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Comment by MrJagil | Hacker News Reader

I believe we in Denmark are very lucky to have one of the best banking systems in regards to keeping up with technological development.[1][2]

Snapcash seems to be the first app that approaches what we've had for a while now: http://danskebank.dk/en-dk/personal/ways-to-bank/pages/mobil...

[1]Except for Japan and all their NFC stuff... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID has been WILDLY debated though.

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Germany – and the whole SEPA (Eurozone + Denmark + Sweden + Norway + Britain + Switzerland) uses the same system.

It’s so fucking convenient to just open the app, enter either the bank account number or just select a contact from a list and be able to send money instantly.

Ye, MobilePay is pretty solid among people in Denmark, and there's even the competitor (competitor is a nice word, considering i've never heard of anyone with it) Swipp.

Yeah, just saw my first Swipp combercial the other day. Reminded me of http://currentc.com/ (i.e. bullshit).

Danske Bank has offers that in Finland too, but I've never heard of anyone actually using it..

While we're talking about Danske Bank, here's a "funny" story about it: After Danske Bank bought out a Finnish bank called Sampo Pankki, they switched their online banking application to use Java. And it didn't work properly on Linux. I actually switched my bank because of that bs.

nemID uses Java as well and it's hell.

Mobile Pay is lovely, though. Even my local Candy Shop accepts it.

JS coming in the next couple of months. They are rolling it out gradually. (EDIT: NemID, JS-version that is)

Source? (just curious, wanna read more)

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