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Anyone that has tried it knows just how hard it is for pan-european payments across the 'single-market'. For some reason since we've been able to define common
by adamt 15y ago
Anyone that has tried it knows just how hard it is for pan-european payments across the 'single-market'. For some reason since we've been able to define common european legislation for the curvature of bananas(1), but not for stuff like payment transactions.
But this is what makes your offering from being a nice friendly API and "payments that don't suck" (which are largely just nice-to-haves) to something that is completely compelling and truly-enabling and revenue generating (e.g. opens up new markets)
The competitive landscape in Europe is also from the previous era. Anyone that had integrated with something like RBS Worldpay will which looks like it was hacked together in a bit of Perl(2) in 2000 and never changed.
Footnotes:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) rule 2257/94 states bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature
(2) I have nothing (that major!) against Perl, but it kinda summarises the kinda person and era that it was written in.