I don’t have the numbers, but it’s probably more relevant that italian UniCredit is acquiring Commerzbank (+Comdirect) which is second biggest German bank. HSBC’s (also UniCredit) revenue is one third of Commerzbank’s and a merger is planned. Commerzbank already announced wero so it will be interesting what UniCredit makes out of that situation.
IMO, this also marks the end of announcements of new banks joining Wero. Portuguese, spanish and italian banks will keep their national solutions and join ENP. Scandinavian banks will keep Mobile Pay and join ENP. Polish banks will likely keep BLIK and could reasonably join ENP. The remaining central european countries lack dominant national open banking solutions, which could be migrated and rebranded to Wero or which could join ENP. The most promising path for them to join is if the Erste Group or KBC Group introduce Wero, or if BLIK expands beyond Poland (and joins ENP). AFAIK the prospects of Wero in baltic countries aren’t any better.
I didn’t know that you want to read the whole report in the RSS-Reader. Unfortunately, very few news sites put the whole article into the RSS entry. For those who do, it’s automated and often fails and the text ends abruptly if the web site source includes non-text elements. I think this is sometimes also the case with DW. Some RSS readers have integrated web browser - maybe you could try that.
https://mastodon.social/@euobserver.rss
EDIT: Perhaps, https://masto.ai/@euractiv.rss could work better for you than https://www.euractiv.com/?feed=mcfeed?
Leaving Wero while retaining the payment technology would imply high rebranding costs. On the other hand, leaving ENP and blocking some interoperability partners bears almost no cost at all. So Spanish and Italian banks may easily leave ENP and give up interoperability in future once it doesn’t suit their strategic goals.