“March to Independence”: Christine Lagarde vuole che l’UE abbandonhi Visa, MasterCard per la propria piattaforma – “Visa, Mastercard, PayPal e Alipay sono tutti controllati da società americane o cinesi. Dovremmo assicurarci che ci sia un’offerta europea”.
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/march-to-independence-christine-lagarde-wants-eu-to-ditch-visa-mastercard-for-own-platform-470816-2025-04-05
di ByGollie
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This and the social media platforms are priority
She finally said something right!We shouldn’t depend on US companies.
Wero
Please do not reinvent the wheel, just extend SEPA to do this as well.
Tend to agree
Absolutely agree, we should have European-based credit cards, and I’m sure the SEPA system could be expanded to include something like PayPal that doesn’t expose your bank details or an intermediary service put in place for the same.
Agree. We need to have at least one of everything that we rely on that someone else can turn off on us in a dispute.
And because those services are strategic, they may require some central eu funding to get up and running or up to scale.
Could not agree more. Where do we sign up ? 🙂
This is a smart idea
As long as its not Klarna.
Wero
I’m in Canada and would certainly welcome A European card
STOP TALKING AND DO IT. YOU ARE THE LEADERS, SO WHY DO YOU TELL US WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? JUST DO IT!
I have a feeling she woke up like yesterday. I can totally see her yesterday with a cup of tea googling on her MacBook air: “who owns visa” or “is YouTube from America” and again “does Europe have smartphone companies”.
In the Netherlands we have IDEAL for online payments, maybe incorporate mobile pay of some sort? Works very good, should be a European standard imo.
Y’all should partner with Interac for this.
So how about feeding and nurturing a healthy local fintech startup scene that could eventually give rise to valid competitors to Visa and Mastercard? No? ”Best we can do is take your tax dollars and waste it on central planning that results in product/service nobody fucking wants”.
American Express feeling left out. /s
If it launches it needs widespread adoption online and to be technologically better than Visa and Mastercard, which shouldn’t be hard.
What killed a lot of the smaller national debit card schemes was lack of scale.
Also can we try not selling it off this time — remember Europay?
Polish BLIK is a great solution
Europe needs tikkies everywhere
They have been slow to realize.
this is TOP priority! do it NOW!
a little bird told me mastercard runs it’s EU office in north america, and NA office in EU to avoid taxes
Great idea but our current bureaucracy would make something like that impossible.
Allons Christine!
Faut qu’on en parle… éclater le monopole financier américain!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻⭐️
Probably the biggest is Adyen
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/payment-service-providers.
Yes, please. I want to buy European and use European services.
this is what the digital euro would be for
Last time we tried that it turned out to be a MASSIVE scam.
Nobody likes blockchain because of idiots. But self sovereign (to a degree) on-chain payments cards exist (gnosis pay)
Annnnnd she’s right 👍
overdue to have european brands / solutions for all of that big consumer aspects, this would end all data protection issues (us vs european rights) and keep things under european control and legislation
Trump is a fucking moron. In two months he has destroyed American credibility in the world and upended the world economy. He claims to want to Make America Great Again, but has simply made it irrelevant to the rest of the world. It will take decades of us knee bending and begging for a seat at the table. It will take an enormous amount of work and time to rebuild the trust of our allies, if it is even possible. Why should they, when they know every four years moronic Americans could elect another wannabe dictator to upend everything all over again.
European Express
There already is, line Adyen, iDEAL etc