UK banks kick off fundraising in bid to create new payments giant (news.sky.com)

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The UK Payments Delivery Company will this week launch a process to raise in the region of £50m to fund the development of a new domestic infrastructure player, Sky News learns.

Britain’s biggest banks will this week embark on a process to raise tens of millions of pounds to fund the development of a new payments infrastructure vehicle that could ultimately evolve into a domestic alternative to Mastercard and Visa.

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -1 points 1 day ago

There are like 5 countries using Wero. It's not and it will never be an EU wide solution, let alone cover countries outside EU.

[-] psyq@piefed.social 7 points 23 hours ago

We've had a comparable system to Wero in Switzerland for about a decade (called Twint) and the conglomerate who owns it already signaled they would enable cross-payment with Wero if Wero is interested, so I wouldn't rule out that it grows beyond the EU. Nothing concrete has been agreed so far, though, at least not publicly.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 points 22 hours ago

EuroPA (European Payment Alliance) agreed to cooperate with Wero last year. EuroPA represents Portugal, Spain, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Nordic countries and I think Romania. None of those countries will adapt Wero, they will work to make their systems compatible. Systems from outside EU can also be compatible with Wero but it's clear that other countries are not interested in implementing it directly.

[-] Word2vishnu@lemmus.org 15 points 1 day ago

Well, it doesn’t need to be. That’s the whole point. Instead of forcing 500 million users into a single app , EU is building the shared infrastructure on which ANY approved app can interoperate for free. And that I think is the best way to operate in the EU.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 22 hours ago

EU is building the shared infrastructure on which ANY approved app can interoperate for free

Is it? What infrastructure is that? AFAIK current solution are developed by private banks. EU is working on digital Euro but it's independent from other payment methods.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

They could add a few more with England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland....

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Wero is controlled by French and German banks. Other countries don't want to get involved. They prefer to build solutions they can control themselves.

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