iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name.

Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce.

I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

Afaik the system is being consolidated

https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/ideal-to-phase-into-wer...

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> I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro.

Not just the American card networks but also a threat to the US Dollar as the reserve currency and the power it gives to the USA

Hence why USA is unhappy with Brazil over their Pix system

I actually like Wero a lot as a name, sound like virtual euro to me.

I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.

> I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro

Wasn't the digital Euro specifically crippled due to banks lobbying against it to promote Wero instead?

I agree it's always fast and convenient! It doesn't have the buyer protection you get with a credit card (it debits from your account immediately), but for most purchases that is fine.