The highlight of the IFSF calendar is the annual conference. In 2018 we hosted almost 90 delegates at the Sofitel Alter Wall Hamburg

for two days of inspired speaker content and working group discussions, also celebrating 25 years of the IFSF.

Day One featured key note speakers Mark Goldspink and Robin Whitehead of ai Corporation, on Cloud Payments;

LOOKING FORWARD TO BUDAPEST 2019

FEATURED IN THIS ISSUECONFERENCE 2018 AND 2019 I API ARTICLE FROM JOHN CARRIER

IFSF CHAIR MY FIRST 100 DAYS I UPDATES OF POS TO FEP AND HOST TO HOST STANDARDS

with Developments in Payment (Mirko Spagnoletti, Ingenico); Artificial Intelligence (Dan Aylen, Accenture); Transitioning from NRF to OMG (Karen Shunk, Object Management Group); Developing a Successful Strategy for the API Economy (Adheeb Rifdi, MuleSoftW3C); Autoteam Payment (Rodrigo Meirelles, WEX Inc).

On Day Two, the keynote speakers were Mark Wohltmann, NACS Europe, with Global Trends and Best Practices in Convenience and Fuel Retailing and Gray Taylor, Executive Director, Conexxus, on Future Technologies.

Both days also featured Working Group meetings and feedback sessions, with John Carrier, IFSF Project Manager presenting the work that has been done so far on the API Roadmap.

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My first 100 days

At the end of my first calendar quarter navigating IFSF, I felt that a review of my first 100 days would be appropriate.

I had quite a baptism of fire in November with the IFSF Board meeting where I was formally sworn in as the new Chair, following hot on the heels of the very successful Hamburg Technical Conference.

The Conference certainly acted as a great springboard for me personally, allowing me to meet many friends, colleagues and members in a very short time. I was impressed with the quality of the conference speakers, and the level of debate that their presentations generated. At the end of what was

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an exhausting two days, I felt quite humbled at the task ahead, leading IFSF into exciting times with so many new innovations and so much change, both in IT and on the forecourt. I also felt very proud and honoured to be working with, and representing, people and organisations of such knowledge and quality.

I was fortunate enough to be involved in discussions at both the Conference and then two weeks later at our Board Meeting in Vienna, which really helped me to climb my steep learning curve very quickly, to understand the key challenges of this organisation very early in my tenure.

Listening to the discussions around APIs convinced me that spending some resources (both time and money) to find expertise and insight into how APIs should be developed, managed and ultimately shared for the good of our industry was a priority. To this end, John Carrier and I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past couple of months looking for a partner to support IFSF by validating our existing platform and processes, and providing a framework

for where our organisation needs to go next. I am very pleased to announce that UK-based REPL has agreed to work with us to ensure that IFSF is providing the best service to our members and partners going forward.

Conferences have also been high on my agenda, working to ensure that we learn both the good and bad from our Hamburg conference to provide an even better meeting in 2019. In parallel,

John and I have been planning our trip to join the Conexxus Conference in Nashville in April, and the Forecourttech conference in Alicante in October. We hope to come back energised from both of these, with new ideas and contacts to benefit IFSF, plus even stronger ties and relationships with existing contacts and partners. IFSF was also represented at the Vendorcom conference in London in March by Ian Brown, our EFT Workgroup Lead.

During the first quarter of 2019, we also celebrated our first Joint Workgroup with Conexxus. The article Are you API ready? written by John Carrier provides more detail on this, and I certainly take none of the credit for the success of this new process, but would like to thank John and Simon, and Linda Toth and Gray Taylor from Conexxus for their tireless work to bring this important new group to fruition.

My first 100 days in office have been busy and thought-provoking. I also look forward to my first full calendar year in this exciting role, developing the role of PPC in our organisation to ensure that the voices of all of our Technical Partners are heard. I will also be working to further our two primary objectives for 2019, to develop the IFSF API Strategy, plus to work with Conexxus towards our ultimate aim of joint global standards in as many areas as possible. This will enable our members and partners to spend more time on new technologies and less time trying to work out how to interface between different platforms, with legacy proprietary formats that just won’t talk to each other.

I would like to thank all of you for making me so welcome, and thank the IFSF Board for their patience as they have helped me to gain a greater understanding of how IFSF can benefit the Fuel Retailing industry. And finally, I would like to give special thanks to Simon for being so supportive during our transition period, and for remaining so committed right up to the very end of his tenure.

Heather Price

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A real highlight was the evening networking event held at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg. Delegates strolled to the venue and were treated to a tour and an enjoyable three-course meal.

Delegates have spoken warmly of the whole event and found the programme practical and professionally valuable. Gray’s keynote speech was noted as an exciting development because of the joint working groups that are taking place in 2019 between Conexxus and IFSF on APIs.

