Visa and Mastercard will finally face some competition. Europe is building its own payment system that will launch in late 2026, when about 130 million people in 13 countries will be able to use it.
It integrates the Wero app with national services like Bizum in Spain, Bancomat in Italy, MB Way in Portugal, and Vipps and MobilePay in the Nordic countries.
The system transfers money instantly from one bank account to another using Europe’s fast payment network, so people can keep using their usual apps while a central link simplifies cross-border payments.
It starts with person-to-person payments in late 2026 and adds online and in-store payments in 2027. They want to cut costs and keep money and data inside Europe, and rely less on foreign card companies like Visa and Mastercard.
This will not replace Visa or Mastercard completely, as those cards will remain useful for travel and some shops, but it is a good alternative for Europeans to the usual payment processors.
Parque de Atracciones, La Lonja, las piscinas de la Almozara, el pelotazo de La Romareda, la noria que no funciona, el muñeco que se lo lleva el cierzo, el enigma de la Ciudad del Deporte, más de 100M€ sin ejecutar. Lo único que le funciona en este Ayuntamiento son los negocios.
Deseando ver a los progresía estatal pidiendo unidad a Bildu en Euskadi y Navarra, a ERC en Catalunya, al BNG en Galicia…
No se acuerdan de Aragón en su p*ta vida y vienen ahora a darnos lecciones,
Iros tod@s a cascala
Aquí todos son muy plurinacionales y federalistas hasta que lo tienen que aplicar fuera de Catalunya, EH y Galiza.
Luego que si la “España plurinacional” nos salva…te tienes que reir.
💬 | Callum Turner shares that he and @DUALIPA were reading the same book the night they first met (Via @thetimes)
“We sat next to each other and realised we were reading the same book, which is crazy. It’s called Trust (by Hernan Diaz) and I had just finished the first chapter and I told her and she looked at me and said, ‘I just finished the first chapter too.’ I said, ‘So we’re on the same page.’”