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Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun (europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
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[-] cman6@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I'm all for a European system like this, but the only downside I currently see is that using Wero wouldn't provide any protection in the same way that a credit card does, unless I missed that on the Wero website.

Give me the consumer protection of a credit card and I'll sign up to Wero or whoever!

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I've had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I'm pretty sure the same would work here.

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Visa/Mastercard requires all cardholders, cardholders' banks, merchants, and merchants' processors to follow the comprehensive set of rules for disputed transactions. That way the dispute process tends to be uniform across different banks and across different merchant/payment processors.

The network sets the rules, while the banks implement those rules on behalf of the cardholder and the processor implements those rules on behalf of the merchant.

So replacing the network will require a comprehensive replacement for the network's dispute resolution rules (assigning who is responsible for paying when certain things happens) and procedures (how a cardholder can initiate a dispute and how that gets resolved).

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