Jacques Doucerain, newly elected WLA President, reflects on the association 2023 achievements and shares the ambition the Board has for 2024.
Jacques Doucerain, newly elected WLA President, reflects on the association 2023 achievements and shares the ambition the Board has for 2024.
Gerald Schaffler, the WLA President for 2023, reflects on the achievements of 2022 and provides an outlook on the activities of the association in 2023.
Gerald Schaffler, the WLA President for 2023, reflects on the achievements of 2022 and provides an outlook on the activities of the association in 2023.
Listen to WLA’s new president going through 2021 achievements, successes, certification program launch and new members. Find out more about the Alliance’s 2022 objectives.
Listen to WLA’s new president going through 2021 achievements, successes, certification program launch and new members. Find out more about the Alliance’s 2022 objectives.
Munich, 30 November 2021 – The White Label Alliance (WLA) has seen a steady increase in members since its founding in March 2021, including new partners Modena, AdvanIDe, PAX Technology, and WizarPOS.
Founded by Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), IDEMIA, and NXP® Semiconductors in March 2021, the WLA aims to provide independent payment solutions for national and private-label payment brands. To this end, the WLA is establishing an open technology standard leveraging EMV for contact and contactless card and mobile device payments. In addition to payment sovereignty, the white-label approach offers domestic and private label schemes advantages such as interoperability, cost efficiency, and an essential technology brick for customized payment systems.
The alliance now welcomes Modena, a payment solution provider, AdvanIDe, a provider of semiconductors and contactless inlays for payment cards, and POS (point of sale) manufacturers PAX Technology and WizarPOS as new members. As each member has a different background in the payment sector, including POS services and solution providers, their participation highlights the growing importance of self-managed payment systems worldwide.
The WLA organization invites new members from all industries, such as service providers, system integrators, manufacturers of payment cards, chips, terminals, and applications, or financial institutions. As a member-driven organization, the WLA offers different levels of membership tailored for individual needs. The WLA invites all stakeholders to join in its effort to transform white-label payments to ensure widespread adoption of operator-run white-label payment systems as well as jointly driving the evolution of the standard.
“We are thrilled by the success of the recently launched initiative. Growing our member base is confirmation for us that we have struck a chord with our white label contactless payment standard, answering genuine needs for independence in the industry”
“We expect the alliance to become increasingly attractive to other companies and organizations as global demand for open, independent payment standards continue to grow.”
WLA President Jacques Doucerain
Headquartered in Munich, the White Label Alliance (WLA) is a member-driven organization committed to extensive adoption of independent payment solutions for smart card and digital firms based on WLA payment standards that enable ready-to-deploy and interoperable payment solutions.
Munich, 30 November 2021 – The White Label Alliance (WLA) has seen a steady increase in members since its founding in March 2021, including new partners Modena, AdvanIDe, PAX Technology, and WizarPOS.
WLA was founded by IDEMIA, G+D and NXP(R) Semiconductors in response to increasing global demand for the next-generation independent payment solution for domestic and private-label payment schemes. By providing WLA members with an open and comprehensive payment standard covering contact and contactless payment cards, mobile and payment terminal devices, WLA facilitates their migration to new technology.
JCB, agreeing on participating in this initiative with its proven technology, signed an agreement with WLA, allowing WLA members to use JCB Contactless Kernel Specifications and kernels.
JCB Contactless, JCB brand’s contactless payment solution that is expanding globally, is fully compliant with EMV(R) standards and supported by most acceptance devices including those of major global terminal suppliers. The arrangement between JCB and WLA thus enables WLA members to further accelerate their contactless migration and shorten time-to-market, by using the existing ready-to-deploy JCB Contactless terminal devices.
“As momentum toward contactless payments is gathering on a global scale, it is becoming critical that the interoperable contactless capability is more accessible so that a wider audience can benefit from the enhanced convenience and security,” said Masaki Yokawa, Executive Vice President, Brand Business at JCB Co., Ltd. “By offering our technology to WLA, we are delighted to work with banks, local networks and vendors to enable contactless implementation with less efforts and shorter time-to-market.”
“I would like to warmly welcome JCB to WLA on behalf of our founding members, G+D, IDEMIA and NXP.” WLA President, Jacques Doucerain said, “We all work together to create a truly independent solution, based on tried and tested technology, with rapid time to market for domestic payment networks, transport operators, private schemes and retailers. Our agreement with JCB will boost our appeal and this unprecedented payment industry initiative. It furthers our original goal to bring about a global independent standard.”
