That sounds like a very big mistake to me. And a missed opportunity: in some countries, banked work together to develop their own systems. People can send money to each other and pay everywhere with a small app that is not BigTech from the US.
I think there should be such an app in every country; you don't want your payment system to fully depend on US companies.
For physical transactions there's barrier of hardware and network effect - everybody has card terminal. Users expect near 100% acceptance for them to use payment method daily.
If you consider creating own NFC payment app instead of Google/Apple Pay - that's actually possible, but more expensive and often disliked by the users due to inability to easily switch between cards issued by different apps.
Is it? Last time I checked, Apple & Google were also interfacing with banks on the server side, i.e. banks had to integrate with Apple/Google specifically. I'd love to be wrong, though.
That's not related to ability to create own app - on both ios and Android you can access NFC hardware directly (on iOS it's limited geographically), and send card data as you see fit - Google & Apple do nothing in such case.