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).

https://empsa.org/news/leading-european-mobile-payment-solutions-bancomat-bizum-and-mb-way-pioneer-interoperability-launching-first-instant-transactions/

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

So you want a monopoly?

[–] Jesus_666 16 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

is my instance (lemm.ee) being able to talk to yours (lemmy.ca) a monopoly?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] BroBot9000 -2 points 4 days ago

Yeah goes very much against the decentralization we stand for here.