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RonanSolesteyesterday at 3:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

Europe is decoupling itself all ready also. Using SEPA-Inst and wero.


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swiftcoderyesterday at 3:53 PM

Unfortunately decoupling payments within the EU is insufficient if the US can just threaten to sanction your bank, and in doing so force the bank to drop you as a customer. Even in the presence of an internal European payments network, those banks still need to transact with the US and other US-sphere countries...

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david_dracoyesterday at 6:45 PM

The US pressured Europe last time, in 2019, into aligning with their sanctions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade... The Iran situation could have gone better if trade and JCPOA nuclear oversight had continued.