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Re:Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and ... by embedding-shape on Friday May 08, 2026 @07:38AM (#48061680)
Most European countries I frequent already have their own local equivalent to Pix. In Spain almost everyone has Bizum, and not uncommon for vendors at markets to accept it too, Sweden has Swish which is the same deal for the Swedes. I think this lists the most prominent ones that are in wide usage today already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Mobile_Payment_System...

Apparently, some of these already have interoperability between each other too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Alliance), happy to learn I can now send/receive money to/from my Portuguese brethren :)

Re:Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and ... by anthk on Friday May 08, 2026 @08:08AM (#48061922)
Since May the 5th most shops will begin integrating Bizum within their payments systems.

In Spanish:

https://cincodias.elpais.com/companias/2026-04-01/a-partir-d...

Re:Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and ... by embedding-shape on Friday May 08, 2026 @08:19AM (#48062020)
Since the Bizum became widespread, depending on the size of the business, some always did accept Bizum if you ask nicely :)
Re:Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and ... by brabel on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:04PM (#48066660)
Would be amazing for me to use Swish to pay for things in Brazil as if I had Pix! Could that work somehow?