Showing posts with label e-money (licenses). Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-money (licenses). Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Facebook: a limited network exemption in the Netherlands?

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Here is a brief post, to alert professionals in the field to the fact that Facebook Inc has in the Netherlands been registered as an exempt ...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Perspectives on (Ca-)Libra #3: Why the Libra is not e-money (on the history of e-money and stablecoins)

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Quickly after the announcement of Libra, I, stated that Libra could not be viewed as e-money. Now has come the time to explain my earlier an...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

So what's up with the Google-licenses

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Last weeks, we hear all kinds of stories on the Google-license, so let's have a closer look. Google already has a license since 2007 ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Facebook obtained its e-money license : is it the gamechanger for the bigtech disruption of finance ?

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About three weeks ago, Facebook has obtained it's  e-money license  in Ireland. This was in the making since  early 2014  and it begs t...
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...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The bitlicense: current state of thinking in New York

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A week ago, the New America Foundation organised a meeting ( Cryptocurrencies, the new coin of the realm ) on the topic of virtual currencie...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Towards a more flexible approach of authentication

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In July last year, the European Commission published a proposalfor a revised Payment Services Directive (PSD) . The proposal draws on the w...
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...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The ECB-report on virtual currency schemes: some reflections

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The last month, the ECB published a report on virtual currency schemes . I have been reading this with great interest as it signals the invo...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Google Wallet roll out.... without Google Bucks

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It's about five years ago that I discovered, by accident and curiosity, that Google Payments Limited had applied for an e-money license ...
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...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Finnius conference on e-money

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As some of you may know, I have had quite an interest in electronic money in the Netherlands  in the past. And yesterday I had the pleasure ...
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...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

History (of e-money) repeats itself... central bank alert on crowd-funding.... and (still) missing the real issues in the market..

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One of the major challenges for central banks and supervisors is to appreciate new technologies and to decide their policy stance on the sub...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Back to the future with peer to peer coinsystem for the internet... or merely a scam?

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It's not clear to me whether BitCoin  is a serious system or merely an interesting way to create money with people who still believe in ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Dutch contactless chip (OV Chipkaart) in trouble

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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 ...