forecourttech June 19

Technology for the evolving retail forecourt. 

ISSUE: 03 | June 2019 

Olerex & Astro 

Baltics partner on 

payments 

THE NEED FOR HARMONISATION OF STANDARDS IN FORECOURT RETAIL 

BY HEATHER PRICE, CHAIR OF THE IFSF 

REAL-TIME PRICING: 

INTERVIEW WITH EDGE PETROL CRO, 

MARK TRUMAN 

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Editors note 

In this issue of forecourttech ‘online’ we focus on 

the International Forecourt Standards Forum (IFSF) a 

long-established standards organisation and enthusiastic 

supporter of forecourttech, our annual conference 

and meetings convention. 

Over the past 25 years the IFSF have collaborated with 

other standards organisations and relevant institutions 

to achieve common standards for interoperability of 

forecourt and convenience devices and services, depending 

on support from retailers, suppliers and other 

industry stakeholders who contribute to, and benefit 

from, shared standards. The objective of IFSF is to 

ensure harmonisation of equipment interconnectivity and 

communication standards and over the years have developed 

standards covering many aspects of forecourt 

technology. 

The work of the IFSF comes more into focus when you 

see reports, such as that recently released by Accenture, 

confirming that digital investments are expected 

to increase significantly to better allow fuel retailers to 

engage with customers and improve services. Therefore 

retailers will be investing “significantly more” in digital 

technologies in the next 3-5 years with the target of 

achieving better customer retention and an increase in 

convenience store sales. 

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News round-up 

Shell and Turkish natural gas distributor, 

Turcas, have opened the first solar powered 

fuel station in Ankara, Turkey. The station in 

Küçükesat aims to reduce CO 2 emissions by 

around 30 percent. 

Tufan Erginbilgic, Chief Executive of Downstream 

BP, has confirmed that the rollout of 

150kW Polar network chargers on BP’s UK 

forecourts will commence in July 2019. 

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There are now more public charging locations 

in the UK than petrol stations, according to 

data from Zap-Map, an online service for 

electric charger users. 

Driverless electric trucks have started making 

deliveries on public roads in Sweden. 

Developer Einride and logistics customer DB 

Schenker described the project as a ‘world 

first.’ 

Sweden is building an electric road that will 

charge your car as you drive. The city of 

Lund, will be one of the first in the world to 

install a real-life kilometre-long demonstration 

of a new type of electric road. 

Cars and motorbikes running on petrol or diesel 

will be banned from driving in Amsterdam 

from 2030. The city’s council plans to phase 

in the change as part of a drive to clean up 

air pollution, which the authorities blame for 

shortening the life expectancy by a year. 



News round-up 

ExxonMobil is taking employee safety training 

to a new level with virtual reality simulators. 

ExxonMobil’s digital garage allows employees 

to hone their instincts, catch their mistakes 

and make instant decisions, so that they’re 

better equipped to work smarter and safer. 

In a bid to take on Tesla, US car giant General 

Motors has released details of an all-new 

digital electronic platform that will form the 

backbone of the carmaker’s next generation 

of connected and electric cars. 

A new study from IDC predicts retailers will 

spend $5.9 billion this year alone on artificial 

intelligence tools like automated customer 

service and product recommendations. 

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In the battery vs fuel cell debate, flying car 

start-up, Alaka’i Technologies, is betting on 

hydrogen. The company unveiled a liquid-hydrogen-powered, 

five-passenger electric 

aircraft that it claims will be more efficient and 

powerful than the battery-powered aircraft its 

many competitors are developing. 

DHL is adding hydrogen fuel-cell vans to its 

fleet to cut carbon emissions. 

Some of the world’s biggest retailers have 

begun accepting cryptocurrency payments 

in the form of bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash 

and the Gemini dollar. US-based payments 

start- up Flexa has enabled Amazon-owned 

Whole Foods, Nordstrom, Starbucks and 

dozens of other companies to take bitcoin 

payments. 



Real time insights, 

real time decisions 

It may seem obvious – the more you know about the current state of your business, the better, 

more informed decisions you can make. However, finding the best solution for fuel site operators 

to achieve this has not always been easy. Enter EdgePetrol, who has developed a platform that 

allows site operators to see live volumes and margins across their portfolio with no manual entry. 

