What we do

description of SPA Smart Payment Association Smart Card Manufacturers Mobile Contactless

Working Groups Program

From market monitoring to projects investigating the commercial opportunities and technical challenges of contactless and DDA, these programs allow the SPA to:

• communicate with standardization committees and payment associations with one voice
• produce communication packages, white papers and slides on use cases and success stories for payment applications and related added value applications
• negotiate frameworks  with the intention to standardize contracts related to the smart payment industry and in particular those issued by payment associations
• explain and publish best practices and exchange experience (testing, roll-out vs. pilot) to enhance communication on the value of smart cards in payment
• collect & publish market data from members

Deliverables and output from these working groups, such as whitepapers and recommendations, can be found in the Publications section of the SPA Website.