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0 pointsmathverse2mo ago0 comments

You misread this comment. Thai payment system works across the Asian countries (they are not in a UNION are they?). You can use that payment system if you have a bank in Singapore,Korea,Indonesia etc.

Instant no fee payments.

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kevin0612mo ago

SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK.

It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail to see how EU trying to copy Thailand (for a definition of copying) makes you lose faith in the EU. You would rather not have this no-fee payment system in the EU? How is this at all a negative thing?

mathverseOP2mo ago

>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work.

>It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail to see how EU trying to copy Thailand (for a definition of copying) makes you lose faith in the EU. You would rather not have this no-fee payment system in the EU? How is this at all a negative thing?

The point is Thailand managed this due to economic, capitalist needs across different countries and cultures.

The EU is a union and did not even manage to do that as well as Thailand.

kevin0612mo ago

ES has Bizum, NL has Tikkie, and iDEAL, IT has Bancomat, Poland has BLIK.

Thailand is just a country. Why are you comparing Thailand to the world's second biggest economy?

Are you really telling me that failing to coordinate several dozen countries, some with their own currency, is a showcase of failure of the EU?

This makes absolutely no sense.

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samus2mo ago

It's not surprising at all that a single country could do this, especially since it's such a relatively affluent one and none of their neighbors had anything similar.

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kevin0612mo ago

SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK.

mathverseOP2mo ago

>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work.

The point is Thailand managed this due to economic, capitalist needs across different countries and cultures.

The EU is a union and did not even manage to do that as well as Thailand.

kevin0612mo ago

ES has Bizum, NL has Tikkie, and iDEAL, IT has Bancomat, Poland has BLIK.

Thailand is just a country. Why are you comparing Thailand to the world's second biggest economy?

Are you really telling me that failing to coordinate several dozen countries, some with their own currency, is a showcase of failure of the EU?

This makes absolutely no sense.

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samus2mo ago

It's not surprising at all that a single country could do this, especially since it's such a relatively affluent one and none of their neighbors had anything similar.

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