Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱May 15, 2025

Nice to see the EU-wide online payments system (WERO) is rolling out as planned. I didn't realise it was already available in France, Germany, and Belgium.

WERO is (in part) based off of iDEAL which is used for online payments in the Netherlands. It feels so antiquated whenever I have to use a website that still only accepts credit cards.

I also like how these EU solutions don't just involve handing out payments processing to middlemen tech companies like PayPal.

https://radar.avrotros.nl/artikel/ideal-verdwijnt-hoe-werkt-het-nieuwe-betalingssysteem-wero-61576

iDEAL verdwijnt: hoe werkt het nieuwe betalingssysteem Wero?

Bijna iedereen in Nederland gebruikt iDEAL voor online betalingen, maar dat bekende systeem gaat verdwijnen. In de loop van 2026 start de overgang naar Wero, een nieuw...

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Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱May 15, 2025

I still have bank accounts in Canada and I have to do banking there every so often. Every time I have to interact with a Canadian bank it feels like going back in time. It's so outdated!

And Interac email money transfers are literally the dumbest hack half-solution that could only be invented in Canada.

Some day I might get so pissed off dealing with a backwards Canadian bank that I make a video about it

The other week I had to cash A PAPER FUCKING CHEQUE in Canada. 🤣

Show threadLarryMay 15, 2025
@notjustbikes
My credit union will enter a deposit through the web interface if I take a picture of the cheque.
Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱
@quoidian Yes, I can do that in Canada, and it is still a dumb hack. Paper cheques should not exist.
May 15, 2025 at 11:53amWeb
Show threadLarryMay 15, 2025
@notjustbikes
There is a generation, now sadly passing, who consider bank statement reconciliation to be the punctuation on a month.
Show threadDaniel GnoutcheffMay 15, 2025
@quoidian You can still do that though? I like old-fashioned data-entry/reconciliation myself and I might keep doing it even if I moved to a country with EU-tier banking, but that doesn't mean everyone should be forced to do it that way.
Show threadLarryMay 15, 2025
@gnoutchd
One of my hats was of a bookkeeper. I still recall how, and how little fun it was to reconcile cheques and bank statements.