Simon's blog on Payments and Money

Retailer Vendex/KBB just issued this press release to inform the public that the HEMA formula will do a trial with 20 ATM's to test the...

Text of his speech at a special ECOFIN dinner.

Yesterdays information by Orange Netherlands about its turnover allows for an estimation of the value and number of Premium SMS in the Nethe...

See this document for a brief introduction and further links.

WebWereld reports that Halifax has been the subject of an e-mail scan. The scam demonstrates that user-id, password combinations may be ins...

The Japan Times online reports that Sony and DoCoMo will set up a joint venture to further develop and exploit mobile phones that have an i...

Yesterday I've had the pleasure to contribute to a seminar of TPG Post on new billing. You may wonder what that is. Well, in New Billin...

Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) reports that due to repeated raids, Rabobank will stop providing cash services in its branches in Utr...

CCN reports that Napster will offer prepaid cards as a means to pay for the music that users download. The Napster Card will cost $14.85, e...

Also in this weekends Financieele Dagblad: Belgium bank Argenta is about to enter the Dutch payments market. It will offer current accounts...

The Financieel Dagblad reports this morning about an innovation by a former debit-card/pincode victim. Mr Jantoon Roos suggested to the ban...

In its latest newsletter, Way2Pay states that it has 15.000 users and 450 shops. Especially the amount of shops connected is quite large for...

Raad Nederlandse Detailhandel , an umbrella organisation for retailers, has announced that the quality of bank note falsifications is so goo...

Quite a number of consultations are taking place in the Netherlands. And since it's not so easy to find the full list at the website of ...

Our Ministry of Finance regularly informs us of the proceedings of the FATF meetings. This document (in Dutch) informs the parliament that ...

Reacting on the previous post about the Chipknip goody at Albert Heijn, Ron Onrust was so kind as to send me some pictures of a new Dutch re...

This week Albert Heijn gets a lot of media attention because the food chain has started a price war in retail. But to me, something else is...

This was the major question at a conferency by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. The conference summary is available here . What I appreciat...

Today our Queen Beatrix is visiting the European Central Bank (press release) . I take it this is a formal 'Goodbye and Thank You-visit...

News Independent reports: The Chief executive of Barclays - the largest credit card provider in Britain - said yesterday that he would not u...

Today, Ton Schudelaro will defend his dissertation on electronic payment systems and money laundering ( see this Dutch press-release ). His ...

Erwin Boogert was so kind as to point out this article in The China Post that discusses a new B2B payment service by Citibank: Citibank dev...