Banks are nowhere close to doing this. It’s risky to switch out technology like that. It’s a lot of work. If you want them to make this step you’ll need to force them.

It is absolutely insane that every time I, a Swede in Sweden, go into a Swedish store and buy a Swedish product, using Swedish kronor, that I have in my Swedish bank, and earned through working my Swedish job, that I have paid my Swedish tax on, the transaction goes through a US company.

We Europeans would love to quit Visa and Mastercard too!

Not only US Big Tech, but Big Tech in general. More selfhosting, more open source - less proprietary bullshit with vendor lock-in.

Dutch lender Amsterdam Trade Bank collapsed in 2023 after its parent company was placed on the U.S. sanctions list and its American IT provider withdrew online data storage services, in one of the sharpest examples of the impact on companies that see their tech withdrawn.

I thought the way they were working towards that on the EU level was with forcing banks to adopt the instant payment system.

Not to mention all the IBM computers crunching COBOL code

Except they just don’t. Actually, they migrate from on-prem to hyperscalers. Our whole Auth is through M$.

I mean that be great if banks wouldn’t have risk based approaches (required by EU almost everywhere btw) which surprise surprise lean towards US companies in some areas due to the e.g. stability or scalability of those services and all the shit they need to operate according to - guess what - EU rules for client facing services. EU fell behind on the cloud provider stuff and now the choice for international banks is to go US or … US (since everything else is quite above their risk/value ratio for such large companies).

Plus (edit) me as I was saying the same for years…

Gee you think? I bet they paid some consultant assholes like 200k euros to say the obvious.

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