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Edge Petrol’s software also provides trend analysis, 

volume predictions and competitor pricing, meaning site 

operators can discover which sites are under-performing 

and have the data and insights available to make informed 

decisions. 

“All of this is the brain child of retailers. We sat down with 

retailers for the best part of a year to listen to what their 

challenges were each day,” explained Mark Truman Chief 

Revenue Officer at EdgePetrol. “We found that most site 

operators were using Excel or print-outs to work out their 

margins to decide on their retail prices. They’ve been run 

ning their businesses in this way for years without visibility 

of their key numbers and they’ve had to find ways to adapt. 

What we’re doing is bringing the science to the table to 

make their data more accurate, more timely and more 

reliable.” 

Whilst plenty of retailers have enjoyed many successful 

years using manual methods, this also requires a large 

amount of data entry. Mark’s team found that this data 

may not be entered into a system for several days or even 

weeks and by then it is too late to change anything. With 

live reporting, site operators have up to the minute data, 



with live margins that are blended by grade, site and portfolio, 

and adjusted for fuel cards. To achieve this, EdgePetrol 

securely connects with the PoS (Point Of Sale), any fuel 

supplier, and the fuel tanks to display live volumes and 

calculate a live weighted-and-blended margin. 

“The cost of your fuel is always changing, so we update the 

blended cost each time a new delivery hits the tanks and 

as sales empty them. Every time a customer buys fuel, we 

apply the relevant cost price on a FIFO basis and amend 

the margin,” explained Mark. 

One key feature of the platform is live gross profit, which is 

the exact cost of your fuel sold subtracted from your fuel 

sales and Edge Petrol have taken every consideration to 

ensure the numbers appearing on screen are as accurate 

as possible “We provide real-time data so retailers know 

the exact cost of the fuel in their tanks and so they can 

price competitively without making a loss.” 

Unlike other pricing companies, Edge Petrol allows retailers 

to remain in command of the decision making process: 

“There is an art to fuel pricing and this comes with experience. 

What we are providing is the science to allow for the 

best possible decisions. The decision is still in the retailer’s 

hands, but we are giving them all the data and metrics 

to help them make the decisions that are best for their 

business.” EdgePetrol refer to these insights as ‘forecourt 

superpowers’, giving retailers everything they need to run 

their business more efficiently and profitably. 

To aide retailers even further, the company’s latest feature 

is a system that is forecasting margins across entire portfolios. 

The system will take into account the blend of fuel in 

all the tanks and forecast tomorrow’s blended cost based 

on anticipated sales, meaning retailers will be able to see 

in to the future and make decisions based on tomorrow as 

well as today. 

EdgePetrol continues to develop the platform to meet the 

needs of their clients. From the very beginning the software 

was forged by the needs of fuel retailers and each update 

comes from things that retailers have requested. While 

major oil companies were able to allocate large CAPEX 

spend on producing their own operating systems, dealers 

with large networks were previously left in a bit of a void 

often having to manually sift through data or enter numbers 

into complex spreadsheets. EdgePetrol’s platform is simple 

and easy to use and allows networks of any size to see the 

state of their entire site portfolio in real time. The software 

can also be accessed on any device from anywhere in the 

world, so that no opportunities to take margin or volume are 

ever missed. 

To find out more about what the company has to offer visit 

www.edgepetrol.com or catch-up with Mark at forecourttech, 

14-15 October 2019 at the Asia Gardens Hotel & Thai 

Spa in Alicante, Spain. For more details or to register visit 

www.forecourttech.com. 

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Edge Petrol’s Chief Revenue Officer 

Mark Truman. 


Olerex launches 

Estonia’s first ever 

fuel station 

self-service POS 

Estonia’s largest petrol station chain, Olerex, 

together with POS system developer Astro 

Baltics has created Estonia’s first self-service 

POS for petrol stations.


The new POS in action 

at Olerex’s Tallinn 

Airport site. 

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Olerex and Astro Baltics’ new POS collaboration is 

being piloted at Olerex’s Tallinn Airport service station. The 

new self-service POS comes as an addition to the existing 

pay-at-pump, which allows customers to pay for their fuel 

directly at the dispenser. 

