Simon's blog on Payments and Money

Today is the day of last days. The last day of this quarter (with its inevitable administrative burdens, tax forms). It's also the last ...

See this press release . But do visit Contopronto's website as well. It turns out that they no longer accept customers and that the usa...

Yesterday the first World Retail Banking Report was presented during an afternoon session in the hotel Okura. The report was a collective e...

Interpay E-commerce services provide the back-office technology for some Internet cash registers of banks (TWYP, ABN AMRO, BNG). And as of t...

I've just received another 'brilliant' e-gold scam. Behind the href part of the html-mail (asking me to update my e-gold account...

The fourth issue of Payments and Settlements News , the newsletter of the European Central Bank on retail electronic payment is now out. It ...

Todays Financieele Dagblad reports that a comparative study by KPMG shows that of all European citizens, the Dutch are most satisfied with...

Planet Multimedia reports that Paypal will soon start operating in the Netherlands as a part of an eBay offensive to challenge market leade...

A good old Dutch saying says: only the sun rises for free. But some Dutch MP's feel that a set of basic payment services should always b...

In reply to questions from Dutch MP's the Minister of Finance explains that indeed the number of false Euros is increasing rapidly. The...

Het Financieele Dagblad reports that twelve volunteers have tried to recieve chipknip donations in the cities of Amsterdam, Haarlem and Koo...

Last week, Automatisering Gids (paid access) featured an article on payments in public transport. One company, Trans Link Systems (TLS) wil...

The most revealing information that puts a lot of EU-policy talk into context is the result of Eurobarometers poll on confidence in e-comme...

Emerce and Planet Multimedia picked up a press-release and/or WSJ-article on AOL's new bill payment feature. AOL allows its users wit...

The last couple of days, a lot of people end up on my web site as they are looking for information on Fons Schirris and more background inf...

So are these these the good or bad guys... too bad I don't understand russian.

De Telegraaf reports today that a number of webshop-owners face financial losses as they delivered goods to Indonesian buyers that used cre...

Norbert Sijm pointed me to the article in todays Telegraaf that explains that as of next week some pilot charity collections will only acce...

The company ChipTeC that has developed the so called Citychip , a loyalty card that can be used to pay for parking, will further roll out th...

Emerce reports that Rabobank currently has 3000 customers that use -mode for its services. It aims for 90.000 at the end of this year and h...

Thuiswinkel org reports that in 2003, 3,4 million consumers were active buyers on the web. The amount spent was € 1,24 billion euro (on ave...

Yesterday, the Dutch bank sector organised a conference to inform all players in the payment industry about recent and upcoming developments...