Simon's blog on Payments and Money

One gas station owner in Daarle has been subject of a tank card fraud. Attentive people observed criminals filling gallons of Diesel. They n...

In 1988 Wim de Brie wrote a famous sketch in one of his books. It was about the future of debit-cards and pincode. He assumed a chip would b...

Yesterdays and todays newspaper reported on the cost-benefit picture of the proximity IC-card to be introduced in 2004 for use in public tra...

On Tuesday 26 november the Dutch competition authority, NMa, held a conference to explain that a separate group of 8 employees will be monit...

These days, most newspapers report about the Korean company LG Card, with 14 million customers one of the biggest issuers of credit cards in...

This week the GTIAD, the working group for interpretation and application of banking directives, will further discuss the application of the...

Financieel Dagblad is now also one of the newspapers that quotes an upcoming consultation communication of the Commission about the legal fr...

Net4Nowt reported last week: Network365 and iPIN announced that they have agreed to combine their businesses in a merger to create the glob...

The Belgian Association of Banks has released this press statement , which explains why it makes more sense to facilitate moving from one ba...

It's actually a no-brainer. If e-funds are given to the consumer in exchange for pre-payment and those e-funds can be used to pay for th...

Finextra reports that Microsoft is pretty active in getting closer to banks. Last month Microsoft has launched a new software solution that...

FEM de Dag informs us that Way2Pay now has 20.000 customers and that 40 % of its customers shop during the day (from their work-place).

The Dutch consumer Union reports that quite some service glitches occur for customers that want a new card. It placed an announcement askin...

Bill payment is a costly thing. And getting your customers to sign up to EBPP and authorise payments on your website may earn you money. Thu...

I think our Minister of Finance Zalm, is about the only other professional involved in the Dutch financial industry, who maintains a weblog....

ABN AMRO issued a press release to inform the public that it will send an eurochecker to 60.000 retailers. This is a brief illustrated leafl...

Planet Internet announces that as of today it will offer its subscribers to the Planet Music Club the option to get digital music from the ...

European Card Review has interviewed Stolwijk, now that he is leaving his post as chairman of the Board of Interpay, but will continue as c...

This press release invites US market players to learn more about FINREAD; the specification for smart card readers and e-commerce terminals...

Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) reports that Dutch retailers are considering to refuse the 100 euro for payment in shops. Earlier ret...

The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeiting has published this brief article on the draft Communication of EU-Commissioner Bolkestein with res...

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