Buy bitcoin with Carte Bancaire

What is Carte Bancaire?

Cartes Bancaires CB, usually written CB, is France's domestic card network, run by the Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB, an interbank economic interest grouping. Most cards issued by French banks carry the CB logo and are co-badged with Visa or Mastercard, so the same card can route domestically over CB or abroad over the international scheme. Insee puts CB at about 70% of card payment value in France in 2023, a share that has been falling as the international schemes take more of it. In practice, when a checkout in France asks for a card, this is the card you are holding.

Speed

Authorisation happens in seconds, so the payment is confirmed while you are still on the checkout page.

Cost

Card schemes bill the acquiring side rather than the cardholder, so the cost to you is whatever your bank charges for holding and using the card.

Limits

Your bank sets payment and withdrawal ceilings, in most cases spread over a rolling 7 or 30 day period, and a temporary increase has to be requested from the bank.

Speed and cost describe the rail itself. What an exchange adds on top varies by platform and is shown per exchange below.

Using Carte Bancaire in Guadeloupe

Carte Bancaire appears in one country guide on this site, Guadeloupe, where deposits settle in Euro (EUR). Buyers there fund exchange accounts with SEPA transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay as well, and the country guide ranks the exchanges that take each one.

Buy bitcoin with Carte Bancaire in Guadeloupe