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I really hope Fennoscandinavia will join soon. I asked my bank and got a standard reply (paraphrased) "We do not reply to request like this individually. If anything happens, we'll announce it on the website"
i mean we already have multiple national payment systems (like vipps, swish, and mobilepay) that are in the process of interlinking with eachother, and there are other eu-sanctioned digital payment systems also rolling out (like tips). wero is very early in its deployment. i would not be surprised if our banks are waiting until a clear winner emerges to jump on the single payment system.
I agree, but especially since MobilePay announced the cooperation with a Portuguese payment app as far as I remember a while back, I was hoping they would jump faster on the Wero train.
I would just prefer generally a system relying on standard SEPA transfers, like Wero, instead of having yet another national standard.
We already have vipps/mobilepay up here though, that is supported by all banks in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, and most stores with an online presence in the same and some offline stores.
Yeah, I'm aware, but I would hope for only needing one app across Europe, and not one for central Europe, one for northern Europe etc.
Also easier for tourists, as you can only set up Mobilepay if you have a bank account in one of the supportes countries and if your Google store location is set to that country.
What I ment to say with it, is that those are already better supported than this wero (more banks and stores) according to what the tracker says there is of wero support.
So shouldn't we rather hope vipps/mobilepay is the one that spreads to the rest of Europe?
Better supported is a matter of definition I'd say. Sure, Mobilepay is better supported by stores, but Wero is already now supported by more countries.
Wero is backed by a broad consortium of banks and aims to be a pan-european payment solution, while Mobilepay has been around for a while and seems to be content with staying mainly in the Nordics. Ideally Mobilepay would be compatible with Wero, but I feel that they are quite protective of their market share