EPI registers 5 new Belgian members

New rally for EPI (European Payments Initiative). The initiative has just announced that five new Belgian banks were coming to join. EPI thus continues its momentum and further strengthens its positions at European level, in order to achieve its sovereignty ambitions.

FACTS

• Five new Belgian banks have just joined EPI to offer Wero as a payment solution to their customers. These are:
  • Argenta,
  • Bank Van Breda,
  • Beobank,
  • Crelan,
  • Vdk bank.

• The latter are now preparing to deploy Wero. They will offer it to their customers in the first half of 2026 as an autonomous application or directly from their banking applications.

• Customers of these five banks can use Wero to:
  • repay a friend or send money to their family,
  • transfer money to a professional,
  • make immediate payments directly from their bank account for online or mobile purchases.

ISSUES

• A new major step for EPI The initiative states that the integration of these 5 new banks as members represents a new major step towards reaching a critical size for the deployment of its sovereign payment solution in Europe.

• Better cover the market : This announcement represents a way for EPI to expand its positioning without however winning a new country. Wero was already operating in Belgium via KBC, CBC, Belfius, BNP Paribas-Fortis, Fintro, HelloBank! and ING.

• Completing a digital transition For the newly partner banks, the entry as members in EPI and Wero's proposal to their customers represent a way to continue the digital transition of their services. Beobank also points out that the use of its mobile applications has increased by more than 300% in just five years and that the integration of Wero is a logical development.

PERSPECTIVE

• The pressure is now lower while EPI and EuroPA announced their association last June for guaranteeing sovereignty payments in Europe. But the challenge of proposing an interoperable model is still important and the joining up of new member banks represents an always significant step forward for the initiative.

• EPI is still gaining legitimacy today, and is further implementing its ambitions to impose an effective sovereign model for payments in Europe.

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