EMVCo

EMVCo manages, maintains, and enhances the EMV integrated circuit card specifications for chip-based payment cards and acceptance devices.

EMVCo manages, maintains, and enhances the EMV integrated circuit card specifications for chip-based payment cards and acceptance devices. The company establishes and administers testing and approval processes to evaluate compliance with the EMV specifications. It maintains type approval processes for terminal compliance testing as well as common core definitions and common payment application card compliance testing. Its user groups include colleges, universities, and centers for learning; consultants; financial institutions and banks; governments; interest groups; laboratories; payment systems; media; merchants and retailers; mobile operators; processors; regional schemes and national bodies; standard organizations; system integrators; and vendors and manufacturers. EMVCo was founded in 1999 and is based in Foster City, California.