• 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠
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    11 days ago

    iDEAL is Dutch only. WERO is made by (some of) the people behind iDEAL (amongst others), which is also why iDEAL is turning into WERO soon-ish.

    WERO is also just barely out of the womb and is slowly rolling out to a handful of countries first. The idea is that that rollout will grow to other countries after it settles a bit.

    BLIK and WERO operate in different “markets” because Poland pays with the Polish Złoty (PLN), whereas WERO focuses on the Euro. Polish banks were originally involved with the project however, but they withdrew in 2022 (back when the plan was still to setup a rival card network to VISA/MasterCard).