Spain’s popular payment platform Bizum is preparing to enter physical retail stores in a move that could reshape the country’s payments market and increase pressure on international card providers such as Visa and Mastercard. Starting May 18, Bizum Pay will allow customers to make direct account-to-account payments at shop counters using near-field



Same in Italy. We have Bancomat which is ubiquitous since 1983 in every store, and since 2013 we have Satispay. This is hardly new in the EU.