Institutional Partners List
 EUROSMART Institutional Founding Partner
Eurosmart is an international non-profit association located in Brussels and representing the Smart Security Industry for multi-sector applications. Founded in 1995, the association is committed to expanding the world’s Smart Secure Devices market, developing Smart Security standards and continuously improving quality and security applications.
Members are manufacturers of smart cards, semiconductors, terminals, equipment for smart cards system integrators, application developers and issuers who work into dedicated working groups (communication, marketing, security, electronic identity, new form factors, and prospect emerging markets).
Members are largely involved in political and technical initiatives as well as research and development projects at the European and international levels.
Eurosmart is acknowledged as representing “the Voice of the Smart Security Industry”.
Eurosmart members are companies (Austriacard, EM Microelectronic Marin, FNMT-RCM, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Infineon Technologies, Inside Secure, LFoundry, Morpho, NedCard, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Technologies, Prooftag, Renesas Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba), payment systems (GIE Cartes Bancaires, MasterCard), laboratories (CEA-LETI), research organisations (Fraunhofer Institute), associations (Smart Payment Association, Mobismart, Danish Biometrics) and independent experts (Michel Koenig, Bernard Morvant, Jonas Andersson).
► For more information, please visit www.eurosmart.com |
 EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL
The European Payments Council (EPC) is the coordination and decision-making body of the European banking industry in relation to payments. The purpose of the EPC is to support and promote the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).
SEPA is an EU integration initiative in the area of payments designed to achieve the completion of the EU internal market and monetary union. SEPA is the area where citizens, companies and other economic participants can make and receive payments in euro, within Europe, whether within or across national boundaries under the same basic conditions, rights and obligations, regardless of their location. SEPA is currently defined as consisting of the EU 27 member states plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Monaco.
The EPC develops the payment schemes and frameworks necessary to realise SEPA. In particular, the EPC defines common positions for the cooperative space of payment services, provides strategic guidance for standardisation, formulates rules, best practices and standards and supports and monitors implementation of decisions taken. The EPC consists of 76 members representing banks, banking communities and payment institutions. More than 300 professionals from 32 countries are directly engaged in the work programme of the EPC, representing all sizes and sectors of the banking industry within Europe.
► For further information on the EPC please contact secretariat@europeanpaymentscouncil.eu or visit www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu |
 GLOBALPLATFORM
GlobalPlatform is a cross industry, not-for-profit association which identifies, develops and publishes specifications which facilitate the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple embedded applications on secure chip technology. Its proven technical specifications are regarded as the international industry standard for building a trusted end-to-end solution which serves multiple actors and supports several business models.
The freely available specifications provide the foundation for market convergence and innovative new cross-sector partnerships. The technology has been adopted globally across finance, mobile/telecom, government, healthcare, retail and transit sectors. GlobalPlatform also supports an open compliance program ecosystem to ensure the long-term interoperability of secure chip technology.
As a member-driven association with cross-market representation from all world continents, GlobalPlatform membership is open to any organization operating within this landscape. Its 60+ members contribute to technical committees and market-led task forces.
► More information at: www.globalplatform.org |
 JAVA CARD FORUM
The primary purpose of the Java Card Forum is to promote as an industry the development of Java as the preferred interpreter language for interoperable smart cards. The Forum is divided into two Committees; the Business Committee and the Technical Committee, and have been meeting on a regular basis since the Forum was founded in 1997, successfully providing recommendations to Oracle (formerly SUN Microsystems) for the Java Card specifications, the latest version being Java Card 3.0.
Current members are Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Incard, Morpho, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, Renesas and Watchdata.
► More information at: www.javacardforum.org |
 SMART CARD FEDERATION OF CHINA
Smart Card Federation of China (SCFC) www.scfc.org.cn is a major non-profit trade society representing companies in the smart card & RFID industry. The main objectives are:
- to serve as an open forum for industry news, communications and networking;
- to monitor and report on the development of new industry technologies, products and services;
- to act as the independent voice for companies involved in the smart card & RFID industry.
With the SCFC’s educational programs at regional meetings, conferences, and its annual International Conference and Exhibition on Smart Card & RFID-SC+RFID, monthly magazine -<Cards Tech & Security>in Chinese and English (four issues in English version), newsletters (SCFC News Shop), you will constantly be updated on issues facing the industry. In addition to its overall focus, SCFC recognizes the needs of specific niches within the industry.
► More information at: www.scfc.org.cn |
 SMART PAYMENT ASSOCIATION
The Smart Payment Association addresses the challenges of the evolving payment ecosystem, offering leadership and expert guidance to help its members and their financial institution customers realize the opportunities of smart, secure and personalised payment systems & services both now and for the future.
A non-profit organization founded in 2004, the association now counts six members including the three founding members Giesecke & Devrient, Gemalto and Oberthur Technologies, and Austria Card, Incard and Morpho.
With more than 675 million smart payment cards delivered by its members in 2009, SPA represents around 86% of the smart payment cards market. This figure corresponds to a 16% year-on-year growth (2009 vs. 2008), showing the ongoing momentum of EMV deployment.
The combined Smart Payment Association members’ substantial experience and knowledge of the smart payment market has led to its position as expert advisor.
The SPA is an Associate Member of Eurosmart, a Technical Associate of EMVCo and sits on the EPC CSG (Spoke Person) 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 smart payment cards. The SPA analyzes market evolution on a worldwide basis and communicates its findings once a year.*
*Estimated volume data and actual shipments data, segmented by region and by interface, are sent on an annual basis by SPA members to an independent third party. There is no direct exchange of data between SPA members. Consistent with SPA’s practices for the exchange of historical data, the third party aggregates and anonymises the data so that no SPA member is able to identify another SPA member’s contribution. The data is published on an annual basis, at the end of the first quarter of the following year.
► For more information on the SPA, visit our website: www.smartpaymentassociation.com or contact us by email: info@smartpaymentassociation.com.
Legal Representative: Andreas Strobel andreas.strobel@smartpaymentassociation.com
Secretariat & Marketing: Stéphanie de Labriolle stephanie.delabriolle@smartpaymentassociation.com |
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