Showing posts with label Visa or MC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visa or MC. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Perspectives on (Ca-)Libra #2: On the Libra association (board) and business drivers

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First of all apologies to many of you: I promised a blog on the reason why Libra would not qualify as e-money, but please accept my rain che...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Perspectives on Ca-Libra # 1. Getting rid of three smokescreens

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This week the world has witnessed the announcement by Facebook of Calibra , a digital currency wallet and company. The wallet holds Libra...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Digital Money Forum 2012... 15th anniversary and lively as ever

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The Digital Money Forum is an event that this year reached it's 15th anniversary. And a special event it is. My previous visit to the Fo...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

ING first to announce SEPA strategy for cards/terminals - all brands allowed

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Yesterdays Telegraaf contained some interesting news . ING has announced that it will sell POS-terminals and contracts to retailers which ac...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Commission prohibits MasterCard's intra-EEA Multilateral Interchange Fees

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See the press release here to read a landmark decision of the Commission. It's main argument: The Commission concluded that MasterCard...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

All on the Visa restructuring.. and the risks.....

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This SEC filing contains all you want to know about Visa and its upcoming reforms. My personal favourite by the way is the risk section wit...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Interchange complaints are just a call for lower merchant fees..?

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Here's an interesting article on the Javelin Strategy and Research site . It ends with the open remark that all the fuss about interchan...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Answers to MP-questions on liability shift

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While in considerable parts of the world chip and pin (and liability shift) is underway, the Dutch developments are a bit slower. Our move t...
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...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

EU banks in secret debit card talks..... but why would that make sense

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A Reuters message outlines that EU banks supposedly are in secret debit card talks. Meaning that a third scheme would be born for EU-use in...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Banks block Mastercards as precautionary measure

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Volkskrant informs : that Postbank and ING block a series of Mastercards as a precautionary measure, without further disclosing how many. Th...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Visa further penetrates retail market with Gamma

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While retailers representative organisations are trying hard to stop the credit-cards from being used, large building and D-Y-I chain Gamma ...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

House Financial Services Committee hearing on credit-card practices

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See the website of the House Financial Services Committee to view a webcast on the hearing on credit card practices. The chair of the commi...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Belgians reconsider rolling out Maestro for domestic payments

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The Belgian newspapers all cover the news that, contrary to earlier reports and choices, the Belgian banks have chosen not to move over to...
Friday, March 09, 2007

And more retailers into credit-cards....

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While one part of the Dutch retailers seek to continue a battle against the credit-card , their own colleagues are making this a losing batt...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Page on US Senate hearing on credit-cards

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See this page dedicated to hearings on Credit Card Practices: Fees, Interest Rates, and Grace Periods . Why? Well, how about this...: In 200...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

EU to investigate Visa interchange fee...

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Payments news picked up quickly on the news that EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Monday her staff would take a close look...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

Data breach, the next hot thing...

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Data breach is the thing to come. While Europeans are concerned about US-police and their insatisfiable hunger for SWIFT-data, the US thems...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Visa commissioned report on cross-border payments

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Visa spent some money and commissioned Dr. Yoon S. Park, an expert on global financial markets and Professor of International Finance at the...