Latest Payments Europe research on the Greek payments landscape reveals an evolving and increasingly digitalised market and provides insights into consumer and merchant preferences and priorities.

The European payments sector has gone through great changes in the past years. Today, there is wide choice and competition between providers and solutions, which illustrates that the market is functioning well.

Payments Europe hosted a private roundtable for members, friends of the association and industry experts from the European Institutions, to discuss the latest regulatory opportunities and challenges in the payments space. This timely event, just after the European elections and ahead of the new European Commission’s formation, saw valuable contributions from representatives of the incoming Hungarian Presidency, as well as representatives of the Polish and Italian permanent representations.

The digital payments industry urges the European Commission to clarify and confirm the exclusion of point-of-sale (“POS”) hardware from the requirements laid down in Article 11(1) of the new EU Regulation 2023/1542 on Batteries and Waste Batteries (‘the Regulation”).

I am writing you on behalf of Payments Europe, the association of card-based payment solutions providers. Payments Europe members are active in Europe and the UK, representing card issuers, card acquirers, and card schemes. Our mission is to promote the value that card-based payments bring to the economy and society. We strive for a vibrant, competitive, safe, and consumer-centric payments market, supported by a balanced regulatory framework.