Smart Payment Association Sets Out Biometric Payment Card Proposals

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Tackling fraud and extending banking services to previously underserved populations are just some of benefits Lorenzo Gaston, Technical Director of the Smart Payment Association (SPA) will highlight when he takes the stage today at www.cartes.com to explain why the Time is Now for Biometrics in Financial Services. The introduction of biometric cardholder verification represents an

Payment Association’s View on European Directive on Payments

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Smart Payment Association (SPA) considers that the new Payment Service Directive (PSD 2) draft represents a significant restructuring of financial regulation applicable to retail payments. Its chief goals are to increase competition in the retail payments market, and to give European citizens the confidence of a reinforced legal system that works for, and protects, them. It