European Payments Initiative

Card Networks Leverage Strategic Investments to Secure EU Foothold

Card Networks Leverage Strategic Investments to Secure EU Foothold
Card Networks Leverage Strategic Investments to Secure EU Foothold
September 26, 2022  |  Payments As A Service

Although there isn’t a simple answer as to whether Visa and Mastercard have too much influence in Europe’s payments, that hasn’t stopped the idea of...

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Amazon, Nexi, Worldline, CaixaBank, EPI Join Digital Euro Project
Amazon, Nexi, Worldline, CaixaBank, EPI Join Digital Euro Project
September 16, 2022  |  CBDC

The European Central Bank (ECB) has selected five companies to be involved in a “prototyping exercise” that will be part of its two-year investigation phase...

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The European Payments Initiative: Laying the Infrastructure for Europe’s Super Payments App
The European Payments Initiative: Laying the Infrastructure for Europe’s Super Payments App
September 14, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Across Europe — 44 countries, dozens of languages, myriad ways to pay — cross-border, cross-functional infrastructure could eventually give rise to a “super app.” Get...

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Today In Payments: EPI Looks To Topple US FinTechs; Sweden’s Trustly Scraps $950 Million IPO Plans
Today In Payments: EPI Looks To Topple US FinTechs; Sweden’s Trustly Scraps $950 Million IPO Plans
May 03, 2021  |  News

In today’s top news, the European Payments Initiative aims to take on U.S. FinTechs with a new pan-European payments firm, and Trustly is scrapping its...

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