Simon's blog on Payments and Money

It's quite annoying. Spam that has the form of order confirmation. But given my consumer rights I have no need to worry. It's a pain...

Research by Dutch retailers organisation RND demonstrates that a huge group of consumers uses the Internet to look before they buy. Of the 8...

Small countries can more quickly cooperate and produce new products. Therefore the Estonians attract Ian's attention with smart cards th...

In September Rabobank, ABN AMRO and ING announced the development of a Dutch standard for internet payments. The standard protocol essential...

The German Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervisions authorised the NCS mobile payment Bank GmbH under NAK 32, Para. 1, Clause 1...

Emerce reports that Yahoo will stop its payment method: Yahoo Direct as of November 22 this year. It was unable to get a substantial footho...

Having built a joint system in 1997 (I-pay met SET) and having discovered the complexity of public key infrastructure technology, Dutch bank...

9210: the zip code of another IT-soap1 is the page where interested readers get to learn more about the costs of changing numbering systems...

So every now and then I check my referer stats to find out how people end up on these pages. Today it turns out that someone seeking plots f...

Well, here's a nice one. A (undoubtedly visionary) woman pays in a shop, using a 200 dollar bill with the picture of George Bush on it. ...

Emerce reports that Moxmo, the small e-money issuer that has been operational for 2,5 years, has gone bankrupt. This is the second failing ...

An active student, Tjalling Kuipers , has started a public discussion on the new product feature of a phone payment product: KPN Switchpoint...

Speaking of Paypal immediately makes Brinxpay show up in the Ads. A German version of Paypal, so it seems. See their site here .

This summer I received Googles first cheque for payment of the Adsense ads. Of course a cheque, because that's the US way of doing payme...

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...