I love seeing Wero grow!
Isn’t Revolut that company owned by the son of a member of the board of Russia’s Gazprom? Weren’t they also partnering with a mobile phone company that was owned by Russians, so to get around sanctions they sold it to a German Russophile for €1, meanwhile continuing to pay profits to sanctioned Russians?
Revolut isn’t really a good alternative for Buy European - and I say that as a user myself. By all means take advantage of the deals and low rates (good currency exchange rates), but be wary of integrating it into your traditional banking and definitely think twice before making it your main bank.
Also, they very intentionally decided to block use of their app on custom ROMs, cutting out all Graphene/Calyx/e/OS users.
So… not great.
can’t we just have one decent thing for a moment before it becomes tied to some fascist asshole? what about Monzo, is the situation the same?
For anyone interested:
TLDR:
“Storonsky went on to release an open letter rejecting accusations of the company’s potential links to the Kremlin. In the letter, he assures customers that Revolut has data servers only in the EU. It states that Storonsky’s father is an engineering scientist for the company Promgaz, without specifying that this belongs to the Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom. It also declares that DST Global Fund’s only connection to Russia was that one of its six partners, Yuri Milner, was born in Russia.”
GNU Taler?
how does this even work? it looks like a framework for organizations with banking licence etc to use for certain financial operations.
Wero?
Fucking, finally! Only took the threat of an autocrat to get their asses moving.
Wero has been discussed a few times on this community before:
- https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1887228/My-Experience-with-Wero-Ease-and-Convenience#comments
- https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1882244/Bizum-integrating-with-Wero-to-create-EU-Payments-Champion#comments
- https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2004974/European-payment-platform-Wero-major-competitor-of-US-s-Paypal-and#comments
