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Comment by tomComb

3 years ago

Except Interac is controlled by the big banks, for the big banks. To the best of my knowledge.

Interac is a company formed by the big banks in Canada to link all their networks and help insure we have uniformity. I believe it started as a way to standardize ATM machines and has grown to a bunch of other things and is largely why Canada was able to so quickly and completely adopt chip and pin and tap to pay literal decades before the US did.