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Comment by toomuchtodo

2 months ago

Europe (41 countries) has instant SEPA.

SEPA is a banking infrastructure layer and it is not consumer focused. Also, only ~60% of European banks adopted it. While Pix was mandatory for all banks to adopt and 80% of Brazilian population already used it.

  • All banks in Euro (currency) countries have adopted SEPA. You might be thinking of SEPA Instant Payments, which is more recent and adotopion isn't universal yet.

  • In Spain we have Bizum. You can send money to any phone number. It's instand and, as I understand, it works on top of SEPA.