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and chaired by Søren Mose, the Chairman of the TWINT Board of Directors.

History and future plans

European Mobile Payment Systems Association was founded on 3 September 2019. In January 2022 EMPSA demonstrated a working system where test users of TWINT could pay in selected shops in Austria accepting Bluecode.Interoperability Production Test from EMPSA on Vimeo
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Members

EMPSA was founded by seven

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providers, including the three Scandinavian providers which at that time had more than half their population as users. Eight more providers have joined, making them 15; they are:

References

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