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February 25, 2025

Is Wero an ‘existential threat’ to Europe’s payments startups?

Backed by a consortium of 14 banks under the European Payments Initiative (EPI), France and Belgium, Wero is a digital wallet enabling consumer peer-to-peer transfers in under ten seconds


Tom Matsuda

4 min read

The past few years haven’t been kind to Europe’s payments startups. Faced with mounting compliance demands and rising interest rates, VC funding for the sector has collapsed from a peak of $10bn in 2021 to less than $2bn last year. 

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Tom Matsuda

Tom Matsuda is a fintech reporter at Sifted and writes our weekly fintech newsletter. Find him on X and LinkedIn

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