EMVCo Associates play an active role in EMVCo’s strategic and technical direction and contribute their knowledge and expertise to shape the development of EMV® Specifications. Industry stakeholders across the globe, including merchants, banks and technology providers participate as EMVCo Associates to advance seamless and secure payments worldwide.
More than a hundred organisations – including merchants, issuers, acquirers, payment networks, financial institutions, manufacturers, technology providers and testing laboratories – contribute their knowledge and expertise to the development of EMV Specifications.
EMVCo Associates can contribute their knowledge and expertise to shape the development of EMV Specifications.
EMVCo Subscribers can receive notice of pending EMV Specification developments and participate in a formal dialogue with EMVCo.
All industry participants can review and provide comments on new EMV Specifications and major updates before final publication.
Click here to sign up as an EMVCo Associate. EMVCo invoices annual participation fees, which are prorated for those organisations joining mid-year.
To participate as an EMVCo Associate, the applicant must be a stakeholder in the payment card industry or a representative association of a type of such industry stakeholders and have a commercial or technical interest in monitoring the EMV Specifications.
Associate participation is open to payment industry stakeholders (or their representative associations) that have a commercial or technical interest in monitoring the EMV Specifications.
To review eligibility requirements, see the Policy & Procedures Document.
To review participation terms, review the EMVCo Associates Programme Participation Agreement.
*Please see Policy & Procedures Document for full details for participation in these categories.
The EMVCo Board of Advisors provides EMVCo with input on strategic and business topics related to the use of the EMV Specifications. The Board of Advisors meets twice annually, giving them the opportunity to communicate with EMVCo executives. Input from the Board of Advisors is extremely valuable. EMVCo has expanded the Board of Advisors to include those Associates demonstrating a commitment to EMV deployment and interoperability to enable broader industry input on the strategic direction of EMVCo’s increasingly diverse initiatives
The annual participation fee for an Associate is $27,500 payable in advance. Fees are payable on an annual basis and prorated for those organisations that join mid-year. The annual participation fee for an Associate who participates as a Merchant or Industry Group is $15,000, payable in advance. Restrictions apply; please click here for more details on these categories.
EMVCo's new website and Participant Dashboard are now live. To access your account for the first time on our new website you'll need to carry out a password reset here. You will then be sent an email to reset your password.
EMVCo Associates, Subscribers and public users of emvco.com can create accounts to manage their engagement and participation with EMVCo. Using your EMVCo account, you can create your own watchlist of EMV technologies documents, monitor queries and responses, and manage your profile.
