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Malta – 13 August 2026 –  finby, a European payment service provider and acquirer, announced the deployment of Wero, the pan-European digital payment solution , for its e-commerce merchants. 

By integrating Wero into its payment offering, finby enables merchants to access a modern account-to-account payment solution designed specifically for the European market. Developed by the European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero is backed by 18 leading European banks and payment providers, with over 50 financial institutions participating in the initiative. Wero already serves more than 57 million users across Belgium, France, and Germany and is has started to expand into e-commerce payments. Built on instant account-to-account transfers, the solution allows consumers to pay directly from their bank accounts in a seamless, secure, and efficient way, while helping simplify online transactions for both merchants and consumers. 

The deployment marks another important milestone in finby’s commitment to delivering innovative and locally relevant payment methods that support merchants across Europe. 

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David Rintel

CEO of finby

As part of its long-term strategy focused on local payment methods and cross-border commerce, finby continues to expand its portfolio with payment solutions that enhance customer experience and help merchants grow internationally. 

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David Rintel

CEO of finby

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Martina Weimert

CEO of the European Payments Initiative

About finby 

Founded in 2009, finby is a trusted partner for online businesses navigating cross-border payments, with a strong focus on the European market. With over a decade of experience, finby specializes in acquiring services and local payment methods tailored to regional needs, helping merchants scale across Europe through secure, flexible, and efficient payment solutions. 

For more information, visit: www.finby.com 

Bonn, 9 July 2026 | norisbank is expanding its offering. The European payment app Wero is now available to norisbank customers, allowing them to send and receive money in real time to and from family and friends, as well as and paying conveniently in participating online shops — securely, quickly and entirely digitally. The app works without entering long IBANs or BICs and is as easy to use as sending a message from a smartphone. 

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Maik Wennrich

Chairman of the Management Board of norisbank GmbH

European payment standards are developing rapidly. With Wero, norisbank is an early adopter  that combines security, efficiency and digital sovereignty. Wennrich adds: “For our customers, this means transparent processes, instant transactions and another innovative feature in norisbank’s digital current account.” 

Wero continues to grow — more features to come 

Wero is a digital payment solution launched inJuly 2024. It is operated by the European Payments Initiative (EPI), a body backed by an alliance of 18 major European banks and payment service providers. Wero enables customers to make instant transfers without entering an IBAN or BIC, as well as future retail transactions. Wero’s goal is to establish a unified mobile payment solution and a sovereign digital wallet for all of Europe. 

Wero is expanding rapidly: Since autumn 2025, it has been possible to pay for goods and services with Wero ay participating online merchants, and future plans include the management of recurring payments – for example for subscriptions – as well as point-of-sale payments at brick-and-mortar retail stores. Additional value-added services are also in preparation, such as “Buy Now, Pay Later”, the integration of merchant loyalty programmes and functions for managing shared expenses. 

The app is linked directly to the customer’s norisbank current account. Amounts are debited or credited immediately with no need for prior top-up. In future, Wero will also be integrated into the norisbank app to make digital payments even easier. 

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Maik Wennrich

Chairman of the Management Board of norisbank GmbH

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Martina Weimert

CEO of the European Payments Initiative

About norisbank 

Norisbank, a company of the Deutsche Bank Group, is a modern direct bank available to its customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It offers customers products and services of award-winning quality at consistently attractive conditions. In addition to its core offerings, including the powerful “Top-Girokonto” current account from 0 euros with a matching credit or debit card, attractive overnight money offerings and the individual “Top-Kredit” loan, norisbank provides customers with a broad range of services of recognised quality at excellent conditions. 

 norisbank has received numerous awards in recent years for its customer-oriented, high-performance offerings. Among other distinctions, the norisbank Top-Girokonto current account ranked first in €uro’s major current account comparison in 2026. In 2025, Focus Money also named norisbank “Germany’s best direct bank” based on a nationwide test. Many other awards further confirm norisbank’s top quality and outstanding value for money: https://www.norisbank.de/ueber-uns/norisbank/auszeichnungen.html 

With many Belgians now choosing their banking app to make payments, Crelan is integrating Wero into its digital service. 

