Comment by port11
17 days ago
I don’t see why they can’t just piggyback on existing, proven solutions such as Bancontact, Carte Bleu, etc., which are all based on a card running on its own network. If it’s app-based, we’re excluding quite some citizens from it.
Visa bought Carte Bleue in 2011. Yep.
The selling of sovereign infrastructure to foreign actors is a failure of regulation. I’m baffled as to why that was approved.
Nice... /s
I thought Carte Bleue no longer existed?
Some of these are 40+ years old.
It makes sense to build upon modern SEPA payment rails and focus on mobile wallets. Europe has always been on the forefront (Swish, Vipps, ...) and we have entire generations of consumers who barely if ever use plastic cards.