“Imagine a situation, when you are in hurry, but need to 

refill your car. You arrive at the petrol station and there is 

a long queue of people waiting to pay for petrol and other 

goods. You may end up frustrated for having been waiting 

for too long just because the petrol station is not ready to 

serve that many customers at once,” Taimar Kallari, Astro 

Baltics CEO, explains. This was the exact problem Olerex 

were facing and so they approached, IT solutions provider 

Astro Baltics to help them find a solution. 

The pay-at-pump solution, which enables customers to 

swiftly pay for fuel at pump has now been in place for a 

couple of years and was been well received by customers. 

Inspired by this success, Olerex decided to look at 

how they could speed up the checkout process inside the 

convenience store. 

“Customers at our stations, like everywhere else, are 

valuing their time more and more. A queue time of a minute 

is enough to cause a feeling of slow service. Speed of service 

is appreciated by our customers and that is something 

we really consider as our competitive advantage over the 

other types of outlets. Therefore, it is critical for us to speed 

up the payment processes both in the forecourt and in 

the c-store to keep us up to the customers’ expectations,” 

explains Antti Moppel, Olerex Chairman. 

For Olerex, simplicity, user-friendliness and simple building 

architecture were important while searching for the new 

solution. The focus was on the customer, who should be 

enabled to make the purchases as quickly and comfortably 

as possible. 

During the development, all the existing systems on the 

market were studied, tested, and analysed. Removing 

all the flaws and creating something completely different 

meant that Olerex and Astro Baltics were able to create a 

user-friendly self-service POS interface that met the needs 

of their customers. The solution is unique because of the 

user interface, which was created from scratch. 

Thanks to the self-service POS, Olerex customers who are 

on the run can now not only pay at pump without entering 

the shop, but also make their quick purchases faster in the 

convenience store. 

Olerex and Astro Baltics have been working together for 

more than 20 years, and it’s not just POS software. Astro 

Baltics has worked with Olerex to develop a sophisticated 

sales operating and management system. 



Could an old petrol station still 

be ahead of it’s time? 

Astro Baltics introduces their 

latest solution - Cloudics. 

Imagine a beautiful sunny day, you take your family on 

beach. The day goes smoothly, everyone is happy but it is 

time to head back. The car warns that the fuel level is low 

and you need to fill up. There was a station on your way 

back and you know that you can refill there. You reach the 

station, and start looking for your wallet, eventually you 

realise that you left your wallet at home. The station is too 

far from home and you are out of options. The only way 

is to call a tow-truck & pay a few hundred euros for their 

service. 

This a really common problem that can happen to anyone - 

but what if there was a solution? 

Researches show that people take mobile phones everywhere, 

but forgetting your wallet is a common problem. If 

this station would have mobile payment opportunity, they 

would attract new customers, maintain the old ones & 

these situations would not happen. 

How to become an innovation leader with your renewed 

petrol station 

Using Cloudics in your fuel station can make you the innovation 

leader in petrol station industry. 

Today the majority of petrol stations are managed through 

expensive hardware and their integration is time consuming 

and costly. Cloudics enables fuel station operators to 

control all the fuel station devices through a Cloud-based 

forecourt controller (FCC). This also means that maintenance 

and updates can be done over the internet. 

Cloudics combines software and hardware solutions into 

one and can be operated from the cloud-based web manager. 

The solution comes with an application for mobile 

payments that gives users an overview of their refueling 

process and previous transactions. With Cloudics you 

can keep the station functioning 24/7, reduce the costs on 

deployment, implementation and maintenance while giving 

a better overview of your equipment. 

How your customer’s life will change with Cloudics 

Trends show that consumers are eager for quick and less 

complicated shopping experiences that mobile payments 

are offering. With an easy and intuitive user interface cli 

ents can make payments quickly and comfortably using 

only their smartphone. This means an innovative and convenient 

fueling experience for the users because they can 

pay for their fuel without having any physical cards or cash. 

Payments are provided with maximum security and 

users can also easily get an overview of all their previous 

payments. Credit card information is not stored on 

smartphones directly but instead in the cloud so credit 

card details are not extractable just by stealing your phone. 

Mobile payments also allow shorter wait times at checkout 

which, in turn, improves the customer experience. 

