Simon's blog on Payments and Money

ING Bank announce on their website that they will eliminate value dating as of January 19, 2004 and will use the day of debit/credit to cal...

Oliver Travers (at the weblog Start of Fee ) quotes this article in the Internetretailer on Paypals profits: "PayPal, the payment tran...

I've just been spammed: Return-path: Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 06:43:32 -0800 From: Kenneth Subject: Anonymous E-gold Visa Debit Card X-Ori...

Amazon has finally shown a profit of 35,3 million dollar in 2003 (compared to loss of 150 million in the year 2002). This is a very tiny mar...

Entertainment company Endemol en GSMBox Italy have founded a joint venture to develop and sell interactive services related to television sh...

Yesterday, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs held a brief conference to outline the results of an investigation in payment methods for ...

FinanceAsia.com features this article that contains three case studies (Yahoo Direct, Yahoo Direct, Yahoo Direct) from the experience of th...

JCN Network reports that prepaid e-money service operator bitWallet will introduce a new mail-based payment service with the name 'Mobi...

Telecom.paper publishes the first data on the mobile top up system that Interpay has developed for Orange. It allows all pre-paid Orange cu...

The Automatisering Gids informs us that E-bay has increased its profits with 64 % to 142,5 million US dollar in its fourth quarter of 2004....

Ron Onrust sent me this link to an article in the RFID Journal on the ViVOtech contactless payment solution. ViVOtech's reader connect...

Our Dutch central bank has redesigned its website . This has some advantages and some disadvantages. A good thing is that the looks have imp...

Wired News reports that sales of mobile-phone ring tones, those tiny song recordings programmed into millions of cell phones around the wor...

Het FD reports that last week all public transport companies involved in the development of the OV-chipkaart (card for public transport paym...

Het Financieele Dagblad reports that Internetbank Egg will be put up for sale by its owner Prudential. It turns out that the French expans...

In todays Het Financieele Dagblad Henriëtte Prast refers to a book by Gerrit Antonides with the title: 'Psychology in economics and bus...

Leo van Hove reports in his unique database of e-money developments , that the Swedish banks will discontinue their card-based e-money syste...

Leo van Hove was so kind to notice, during my holiday, that Contopronto , a Norwegian issuer of mobile wallets, has been granted a license a...

Always there's a pile after the holiday. To keep track of the developments I hereby note: - article in FD on changing bank accounts (Dut...

In the FD of this saturday, the last page contains the diary of Carel Storm, salesmanager of Hanco Nederland. Hanco cooperates with Finansba...

Philips and Visa International showcase the potential of contactless payment and connectivity at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas....

..was to start the new year 2004 on the Plaza Nueva of Sevilla, Spain (see the picture below). And eat 12 grapes, one for each bang of the c...