InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate EU banks to take on Visa, Mastercard with new payments system By financialnews_rlv83x - July 2, 2020 0 159 Sixteen banks from Germany, France and three other euro zone countries on Thursday said a “truly European” payments system was expected to be up and running in 2022 to fully digitalise a region where half of all retail payments are still in cash.