Fnac Darty starts testing Wero for Merchants on fnac.com, with a full launch set for early 2027

BNP Paribas brought Wero together with several large French corporates - Fnac Darty, Orange, Decathlon and Air France - at a press conference in Paris on 8 September 2026 to present Wero for Merchants, EPI's e-commerce acceptance product built on instant account-to-account transfers: the shopper pays from their own banking app without entering card or bank details, or from the Wero app itself. Fnac Darty said on 11 September that the solution is in an initial testing and learning phase on fnac.com, that it will roll out on fnac.com in early 2027, and that it will then extend gradually to its physical stores and to its other European markets.

The merchant leg is the part of Wero that actually competes with cards, and so far it has been carried by one flagship merchant at a time. Fnac Darty is France's largest specialist retailer for electronics and cultural goods, and a staged commitment that runs from an e-commerce test through physical stores to other European markets is the first published retailer plan for Wero that spans both channels and more than one country - the shape EPI needs if account-to-account acceptance is to move volume off Visa and Mastercard rails rather than sit beside them.

Whether the fnac.com launch holds to early 2027, which of Fnac Darty's other European markets follow and in what order, whether the in-store leg arrives with a terminal-side integration or only as a QR flow, and whether Orange, Decathlon and Air France put dates against their own rollouts.

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