European Mobile Payment Systems Association

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European Mobile Payment Systems Association
IndustryMobile payments
FoundedSeptember 3rd 2019[1]
Headquarters
Zurich
,
Switzerland
Area served
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland
Key people
Søren Mose, Anna-Lena Wretman, Anton Stadelmann, Bjørn Skjelbred, Christian Pirkner, Mark Majgaard Wraa-Hansen, Nathalie Vandepeute, Tiago Bianchi de Aguiar
ProductsMobile applications
MembersBancontact Payconiq Company, Bluecode, MobilePay, SIBS/MB WAY, Swish, Vipps
Websitehttps://empsa.org/

The European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA) is an association that aims to foster collaboration and to enable the use of different mobile payments systems internationally.[2] EMPSA is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and chaired by Søren Mose, the Chairman of the TWINT Board of Directors.[3]

EMPSA is founded by seven mobile payment providers that together have around 25 million registered users and over 1 million acceptance points. Around 350 banks support the systems.

Six more providers have joined, making them 13; they are:

Provider Country Joined
Bancontact Payconiq Company  Belgium 2019
 [de]  Germany  Austria 2019
MobilePay  Finland  Denmark 2019
 [pt]  Portugal 2019
Swish  Sweden 2019
TWINT [de]   Switzerland 2019
Vipps  Norway 2019
Bancomat Pay  Italy 2020[4]
BLIK  Poland 2020
PLICK  Italy  Spain 2020[5]
FLIK  Slovenia 2020
KVIKO  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2020
 [bg]  Bulgaria 2021
Currence iDEAL  Netherlands 2021

References[]

  1. ^ Mobile payment systems in Europe establish association to foster collaboration and international payments
  2. ^ "Seven European mobile payment systems to found EMPSA". EMPSA (in German). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  3. ^ "Europe forms European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA)". Payments Cards & Mobile. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  4. ^ European Association to foster collaboration in mobile payments is growing (March 9 2020)
  5. ^ EMPSA is further growing to foster collaboration in mobile payments
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