Mojo ♻️Europe’s $24T breakup with Visa & Mastercard has begun. ECB’s Lagarde warns almost all EU card/mobile payments still run on non‑European rails, sending spending data outside the EU. Now EPI + EuroPA are launching Wero, a pan‑EU wallet for 130M users to pay cross‑border without US networks. A huge shift for payment sovereignty—and data privacy.
Stephen Collins@mojo @stufromoz can we have one in Australia? That said, any Australian company likely to do the work would cock it up somehow.
PonderStibbonsWe had it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankcard
"As a result of a declining cardholder base, falling transaction volumes and shrinking market share in relation to internationally accepted credit cards such as Visa and Mastercard, the card was withdrawn from use in 2006."
