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		nxcho on Nov 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ... Swish is cleared by the Bankgirot system. I'm not completely sure about the technical details but there is no card involved.

krageon on Nov 23, 2018 [–]

I am only intimately familiar with one EU country's banking transaction infrastructure, but there it is the case that when one (major) creditcard provider has a network outage the debit network is also down.

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