Visa-only Games highlights Europe's payments headache

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/other/visa-only-games-highlights-europe-s-payments-headache/ar-AA1Wr5rh

Anyone trying to buy a souvenir at the official Olympic stores at the Milano Cortina Games will have been exposed to an issue troubling Europe's policymakers: the dominance of foreign payment providers and the fading role of cash.

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greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org · 19 pts · 211d

Well, its good that people aren't able to give the corruption machine money

WERO can't happen fast enough, however. No longer should the US fiscal sector cream 2% off of european transactions.

smeg@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 211d (1 reply)

Wero now, please. I like iDeal and would love that to be more normal. I don't like Visa or Mastercard, and don't think credit purchasing should be normal.

NorskSud@lemmy.pt · 3 pts · 210d

I saw a post on LinkedIn of someone claiming that it should be easy for the European Banks to develop a common brand, Wero for instance, for debit cards. Europeans love debit anyway, so that would be great.

Develop a credit card system would be more complicated and costly, he argued. He knew about the technicalities of the issue..

I would love a Wero debit card.

bufalo1973@piefed.social · 6 pts · 210d

I wish eEuro and the EU bank alliance (Were, Bizum, ...) were already operating.