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    7 days ago

    Had to look it up myself

    Wero is a European mobile payment system that should replace Giropay in Germany, Paylib in France,[1] Payconiq in Belgium[2] and Luxembourg, and iDEAL in the Netherlands. The service was launched on 2 July 2024 by the European Payments Initiative.[3] The service competes with PayPal, credit cards and similar services. It started as a real-time payment system in 2024, and from summer 2025 extended online payment functions were added on a step-by-step basis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

    Looks like it’s an effort to standardise all the local versions of the same payment systems, which seem to be P2P mobile money transfer and payment systems