La piattaforma di pagamento europea Wero, il principale concorrente di PayPal degli Stati Uniti e di altri fornitori di servizi di pagamento, ha raggiunto un record di 30 milioni di utenti all’inizio del 2025
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La piattaforma di pagamento europea Wero, il principale concorrente di PayPal degli Stati Uniti e di altri fornitori di servizi di pagamento, ha raggiunto un record di 30 milioni di utenti all’inizio del 2025
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That puts a smile on my face.
Wero is another EU succces
it was supported by the European Comission in its early development, and is backed by 16 major banks all over Europe
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment))
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Initiative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Initiative)
it was intended to replace gradually all national payment providers such as Giropay in Germany, [Payconiq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payconiq) in Belgium and Luxembourg and [iDEAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL) in the Netherlands
as a side effect it is also an effective competitor to Paypal, since it being pan-European and soon to be suported all over Europe, this will make it default for many websites or companies to introduce it
Goodbye 27 different alternatives or attempts for a Paypal, hello EU-backed payment platform
Any users that can tell us if it’s any good?
More of this is needed. EU and wider Europe by proxy needs to have its own tech revolution and independence.
3 step process needed –
Build the tech
Give it institutional backing
Tax and tariff the fuck out of non European competitors
Would this work in Canada? I plan to cancel my PayPal
It’s hilarious. Got an Email by PayPal today, asking me for “15-20 minutes” of feedback for 2 Euros in return. The fucking cheek!
I may still do it not because of the lousy 2 Euros, but to tell them that the they can fuck off and that the whole of Europe is going to boycott them soon.
too bad my bank won’t add it
[https://bizum.com/es/en/](https://bizum.com/es/en/)
Spain.
I hope for their continued success.
What’s the purpose? I can see it as a payment platform for sending money to others, but banks already allow this, even via mobile number.
Will this allow you to purchase items online, without sharing personal details with the third party?
I mean that’s great but I wouldn’t call them a competitor to Paypal yet. Paypal has over 430M users worldwide, these guys don’t even have 10% of that.
Just recently Spain, Portugal and Italy joined their instant payment systems (Bizum in Spain, I don’t remember the names of the others). It has more than 30 million users (Bizum alone has 30 million users, I think).
I hope this unification continues
Glad to hear that, switched from cash to PayPal during the pandemic and do t want to go back. Is it supported as contactless payment method?
https://wero-wallet.eu/about
scroll to the bottom. you will never see something like that on an American website. Americans will hide every possible information.
The only bad thing is that it’s still not available in any CEE country. Hopefully they will expand to the whole EU and even beyond.
That’s great, but if it’s not an option when paying for my online products it’s useless.
I have 3 banks and none of them supports Wero. 🙁
What I don’t get is why they don’t allow credit cards as a payment method to build the platform.
I’d switch immediately if that was the case. But now I have to keep checking until my bank finally supports it and who knows when I’ll lose patience/interest.
Ok but go for a card now. We do not want visa & MasterCard in EU anymore
Wero is just another half baked attempt of an European App replacement. Almost nobody is using it cause it’s bound to your banking account and almost no Bank is supporting it. Dead at arrival.
Sadly most of eu based software solutions are deeply vendor locked with AWS and Azure. Also in AI LLM tools we depend on openAI, antrophic and Google.
Apple pay and Google pay are becoming more and more popular.
POS terminals run on Android.
USA is so much ahead of Europe in tech. Also in Fintech.
China too. Europe really needs to step up in software and tech.
All we do is regulate USA data handling.
I live in NL, I have a bank account with ING, but I can’t seem to create a Wero account.
Since European banks were sorry of front running the online payment game, I’m still fairly clueless about what was paypal ever for? I guess there are delays between banks.