Spain’s Bizum heads to the high street to take on Visa and Mastercard.

Spain’s payment app is making its biggest move yet, bringing account-to-account payments to the physical till and raising the stakes for US card giants.

What started as an interoperability experiment between Spanish banks has quietly become an ecosystem that has Brussels and New York paying close attention.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260509-spains-bizum-heads-to-the-high-street-to-take-on-visa-and-mastercard?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Banking #Bizum #Spain #Payments #Tech #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #Visa #Mastercard

Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

The European payment service Wero is available for online purchases.

At the beginning of October payment service Wero, launched by a European banking consortium, had announced that it would be available for online shopping in the fall.

Now, the PayPal alternative has been introduced as a payment option with a first retailer.

However, not all users can use Wero yet.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251106-the-european-payment-service-wero-is-available-for-online-purchases?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Wero #Payments #ECommerce #OnlineRetail #Eventim #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative #EPI #Europe #Banking

«Ein Vorbild ist die Smartphone 📱 -Bezahllösung #Twint aus der #Schweiz 🇨🇭 , die in der Alpenrepublik 🏞️ sehr populär ist.»

Wenn man sich unabhängiger von #Visa und #MasterCard machen möchte, dann verstehen ich, dass man bei Twint je nach Bank 🏦 nur noch mit Direktbelastung bezahlen kann

Europäisches Bezahlsystem "#Wero" startet | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Europaeisches-Bezahlsystem-Wero-startet-9785880.html #EPI #ElectronicCash #MobilePayment #EuropeanPaymentsInitiative