Thursday, February 26, 2004

Social Platform on Payment Systems

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The Dutch central bank has made the progress report of the Social Platform on Payment Systems available on its website . The report outlines...
Wednesday, February 25, 2004

European Commission aims to clarify e-money before the summer

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In an interview with Erwin Boogert of Planet Multimedia, Commissioner Liikanen states that the Commission aims to clarify the interpretation...

PayPal guarantees eBay auctions up to £250

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Planet Multimedia reports on a ZDNet-article that informs us that Paypal will protect its UK EBay buyers by launching a buyer-protection fe...

Postbank stops m-banking on April 1 this year

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Postbank today announces to owners of its mobile-banking application on the Siemens phone, that it will stop offering m-payment facilities v...

Transfer of POS-contracts Interpay to banks

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The website of Interpay now informs us about the procedure and rules that govern the transfer of the Interpay-POS-contracts to the bank of ...

And a solution to phishing...?

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Passmark is a concept/technology that is furhther discussed here . It works like this: When a customer logs in to a bank's Web site, th...

E-mail scam hits MBNA customers

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BBC NEWS reports how another E-mail scam this time hits MBNA customers.

Break-In at one of Israel's largest banks

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Ron Onrust sent me this link/article , that summarizes the news in Isreal on a break-in that allegedly resulted in theft and deletion of cri...
Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Verifone SC 5000 pinpad certified

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Finextra reports that the Verifone SC 5000 pinpad has now been certified by Interpay for use in the Dutch market. So the pinpad now complie...

Urban Legends Reference Pages show ATM Camera

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The website called: Urban Legends Reference Pages shows pictures of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and skimming equipment, used to catch...
Friday, February 20, 2004

Yahoo launches money service

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Erwin Boogert just reffered me to NEWS.com.au where an article and further explanation can be found on the PayDirect money service offered ...

Moxmo also in the mobile top-up market

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Planet Multimedia reports that e-money institution Moxmo will also offer its customer the possibility to top up their mobile phones from th...
Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Risk of magstripe continues

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In this article of Globetechnology , Mary Kirwan deals with the security risks of still having debit-cards around that work with a magnetic ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2004

More supervision on payments (systems)

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Our Ministry of Finance has now published this letter to explain that a separate supervisory structure will be set up to ensure safe infrat...

Postbank unsafe..?

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Rob Blaauboer sent me this link to an article in De Telegraaf.nl . It suggest that Postbank does not check the name and number for each cred...
Friday, February 13, 2004

Phase 2 of revision of financial legislation: prudential supervision

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This page of the Ministry of Finance has the details of its proposed reform of legislation with respect to prudential supervision (of banks...

Report of Financial Expertise Centre: charitative foundations do whitewashing...

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This report of the Dutch Financial Expertise Centre investigates the role that charitative foundations play in supporting illegal activitie...

Vodafone launches first UMTS-service

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Emerce reports that Vodafone launches the first UMTS-service. It is a datacard for laptops, allowing data access with ten times the speed o...
Wednesday, February 11, 2004

What to Think of Online Credit Card Fraud

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Just a link to a nice article at Emarketer.com .

Paypal UK Ltd is an e-money institution as of February 12

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Ben Putter informs us that Paypal has notified its European users that as of February 12 Paypal Europe Ltd will officially be an electronic ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Amex signs MBNA as its first U.S. issuer ; ABN AMRO prefers Mastercard

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BTNonline.com reports that: Amex and MBNA this year will roll out co-branded cards, "at which time product details will be available,...

The costs of a single currency: false bank notes and slower payments

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Newspaper de Volkskrant informs us that the central bank will start an awareness campaign for consumers. As a result consumers will be enco...