 The popularity of digital payments is growing fast among Belgian consumers. Today, to respond to this transition, Crelan will step ahead by integrating Wero technology into its mobile app. While customers could already use QR codes to complete certain payments, they will now have direct access to Wero features through Crelan Mobile. With these, they can make payments to individuals, generate personal QR codes for a payment request, and make online purchases. Thanks to this integration, they enjoy a smoother payment experience in line with a future European standard for digital payments. 

Banking apps are gaining ground among consumers 

According to The Future of Payments 2026 – Consumer Perspectives study, conducted by Profacts between 15 January and 4 February 2026 among 1,505 Belgian consumers, banking apps are today’s preferred method of payment for transactions between friends and family. 

The study also shows that security, ease of use, and protection of privacy remain the main criteria for choosing a payment method. Plus, payments by QR code are among the most popular features within banking apps. 

These results mark a clear trend: consumers favour payment solutions that are simple, secure, and integrated within their usual banking environment. 

Wero now directly integrated in the Crelan app 

 In order to offer its customers an efficient and user-friendly payment experience, Crelan is integrating Wero features directly within the Crelan Mobile app. Wero is a European payment solution developed as part of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), which facilitates the making of easy, fast, and secure payments directly between bank accounts. 

From now on, customers can send and receive money using QR codes and payment links from the Crelan app, without needing to download or install an additional app. Thanks to this integration, the entire user experience remains in Crelan’s familiar digital environment, with the same simplicity, security, and user convenience that customers are used to. Wero also aims to become a European benchmark in digital payments. 

Wero’s integration within Crelan will grow 

Crelan will continue the progressive integration of Wero within its mobile app. Other Wero features will therefore be added step by step to enhance the bank’s digital solutions. 

This means that customers will be able to benefit from new payment opportunities directly through Crelan’s digital channels. 

Crelan will naturally communicate such developments and new integrations once they are available to customers. 

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Christian Steeno

Director Commercial Policy & Market Strategy

Vigilance against fraud attempts 

Crelan would like to take this opportunity to remind customers that they will never receive a request asking them to install an additional app or to communicate personal details or banking information as part of these new features. 

As with any innovation in technology, the bank asks its customers to be alert to potential phishing attempts. In case of any doubt, Crelan recommends using only the bank’s official communication channels. 

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Brussels / Neckarsulm – 24 July 2026  Starting with Germany before deploying in Belgium and France, LIDL has chosen Wero as their new payment solution, available online and later in the year for in-store payments.

 

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) and Lidl today unveil the integration of Wero, starting with online purchases on Lidl.de, from July 2026. This important partnership marks a significant milestone in expanding Wero's acceptance network and demonstrates growing confidence among Europe's leading retailers in the power of a sovereign European payment solution.

A European Payment Solution for European Consumers

With Wero, Lidl.de customers will now benefit from a simple, secure, and fast account-to-account payment experience designed to streamline online shopping. Wero enables consumers to pay directly from their familiar banking environment with just a tap on their phone, completing transactions in seconds with end-to-end security.  

Supported by 18 European banks and payment service providers, Wero currently serves more than 57 million users across Europe. By integrating Wero into Lidl.de, one of Europe's largest e-commerce platforms, the two organizations are partnering to enhance consumer choice and strengthen European payment sovereignty. 

Following the successful launch in Germany, Lidl and EPI are planning to expand Wero acceptance in the online shops of Belgium and France later this year. 

Strategic Partnership Strengthens European Payments Ecosystem

As EPI's merchant partner, Lidl reinforces its commitment to offering its customers with a payment solution that combines simplicity, security, while contributing to greater European financial independence, through Wero. This partnership underscores Lidl's dedication to innovation and its ambition to expand payment choice for European consumers.

