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[โ€“] Raugulas@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days 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.

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.

[โ€“] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My Dutch bank hasn't adpoted it yet. Still on iDEAL, which makes me sad.

[โ€“] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Het komt eraan. In BEL reeds actief. In 2025 is NL aan de beurt.

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ik heb het nog nooit in Belgiรซ gezien. Het is nog payconiq en bancontact. Maar blijkbaar in de toekomst wordt de backend van payconiq wero maar de naam niet of iets.

[โ€“] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

Ik zit bij KBC bank en daar zit WERO reeds embedded in de online betaalopties. Indien ik iets moet betalen via QR-code maakt het voor mij niks uit of dat via KBC, Payconiq of Wero is. De betaling gebeurt automatisch zonder dat ik mij dus iets van diverse platformen moet aantrekken. Bij andere BEL grootbanken is dat idem.

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.

[โ€“] faberyayo@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

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