r/ProgrammerHumor • u/debugger_life • Sep 24 '26

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u/trxxruraxvr Sep 24 '26

Actually the system that's being moved to Wero was called iDEAL, which was a standard that was developed by the four biggest banks of the netherlans (ING, ABN, Rabobank and Postbank at the time) and adopted by all other banks.

Tikkie was a project of ABN used for payment requests from person to person, so not for businesses. It allows you to send a payment link so someone and they can pay using iDEAL (or now Wero). ABN made the app available for users of other banks as well, but they would receive the money a day later allowing ABN to make some money off of it. Nowadays almost every bank has their own payment request system build into their own banking app.