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Nicola Bracht

Head of Schwarz Payment Solutions

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Iryna Agieieva

Director of Product Management at Mollie

Airwallex activated its Wero merchant payment integration in the week of July 17, 2026. Merchants on the Airwallex platform can now offer Wero as a checkout option in Germany, Belgium, and France.

The integration connects Airwallex's global merchant base to Wero's 55 million registered users across Europe. Airwallex joined EPI as a Principal Member in November 2025, becoming the first major Asia-Pacific-headquartered PSP to join the initiative.

Full cross-border interoperability across all Wero markets is expected by 2027.

Viva.com, the first Tech Bank in Europe for businesses, has added Wero to its payments and banking platform. The integration launches across Belgium, France, Germany, with more countries coming soon, in line with Wero's broader European expansion roadmap. 
 
The move reinforces Viva.com's position as a pan-European critical banking infrastructure across 29 markets - connecting directly to domestic card schemes, and payment systems across Europe, unifying the fragmented payments landscape, and combining scale with local depth.  
Developed by the European Payments Initiative (EPI), the Wero digital wallet enables instant account-to-account transfers in under 10 seconds. With a user base exceeding 57 million across Europe to date, Wero is establishing itself as a bank-native alternative to traditional payment methods, including card schemes. 
Direct connectivity to local schemes and payment systems has always been central to Viva.com’s European strategy. By bringing payments, banking and financing together on a single platform, we enable businesses to operate across Europe through one integration, while meeting the local requirements of each market. Wero further strengthens this proposition by adding this important emerging European account-to-account payment method to our platform.
Stefan Waterdrinker
Senior VP Strategy of Viva.com
Wero joins more than 40 payment methods available through Viva.com's omnichannel payment acceptance platform, giving merchants a more complete checkout across their markets. Its addition further strengthens Viva.com’s role as pan-European critical banking infrastructure for payments and banking services, connecting businesses directly to the payment methods that matter most in each market. Viva.com also plans to support Wero's expansion into NFC-based in-store acceptance as that capability rolls out. 
We welcome Viva.com as an EPI member, which will help to speed up the deployment of Wero in ecommerce and later on in physical shops across Europe. Viva.com will enable its wide pool of merchants to activate Wero as a payment method for their final customers, which brings us one step closer towards our ambition to deliver a payment ecosystem made for Europeans, by Europeans.
Martina Weimert
CEO of EPI
About Viva.com
Viva.com is the first Tech Bank in Europe for businesses, serving 29 countries through its pan-European critical infrastructure for payments & banking services.  
Viva.com’s offering spans across omnichannel payment acceptance, deposit accounts, card issuing, and a broad suite of financing solutions - including working capital and advance booking financing - alongside fiscalisation services, giving businesses across all verticals access to the tools they need to run their operations efficiently, on a single integrated platform. 
om pioneered and leads in Tap on Any Device technology, enabling acceptance on any Android device or iPhone, while connecting directly to all major international and local card schemes, local payment systems, and alternative payment methods across Europe. 

Supporting the European Idea: Decathlon activates the new European payment solution Wero on decathlon.de on July xx, 2026, strengthening the European economy.

Wide Variety of Payment Methods: As a technologically innovative company, Decathlon expands its portfolio of secure payment options to ensure an optimal customer experience.

Launch in Germany: The German market acts as the first country within the Decathlon Group to implement the digital solution.

 
Plochingen – 21 July 2026  - The sports equipment manufacturer and retailer Decathlon is sending a clear signal for European cooperation and technological innovation: On July 21, 2026, the company will officially integrate the new, unified European payment solution Wero into its German online shop at decathlon.de. This makes Decathlon one of the first major partners in German retail to offer this system. Within the international Decathlon Group, the German market is taking a pioneering role in the rollout.
 
