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Visa study: Consumers act more to prevent payment fraud

A Visa-commissioned forsa survey of 1,010 German adults (23 June–3 July 2026) finds growing consumer engagement with payment security and rising trust in mobile payments and AI assistants. Key results include increased customer communication from banks, widespread use of two-factor authentication and biometric methods, and high rates of account-monitoring after suspected fraud. Many respondents are open to delegating tasks to AI agents but want strict limits on their access to payment data. The survey highlights a mix of greater adoption of digital payment tools and persistent demand for control and data protection.

Wero still unknown to most Germans after two years

Wero, built by the European Payments Initiative (EPI) as a European alternative to PayPal, Mastercard and Visa, has seen limited consumer recognition and usage two years after its July 2024 launch. A representative Verivox/Innofact survey of 1,002 German adults in July 2026 found 39% correctly identified Wero as a payment service, 31% had never heard of it, 23% had heard the name but couldn't identify it, about 7% use it actively and 14% had linked a bank account. EPI reports 57 million registered users across Belgium, France and Germany (9 million in Germany), while PayPal reports roughly 35 million active German accounts. Wero expanded from phone-to-phone transfers to e-commerce payments in November 2025 and plans in-store rollout; growth is constrained by limited merchant acceptance, bank-based onboarding, AWS reliance and ongoing funding needs.