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. EMPSA is headquartered in
Zurich,
Switzerland
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and chaired by Søren Mose, the Chairman of the TWINT Board of Directors.
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.
Interoperability Production Test from EMPSA on Vimeo
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Members
EMPSA was founded by seven mobile payment
A mobile payment, also referred to as mobile money, mobile money transfer and mobile wallet, is any of various payment processing services operated under financial regulations and performed from or via a mobile device, as the cardinal class of d ...
providers, including the three Scandinavian providers which at that time had more than half their population as users.
Seven more providers have joined, making them 14; they are:
References
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