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Does SPA overlap with Global Platform?

April 26, 2017global overlap Platform spa

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Does SPA overlap with Global Platform?

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No they are complementary. The objectives of Global Platform standards within the Financial industry sector are mainly (i) to enhance migration to EMV by providing cost effective open infrastructure, (ii) to enable updates to customer offerings through post-issuance application download capabilities. The objectives of SPA are: – to accelerate the move to chip card based payment application – to ensure the interoperability between all the elements of the payment and non-payment smart card based systems, firstly considering cards & POS but not limited to. – to communicate on the value of the smart cards in payment, best practices, experience sharing (testing, rollout vs.