How Cloudics helps fuel station owners 

Cloudics can help you reduce fuel station hardware 

expenses and setup costs, lower regular software maintenance 

fees and on-site service costs. Total savings on 

maintenance work and hardware can be up to €30k for a 

small station. The cloud based fuel station is fully automatic 

and therefore you can also save money on labour costs. In 

addition to the cost aspect the installation of a new station 

is faster and expanding your business becomes easier. 

It is also much easier to implement and install new functionalities 

and upgrades because all business logic and 

data is stored in the cloud. This gives you a solution that 

can easily adapt to fast market changes and helps you to 

stay competitive and to attract new clients through innovation. 

Cloud based fuel station is better equipped to adapt 

to changes in a fast-paced fuel retail business environment 

and fuel station can be controlled and managed remotely 

from every corner of the world. 

How to keep your station traditional but still innovative 

It is true that we are not there yet that all the petrol stations 

would have only mobile payment. To meet the needs of 

the traditional and the innovative Astro Baltics has made a 

hybrid station. The hybrid station has the traditional Astro 

Baltics Outdoor Payment Terminal (OPT) with card and 

cash payment but all other devices are turned into IoT 

devices and the forecourt device controller is in the cloud. 

Wet stock management systems, price displays and dispensers 

are linked up using small controllers that are easily 

replaceable and give site operators the ability to manage 

everything remotely. 

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Supplier news 

Spanish car wash manufacturer, ISTOBAL 

saw profits increase by 2.2% in 2018, generating 

turnover in excess of 137 million 

euros. Spain and France are still the the most 

important markets for the multinational group, 

accounting for 22% and 18% of the group’s 

net sales of car wash equipment respectively. 

Implico is now ISMS certified. Implico has 

invested heavily into the documentation and 

optimisation of its work and business processes 

under the terms of the Information 

Security Management System (ISMS). The oil 

and gas company is officially certified in the 

areas OpenTAS, iGOS, IT and SAP hosting in 

accordance with ISO 27001. 

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. 

Urgent Technology has been awarded a multi-year 

contract to supply its facilities management 

(FM) software and services to AECOM, 

a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure 

firm. The software will be configured and 

implemented by Urgent Technology for the 

purpose of servicing an AECOM contract in 

the Netherlands with a major petrol retailer, 

encompassing a regional network of approximately 

400 service stations. 

Dutch fuel retailer and solutions provider 

TanQYou is making its mobility platform 

technology available to other fuel retailers. 

The platform is already being used across 

TanQYou sites and is now being offered as 

whitelabel solution. 

Bever Innovations has officially moved in to 

the company’s new sustainable HQ. 

In the company’s latest blog post Beth 

Thompson, Principal Consultant at Kalibrate, 

examines the true meaning of fuel price optimisation? 



In the company’s latest blog post Big Brother 

discuss the safety issues surrounding alternative 

fuels on the forecourt and how their 

PumpWatch technology can help. 

Dover Fueling Solutions has signed an agreement 

with Gazprom Neft, a vertically integrated 

oil company, for the supply of the Wayne 

Helix dispensers for 2019-2020 in Russia, 

Belorussia, Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan. 

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In one of a series of forward-thinking blog 

posts on their website, Oney examine the 

idea that one day, due to the rise in payment 

technology, cash could be a thing of the past. 

Latest figures show that 2.6 billion smart payment 

cards were shipped globally in 2018 by 

SPA Members, Associate Members & Market 

Monitoring Advisory Council Members. The 

research also shows that contactless cards 

represent 45% of all smart payment cards 

shipped. Europe leads adoption rates with 

83% of cards featuring contactless functionality 

whilst growth continued in the United 

States where 68% of US storefronts now are 

accepting chip cards. 

The International Forecourt Standards Forum 

(IFSF) will host their annual conference in 

Budapest, Hungary on 5-6 November at the 

Kempinski Hotel. More details will be announced 

shortly. 



