{"id":160137,"date":"2019-09-04T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=254217"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:23:57","slug":"eu-payment-companies-target-cross-border-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/04\/eu-payment-companies-target-cross-border-access\/","title":{"rendered":"EU payment companies target cross-border access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tA group of European mobile payment system providers forged an alliance designed to enable their services to be accessed by customers roaming into other countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The European Mobile Payments Systems Association (EMPSA) comprises seven companies with a combined user base of close to 25 million, more than 1 million points of acceptance, and the backing of 350 banks which support the individual payment systems. It will be headquartered in Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Soren Mose, chairman of Sweden-based TWINT (pictured), heads the consortium, which also includes the Bancontact Payconiq Company in Belgium; Blucode (Germany and Austria); MobilePay (Finland and Denmark); SIBS (Portugal); Swish (Sweden); and VIPPS (Norway).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mose explained EMPSA members\u2019 customers want to be \u201cable to use the tried-and-tested\u201d mobile payment services internationally.<\/p>\n<p>EMPSA\u2019s medium-term goal is to \u201cmake it possible for users to use all the individual systems in each of the member countries\u201d, with a working group to explore technical issues around interoperability already established, TWINT stated.<\/p>\n<p>In a related statement, SIBS noted cross-border access to the mobile payment systems offers \u201ca major competitive advantage in the current scenario of digital economy\u2019s globalisation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of European mobile payment system providers forged an alliance designed to enable their &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/eu-payment-companies-target-cross-border-access\/\">EU payment companies target cross-border access<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/04\/eu-payment-companies-target-cross-border-access\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4022,2,4100,2419,1,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-FER","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160162,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160137\/revisions\/160162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}