Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by dj0k3r on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:09AM (#46976717)

> Of course take their good parts.

I completely agree. Sadly UPI is now almost completely dependant on platform integrity ( google and apple).

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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by vee-kay on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:12AM (#47023810)

You need to research better before forming and sharing wrong opinions about world's most popular payments system: UPI.

UPI will work even without a smartphone, it will work on even with a basic feature phone, using USSD codes! That's called UPI 123PAY.

This feature allows rural populations, poor people, small merchants, etc., to send and receive UPI payments, even without a smartphone.

So UPI has no dependency on Google or Apple, it can work on any basic phone that supports USSD codes feature!

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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by SanjayMehta on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:41AM (#47046439)

A key patent on this is held by a friend of mine. He tried to monetise this tech way before operators were ready.

I forget what the company was called, m-pay or something like that.

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