The bill-sharing and expense app Splitwise is increasing its partnership with Tink, a Visa resolution, to roll out its Pay by Financial institution open banking characteristic throughout Europe. Following a profitable launch within the UK, the service will now be out there to Splitwise customers in France, Germany, and Austria.

The growth permits customers in these new markets to ship cash to family and friends immediately and securely from immediately throughout the Splitwise app, utilizing Tink’s open banking know-how.

Constructing on UK momentum

The European rollout builds on robust momentum from the partnership’s launch within the UK. Splitwise reported a 150 per cent enhance in Tink account checks and cost initiations (PIS) by its app thus far this yr.

Previous to the combination, customers settling money owed on Splitwise needed to exit the app and manually provoke a cost by their separate on-line banking app. With the brand new characteristic, customers can hyperlink their checking account immediately throughout the Splitwise app and full a cost in only a few clicks.

The transfer comes as open banking adoption continues to develop globally. The announcement cited analysis from Juniper Analysis, which discovered that the overall variety of open banking customers worldwide is predicted to succeed in over 645 million in 2029, a big enhance from 183 million in 2025.

A safer and direct consumer expertise

The Pay by Financial institution resolution is an account-to-account (A2A) cost technique that permits customers to authenticate and pay immediately from their checking account with out the necessity for handbook knowledge entry or a number of redirects.

Jonathan Bittner, chief government officer and co-founder of Splitwise, commented on the growth: “We delight ourselves in making the Splitwise consumer expertise as safe and direct as potential. With Tink’s open banking know-how, we’re in a position to do exactly that. And after the success of the partnership within the UK, I’m thrilled that we are able to deliver this characteristic to our customers in France, Germany, and Austria.”

Ian Morrin, head of funds at Tink, added: “Splitwise is a great tool for customers to take management of their funds, and a handy manner for customers to handle their cash and keep on prime of who owes who what. We’ve had a terrific response within the UK after partnering final yr, growing the variety of Tink account checks and PIS transactions on the app by 150% because the begin of this yr. We’re excited to construct on that working relationship with Splitwise by increasing into extra markets throughout Europe.”