• BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info
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    18 hours ago

    I’m wondering how hard Poland will fight to keep BLIK. The largest bank PKO BP left European Payment Initiative at the time that Wero was supposed to be a competitor to the US card payment duopoly rather than PayPal.

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    22 hours ago

    American tech companies won because offered their products globaly and often localized. Many European companies concentrate on their domestic market (or say german speaking, french speaking markets) and don’t really care about smaller markets of smaller european countries.

    I hope Wero won’t go this way and become true paneuropean payment system.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Correct. Wero is basically iDeal and the main Dutch banks are part of the consortium pushing it.

      The Wero consortium prioritized expanding towards the broader European market first.

      Transitioning from iDeal to Wero in the Netherlands is a lesser priority.

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        1 day ago

        It’s pretty good and should be adopted eu-wide. That’s wero instead, and now or system is still incompatible.