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Are you in Norway? Every Visa and Mastercard issued by Norwegian banks should have BankAxept too. So every time you use contactless it’s BankAxept and if your bank allows Tæpping in Vipps you can use it on your phone too.

Brazil and India already have their own systems which are up and running.

We’re calling it Super Money.

nah, all the US government has to do is ask Apple and Google to delist the wero app and it'll be cooked

digital sovereignty and mandatory locked down rectangles are fundamentally incompatible

Trump and data brokers will lash out if people just simply used cash.

Stop digital ids and age verification.

Seems like it's Wero again. Which is American-approved smartphone exclusive.

I don't see it as a replacement for Visa/Mastercard, only possibly Google/Apple pay and things like PayPal.

Sadly Vipps recently stopped working on degoogled android. :/

Norwegians and others affected by this should feel free to complain to them about that.

Norway is very lucky.

Availability depends on adoption. Europeans travel a lot, there's a strong incentive for it to be offered if the demand is there.

Having lived in several countries in Europe, I can tell you the entire Multibanco system in Portugal (on top of which MBWay is one of the products) is far more complete and has been in place for far longer than anything I've seen elsewhere.

Most countries have far more basic systems (for example, you can check your bank account movements and pay your bills in Portuguese ATMs, but not usually in other countries) and some countries in Europe (such as Britain) don't even have their own payment and ATM system and rely on VISA and/or Mastercard.

Then again the entire Multibanco infrastructure was setup by the government forcing banks to come together, agree on a standard for digital transfers and payments and to setup and pay for a company that does it (called SIBS), so of course all this happened way back in the 80s and wouldn't happen under more recent, neoliberal, governments.

The EU digital currency act is fully private and backed by the EU. They won’t be able to see what you buy so you can buy as many embarrassing things as you’d like :3

It's in Belgium and the Netherlands already what are you talking about

Wero is part of the EPI (European Payments Initiative). It's going to be a network of all the digital payment apps, so you can use your own app all across Europe.

The problem is that the Italian member is Bancomat, which literally nobody uses (Bancomat is a big company, but they issue debit cards; nobody uses their digital payments service).

In Italy, the most used app is Satispay (which is very similar to Swedish Swish, Danish MobilePay, etc.). So I can't see this initiative taking traction in Italy at the moment.

Wero is based on SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, which only covers countries in Europe. In order to use Wero, your bank (in a SEPA country) has to explicitly support it (not all of them do; I have checking accounts with 3 banks and only one of them has announced plans to support it). And to use it when shopping, the merchant also has to support it.

Apparently there are plans to link European and Canadian payment systems. But no way the US will do this.

Unfortunately it's actually not even a replacement for either of those, only for Google/Apple pay realistically, since you'll need to use a smartphone like with those. Either an iPhone, or a google-approved Android phone. So no luck I'm afraid.

Americans should support trade unions and cooperatives.