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That's great for you, but most countries don't have Maestro so no luck in Sweden. And no, Mastercard does not work nearly as well.
by folmar 3y ago
That's great for you, but most countries don't have Maestro so no luck in Sweden. And no, Mastercard does not work nearly as well.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoI think Swedish banks issue MasterCard or Visa as their standard debit cards, so it seems to me that it should work (although I didn’t have reason to try it when I was there). See e.g.: https://www.swedbank.se/en/private/cards-and-payment/debit-card.html https://www.swedbank.se/en/private/cards-and-payment/debit-c... https://www.handelsbanken.se/en/personal/accounts-cards-and-payments/debit-and-credit-cards https://www.handelsbanken.se/en/personal/accounts-cards-and-... https://www.nordea.se/privat/produkter/kreditkort-bankkort/nordea-debit.html https://www.nordea.se/privat/produkter/kreditkort-bankkort/n...
- eddtests 3y agoThere's a big push on Swish which is a mobile banking app and only available to people with BankID - there are smaller places that are Swish-only which means you cannot pay with a card or cash but a Swedish-specific app. I am now with Handelsbanken so this issue is solved but when I first visited it was an issue! But regardless of those more niche issues, did you try joining a Gym before getting a Swedish card/personnummer?
- folmar 3y agoNordea -> issues Visa Electron. That is not the same as regular Visa! Swedbank -> issues Maestro, https://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort/bankkort/bankkort-maestro.html https://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort/bankkort/bankkort-maestr... (yes, the English page lists only a quarter of the available ones) Handelsbanken -> issues Maestro, scroll down a bit I was there a few year ago with both Mastercard and Visa in my pocket and the success rate was 60-70% for that combination (i.e. some one third of the places would not accept either). But steadily improving.