Bye bye Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and many others. They can go and play “America First”. We’ll have our own independent system by november 2025.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A private company that is already enshittifying, to be precise. After years of gathering market share by being a zero commissions solution, lately they introduced commissions in some cases higher than what more consolidated payment solutions have.

    • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      This is what makes me hopeful with Wero being a government initiative, but it needs a serious push before it starts to become useful.

      • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Do we have any documentation about the origin of the infrastructure providers for Wero?

        • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          As far as I understand, it’s nothing more than bank-to-bank transfer, just made easy with links and QR codes instead of typing IBAN in your online banking.

          Wero is an account-to-account (A2A) solution, meaning that transfers will go through almost immediately once approved. It follows the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer protocol established by the European Payments Council in 2017.

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