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Convego® Labs: Accelerating payment card innovation
Payment cards are the most tangible symbol of a bank’s customer relationship. They are an opportunity to connect your brand to your customers, ensuring that they not only choose your card to pay with but also think positively of you and your brand every time they pay. But with wallets becoming ever more crowded—how do you stand out?
The answer: Innovation
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Curating innovation: Convego® Labs
Convego® Labs is G+D’s global innovation incubator and concept prototyping space. It empowers clients to create stand-out payment cards and other form factors, turning ideas into reality. We merge skilled craftsmanship with state-of-the-art production tools to develop and accelerate customer solutions. We can work together to create solutions that are unavailable elsewhere in the payment card market.
Why innovate?
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eco-innovation story to life with sustainable materials or develop cards designed to increase accessibility or benefit the community.
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Co-creation and collaboration
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Co-creation
Working on a specific new card launch design with one customer—involving them in every stage of the design.
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Collaboration
Working from the ideation stage with stakeholders spanning partners to internal G+D and clients, to explore potential new designs, materials, and production techniques.
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Innovation as a service (IaaS)
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Prototype cards
Produce prototypes drawn from existing materials and processes to develop new payment cards for your customers.
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Concept cards
Exploring new materials, design methodologies, and visual effects on a small run of cards to attract your customers with new ideas or test market interest—all configured to your own design and chosen features.
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DIY workshops
This is a session held at our flagship Convego® Labs facility in Munich, where you can experiment and, together, we can co-create new innovative payment card prototypes or concept cards.
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Fast track
This is an agile and cost-efficient way to produce a pilot or small batch of an innovative new payment card for a selection of your customer base, such as a limited-edition or celebration card.
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Beyond the payment card — the whole package
Complement your new payment card with additional fulfillment and packaging options. Choose from simple carriers and presenters to innovative packaging and unboxing experiences using a wide range of materials and finishes—sure to delight any customer.
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Awards
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2024 ICMA Elan award
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2023 ICMA Elan award
Finalist: Unique innovation prototype for our 3D holographic card.
Finalist: Unique innovation prototype for our mirror-effect card.
Finalist: Unique innovation prototype for our ceramic material card—in collaboration with Huawei and China Guangfe Bank.
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2022 ICMA Elan award
Winner: Unique innovation prototype for our specially-shaped chip.
Finalist: Unique innovation prototype for our textured card.
Winner: Unique innovation prototype for our dual-interface ceramic card.
Why work with G+D on your next payment card?
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Concepting and prototyping in action
More Accessible Payments
As part of our broader More Accessible Payments Initiative, we created a series of concept cards to explore ways in which the payment card can be improved for accessibility.
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Eco-innovation in payment cards
To help Financial Institutions meet their ESG goals and offer more sustainable payment solutions to their customers, we have created an innovative suite of payment cards using different eco-conscious materials—from recycled plastics to industrially compostable bioplastics.
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Related solutions
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More accessible payments
Explore a suite of card, digital, and onboarding solutions that can help you deliver a more accessible, convenient, and secure payment experience to your end customers. This is another step toward social sustainability in your ESG journey!
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Metal cards
Are you looking for decisive components in the race to win and retain valuable, affluent customers? Our metal cards enable issuing banks to differentiate their first-class service with a physical symbol and provide customers with solid, tangible proof of their value to the bank.
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Convego® Beyond
We believe that the power for change lies in the consumer's hands, and we also have the power to shape a new consumer mindset towards a more sustainable lifestyle.
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