Simon's blog on Payments and Money

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...

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...

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

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...

Tweakers.net had a post linking to this EETimes.com article that outlines that SanDisk and Philips join forces on cell phone payment: Flash...

While in considerable parts of the world chip and pin (and liability shift) is underway, the Dutch developments are a bit slower. Our move t...

Interesting news from the Amsterdam University where students in the open source project checked if the disposable contactless public trans...

See the article here that outlines that European banks have agreed to link their national debit card systems from September in a bid to bre...

See the ABN AMRO Press Release here .

The Financieele Dagblad reported on a presentation session that occured yesterday as a part of the presentation of the annual report of Cur...

Currence today launched a campaign to create awareness with the public that it is fine to use the debit-card for low value payments . The ac...

See the aticle here to see that El Paso County’s two largest credit unions have joined with a Denver-based company to pay cash rewards for ...

While we in Europe focus quite a bit too much on old style, old world payments, there is more going on in payments. In Europe itself we over...

While retailers representative organisations are trying hard to stop the credit-cards from being used, large building and D-Y-I chain Gamma ...

Our Dutch central bank (DNB) holds the secretariat of the socalled National Forum on Payment Systems. Basically a forum where representative...

Last week I noted that members of Dutch parliament (quite obviously prompted by retailer-lobby organisations) started asking questions in ...

See the website of the House Financial Services Committee to view a webcast on the hearing on credit card practices. The chair of the commi...

See the article here to find out that Keyware acquired BRV NV in a move to expand its processing of card transactions from retailer cards (...

Unisys issued a press release, outlining that they've developed a service oriented architecture to help banks migrate their current pro...