European Mobile Payment Systems Association
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Three of the nine members of EMPSA | |
Industry | Mobile payments |
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Founded | September 3rd 2019[1] |
Headquarters | Zurich , |
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 |
Products | Mobile applications |
Members | Bancontact Payconiq Company, Bluecode, MobilePay, SIBS/MB WAY, Swish, Vipps |
Website | https://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.
Five more providers have joined, making them twelve; they are:
Provider | Country | Joined |
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Bancontact Payconiq Company | ![]() |
2019 |
Bluecode | ![]() ![]() |
2019 |
MobilePay | ![]() ![]() |
2019 |
SIBS/MB WAY | ![]() |
2019 |
Swish | ![]() |
2019 |
TWINT | ![]() |
2019 |
Vipps | ![]() |
2019 |
Bancomat Pay | ![]() |
2020[4] |
BLIK | ![]() |
2020 |
PLICK | ![]() ![]() |
2020[5] |
FLIK | ![]() |
2020 |
KVIKO | ![]() |
2020 |
References
- ^ Mobile payment systems in Europe establish association to foster collaboration and international payments
- ^ "Seven European mobile payment systems to found EMPSA". EMPSA (in German). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "Europe forms European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA)". Payments Cards & Mobile. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ European Association to foster collaboration in mobile payments is growing (March 9 2020)
- ^ EMPSA is further growing to foster collaboration in mobile payments