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[โ€“] Matth78@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please don't tag your posts as English when they are not. ๐Ÿซค

[โ€“] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Well, the title isโ€ฆ

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

Two of my banks already support it, and 3 more seem to be implementing it. I'm pumped to kick PayPal in the nuts. But I guess this will take forever, if even...

[โ€“] zgjavi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately, still early. AFAIK, 3/27 countries.

This is basically French and German banks trying to push their solution on countries that already have working systems. I don't expect using this very soon.