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Here[1]'s an infographic for a report on the Dutch market for Q1 of this year. See the bottom right. iDEAL is by far the biggest payment method.

[1]: https://www.thuiswinkel.org/media/oyhhmgvy/infographic_thuis...

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The Ideal platform is essentially an agreement between banks to process payments from a trusted, third party processor, who collects fees from the seller.

What I just described is also what Visa and Mastercard are.

While the graphic might be nice marketing for Ideal, I wouldn't categorize it as separate from debit/credit card.

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