Wero was developed by European Payments Initiative (EPI) - a consortium of 18 leading European banks and payment service providers - and is based on a direct account-to-account payment in real time. Transactions are processed securely within a few seconds. According to recent surveys by the Bundesbank, nearly 60 percent of respondents favor an independent European payment system. Since Wero is a European initiative, Decathlon supports the project out of deep conviction to promote healthy competition in payment transactions and strengthen digital autonomy.
As a technologically innovative company, our aim is to offer our customers a wide variety of modern and secure payment methods. Wero fits perfectly into this philosophy. Since this is a European initiative, we fully support this solution. For athletes, the practical benefit is at the forefront: Wero enables convenient approval directly via the user's familiar banking app without having to store sensitive card data with the merchant. By linking it to our membership program introduced at the beginning of the year, we also offer real added value with every purchase.
Patrick Müller
Chief Digital & Chief Marketing Officer of Decathlon Germany

Amsterdam, 16 July 2026 – Following the successful first step of the iDEAL to Wero migration, the European Payments Initiative (EPI), Dutch banks – including ABN Amro, ING, Rabobank - and Dutch Payment Service Providers - including Adyen, Buckaroo, CM.com, Mollie, Online Payment Platform, Pay.nl and PPRO- have jointly agreed on the roadmap for the next major phase of the transition to Wero. Building on the positive results achieved since the introduction of the iDEAL | Wero co-branding earlier this year, this next phase will be delivered through close collaboration across the payments ecosystem – including associations such as Thuiswinkel.org, eCommerce Europe and Payments Association - ensuring a predictable and carefully managed migration for all parties involved.
 
A growing number of transactions, both C2C and e-Commerce, are already processed through Wero’s platform, confirming that the new infrastructure is operating smoothly, providing the same seamless experience that consumers know from iDEAL, while progressively expanding the reach and scope of Wero. This enables merchants and payment service providers to continue the migration without compromising the payment experience consumers expect from iDEAL, while paving the way for the next phase of implementation.
In October 2026, all Dutch issuing banks will be connected to Wero and ready for the next phase of the migration. From that point onwards, iDEAL payments will gradually transition to the Wero infrastructure. For consumers, the online payment experience will remain largely unchanged, as they will continue to pay through their own bank. Behind the scenes, however, the European payments infrastructure will continue to expand, strengthening Europe's sovereignty in digital payments.
Over the past few weeks, EPI, Dutch banks and payment service providers have worked together to finalize the operational framework for this next phase. As the migration progresses, EPI will broaden this collaborative approach by engaging with consumer organizations and merchant associations to support the introduction of the next generation of Wero functionalities - including Purchase Protection - and ensure that the implementation of the next phase delivers value for consumers, businesses and across the European payments landscape. 
Dutch banks and Payment Service Providers will collectively introduce Purchase Protection, with the objective of achieving full coverage by 1 January of 2028. This phased implementation gives the ecosystem the necessary time to implement the required operational processes in a controlled and predictable manner.

BGL BNP Paribas, Bil, Banque Raiffeisen and Spuerkeess began rolling out Wero to Luxembourg customers at the end of June 2026. Luxembourg is the fourth European market for the EPI-backed payment wallet, after Germany, France and Belgium.

Luxembourg customers gain access to person-to-person transfers, QR code-based in-store payments and e-commerce payments from launch. The phaseout of Payconiq follows, with the brand scheduled for full replacement by September 2026.

Wero now serves 55 million users across its active markets.

https://clearingpost.com/insights/wero-desk-luxembourg-wero-launch-four-banks/?from=news

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At a time when global geopolitics is reshaping our economy, Europe faces a crucial question: do we have the right tools to regain control of our payments? 

Despite national champions like CB in France, payments in many European countries remain largely dependent on solutions and infrastructure controlled by international players. With Wero, we are promoting an alternative finally conceived at the European level.