THE NEED FOR 

HARMONISATION OF 

STANDARDS IN 

FORECOURT RETAIL 

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Heather Price, Chair of the International Forecourt 

Standards Forum, explains why harmonised 

standards are essential in forecourt retail and how 

the forum is driving the agenda forwards 

The International Forecourt Standards Forum (IFSF) is 

a not-for-profit trade association operating within the Retail 

Fuels industry. The Forum is made up of major fuel retailers 

and technology companies from the sector. The organisation 

was 25 years old in 2018 and continues to publish 

standards, engineering bulletins and implementation 

guides, alongside test tools, simulators and self-certification 

compliance certificates. 

As the name indicates, the organisation’s focus is on 

standards, primarily forecourt technology standards. One 

of its many achievements in this industry is its ISO8383 Oil 

card payment protocol which has a Single Euro Payments 

Area (SEPA) label and processes several million transactions 

per day globally. 

The aim of IFSF is to provide application standards that 

enable the interoperability of the numerous pieces of 

forecourt equipment and fuel retailing applications. The 

ultimate aim is to minimise the cost to the consumer but at 

the same time enable rapid deployment of marketing and 

payment innovations. 

At the 2018 IFSF conference held in Hamburg, the message 

that kept coming back was consumers don’t care 

that fuel technology is more complex than bar codes; they 

don’t care that on-line retailers don’t have to worry about 

dispersed point-of-sale (POS) technology spread across 

thousands of sites; they don’t care that Amazon or ASOS 

technology can only be as old as their organisations; they 

expect the same functionality when they refuel their car as 

when they buy their weekly shop at a supermarket. 

The challenges we face delivering that today are a legacy. 

The rise of payment cards, and the inevitable fraud that 

came with it, brought the first wave of regular changes to 

this area. Payment Card Industry (PCI) started to introduce 

deadlines for minimum levels of security, requiring regular 

upgrades of payment terminals, and upgrades to POS 

software where payment information was processed. 

Indoor Payment Terminals (IPTs) were a big enough 



problem but Outdoor Payment Terminals (OPTs) required a 

whole new level of resource; time, manpower and financial. 

Very high levels of the available capital expenditure across 

the whole landscape was spent on non-discretionary projects 

to just keep up with PCI requirements. The lack of interoperability 

between the equipment of different vendors, 

or even different generations from the same vendor just 

added to the time and resource required to keep up. 

A decade on, the demands are much more exciting but 

equally as challenging. The emerging new consumer 

expects to be able to order and pay for everything on 

smartphones and their loyalty points to be automatically 

saved and applied at the touch of an icon. The advent of 

mobile payment and loyalty applications has really tested 

forecourt technology designed in what was frankly a different 

era. 

The simple graphic below shows the number of messages 

required to be exchanged between applications on the 

ground and in the cloud to enable a single mobile payment 

transaction. With standardised interfaces, these types 

of projects are challenging enough. Without standards, 

projects are doomed to be outdated before they even get 

to testing. 

This is not about saving retailer costs, it is about finding the 

resource to carry out all of the work demanded by our consumers. 

The aim of IFSF is to allow vendors and retailers to 

concentrate their efforts and skills on developing exciting 

new technologies at the consumer end, by standardising 

the interfaces behind the consumer facing application. 

With new technology vendors entering this space, we all 

need to be enabling our retail customers to select the 

combination of cloud services they need to provide their 

marketing value proposition. 

For the last four years IFSF has focused its development 

funding on APIs, building a strategy, a roadmap and a 

platform whilst developing Fuel Retailing API Collections. In 

mid-2018 we launched a common Fuel Retailing Data Dictionary 

with Conexxus who work in this field in the US. The 

data dictionary acts as the focal point for our growing API 

libraries, ensuring terminology around things as simple as 

dates, currency, country, unit of measure and equipment 

names are fully aligned. We have a Joint Workgroup for 

APIs with our technical expert friends from Conexxus that 

meets regularly to take this work forward. 

Earlier this year a review was performed by REPL (a major 

API consultancy), which provided a reality check to ensure 

our chosen IFSF platform and architecture was aligned with 

current industry best practice. Early results confirm our selections 

are as future proofed as possible and the selected 

strategy, chosen platform and tools and applications are 

sound. 

The IFSF team continues to upgrade its standards, test 

tools, simulators and self-certification test engines from 

their old existing XML-based architecture to API based 

web standards. 

