“EMVCo is pleased to be collaborating with the Open Wallet Foundation to explore how open digital wallet solutions can support seamless and secure payments globally. This reflects our ongoing commitment to engaging across the industry to promote emerging technologies,” said Joy Huang, EMVCo Executive Committee Chair.
“EMVCo is a global leader in its field and one of the world’s most respected payments technical bodies. We are honored to enter into an industry liaison agreement and look forward to a future with great open wallets that can help create seamless and secure payments” said Daniel Goldscheider, Founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation.
For more information about EMVCo and the OWF and how to get involved with the respective organisations, please visit www.emvco.com and openwallet.foundation.
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EMVCo PR Contacts
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The Linux Foundation
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About OpenWallet Foundation
The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) brings developers together to collaborate on standards-based OSS components that issuers, wallet providers and relying parties can use to bootstrap implementations that preserve user choice, security and privacy. With their Government Advisory Council OWF brings the public and private sector together to work towards open, secure and interoperable digital wallets. OWF is an open initiative under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and headquartered in Europe. For more information, please visit openwallet.foundation.