ACCEPTANCE & PROCESSING

Repayd and Nezasa partnered to bring travel-specific payment infrastructure to tour operators, integrating Repayd’s merchant account services into Nezasa’s TripBuilder booking platform. Through the partnership, tour operators using TripBuilder gain direct access to Repayd’s payment acceptance and settlement infrastructure without a separate integration. The tie-up highlights how vertical-specific acquiring continues to carve out share from generalist processors: travel remains a category where booking risk, currency exposure and chargeback patterns are distinctive enough that specialist merchant account providers can win business purely on underwriting expertise rather than price.

BNPL

Snappi extended its Pay Later service to Public stores in Greece, giving the technology and entertainment retailer’s customers an instalment option at checkout. The integration builds on a Pay Later product Snappi launched in November 2025, and has since signed more than 100 e-commerce merchants to the service. The rollout reflects a broader pattern among ECB-licensed neobanks in smaller European markets: rather than compete head-on with card issuers, they are using regulated banking status to underwrite point-of-sale instalment credit directly, bypassing the card schemes and dedicated BNPL specialists that dominate larger markets such as the UK and Germany.

EPC/SEPA

Volt will process instant deposits and payouts for Mitrade’s EU trading clients, replacing manual bank transfers with SEPA Instant-based account-to-account rails. Under the deal, Volt will route client deposits through a dedicated account so that funds settle in real time and reconcile automatically to the correct client, and will return withdrawals over the same closed-loop rails to the account that funded them. The approach removes the delay associated with traditional bank transfers for both funding and payouts. The partnership adds to a run of regulated brokers and trading platforms adopting instant, account-to-account rails in place of card- or transfer-based collection, as SEPA Instant coverage across the EU makes same-second settlement viable for use cases where reconciliation speed and traceability matter as much as the payment method itself.

MOBILE MONEY/WALLETS

BLIK enabled recurring payments for OpenAI subscriptions in Poland, extending its Recurring Payments service to ChatGPT Plus and other OpenAI products through Stripe. The integration runs on BLIK’s existing infrastructure partnership with Stripe, letting Polish users authorise a subscription once and have subsequent charges processed automatically through their banking app rather than re-approving each payment. BLIK Recurring Payments currently covers customers of eight Polish banks, including PKO Bank Polski, ING Bank Slaski and Alior Bank. The deal gives Stripe merchants a route to Poland’s dominant domestic wallet for subscription billing without a separate integration, and signals how quickly acceptance-side wallets are being wired into global AI-services checkout flows alongside cards.

EPI and Dutch banks agreed the roadmap for the next phase of migrating iDEAL to Wero, with all Dutch issuing banks due to connect to Wero infrastructure by October 2026. From that point, iDEAL transactions gradually shift onto Wero rails, though the payment experience stays the same for consumers, who continue paying via their own banking app. EPI is extending the phase’s planning beyond banks and PSPs to consumer organisations and merchant associations, and plans new Wero functionality, including a Purchase Protection feature, alongside the switch. iDEAL is the Netherlands’ dominant online payment method, so a bank-by-bank migration of this scale tests whether EPI’s sovereign wallet can take over an incumbent’s acceptance footprint without merchants or consumers noticing the difference.

OPEN BANKING

Domopay and Salt Edge launched Pay by Bank for rent collection in Italy, enabling rent payments through open banking. Domopay combines Salt Edge’s Pay by Bank technology with tenant screening tools, letting landlords receive account-to-account rent transfers that tenants authorise directly through their banking app rather than entering manual transfer details. Domopay is expanding its network of landlords across Italy, with further features planned for the second half of 2026. The launch illustrates pay-by-bank’s expansion beyond retail checkout into recurring, high-value flows such as rent, where account-to-account rails compete less with cards than with the manual-transfer habits they are designed to replace.