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The market may be looking at the Europe where instant wire transfers are free and people use them (paying rent, phone, anything recurring, paying for larger items like a car). Often people use them to split a lunch bill.

Mastercard/Visa is a huge thing here in retail but PayPal is really niche. No app leveraging the instant wire transfers is getting much traction. The network effects are huge and the card fees apparently aren't that high.



Card fees here in Europe are capped on consumer cards at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit.


This doesn't seem right. At least from the small business point of view. The banks here in CZ charge around 1 % + $10/month for the device and card acceptance.


He is talking about the card network, your fees include the card issuer and other things


I see. But the business owner will compare the whole amount vs. an alternative system's fees.




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