

Advanced International Affairs Certificate.Master of PSAA & Public Health (Collaborative).Master of PSAA & Education (Collaborative).Executive Master of Public Service & Administration.Master of Public Service & Administration.Master of International Affairs & Public Health (Combined).Bachelor’s/Master’s 5-Year (3+2) Program.Interested parties can sign up for the webinar here. The highlight of the webinar: the demonstration of the first live transaction between the Bluecode and Twint mobile payment solutions using the EMPSA platform. On February 22, EMPSA will be hosting a webinar that will explain the technical and legal underpinnings of the EMPSA network. Not just European banks will benefit from this innovation, but especially merchants and consumers,” concludes Pirkner.įirst cross-border live transaction: EMPSA webinar on February 22 “The interoperability of European payment systems will strengthen Europe as an economic power, because a sovereign and independent European payment system can react to pressure from overseas more resiliently and more agile.

Today, EMPSA consists of 14 mobile payment providers in 15 different markets, comprising more than 70 million consumers, more than one million merchants, and several hundred European banks. EMPSA was founded in 2019 by seven European mobile payment providers, with the goal to enable every European to use their domestic payment app anywhere in Europe. The goal of EMPSA is to connect European payment systems and make them interoperable in order to establish a comprehensive European mobile payment network. Additionally, Kim Kristoffersen (Mobile Pay) and René Hägeli (Twint) have been elected to the EMPSA board as representatives of their respective companies. After two years of intensive work, we are getting very close to achieving our vision: to give every European the option to pay with their domestic payment app wherever they are in Europe,” comments Pirkner. “I appreciate the trust that is given to me with this election, and I thank my colleagues for their support. He is the second chairman elected after Anton Stadelmann (Twint). Zurich, Febru– On Monday, January 31, Blue Code International AG CEO, Christian Pirkner, was elected Chairman of the European Mobile Payment Systems Association (EMPSA). As pan-European platform, EMPSA aims to enable interoperability between European payment systems to drive Europe’s innovation and sovereignty in the payment sector
