The European Mobile Payment Association (EMPSA) consists of 16 members in 17 European Markets, representing more than 90 million users, more than one million merchants and hundreds of European Banks. Current members include: BAMCARD (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bankart (Slovenia), BANCOMAT (Italy), Bancontact Payconiq Company (Belgium), Bizum (Spain), BLIK (Poland), BORICA AD (Bulgaria), Bluecode (Austria and Germany), DIAS S.A. (Greece) iDEAL (Netherlands), MobilePay (Denmark and Finland), Plick (Italy), SIBS (Portugal), Swish (Sweden), TWINT (Switzerland) und Vipps (Norway).
So you want a monopoly?
Interop by means of a shared standard wouldn't require a monopoly. Heck, we already have SEPA direct deposit, all we really need is a user-friendly frontend for it.
is my instance (lemm.ee) being able to talk to yours (lemmy.ca) a monopoly?
More being able to send money to people in other countries
Edit: also, they usually have local monopolies in their own country, there is only one MB Way active in Portugal
Was that necessary?
We could really drop this one
I'm not even French, and just find this unnecessary. Talking shit about each other, especially in the current context, just seems counterproductive. There are ways to shit talk basically every European country. We probably have better things to do rather than diss each other.
Yeah goes very much against the decentralization we stand for here.