Simon's blog on Payments and Money

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

One week ago Rabobank Nederland announced that it might de-activate the possibility to use their debit-card outside Europe, in an effort to ...

Planet Multimedia reports that Interpay, Chess and LogicaCMG have signed a cooperation agreement to deliver platforms and services related ...

Automatisering Gids report that tomorrow, the first public transport contactless chipcard will be distributed to customers of the ferry ser...

Some highlights of an interesting conference in Amsterdam: 1. Consumers are willing to pay for mobile payments, especially for parking, publ...

It's quite annoying. Spam that has the form of order confirmation. But given my consumer rights I have no need to worry. It's a pain...

Research by Dutch retailers organisation RND demonstrates that a huge group of consumers uses the Internet to look before they buy. Of the 8...

Small countries can more quickly cooperate and produce new products. Therefore the Estonians attract Ian's attention with smart cards th...

In September Rabobank, ABN AMRO and ING announced the development of a Dutch standard for internet payments. The standard protocol essential...

The German Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervisions authorised the NCS mobile payment Bank GmbH under NAK 32, Para. 1, Clause 1...

Emerce reports that Yahoo will stop its payment method: Yahoo Direct as of November 22 this year. It was unable to get a substantial footho...

Having built a joint system in 1997 (I-pay met SET) and having discovered the complexity of public key infrastructure technology, Dutch bank...

9210: the zip code of another IT-soap1 is the page where interested readers get to learn more about the costs of changing numbering systems...

So every now and then I check my referer stats to find out how people end up on these pages. Today it turns out that someone seeking plots f...

Well, here's a nice one. A (undoubtedly visionary) woman pays in a shop, using a 200 dollar bill with the picture of George Bush on it. ...

Emerce reports that Moxmo, the small e-money issuer that has been operational for 2,5 years, has gone bankrupt. This is the second failing ...

An active student, Tjalling Kuipers , has started a public discussion on the new product feature of a phone payment product: KPN Switchpoint...

Speaking of Paypal immediately makes Brinxpay show up in the Ads. A German version of Paypal, so it seems. See their site here .

This summer I received Googles first cheque for payment of the Adsense ads. Of course a cheque, because that's the US way of doing payme...

Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) reports that Payquare is countering the B+S bid for credit-card fees in the restaurant sector by lowe...