Simon's blog on Payments and Money

These next few days we will be processing the last Chipknip transactions in the Netherlands. This marks the end of a period of almost hundr...

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...

This week, Mount Gox, a very large provider of bitcoin services, couldn't live up any more to its services agreements with bitcoin use...

Today, the European Commission will announce a proposal for a Directive on Bank Accounts that covers the following areas: - comparability...

Tweakers net today reports that T-mobile is leaving the consortium of banks and telco's in the Netherlands . The sixpack consortium is ...

Amidst all the political noise on the interchange decision of the Commission it is good to also see that some academics still see the whole ...

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

Well, another story begins to end. See the ABN AMRO Press Release that outlines that Barclays withdraws Offer for ABN AMRO .

This week it appears as if everyone understands and has an opinion on mergers and takeovers in the financial markets. Members of provincial ...

Interesting article here on Payment industry trends on the PayPal Blog . Essentially the trends are: - cash will lose out slowly - convenien...

This Planet - Multimedia column by Arjan Dasselaar outlines that it is e-invoicing time and states that direct debits and paper based bill ...

Paypal announced earlier this month that they would start offering their US merchants the option to allow customers a deferred payment at t...

An important formal step; a statement by the Ministry of Finance that they have no objections as to the Barlays takeover has today been take...

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...

Sometimes, the news comes in bits of pieces and only makes sense if you put the two together on a later date. Take for example the EU regula...

See the newssite nu.nl to find out that DNB has withdrawn its supervisory measures with respect to ABN AMRO ( see also the previous post an...

This article in BN/DeStem reveals that Paypal has 1 million Dutch customers. The article compares the features of the bank-based iDEAL paym...

Friady the 13th turned out to bring bad luck for shareholders association VEB (making it a lucky day for ABN AMRO ). The Dutch Supreme Court...

See the webarticle here . Rabobank (historically being strong in the rural areas) has announced that it wishes to increase its market share ...

See the ABN AMRO Press Room for an update that outlines that Barclays will be filing the required reports a bit later. This is due to the r...