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[โ€“] 4 points 1 day ago* (10 children)

Wero again? It's a German and French solution, it will never spread to the rest of Europe. Digital Euro is a solution developed by EU.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Wero is part of the EPI (European Payments Initiative). It's going to be a network of all the digital payment apps, so you can use your own app all across Europe.

    The problem is that the Italian member is Bancomat, which literally nobody uses (Bancomat is a big company, but they issue debit cards; nobody uses their digital payments service).

    In Italy, the most used app is Satispay (which is very similar to Swedish Swish, Danish MobilePay, etc.). So I can't see this initiative taking traction in Italy at the moment.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Yes, the network will expand through integration but Wero itself will not be adapted by banks from other countries. I don't know why Wero is getting so much attention on lemmy. We can just as well talk about Polish Blik instead of Wero.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    It's in Belgium and the Netherlands already what are you talking about

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Yes, it's also in Belgium and Netherlands. That's it. Read about EPI and EuroPA. It was said so many times here already... People who think Wero is going to expand to other countries are simply uninformed.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 hours ago (1 child)

    That's the current state of the rollout. Wero is poised to expand to the rest of Europe as well. Source: my job.

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  • Interesting. What about this then?

    My understanding is that other countries have implemented different solution long time ago (Bizum, Blik and so on) and will not implement Wero. They agreed to integrate with Wero, meaning that Wero users will be able to send money to Bizum/Blik/other users but banks from other countries will not introduce Wero. Where are you getting your info from that they will? Any public sources about it?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 19 hours ago (3 children)

    Why do you prefer Digital Euro?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    I didn't say I prefer it. I said that digital Euro is a solution backed by EU. Wero is backed by French and German private banks. There are about 10 solution like Wero currently in EU, all backed by banks from different countries, and Wero is not going to replace any of them.

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