Simon's blog on Payments and Money

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

Many papers and the national news discussed the ending of the Chipknip in manned retail loactions. Among them also Het Financieele Dagblad ....

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

For some unknown reason, I noticed that quite some websurfers seem to be interested in the question whether or not an interchange fee (for P...

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

See the Payter™ website to find out that: - Payter is a new pre-paid nfc-phone payment application, - which will start as a pilot in Rotter...

See the (paid access) FD-article . Global Collect is a Payment Service Provider, born out of the need to collect magazine subscription fees ...

Parool has the news that criminals have now succeeded in manipulating a specific kind of terminal in order to skim all the data. It's a...

See this article in Eindhovens Dagblad to find out that a trial to pay with mobile phone at C1000 super market has been delayed. The techno...