However, there is still much to be done. Despite the acknowledged 

benefits realised through the use of technical 

standards in retail petroleum and other sectors internationally, 

their adoption is far from universal. IFSF will continue 

to work with its partners to promote and evolve these 

standards while encouraging all stakeholders to join them. 

If you would like to know more about the work of the IFSF, 

its annual conference is open to all in the Retail Fuels 

industry, visit IFSF.org for further details. If you would like to 

speak with them directly, please contact the team on +44 

1787 221025. 

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Simplified Mobile Payment Architecture 

Heather Price will Chair the speaker 

programme at forecourttech ’19. She 

will be joined by IFSF Projects 

Manager, John Carrier who will discuss 

‘APIs - Powering Innovation in Fuel 

Retailing’ 

For more information on John’s talk and 

other presentations please visit 

www.forecourttech.com 

A very simplified example of mobile fuel dispenser management and the many 

interfaces required between the applications. It gives an insight into the 

complexity of such a process, and why standards are so beneficial. 


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forecourttech ‘19 

forecourttech is a fantastic 

forum for retailers and 

vendors to jointly discuss 

both future and current 

technologies in retailing. 

- Robert Buan, Circle K 

The technology convention focused on the evolving 

digital forecourt is back for 2019. From 14-15 October 

an impressive line-up of speakers and delegates from 

both sides of the fuel retail industry will descend on the 

Asia Gardens Hotel in Alicante, Spain for what 

promises to be the perfect blend of discovery, innovation 

and networking.


Speakers 

Mark Wohltmann 

Director Europe, NACS 

Global technology trends 

and disruptors. 

Ian Thompson 

Managing Director - 

Planning, Kalibrate 

Fuel retail pricing and 

network optimization. 

Eric Denivelle 

e-Mobility Business 

Director Europe, Gilbarco 

Veeder-Root 

EV charging technology 

and the changing face of 

the forecourt and related 

technologies. 

Jan-Harmen Akkerman 

CEO, TanQYou 

Innovative concepts in a 

traditional market, how 

TanQyou conquers the 

traditional petrol market. 

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Neil Hendry 

Vice President Retail Fuel & 

Convenience International, 

Diebold Nixdorf 

Creating a compelling 

forecourt and store 

experience in an ever 

increasing digital 

environment. 

Frodi Hammer 

Co-Founder, Chief 

Technology Officer 

Artificial Intelligence driving 

your digital transformation 

towards automation and 

personalisation. 

Walter Van Huyck 

Fleet card systems expert, 

Openway 

Is your fuel card system 

future-proofed? 7 questions 

for CEOs and CIOs to ask 

yourself. 

François Lecomte-Vagniez 

Advisory Facilitator, SPA Retail 

Workgroup 

Instant Payment Initiation – 

opportunity and path for new 

payment experiences at fuel 

stations. 

The programme will be moderated by IFSF Chair, Heather Price. 

For more information on the speakers and their presentations and for further speaker 

announcements please visit the forecourttech website 



Venue 

The Asia Gardens Hotel and Thai Spa will once again host forecourttech. The five star venue just outside Alicante, Spain was a huge hit 

with delegates last year who praised the excellent facilities and intimate atmosphere. 

Network 

forecourttech will once again employ the latest in event networking technology. Brella’s event meeting app allows delegates 

to see who else is attending, start conversations and schedule meetings before the event has even started. 

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Don’t miss out 

Spaces for forecourttech are filling up fast - to book your place or for further information visit the forecourttech website. 

forecourttech was of great value to me for 

gaining new insights into the latest 

developments and solutions out in the market. 

- Peter Lambrechts, Q8 Global Cards 



Shaping the future of 

payment technology 

It’s been a busy first quarter for the Smart 

Payment Association (SPA). 

From GDPR to cryptocurrencies, 

forecourttech rounds up the latest news 

from the organisation. 

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A message from Andreas Strobel - SPA President 

The first few months of 2019 have seen the SPA striding 

ahead in its mission to define, inform, and shape the 

fast-evolving payments sector. 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to transform payment 

ecosystems, ushering in a new era of connected commerce, 

payment automation and real-time clearing and 

settlement. But addressing complex technology ecosystem 

challenges and security vulnerabilities will be critical to 

facilitating frictionless, faster, and risk-free payments. 