EMV(R) is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries and an unregistered trademark elsewhere. The EMV trademark is owned by EMVCo, LLC.
Headquartered in Munich, the White Label Alliance (WLA) is a member-driven organization committed to extensive adoption of independent payment solutions for smart card and digital firms based on WLA payment standards that enable ready-to-deploy and interoperable payment solutions. Find out more at wla-payment.org.
JCB is a major global payment brand and a leading credit card issuer and acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding worldwide in 1981. Its acceptance network includes about 35 million merchants around the world. JCB Cards are now issued in over 20 countries and territories with more than 140 million cardmembers. As part of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with hundreds of leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase its merchant coverage and cardmember base. As a comprehensive payment solution provider, JCB commits to providing responsive and high-quality service and products to all customers worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.global.jcb/en/
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TOKYO, Mar 12, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – JCB Co., Ltd., a leading global payment scheme, announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with the White Label Alliance (WLA) to provide JCB Contactless Kernel Specifications to WLA members wishing to migrate to the contactless solution.
Munich – 10th, 2021 – Following a 2019 announcement, IDEMIA, G+D and NXP® Semiconductors have launched the White Label Alliance (WLA), which responds to growing global demand for next-generation, independent payment solutions for domestic and private-label payment brands.
WLA sets and updates an open and comprehensive payment standard that enables ready-to-deploy dual interface payment solutions covering contact and contactless payment cards, mobile devices and payment terminal acceptance. Building on the EMV standard, WLA facilitates migration to contactless solutions and ensures interoperability across various system providers.
As a member-driven association, WLA is committed to evolve with any future developments as required by its members. WLA members are free to use this technology and its certification framework to boost contactless payment take-up.
With an aim to accelerate technology adoption and shorten time-to-market, WLA has signed a license deal with JCB, a leading global payment scheme. Under this deal, WLA members benefit from use of the JCB Contactless specification and kernel that most acceptance terminals support. WLA members can thus draw on existing and widely deployed JCB-approved terminal devices.
WLA President Jacques Doucerain said:
“I would like to warmly welcome JCB to WLA on behalf of our founding members G+D, IDEMIA and NXP. We all work together to create a truly independent solution, based on tried and tested technology, with rapid time to market for domestic payment networks, transport operators, private schemes and retailers. Our agreement with JCB will boost our appeal and this unprecedented payment industry initiative. It furthers our original goal to bring about a global independent standard.”
Masaki Yokawa, EVP, Brand Business at JCB said:
“As momentum toward contactless payments is gathering on a global scale, it is becoming critical that the interoperable contactless capability is more accessible so that a wider audience can benefit from the enhanced convenience and security. By offering our technology to WLA, we are delighted to work with banks, local networks and vendors to enable contactless implementation with less efforts and shorter time-to-market.”
Headquartered in Munich, the White Label Alliance (WLA) is a member-driven organization committed to extensive adoption of independent payment solutions for smart card and digital firms based on WLA payment standards that enable ready-to-deploy and interoperable payment solutions.
Find out more at wla-payment.org.
Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is a global security technology group headquartered in Munich, Germany. Innovations from G+D make the lives of billions of people in the digital and physical world more secure. With its products and solutions, G+D is one of the market and technology leaders in the areas of payment, connectivity, identities and digital infrastructure. For more information, visit www.gi-de.com
IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, provides a trusted environment enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect and travel), in the physical as well as digital space. Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, an identity that ensures privacy and trust and guarantees secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect one of our greatest assets – our identity – whether for individuals or for objects, whenever and wherever security matters. We provide Augmented Identity for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors. With close to 15,000 employees around the world, IDEMIA serves clients in 180 countries. For more information, visit www.idemia.com / Follow @IDEMIAGroup on Twitter
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables secure connections for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 29,000 employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $8.61 billion in 2020. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
JCB is a leading global payment scheme with its global acceptance footprint at about 35 million merchants in the world. JCB cards are now issued in over 20 countries and territories with more than 140 million cardmembers. As part of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with hundreds of leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase merchant coverage and cardmember base. For more information, visit www.global.jcb/en
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The White Label Alliance (WLA) was formed in response to increasing global demand for next-generation, independent payment solutions. WLA consolidates and sets independent standards for contact and contactless cards, mobile and other form factors and payment terminal acceptance.
