Smart Payment Association Announces Cooperation with NXP Semiconductors

Welcomes NXP as Market Monitoring Advisory Council Member of SPA

Having enjoyed the holidays here at the SPA, we would like to wish you all a very happy, and increasingly cashless New Year!

Dear Colleagues,

In recent months, we’ve seen the payment industry’s innovation agenda take a significant step forward. After much work, the standardization initiatives, and regulatory and authentication frameworks, are at last coming together.

Dear Colleagues,

The global payments industry is moving at a fast pace. Driven by pressure from major e-commerce and IT giants like Google, Samsung and Apple, financial institutions have been fervently pursuing standardization initiatives – both within SEPA[i] and at a global level – in a bid to improve services to customers and assure their central intermediation role in the payments ecosystem. Meanwhile,