The big advantage of interoperability between existing local systems (“national champions”) is (i) an already high market and user acceptance of the solutions, (ii) limited infrastructure investments required (hence more focus on innovative use-cases and a shorter time to market) and (iii) the possibility to fully benefit from localized use cases in an international capacity. The association is chaired by Anton Stadelmann, Deputy CEO and CCO of TWINT and vice-chaired by Joseph Hajj, Chief Strategy Officer of Swish.ĮMPSA aims to foster collaboration and to enable the use of the domestic mobile payments systems internationally through interoperability. The headquarters of the EMPSA are located in Zurich, Switzerland. The popularity of this type of payments will increase at a particularly quick pace, given all their advantages – a service that is more attractive for the banks, higher speed, easy to use, a possibility to pay only based on a phone number and last but not least – possible and affordable cross-border payments.”, adds Mr. “We believe that EMPSA is able to create a single common ecosystem and help its members to develop and implement mobile payments projects across Europe.
“In Europe we all have the same goal – to increase the volume of electronic payments”, says Miroslav Vichev, CEO of BORICA AD.
We are looking forward to integrate BORICA AD as quickly as possible to our existing framework and work closely together based on our mutual goal, trust and cooperation.” Having a new strong and innovative partner in the South-eastern part of Europe greatly fosters our association’s common goal to offer interoperability to customers in even more regions of Europe.
BORICA AD decided to join and support this project.Īnton Stadelmann Chairman of EMPSA says: “We are very pleased in welcoming BORICA AD to the growing EMPSA family. The year 2021 is a crucial year for mobile payments in Europe, with EMSPA playing a key role to foster collaboration and international payment and build up a competitive interoperable European framework. EMPSA now consists of thirteen members with approx. European Association to foster collaboration in mobile payments is growingīulgaria’s “BORICA AD” join the European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA)ĮMPSA is pleased to welcome Bulgaria’s mobile payment system “BLINK” as a new member.
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