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Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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From what I've read, it appears that it's simply one time, transactions.
Surely, they couldn't be that short sighted. This means no "saving for payment information" on your favorite online store.
Also, it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account, which kind of makes me a bit nervous. I like fintech solutions and being able to create "one time use debit cards" or debit cards with a maximum balance and at the moment, I don't understand how wero will fill this gap.
... but I really hope I'm wrong or some fintech will "step up" and make wero a legitimate replacement for visa/master card.
Am I the only one who has never saved a credit card with random stores/companies?
Even non-random ones.
Just how many data breach does it get before we collectively realize it: as long as the pain of the breach is on us, corps will never really care about security.
Slam them with 10% of their yearly revenues on the first breach, and they'll start taking that seriously.
Nope not at all. I really like the "one time use" CC for those "random stores". There are really only two vendors that I "trust" with CC.
I also enjoy the "budget feature" for things like my isp bill (to prevent surprises). It's also great when going abroad, as you need to give a CC to reserve a room (... and those one time use cards won't work).
Now, I just want to find the same level of control with wero.