to be able to offer its cardholders the chance to win with our ‘Together Wherever’ promotion,” said Karen Hargreaves, Director Marketing, MasterCard International, Middle East and North Africa. “MasterCard worked closely with our customer financial institutions to develop this promotion and we have been thrilled by the response.
As a global payments leader, MasterCard is committed to helping financial institutions launch campaigns which enhance MasterCard card usage and give consumers priceless benefits when they use their MasterCard card for everything that matters. We join HSBC Bank in sending our congratulations to Mrs Shameema Bervin,” Ms Hargreaves added.
1. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited
HSBC is the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has 30 branches throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Autonomous Area, including an offshore banking unit in Bahrain. This extensive regional coverage is strengthened by another member of the HSBC Group HSBC Bank Egypt SAE, and by its associated companies, The Saudi British Bank and British Arab Commercial Bank Limited. In addition to its Middle Eastern network, the Bank has a representative office in Tehran, Iran.
2. HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has been a principal member of the HSBC Group since 1959. Serving over 110 million customers worldwide, the HSBC Group has approximately 9,700 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$1,467 billion at 30 June 2005, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.
3. MasterCard International
MasterCard International is a leading global payments solutions company that provides a broad variety of innovative services in support of our global members’ credit, deposit access, electronic cash, business-to-business and related payment programs. MasterCard manages a family of well-known, widely accepted payment card brands including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus® and serves financial institutions, consumers and businesses in over 210 countries and territories. The MasterCard award-winning Priceless® advertising campaign is now seen in 105 countries and in 48 languages, giving the MasterCard brand a truly global reach and scope. For more information go to www.mastercardinternational.com.
