Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Ministry of finance and central bank warn for the 'world-euro'

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This press release (in Dutch) is a warning to the public to not try to buy so called World Euro's, issued by the European Union, as ave...
Monday, December 27, 2004

Interpay, Chess and LogicaCMG cooperate to deliver Ideal-platform

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Planet Multimedia reports that Interpay, Chess and LogicaCMG have signed a cooperation agreement to deliver platforms and services related ...
Sunday, December 12, 2004

OV Chipkaart becomes reality: first launch this monday

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Automatisering Gids report that tomorrow, the first public transport contactless chipcard will be distributed to customers of the ferry ser...
Saturday, December 04, 2004

Mobile Payments 2004: brief summary

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Some highlights of an interesting conference in Amsterdam: 1. Consumers are willing to pay for mobile payments, especially for parking, publ...
Monday, November 29, 2004

Brr... order confirmation spam

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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...
Friday, November 19, 2004

IInternet: browsing not buying...?

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Research by Dutch retailers organisation RND demonstrates that a huge group of consumers uses the Internet to look before they buy. Of the 8...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Size matters...

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Small countries can more quickly cooperate and produce new products. Therefore the Estonians attract Ian's attention with smart cards th...
Saturday, November 13, 2004

Dutch Standard for Internet payments: Ideal

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In September Rabobank, ABN AMRO and ING announced the development of a Dutch standard for internet payments. The standard protocol essential...
Sunday, October 31, 2004

German Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervision Issues Germany's First E-Banking License to A Telco Operator

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The German Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervisions authorised the NCS mobile payment Bank GmbH under NAK 32, Para. 1, Clause 1...
Monday, October 25, 2004

Yahoo Direct gives in to Paypal

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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...
Friday, September 24, 2004

Dutch banks join hands to develop standard for e-payments

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Having built a joint system in 1997 (I-pay met SET) and having discovered the complexity of public key infrastructure technology, Dutch bank...
Thursday, September 23, 2004

9210 (nine to ten): the zip code of another IT-soap

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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...
Tuesday, September 07, 2004

This blog: plots for horror stories?

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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...
Thursday, September 02, 2004

President Bush's picture on a fake $200 bill

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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. ...
Saturday, August 21, 2004

Moxmo, small e-money issuer, is broke

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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 ...
Friday, August 13, 2004

Oops... payment of 3000 euro via the phone?

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An active student, Tjalling Kuipers , has started a public discussion on the new product feature of a phone payment product: KPN Switchpoint...
Thursday, August 05, 2004

BRINXPAY.NET ?

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

Receiving payment for Adsense

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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...
Friday, July 16, 2004

Paysquare to lower fees for some

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Het Financieele Dagblad (paid access) reports that Payquare is countering the B+S bid for credit-card fees in the restaurant sector by lowe...
Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Bibit to merge operations with Worldpay

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

Electronic Payments Interoperability (RFI)

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See this OMG Document .
Friday, July 09, 2004

European Commission sees bank kartel in France deter entry for newcomers

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