Swedish consumers can now buy essential goods with their Mastercard and Visa cards without an internet connection. Riksbank wants to go further by enabling offline purchases with Swish, a local mobile payments system that bypasses the Visa and Mastercard networks altogether. #bankingsovereignty

Nice to see a mainstream outlet in Canada finally writing about #bankingsovereignty. I have been raising these issues for years. It's right up there with #digitalsovereignty and #datasovereignty.