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[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i don't understand why wero of all things is getting all this pr. every european country has it's own thing, and there's even an official international cooperation initiative. which wero is not part of.

[โ€“] dakoriki@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is EMPSA, EuroPA and EPI's Wero. It seems like EMPSA and EuroPA share some members between them and EuroPA and EPI are in a partnership. So kind of indirectly they are working together.

I think the reason Wero is getting attention is because its branded the same in all currently served countries/banks(?, I think), instead of just your banks/mobile apps being branded differently in each country but still being in an alliance on the backend.

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

the entire point of the empsa is building a network of compatible apps so that people don't have to switch. the bank alliance-backed payment apps have already mostly captured their respective national markets, and getting a new actor into that market is goung to take a huge amount of effort. empsa also has actors in fifteen countries, while wero is in three.