Four years ago, large banks from across Europe joined together to build a new pan-European payments company capable of fighting back against US players such as Visa and Apple Pay.
The project, called the European Payments Initiative (EPI), was designed to bolster European financial sovereignty in the face of increasing dominance in the region by these US firms. Large European financial institutions, as EPI’s shareholders, would have ultimate control over the new company, potentially helping to safeguard the incumbents’ businesses in years to come.
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