In February, SPA published a new paper, IoT Payments: 

Addressing the Protection Problem, which provides 

insights on how to protect internet-connected devices with 

the ability to pay and minimize the risk of attack and fraud. 

With biometrics fast becoming a key verification and authentication 

mechanism for payment services, in April we 

published our paper on Biometrics, Payment and GDPR. 

This document provides a detailed analysis on how to 

achieve GDPR compliance in relation to the capture and 

processing of biometric information for cardholder authentication. 

As EU policy makers continue press for greater financial 

market integration as a means to enhancing cross border 

trade and investment, our SPA Insights Paper - Quantifying 

the Potential of Utilizing Technology to Integrate EU Financial 

Markets – evaluates the opportunities and provides 

recommendations on how to accelerate the adoption of 

innovative platforms that will enable more integrated financial 

markets. 

Influencing the industry 

SPA continues to play a critical role in advancing the development 

of industry standards, regulatory initiatives, and 

best practices for a sector that never stands still. 

Here’s a roundup of some of the ways they’re helping to 

influence the future direction of our industry: 

• A recent SPA presentation on how to resolve security and 

privacy concerns relating to IoT devices delivered at the 

Merchants Payments Ecosystem in Berlin and has stimulated 

discussions at the European Cards Stakeholders Group 

(ECSG) and the European Banking Association on potential 

IoT use cases for banks and PSPs. Indeed, SPA believes 

IoT initiated payments are set to become a reality within 

the next five years, with wearables, connected cars and 

smart homes representing the first environments to feature 

embedded payment capabilities. 

• As members of the innovation expert teams supporting 

the ECSG in charge of cards standardization in the Single 

Euro Payments Area (SEPA), SPA continues to push for the 

integration of the technology building blocks that together 

make up new payment architectures– distributed ledgers, 

cloud and IoT – in a bid to address potential security and 

regulatory concerns. 

• SPA has been invited to join the ESCG’s new digital payments 

taskforce to investigate the technical user interfaces 

and security challenges that arise from the co-existence of 

card and non-card payments and the potential impact of 

these for the European payment industry. 



• As an active participant at APIDE (Africa Pay and ID 

Africa Expo), SPA has outlined practical steps the African 

payments industry and region’s governments can take to 

fast-track the introduction of mobile electronic payment 

instruments that facilitate financial inclusion for all citizens. 

Open banking and cryptocurrencies update 

Following the recent rollout out of open banking regulations 

and the launch of the EU’s Payment Services Directive 2 

(PSD2), SPA notes how many countries in regions around 

the world are following suit. They are and establishing 

frameworks that will enable banks to share select customer 

data with third-party providers and establish open payment 

schemes. 

standards bodies. 

Looking ahead 

Newly appointed President of the SPA, Andreas Strobel, 

expressed his delight to be at the helm as the organisation’s 

members, and the wider industry at large, prepares 

to harness collaborative digital ecosystems and unleash a 

new era of connected payment experiences that will meet 

the needs and expectations of consumers and businesses 

around the globe. 

You can discover the latest news from SPA and details of 

upcoming events by visiting the SPA website. 

www.smartpaymentsassociation.com 

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Recent key Asian market initiatives include those taking 

place in Japan and Korea. Meanwhile, in the US, an upcoming 

conference in June will evaluate adapting PSD2 to 

the specifics of the US market, with a focus on two fundamental 

aspects – open banking and consumer protection 

through strong customer authentication. 

Meanwhile, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)* has 

now finalized its requirements for the supervision and 

monitoring of cryptocurrency service providers to prevent 

cryptocurrencies from being misused for illegal transactions 

or money laundering purposes. 

SPA notes that, as well as providing the market with the 

security and authentication solutions that enable payment 

innovations while protecting end users, its members are 

also actively contributing to open banking and standardization 

on cryptocurrencies through their respective national 

François Lecomte-Vagniez, Advisory Facilitator for SPA 

Retail Workgroup will discuss ‘Instant Payment 

Initiation – opportunity and path for new payment 

experiences at fuel stations’ at forecourttech ’19. 

For more information on François’ talk and other 

presentations please visit www.forecourttech.com

forecourttech June 19

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