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/

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.

Two more providers have joined, making them nine; they are:

Provider Country Joined
Bancontact Payconiq Company  Belgium 2019
Bluecode  Germany  Austria 2019
MobilePay  Finland  Denmark 2019
SIBS/MB WAY  Portugal 2019
Swish  Sweden 2019
TWINT   Switzerland 2019
Vipps  Norway 2019
Bancomat Pay  Italy 2020[4]
BLIK  Poland 2020
PLICK  Italy 2020[5]
FLIK  Slovenia 2020

See also
  • MobilePay – Danish mobile payment service
  • Swish – Swedish mobile payment service
  • Vipps – Norwegian mobile payment service

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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