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Europe builds its own payments system to challenge Visa and Mastercard
ShortNews & Politics
Published Oct 11, 2026
Views
539K
Likes
3K
Speed /h
3K
+24h
+362
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 538.6K
- Best hour
- –
- At 24 hours
- –
- At 7 days
- 537.7K
0 of 83 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 5 / 100
- Category percentile
- 47 / 100
- ×base
- ×88
- Channel typical
- 6K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.01×
- Momentum
- ×0.06
- Decay
- 0.98
- Speed half-life
- 9d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 0.47%
- Comments per 1k views
- 1.77
- Engagement rate
- 0.64%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.03×
- Crossed a language border
- No
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| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Category chart | #87 | Oct 16 |
9d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 11, 2026, 12:45 PM
- Duration
- 2:30
- Category
- News & Politics
- Audio language
- English (en)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Society
Title and description in 1 languages
- English
Tags (27)
- Business and Economy
- Christine Lagarde
- ECB
- EPI
- EU
- EU card payments
- EU financial independence
- EU payment sovereignty
- Europe
- Europe payment sovereignty
- Europe payments system
- European Payments Initiative
- European Union
- European banks
- Mastercard
- Payment Sovereignty
- US tech dependence
- US technology dependence
- Visa
- Visa Mastercard alternative
- al Jazeera
- al Jazeera English
- card payments Europe
- digital euro
- electronic payments
- transatlantic rift
- الجزيرة مباشر
Description
US credit card companies Visa and Mastercard have hundreds of millions of users in the European Union. But as European governments rethink their dependence on an unpredictable ally, some banks are trying to challenge the dominance of American operators. Al Jazeera’s Rosie Birchard is in Brussels with more on Europe’s push for payment sovereignty. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X: https://X.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.news/AJEMobile #EuropeanPayments #Visa #Mastercard #PaymentSovereignty #DigitalEuro #EU #Brussels #Europe #ECB #EuropeanSovereignty #Payments #AlJazeeraEnglishShow all
US credit card companies Visa and Mastercard have hundreds of millions of users in the European Union. But as European governments rethink their dependence on an unpredictable ally, some banks are trying to challenge the dominance of American operators. Al Jazeera’s Rosie Birchard is in Brussels with more on Europe’s push for payment sovereignty. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X: https://X.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.news/AJEMobile #EuropeanPayments #Visa #Mastercard #PaymentSovereignty #DigitalEuro #EU #Brussels #Europe #ECB #EuropeanSovereignty #Payments #AlJazeeraEnglish
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API