Simon's blog on Payments and Money

Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) reports that Payquare is countering the B+S bid for credit-card fees in the restaurant sector by lowe...

Worldpay, focusing on small and medium sized enterprises, will merge its operations with those of Bibit, focusing on the large European play...

See this OMG Document .

Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) and the IHT report that the European Commission has issued a statement of objection to nine French b...

To add to the continuing debate on e-money payments via mobile phones, Planet Multimedia reports that T-mobile has payment via WAP-billing ...

The Annual report on payment systems is an important part of Norges Bank's oversight of the payment system. The report provides an annua...

A long time it was silent around Privver , the digital post and e-billing company on the web. But E-merce reports the cooperation with Rabo...

Yesterday the Dutch central bank announced that a trial with rounding cash payments has succeeded. As of September this year, merchants and...

Planet Multimedia reports that Vodafone is developing a payment method whereby a click on the WAP-link effects a payment for tickets up to ...

A very useful piece of work with 20 practical tips for better e-payments.

Today we see another retirement. This time Jan Jonkheer leaves the Dutch payment scene after a multitude of productive years in direct debit...

See this article in PDAs News - Designtechnica News .

Today is the day that payments-veteran J. Verhaegen retires after a long and productive career in the industry. Long ago, when too many poli...

The Financieele Dagblad reported on June 16 that Royal Bank of Scotland has bought payment service provider Bibit in May. Price was most lik...

Scott Loftessness informs us: CyberSource has released the results of a recent study it performed that concludes that merchants can convert...

It started out in februari 2001 as a loyalty card that also allowed savins. To that end Albert Heijn cooperated with Aegon. This week the an...

Planet Internet informs us that our Ministry of Economic Affairs is setting up a group that wants to stimulate a common standard/payment pr...

PBS announced ( end of May press release )that it will close down the scheme as of December 31, 2005. Nils Hilbard, director of payment card...

Emerce - Technologie reports that a study by Insites shows that after e-mail (92 %), e-banking (60 %) is the big killer application on the...

Smaller countries are prone to innovate more speedily. So it should not be a suprise that the Danes have developed an Internet-service: Elec...

Todays Financieele Dagblad informs us about a trial that the cafe-restaurant organisations have done with another credit-card acquirer than ...

Next week, Gottfried Leibbrand will defend his dissertation Payment instruments and network effects: Adoption, harmonization and succession ...