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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.
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.
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.
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.