Industry expertise

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Key Industry Expertise

The combined Smart Payment Association members’ substantial experience and knowledge of the payment smart card market has led to its position as expert advisor.

Through participating in other industry associations and forums, the SPA facilitates smart card deployment across the payment market worldwide. It also provides recommendations and suggestions on behalf of the payment smart card market.
The SPA is an associate member of Eurosmart and sits on the EPC CSG to represent the vendors sector which objective is to create a set of standards needed to implement SEPA for cards.

The SPA also collects and analyzes market data in order to increase transparency within the worldwide market for payment smart cards. The SPA analyzes market evolution on a worldwide basis and communicates its findings once a year.