I’m not the only one calling the wero a french-german solution.
Maybe it’s unifying a fragmented mess of systems?
There was an intention to do that in the beginning from the southern countries, but the French and German banks had clear stances that they wanted to do it from scratch and asked the banks with those solutions already implemented to basically throw out all of their implementation to do a separate one. As you suggested, interoperability between systems is what Spain, Portugal and Italy are looking for, since they already have their sort of the legwork done.
Anyway, I feel like you are being overly aggressive in regards to my initial stance, where I was right in my assessment on the technology’s development issues.
Like, I was excited and tried to see if my banks were supported, then I saw that no Spaniard bank was, I searched “Wero Bizum” and found the articles I linked you, then wrote my initial comment. It’s not a strong source per se, but I trust the factual information they have presented. I’m not against interoperability or unification of systems but against the unnecessary rewriting of ours when they work perfectly fine.
Thanks for taking the time. I know German banks can be very bossy with the EZB and all, but I don’t think it is to create a divide. I guess I misunderstood you, it sounded a bit as if you were being aggressive in your original post but I’m clearly in the wrong. I didn’t quite like the whole north-south divide sentiment, because other Nordic countries also have their own working systems and they’re also not on board with Wero from the beginning. I’m a huge fan of how Spain handles things lately and truly believe us Germans can learn a lot from you and I wasn’t aware of any north-south beef (except within Germany, lol).
I’ll read up a bit on the topic. You’ve piqued my interest! I’m still excited for a unified European solution and don’t really care who does it, as long as it’s good and safe.
Edit: apparently Wero has decided to cooperate with bizum because they must grow fast: German article this time
Thanks for that link, those are good news! Just like Spain is a multicultural country where interoperability between citizens is seen superior to unification, I feel the same with Europe. We should work together, each country bringing their strengths. If in the future Bizum and other country specific solutions disappear or are renamed I don’t really care as long as everything is done as efficiently as possible.
I’ll admit that I should have said french-german instead of northern Europe, in my defense the articles I linked only mentioned Spain, Portugal and Italy, but Netherlands had the same reaction as you said so that wasn’t a fair assessment.
The day I can use Bizum/Wero/??? to pay my groceries will be glorious. ❤️
Yeah, I read a bunch of articles and kept expanding the response, that’s why it’s so fragmented, sorry. They are in Spanish though.
https://marketing4ecommerce.net/asi-es-wero-el-bizum-de-discordia-que-llegara-en-2024-y-divide-a-los-bancos-del-centro-y-sur-de-europa/
https://www.eleconomista.es/banca-finanzas/noticias/13252404/03/25/bizum-y-la-francoalemana-wero-exploran-crear-el-gigante-europeo-de-pagos-expres.html
https://www.xataka.com/aplicaciones/no-llames-bizum-europeo-llamalo-wero-bancos-europeos-tienen-definido-su-plan-para-depender-visa-mastercard
https://www.xataka.com/empresas-y-economia/bizum-europeo-posible-sistemas-sur-europa-acercan-posiciones-wero-alternativa-franco-alemana
I’m not the only one calling the wero a french-german solution.
There was an intention to do that in the beginning from the southern countries, but the French and German banks had clear stances that they wanted to do it from scratch and asked the banks with those solutions already implemented to basically throw out all of their implementation to do a separate one. As you suggested, interoperability between systems is what Spain, Portugal and Italy are looking for, since they already have their sort of the legwork done.
Anyway, I feel like you are being overly aggressive in regards to my initial stance, where I was right in my assessment on the technology’s development issues.
Like, I was excited and tried to see if my banks were supported, then I saw that no Spaniard bank was, I searched “Wero Bizum” and found the articles I linked you, then wrote my initial comment. It’s not a strong source per se, but I trust the factual information they have presented. I’m not against interoperability or unification of systems but against the unnecessary rewriting of ours when they work perfectly fine.
Thanks for taking the time. I know German banks can be very bossy with the EZB and all, but I don’t think it is to create a divide. I guess I misunderstood you, it sounded a bit as if you were being aggressive in your original post but I’m clearly in the wrong. I didn’t quite like the whole north-south divide sentiment, because other Nordic countries also have their own working systems and they’re also not on board with Wero from the beginning. I’m a huge fan of how Spain handles things lately and truly believe us Germans can learn a lot from you and I wasn’t aware of any north-south beef (except within Germany, lol).
I’ll read up a bit on the topic. You’ve piqued my interest! I’m still excited for a unified European solution and don’t really care who does it, as long as it’s good and safe.
Edit: apparently Wero has decided to cooperate with bizum because they must grow fast: German article this time
Thanks for that link, those are good news! Just like Spain is a multicultural country where interoperability between citizens is seen superior to unification, I feel the same with Europe. We should work together, each country bringing their strengths. If in the future Bizum and other country specific solutions disappear or are renamed I don’t really care as long as everything is done as efficiently as possible.
I’ll admit that I should have said french-german instead of northern Europe, in my defense the articles I linked only mentioned Spain, Portugal and Italy, but Netherlands had the same reaction as you said so that wasn’t a fair assessment.
The day I can use Bizum/Wero/??? to pay my groceries will be glorious. ❤️