In brief: Worldpay/Global Payments to join EPI

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) takes another step in its deployment to Europe. This time, Worldpay (now Global Payments) joins the initiative to allow traders across Europe to accept Wero, a pan-European instant payment solution, thus strengthening the offer of sovereign alternatives to international payment solutions.

Worldpay/Global Payments thus becomes a senior member of EPI and integrates Wero into the payment offer for merchant customers in Europe. This new step should allow Wero, already operational for e-commerce in Belgium, to ensure its gradual deployment to other European markets throughout 2026.

Wero now has more than 52 million users, while its launch was in mid-2024 in Germany, France and Belgium.

For Global Payments, which was finalizing acquisition This integration with EPI in January 2026 is a way to broaden its European leadership and consolidate its offer. Its current position is interested, while according to figures advanced by Worldpay in the context of a study carried out in 2025, the global volume of A2A payments expected to reach USD 3.8 trillion by 2030.

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