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The problem is that most European schemes are country specific. As soon as you cross the border even to another European country, your options are pretty much c
by em500 1y ago
The problem is that most European schemes are country specific. As soon as you cross the border even to another European country, your options are pretty much cash or Visa/MasterCard.
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- riffraff 1y agoYeah, the ECB just published[0] the latest report on the digital euro which is supposed to solve this across the eurozone and seems potentially quite cool, but it'll be years before it's reality. 0: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/ecb.deprp202507.en.html https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/ec...
- BurningFrog 1y agoThere is nothing for the Euro zone?
- beng-nl 1y agoThere are maestro cards, bank cards that work very conveniently including with nfc, including with Apple Pay. Given that Apple Pay supports multiple kinds of cards.. my phone probably works almost anywhere..
- em500 1y agoMaestro is owned by Mastercard (and are now being phased out for explicitly Mastercard branded cards). So like I said, cross border options are basically cash or Visa/Mastercard.
- usrnm 1y agoSame as pix then?
- guhcampos 1y agoWe also have the same problem: technically, PIX is only inside our borders. The thing is our borders are huge! In practice, people have started to accept it in Portugal, Argentina, Uruguai and some other places where people tend to have accounts both in their countries of residence and Brazil.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoRussia is bigger and has its own system of instant payments SBP, which has now completely substituted Visa, Mastercard etc and has some presence in 8-9 other countries (depending on whether you count Abkhazia as a country or not) with 50 foreign banks supporting it.
- throw-the-towel 1y agoRussia is bigger in area but not in population.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoCan’t argue with that, but I was replying to a comment about area specifically :)
- vitorgrs 1y agoSome places in France also accept Pix! Also, Verifone PoS in the US will also accept Pix as well.
- rsolva 1y agoVipps now works across the Scandinavian countries, but I doubt it will be adopted by any other countries.