European Payments Initiative
🇪🇺 EuropeanBrussels payment company owned by European banks, behind Wero.
EPI Company SE is a European company under Belgian law, registered in Brussels under enterprise number 0755.811.726 and authorised by the National Bank of Belgium as a payment institution since February 2024. It runs Wero, an account-to-account wallet built on SEPA instant payments.
Its shareholders are 18 European banks and payment processors: BNP Paribas, BPCE, Crédit Agricole, Crédit Mutuel, La Banque Postale, Société Générale and Worldline from France; Deutsche Bank and the Sparkassen and Volksbanken groups from Germany; ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank from the Netherlands; Belfius and KBC from Belgium; Nexi from Italy; and Erste and Raiffeisen Bank International from Austria, which joined in June 2026. No shareholder is outside Europe.
In September 2026 EPI co-founded the European Network for Payments in Madrid with Bizum, Bancomat, MB WAY and Vipps MobilePay, as equal shareholders, to connect the national wallets for cross-border payments.
Location: Belgium