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Viva Wallet: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Viva Wallet, now trading as Viva.com, is a Greek fintech company and neobank for businesses. The service covers payment acceptance and business banking across several European countries. Merchants can take card payments through payment terminals or an app on an Android phone, and follow payments and statements in an online dashboard. It is delivered as a cloud service; there is no self-hosted option and the software is not open source.

The company is headquartered in Greece and is controlled by Viva Wallet Holdings, which holds the majority of the shares. The US bank JPMorgan Chase has held a minority stake since 2022. According to Wikipedia, Viva holds a payment institution licence under PSD2 and a banking licence through VivaBank, which is supervised by the Bank of Greece. A European organisation therefore deals with a provider under European financial supervision. The sources consulted do not state where customer data is processed, so this is worth confirming with the vendor.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026

Headquarters	GR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL (US)Technically measured
Category	Payments
Type	Product
Website	vivawallet.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Viva Wallet

The European alternatives to Viva Wallet come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Viva Wallet

Viva Wallet is headquartered in GR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Viva Wallet scores best on data residency.

Viva Wallet is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Viva Wallet together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Viva Wallet?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Viva Wallet include Adyen, Alma and Autopay. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Viva Wallet?

Our list of EU alternatives to Viva Wallet is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Viva Wallet GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Viva Wallet is headquartered in GR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Viva Wallet an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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