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

Three of the nine members of EMPSA
Industry	Mobile payments
Founded	3 September 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
Products	Mobile applications
Members	Bancontact Payconiq Company, Bluecode, MobilePay, SIBS/MB WAY, Swish, Vipps
Website	https://empsa.org/

History and future plans

European Mobile Payment Systems Association was founded on 3 September 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 [de]	Germany  Austria	2019
MobilePay	Denmark  Finland	2019
SIBS/MB WAY [pt]	Portugal	2019
Swish	Sweden	2019
TWINT	Switzerland	2019
Vipps	Norway  Sweden	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 [bg]	Bulgaria	2021
Currence iDEAL	Netherlands	2021
Bizum	Spain	2022
DIAS	Greece	2022