Smaller on the map, bigger on the heart and much older nation and state. Portugal nunca será Espanha.

You’re welcome. This is the most complete catalog I’ve seen so far and it’s easy to send suggestions.

Parkside has serious quality, in general Lidl products have unbeatable quality/price ratios.

Well established in its markets only.

Interpretability is great but I wonder if these national systems that don’t intended to simply merge into Wero will have use some branding that makes it obvious that they are compatible…

It makes those payments much simpler. You don’t want to give or get a full IBAN everytime you pay at a shop.

Ethics is not the main concern here, but financial sovereignty. The ethics of US banks depends in big deal on whoever occupies the White House and their domination of digital payments can easily be used against us. So yeah, plenty to celebrate from getting our own digital payment alternative.

Some of those banks are cooperatives themselves. Anyway, the alternative is to continue totally dependent on US finance companies, so there’s that.

Well this is basically a cooperative of banks, does that count?

SIBS from Portugal has a total monopoly in the country as all banks are in it.