On 7 May 2020 Ingenico Group, Nets, Nexi, and Worldline announced the launch of an EU advocacy alliance bringing together Europe’s leading independent payment services providers. New advocacy alliance is called the European digital payments Industry Alliance (EDPIA). The organization will engage in policy debates improving the EU and world-wide payment sector by pushing instant, secure and fri...

...e to worry about raising prices on products just to offset payment processing costs. Merchants can use crypto payments to keep more profits and eliminate the middlemen. This is something that had previously been difficult to achieve in the era of digital payments. **More Market Alternatives** **Another reason cryptocurrency is needed by merchants is that it offers new competition.** Most ...