September 2023 - OPEN INTERNET PROJECT

26 September 2023
ACTUALITÉS

OIP extends its actions to sovereign online payment : Welcome to HiPay!

The Open Internet Project (OIP) is delighted to welcome HiPay, an online payment platform, as a new member! With this new membership, OIP extends its scope of intervention to a new issue, sovereign online payment.

Indeed, the diversification of OIP’s activities – thanks to the arrival of new members specializing in a variety of fields – means that it can defend European digital solutions on several fronts, especially those dominated by global players tempted to dismiss high-performance, innovative and sovereign alternative solutions, including now in the highly strategic field of payment.

HiPay is a global, multi-channel payment platform. As a regulated business, under the supervision of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR), the implementation of omnichannel payments, in a large number of countries and currencies, requires strong technological expertise as well as a strict organization at the service of its merchant customers and the security and fluidity of transactions.

By exploiting the power of payment data, HiPay contributes to the growth of its merchant customers and improves their success rate by giving them a 360° view of their business, providing them with the payment methods best suited to their activity (country, customer base, etc.) and actively combating fraud and risk.

As a recognized and fast-growing FinTech, HiPay aims to keep up with the growth and changes in global commerce.

« We need to multiply our actions to keep up the pressure against monopolistic companies abusing their dominant power. OIP was created at the time of the Google Shopping affair to fight collectively against the abuse of dominant position by the American giant. Since then, it has extended its actions to the Android affair, concerns linked to the sovereign cloud, neighboring rights, fair remuneration for the media, digital advertising, precautionary measures and more. With HiPay, we're opening up a new front on sovereign online payments that respect our data, a subject that is closely linked to all the battles we're waging for a healthy competitive environment! »

says Quentin Adam

President of the OIP and CEO of Clever Cloud.

« HiPay is delighted to join the OIP and is committed to transparency and fair competition on the Internet. The dangers of the Internet related to abuse of dominant positions, fraud and data opacity can also be found in the world of payment and financial transactions. Joining the OIP is a way of defending our sovereignty and that of our merchant customers! »

says Benjamin Jayet

President de HiPay

Contacts:

Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, Délégué Général : +33607315126 – l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Chargée de mission :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
+33 (0)1 53 45 91 91

19 September 2023
ACTUALITÉS

Google appeals to overturn antitrust fine at top EU court 13 years after the opening of the Google Shopping case: OIP recalls the imperative need to reduce the extreme length of legal procedures!

As Google’s appeal in the Google Shopping case opens this week before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, the European association Open Internet Project (OIP) recalls the importance of this historical case, which confirmed the principle that a digital player in a dominant position cannot favor its own services in a privileged way.

OIP once again regrets Google’s delaying tactics, which have led it to continue its anti-competitive practices, and reiterates its call for interim measures to be taken as soon as the litigious behavior becomes known, so that it can be brought to an end immediately.

As the EU court has confirmed, preferential treatment is a prohibited discriminatory practice, and condemned as so. OIP, along with all European digital players, has been calling on the regulator for the past ten years to fight these illegal practices strongly and swiftly against all tech players abusing their dominant position! Google’s appeal against the judgement shows that these tech giants have no intention of respecting the startup ecosystem, which can only exist with free, fair and undistorted competitive conditions.

« Google's latest attempt to have part of the decision cancelled illustrates a major structural problem for its rivals: European legal procedures take too long. As a reminder, the Google Shopping case was opened 13 years ago! »

says Quentin Adam

Président of the OIP et CEO of Clever Cloud.

Not only does this extreme length hinder the development of healthy market conditions for competitors, but European consumers are ultimately deprived of choice and alternatives. Let’s not forget: for these 13 long years, Google has continued to promote its price comparator, without any adequate solution being put in place until now. And many competitors are now dead and no longer around to witness the trial.

«The only effective legal tool for quickly interrupting anti-competitive practices is interim measures, and the OIP continues to campaign for a modification of one European regulation to make them effective!»

says Léonidas Kalogeropoulos

General Delegate of the OIP

Contacts:

Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, Délégué Général : +33607315126 – l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Chargée de mission :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
+33 (0)1 53 45 91 91