The European payments market, mapped.
Acquirers, PSPs, terminal makers and schemes across 22 markets: who deploys whose hardware, at what share, and what changed this week.
Who deploys whose hardware across 22 markets, and what changed this week.
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Overview
Five national payment schemes incorporate the European Network for Payments in Madrid
Until now the European answer to Visa and Mastercard has been a set of strong domestic schemes that stop at their own borders, and Wero has been the only one trying to cross them. A jointly owned operating company with equal shares turns five bilateral ambitions into one piece of infrastructure with a budget, a seat of incorporation and a work plan, which is the step the 2024 European Payments Alliance letters of intent never reached. For acquirers and PSPs it signals that account-to-account acceptance will eventually arrive as one interface rather than thirteen, and for the card schemes it is the first structure capable of carrying a cross-border domestic alternative at the point of sale.
News
Dated news from European acquiring, scored and sourced.
Maker presence
Providers per maker; the strongest cell is the most listed
DE18
UK18
FR16
IT13
ES12
PT12
TR12155 companies · 205 terminals · 22 markets · Data as of 20 October
- Companies
- 155
- Terminals
- 205
- Markets
- 22
Data as of 20 October
Built by industry insiders from Concardis, Nets, Nexi and Ingenico.
Sourced from the ECB, national central banks, statutes, company filings and manufacturer datasheets.
The market, mapped as relationships.
PayLens shows how the market connects: who acquires for whom, whose hardware sits behind which brand, and who just moved.
European payments news
What moves card acceptance in Europe, day by day: acquirers, terminals, schemes and regulation, each development summarised with its source.
RevolutGoogle Cloud London power failure takes card and contactless payments offline at UK banks
ProductCheckout.comCheckout.com enters in-person acceptance across the UK and EEA with Mollie supplying the hardware side
ProductFiservFiserv opens Commerce Hub to enterprise merchants worldwide as a single connection for acquiring and local payment methods
RegulatoryAppleUK CMA proposes forcing Apple to open iPhone NFC to rival wallets on FRAND termsFour views of the European payments market
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News monitoring
Every development, by day, country and topic, each with its source.
Competitor tracking
New terminals, products, pricing and market entries, with share and momentum.
Market data
POS terminal base, growth and competitive structure across markets.
People & orgs
Who runs what, and who just moved, across the tracked providers.
Tracked worldwide, focused on Europe.
The terminal on a Berlin counter can carry a Dutch brand and come from a factory in Shenzhen. PayLens follows that whole chain.
Built for teams that compete in European payments.
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- Sales
- Competitor moves and the right contacts before every call.
- Product
- Launches and market trends, always in view.
- Strategy
- Where share is shifting, and how fast.
- Marketing
- Topics and competitor messaging at a glance.
- Management
- The market on one screen, without commissioning research.
- Views by role
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Every figure has a source.
Its as-of date
20 Oct 2026