Simon's blog on Payments and Money

The Daily Yomiuri On-Line reports that Japanse banks seek to introduce multifunctional cards that also work as electronic money. Before...

A case decided on April 11, (United States v. Uddin), held that a person may be prosecuted for operating an illegal money transmitting busi...

Dutch Internet payment system Ideal, developed by banks will be launched in August this year. Which is on schedule .... ;-)

Belgium shows the first signs that introduction of EMV for credit-cards (which includes use of another PIN) leads to a reduced use of the cr...

This article discusses the e-money directive and it's application in the UK. It outlines that fees of operators for payment via premium...

OPERATORS of payment systems will be licensed by the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), Parliament resolved on March 18, approving the second re...

The World Banking Report presents an annual index of prices of basic banking services across national markets. Read the press-release at ING...

See this article . Clearly the position of GSM Europe is to ask for less regulation in exchange for which they promise more jobs in Europe. ...

Dutch SNS Bank will introduce Bill, your Dutch banking buddy while Billeo tries to do the same in US-environment....

Informative paper about Botnets with the title: Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets . In this paper we look at a special kind of threat: the...

Electronic payment processor TSYS said Thursday it has signed a seven-year deal with the largest bank in the Netherlands, making it the comp...

Just woke up to find the phish net is gone. The link now says: "Sorry, We Can't Find That Page" . So that's half a day of ...

This link to http://members.aol.com/paypalsite/login.html is still live, but Ive just sent a mail to webmaster@aol.com. So let's see ho...

Last few days the very famous Digital Money Conference of Consult Hyperion took place. Bits and pieces of the discussions are now scattered ...

See this link . The card is actually a rounded card. .

See: http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=9501 Tokyo (JCNN) - East Japan Railway (JR East) will join forces with NTT DoCoMo and Sony ...

http://www.mblox.com/mblox-europe/news/current/2005.02.09.shtml : MasterCard, the leading global payments solutions company, and mBlox, the ...

The phisher has been caught. Qn.com apparently intervened. Its website now reads: Disabled - This accont violated our terms of service . Sti...

Qn.com shows Yakov Yukhananov as the owner. Qn.com offers free subdomains just before the qn. and apparently does not check what the domain-...

To be found here: http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/formmail-advisory.pdf .

Of course I was wondering how this Form-mail in Canada would work. Well this page on Matt's Script Archive: FormMail tells you.