Smart Payment Association to facilitate and promote chip-based payment cards.  

Our commitment is to promote chip card-based payment applications, develop value-added application standards and interoperability, and improve security and quality.

Our main objective is to accelerate the move from mag-stripe cards to chip cards throughout the world.

Our transversal approach and unique expertise within the smart card industry will ease the Smart Payment Association to position itself as a payment scheme preferred interface.

We strongly believe in establishing specifications and processes within the industry to help the financial institutions in their migration.

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+++ Smart Payment Association announces new specifications to make contactless cards interoperable for value added applications +++

 

  
SPA completes first
global payment cards
market monitoring

SPA contactless data
storage

SPA Presentation 05
EMV authentication
white paper