For 2019, the challenge has been to provide a conference of similar calibre. We are delighted to announce that IFSF will be hosting this year’s conference in Budapest 5-6 November at the Kempinski Hotel. We will be announcing more details in due course.

VENUE FOR 2019Located in downtown Budapest, the luxurious five-star Kempinski Hotel Corvinus is just a short walk away from the Danube River and all of the city’s main attractions. The hotel comprises 351 elegant guest rooms, including 35 chic suites with spacious bathrooms, a spa and free Wi-Fi.

The Kempinski’s ten room event area has been recently renovated and reconstructed. The conference and meeting facilities are nestled on the second level, as an organic continuation of the stylish lobby level.

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THE FORUM OF INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM RETAILERS, SUPPLIERS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS.

OUR MISSION: TO PROMOTE INTEROPERABILITY BY DEVELOPING TECHNICAL STANDARDS THAT ENABLE COST EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS IN RETAIL PETROLEUM AND OTHER SECTORS WORLDWIDE.

These contain a number of updates including:• Request for card insertion to terminal on contactless

transaction: Response code 193 = Use Other Interface added to DE 39 to support strong customer authentication (SCA) of contactless transactions. Description of SCA processing for contactless added. This change will also be made to the V1 standard once the V2 update is approved.

• Support for 3D Secure V2: Added additional tags in DE160; DF24 – 3D Secure version number and DF25 - Directory Server (DS) Transaction ID.

• Support to communicate DCC mark-up rate: Added the option to provide a mark-up rate to a DCC enquiry response using DE 48-23.

• Digital wallet support: Extended support for digital wallets - additional fields added for MasterPass enable flag (124-15), Digital Wallet Type (124-16) and Digital Wallet Data (124-17).

• Facility to provide GPS co-ordinates of a transaction: Addition of Card Acceptor GeoCoordinates field (DE 48-24) to allow the GPS co-ordinates for the location of the transaction to be provided.

Updates of POS to FEP and Host to Host standards

Are You API Ready?

New partnership with REPL Group

Nearly four years ago, IFSF started its API journey and a lot has been delivered since then; with one of the main deliverables the Fuel Retailing Data Dictionary, this can be viewed here on GitLab.

The dictionary is shared with Conexxus and currently contains 29 Elements, 52 Objects and 10 Data Types. These artefacts are used in three published collections of APIs, and a common library. They are available as RAML documentation on our web site (ifsf.org) and if you contact IFSF you can access the latest OAS 3.0 swagger versions. The three collections are Remote Equipment Monitoring and Control [REMC], Wet (Fuel) Stock Management [WSM] and Fuel and Car Wash Pricing [PRICING].

Since March this year, the API WG has been a joint endeavour with Conexxus. At the last meeting, 23 attendees listened, contributed and debated about API Transport Alternatives and the latest revision of the Design Guidelines for JSON. Meanwhile the IFSF Board has agreed to finance yet more API collections, with plans to deliver another five collections during 2019. These are some Cloud BOS functions,

POS to FDC (the fuel components only), Mobile Payment, and are also looking towards two collections of ‘payment-related’ APIs (possibly to aid translation from ISO8583 to APIs and new pure web services-based Payment APIs. The latter two collections will only follow a feasibility study of what is or will shortly be available in the market place that we can adapt and/or adopt.

IFSF have also commissioned a third-party consultancy (REPL) to verify whether the API platform and tools IFSF are currently using are really fit-for-purpose, best industry practise and suited to our needs as a standards organisation. Finally, IFSF is seeking yet more help in migrating the existing simulators, tools and self-certification process to web-based services, more than doubling of resources in 2019 and 2020 compared to previous years. If you would like to be part of the ever faster move to APIs, then join the API WG meetings held monthly - the dates can be found on the IFSF web site.

John Carrier, IFSF

As part of its ongoing investment in modernisation, IFSF is pleased to announce a new partnership with REPL Group to elaborate and advance IFSF’s strategy for the further adoption of API technology in the industry.

REPL Group is a world-leading technology and consultancy group with deep expertise in both fuels retail technology and integration.

“REPL Group is delighted to be partnering with IFSF on this initiative,” said Chris Griffiths, Managing Partner for Customer Experience. “We believe our extensive experience with IFSF’s members and affiliates will help IFSF to continue to play a leading role in the industry’s modernisation.”

Farewell Simon StocksAs I said at the conference, Simon of course contributed to IFSF for many years, but in his recent role as Chairman I feel he really made a significant difference to the organisation. In recent years many of us in the industry have found our ‘day jobs’ were increasingly busy, leaving little time to contribute to IFSF. In that situation I believe there were times when it was

really Simon who kept the whole organisation moving forward with his energy and passion, and of course considerable knowledge. IFSF should be truly grateful for the outstanding contribution he has made.

Thank you Simon, and we wish you all the best for the future. Ian Brown, BP