Sounds more like you have some axe to grind
Re:European Alternatives
by sam_lowry_ on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:55AM
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Others joined quite recently, indeed.
Wikipedia gives an overview by year.
As for the axe, I have no personal interest.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I have been using Wero for a while in France and it works just fine and is completely free.
It's basically instant bank transfer without any fee or limitation on how many you can do.
I am not deep into this, but I heard multiple times that the choice of the pan-european payment system was largely political and technnically suboptimal. Old Europe pushed for the aging iDEAL against a much more advanced Blink, so Eastern European banks led by Poland left the consortium.
In the end, iDEAL rebranded as Wero was dead on arrival because a successful system needs to be supported by everyone.