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by alightsoul6 hours ago |
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upvoteby flockonus6 hours ago|
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Agree that PIX bothers the US more because it's directly under US (self assessed) area of influence. But the reason is not some philosophical alignment, but rather deep rooted lobbying practices.

Evidence of high levels of power political pressure - US latest 25% tariff pressure came out explicitly around this topic - https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazil-us-clash-ove...

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upvoteby cromka5 hours ago|
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Right, but PIX on their website says they're expanding to Europe, which makes me wonder what do they have to offer on this heavily saturated market.
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upvoteby AlotOfReading5 hours ago|
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India's UPI is practically impossible to use even for tourists in India. It's not serving the same role as Visa and MasterCard.
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upvoteby alightsoul5 hours ago|
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How is it impossible to use? Apparently everyone in India is using it? Apparently only tourists face issues with it?

With visa and Mastercard you pay transaction fees and rent for a card terminal aka card reader, which are lower or non existent with these homegrown or local P2P payment systems. Outside western developed countries aka the US and the richest European countries like France, Germany, that's enough to stop using visa and Mastercard.

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upvoteby newhotelowner48 minutes ago|
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2 years ago, you needed Indian number to use UPI.

Took me 2 visit to fully setup. First visit to India, they are like I need a debit card. I hate debit cards, but I got it. Which got delivered to my US address. When I got there, they are like I need Indian number and I have to do KYC to update. 3rd visit, I got everything working. At that point, they also let you use US number. But I wouldn't recommend US number as roaming is expensive if you have ATT.

You also have to disable developer mode and can't root the device.

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upvoteby satvikpendem5 hours ago|
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Impossible for tourists to use yes. You need an Indian bank account and there are services ostensibly for tourists but they still don't work everywhere, for example many vendors will want friend payments instead of business payments because they don't want to pay the surcharge.
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upvoteby AlotOfReading5 hours ago|
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Tourist UPI only permits P2M payments, and most normal transactions (as well as refunds) are conducted P2P.
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upvoteby cute_boi6 hours ago|
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UPI used to be good, but they started adding charges after Visa and Mastercard lobbied D.C. probably with huge bribes. And the Indian government is spineless against D.C.
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