Thanks to SIA's technological platforms, which boast the highest levels of reliability and performance, Enel X customers will be able to make mobile payments, even by smartphone, easily, quickly and securely.

With the support of SIA, Enel X Financial Services will manage many kinds of transactions, starting with those made to recharge electric cars in the Hubject circuit, the e-mobility joint venture involving the BMW Group, Bosch, EnBW, Enel X, Innogy, Mercedes Benz AG, Siemens and the Volkswagen Group and which boasts over 750 business partners and 250,000 interoperable charging stations all over the world.

Thanks to this agreement, Enel X Financial Services strengthens its presence in the digital payments market, with the goal of providing new and more innovative services, based on payment accounts, to individuals and businesses, like for example the option of paying bills, making bank transfers and direct debits, as well as making contactless transactions using the MasterCard circuit.

The partnership with SIA forms part of a wider program launched by Enel X to compete in the digital payments and financial services market through partnerships with leading ICT and Fintech players, and joins the recently signed agreement with the open banking platform Tink.

“Having an innovative and reliable partner like SIA will enable us to leverage on the huge Open Finance opportunities,” said Giulio Carone, CEO of Enel X Financial Services. “Thanks to this strategic partnership, we will be able to develop and offer our customers new payment and financial flow management services, starting with electric car recharging operations. This partnership is a further demonstration of the enormous potential offered by digitalization and by the opening of markets which will allow Enel X Financial Services to strengthen its leadership in financial services.”

“The strategic agreement with Enel X Financial Services takes on particular importance as it involves two Italian excellences, in their respective key sectors, which are making a significant contribution towards the payment digitalization process and are focusing on further strengthening their position on the international market,” commented Nicola Cordone, CEO of SIA. “Thanks to its technological infrastructures and its ability to develop innovative solutions, SIA continues to accompany the digital transformation of financial institutions, PAs and businesses which, thanks to the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) and open banking, have the chance to create new payment services for their customers.”