RBC, BMO agree to sell payment processing company Moneris for about $2 billion
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/rbc-bmo-agree-to-sell-payment-processing-company-moneris-for-about-2-billion/article_da9940db-0be9-5e19-b00d-cb59b2cb79f3.html
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ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social · 36 pts · 26d
Selling to American private equity. Fucking awesome.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 25d
When those banks, already making billions, want more so they sell to the Americans. Fucking disgusting.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
I'm writing to confirm that's awesome.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 26d
Elbows up? No. Elbows sold out.
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 26d
Elbows deep in American pockets.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 26d
We need to move away from visa and mastercard, and either join the EU’s new system or create our own. You know something like interact but for credit.
ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host · 10 pts · 25d
Tell that to the Government of British Columbia;
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
I would hate that for whatever service that is for, the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube. I host my own DNS via pihole, my own search engine via searXNG last night and this morning when my firewall was acting up I accidentally pinged 8.8.8.8 a few times rather than my normal 9.9.9.9. If cira had some easy to remember pinging address I would be using them instead.
ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host · 2 pts · 25d
It’s the provincial governments authentication service for Canadians, if you ever used GCKey it’s essentially the same thing but provincial opposed to federal.
It allows ease of access to things like medical records, tax records, license renewals and such.
Alberta has their own system similar to this.
Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.
Mine is accessible to Canadians at https://inv.halstead.host/, prohibited to the rest of the world so rate limiting isn’t a huge issue for me.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 24d
I sadly am on a iPad and iPhone, but I do use the app Unwatched that blocks youtube ads. I have tried setting up invidous but I some how always seem to mess it up The Google knows what I have watched on Youtube and that is it. I use pihole to block a lot of the tracking and I have my own email setup so that every time I need to hand out an email it is a new one. I was with hosthero but they have no wild card emails and I could not add A records, or it was very hard don’t remember or care, I am now with easyDNS and wish I started with them as they have everything I was looking for without CPannel!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 25d
Some frs were doing blockchain (CBDT) research at TD but I don't know how far that is. We're def not joining the EU's system if the Big 5 can't skim transaction fees.