Showing posts with label PSD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PSD. Show all posts
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Ceci n'est pas une 'payment instrument': a reflection on fuel cards and the PSD2

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In september this year, the FCA published its policy statement and approach document on the PSD2 . I've been eagerly watching this docum...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Where and how to look for innovation in payments ?

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This week I had the pleasure of joining a panel on retail payments innovation as a part of a seminar by van Doorne and Innopay on the Paymen...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Lawsuit in the Netherlands on Bitcoin as 'money' or 'current money'

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Since May this year, there is an interesting discussion here in the Netherlands on the legal status of Bitcoin as money. First law suit ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

FCA kicks the Securepay-can down the road...

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In March 2014, the FCA, the prudential supervisor for UK based payment institutions and e-money providers, outlined that it would not be st...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Bitcoin legal classification in Germany: much ado about ... ?

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These days I noticed an interesting discussion in my Twitter time line and on the web on the fact that the German government has 'reco...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Interesting paper on best practices for Payment Regulation

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As I browsed through the programme and speakers of the E-MA conference on e-money I noticed that Rhys Bollen would present on regulatory iss...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

E-money: an innovation revisited...

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I think it is fair to say that technology and payment innovation occurs in several 'rounds'. It's sort of a boxing game where en...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Economic impact of the single euro area... ECB research

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The fun thing of policy research is that it always gets you the desired result (as apposed to scientifc research where you seek out to dismi...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

SEPA: cost for the banks but income for others......

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See the article in De Financiële Telegraaf that outlines that the boss of professional temp agency DPA Flex Group states that SEPA and MIF...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Ministry of Finance answers to MP-questions on bank fees and duopoly in SEPA

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As mentioned earlier on this blog , Dutch MPs asked our Ministry of Finance to comment on the retailer statements that payment with cards wo...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Payment Services Directive agreed in European Parliament

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The EU-websites are sometimes incomprehensible to browse, but ALDE has some news detail to confirm that today the Payment Services Directiv...
Monday, April 23, 2007

EU becomes domestic reality: ABN AMRO and Barclays announce agreement on terms of take-over by Barclays

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See the Press Release here to find out that: - the Boards of ABN AMRO and Barclays jointly agreed on 'merging' their organisations,...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

EU council agrees on Payment Services Directive: start of the fee-blame-game

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Today, the European council agreed on the Payment Services Directive . This means that if European Parliament also agrees on this text, we m...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Sneak preview on PSD compromise in German web-article

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See this article to conclude (if I understand correctly) what the political compromise is about the Payment Service Directive. Apparently s...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Talks on Payment Services Directive enter their last stage

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According to an annotated ECOFIN-agenda of our Ministry of Finance , the Council of Ministers of Finance will at the end of this month be in...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Payment Service Provider Ogone to go public

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According to this Belgian website , the Belgian payment service provider Ogone (which processes nd routes Internet-payment related to e-comm...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Public letter by EPC on progress: delay of direct debit

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This week, we saw the publication of a public letter by the European Payment Council . While it contained a lot of text on technical progres...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Partial evaluation of regulation 2560 reveals true (better?) regulation agenda of European Commission

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See this link that brings you to a Commission Staff Working Document addressed to the European Parliament and to the Council on the impact ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

SEPA deadlines under threat...?

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This Finextra article quotes the chair of the European Payments Council (EPC), Gerard Hartsink. He stated that banks will miss the first si...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Regulation by McCreevy: action would speak louder than words...

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Interesting speech here with the following notes on how the Commission should regulate: Those who know me well recognise that this is not a...