European Mobile Payment Systems Association

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]

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/

History and future plans

European Mobile Payment Systems Association was founded on September 3 2019.

In January 2022 EMPSA demonstrated a working system where test users of TWINT could pay in selected shops in Austria accepting Bluecode.[4]

Members

EMPSA was founded by seven mobile payment providers, including the three Scandinavian providers which at that time had more than half their population as users.

Eight more providers have joined, making them 15; they are:

Provider Country Joined
Bancontact Payconiq Company  Belgium 2019
Bluecode  Germany  Austria 2019
MobilePay  Denmark  Finland 2019
SIBS/MB WAY  Portugal 2019
Swish  Sweden 2019
TWINT   Switzerland 2019
Vipps  Norway 2019
Bancomat Pay  Italy 2020[5]
BLIK  Poland 2020
PLICK  Italy  Spain 2020[6]
Bankart (FLIK)  Slovenia 2020
Bamcard (KVIKO)  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2020
BORICA AD  Bulgaria 2021
Currence iDEAL  Netherlands 2021
Bizum  Spain 2022
DIAS  Greece 2022

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. Interoperability Production Test from EMPSA on Vimeo
  5. European Association to foster collaboration in mobile payments is growing (March 9 2020)
  6. EMPSA is further growing to foster collaboration in mobile payments
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