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- 24 June 2021
- Corporate
Wise Confirms Intention to Float on the London Stock Exchange

Following the announcement on 17 June 2021 of its expected intention to float, Wise today confirms its intention to undertake a direct listing.

- 15 March 2021
- Initiatives
IBAN not accepted? Report it here 👉 Accept My IBAN

IBAN discrimination has been against the law for 7 (seven!) years and it’s still something lots of people - and especially those living international lives - face way too often.

- 23 October 2020
- Statements and Blogs
Sending money home in times of COVID

COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in all our plans for 2020. The pandemic has hit budgets across the globe and that’s reflected in the amounts of money people send to their family and friends back home ...

- 16 September 2020
- Statements and Blogs
Wise announces its first direct access integration in the EU, gets settlement account with the Central Bank of Hungary

Wise has been granted direct access to Hungary’s payment infrastructure, a first in the European Union for the company. The Central Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, MNB) has provided the compa...

- 5 May 2020
- Statements and Blogs
Transparency comes to Europe, ish.

In January, we highlighted a new European regulation, CBPR2, because it was meant to lower fees for some payments in the EU. Since 15 December 2019, firms are required to charge the same for a paym...

- 8 April 2020
- Statements and Blogs
Europe paves the way for payments that work for everyone

Last week, the European Commission set out their ambitions for retail payments in Europe: making payments cheaper, faster, convenient and more transparent for consumers - a mission that the Wise te...

- 11 March 2020
- Statements and Blogs
IBAN discrimination: What to do if a company doesn’t accept your IBAN

In finance, it’s important to know your rights and what to do when they’ve been violated.

- 20 January 2020
- Statements and Blogs
CBPR2, whatcha-who?

New EU rules require all cross-border payments in euro in non-eurozone EEA countries to be priced the same as domestic payments. This regulation (the extension of the Cross-Border Payments Regulati...

- 29 March 2019
- Statements and Blogs
European Union announces transparency for online cross border payments

Every year, Europeans lose more than €12.5billion to hidden fees when they send or spend their money abroad. This is because providers have been hiding extra fees in the exchange rate, yet advertis...

- 26 November 2018
- Statements and Blogs
Fight for Transparency: An Open Letter from the Tech Community to the Politicians of Europe

We brought players from the tech community together and to collectively ask the European Council to support the Parliament's pioneering work.
- 19 November 2018
- Initiatives
MEPs vote for fairer finance in Europe

Last week, Wise took the Know What You Pay campaign to the streets outside Parliament. We were there to ask them to vote to support a regulation that would dramatically reduce costs for every Europ...

- 31 October 2018
- Statements and Blogs
Fairer currency conversion would save EU consumers €4 billion a year

On the 5th November, the European Parliament votes on a new law that could put an end to misleading currency conversion charges in the EU. The proposed law, the Cross-border Payments Regulation, wo...

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