EU businesses’ competitiveness impacted by current cards payments
landscape – a call for urgent action
Jul 8, 2024
📢 Ecommerce Europe, together with EACT – European Association of Corporate Treasurers, EuroCommerce, and Independent Retail Europe, united in expressing their concerns about the lack of competition in the European Payments landscape to the European Commission
💳 Together, we point to the dominant size and practices of large international card schemes and wallet providers. These practices hurt the Hashtag competitiveness of EU businesses, an impact that disproportionately affects smaller Hashtag merchants at a time when all efforts should be focused on tackling the cost of living issue of consumers.
📢 Together, we call on the new Commission to treat this issue as a Hashtag priority and take urgent action.
👇 Read more about our joint call for action here👇
Download the Open Letter here (pdf)
Florian Seikel
Managing Director
Tel. +49 162-2561001