Simon's blog on Payments and Money

This sunday I wanted to order a cd and sheet music by Jules de Corte. Whereas usually this is just a matter of seconds, using iDeal, I now h...

This new year brings us a bit of a memory: ten years ago we started using the euro bank notes. For many people in the Netherlands, this was ...

The Dutch Bankers Association today starts a campaign to increase awareness of consumers that they shouldn't fall for the numerous phis...

This week was the last week of this seasons parliament sessions in the Netherlands. And our parliament has a tendency, of late, to increasin...

It's the small things in which you can see that in the Netherlands we're moving slowly to EMV-based transactions. At the ATM's w...

Hello there again. As you can see from the dates on the blog. I have been out for a while, taking a good number of sabattical years off and ...

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 ...

Here's an interesting bit of research done in the Netherlands . All shops, banks and central bank have joined forces to evaluate the cos...

This recent single market review is interesting in many ways. We can see that the Commission is selling Europe to the citizen. And bashing ...

The attacks on banks continue in cyberspace. And to such an extent that Postbank found the need to warn its users to check their PC and use ...

See this Techzine article : Rabobank will help the visually impaired by providing them with a bigger, audio-equipped device that acts as the...

See the website of the British Retail Consortium to read that Mastercard planned for a new approach to debit card interchange charging but ...

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 ...

See the ABA-website to discover that although branch banking still ranks first overall among consumer's usage, younger customers are co...

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

Although it is summer (or because it is summer...?) the news continues on internetfrauds. Tweakers.net noticed that ABN AMRO had sent out a...

Trouw outlines that 2 Roemanian skimmers of 16 years old were arested in Zandvoort, as they were carrying an old POS-terminal. The police t...

the AD had some news on the overdraft behaviour of the Dutch. One third of the public is never in the red on its account. One third only so...

This week De Pers points to the Dutch SEPA.NL website , informing the public about SEPA. The site has got a bunch of material and backgrond...