Industry Support for EAPS
“... the Eurosystem appreciates the work being done by the Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes to establish interoperability between the participating card schemes.”
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of Executive Board, European Central Bank
“Through EAPS we have been able to open up LINK’s UK cash machine network to cards from elsewhere in Europe. This allows us to offer the same nationwide access that in the past only UK cardholders have enjoyed to debit cardholders from other European countries.”
Edwin Schooling Latter, Managing Director of LINK
“The new partnership … improves the service offered to German debit card customers, and further increases the competitiveness of the interlinked card-schemes within EAPS.”
Bernd M. Fieseler, Executive Board Member, DSGV
“The opening of EAPS’ membership to individual organisations is a very important milestone for the European payments industry as it provides them with greater choice and control. The opening of EAPS to acquirers offers the opportunity for unprecedented acceptance of the increasing number of our girocard/EAPS cards, which are not co-branded. In addition to increasing acceptance from a broader card base, this development will allow them to benefit from very low net costs, low implementation effort and have the ability to offer a variety of card products to merchants.”
Ralf-Christoph Arnoldt, Head of Payments, German Association of Cooperative Banks
“The connection between SIA-SSB and CardProcess was straightforward and easy to achieve under the EAPS framework on our existing payments infrastructure. This is a first step in allowing Italian cards to be accepted in additional European countries. Through this achievement we are also paving the way for financial institutions wishing to issue EAPS cards in the future to expand the geographical acceptance of their products; the issuance and acceptance of EAPS cards by individual banks will also be facilitated by this development. Innovation is a core topic for SIA-SSB, as outlined by this new service, and we’ll continue to support every possible option to deliver solutions that can increase card usage in Europe.”
Nicola Cordone, Deputy General Manager of SIA-SSB
“We welcome the opportunity to serve Italian cardholders at German ATMs connected with our network, even if their cards are not cobranded. The number of EAPS transactions continues to increase and we are pleased to be associated with this positive development. Cooperating with EAPS also supports and facilitates our movement towards SEPA for cards.”
Axel Salzieder, Head of Division Product Management, CardProcess
