Thursday, September 29, 2005

Telco's blame Dutch banks for end of Simpay..?

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The Dutch newswebsite Nu.nl writes an article on mobile operators that blame the Dutch banks that the mobile operators can't get a foot...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Rotterdam uses contactless OV-Chipkaart on 5 subway stations

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Automatisering Gids announces that yesterday, the entrance gates at five subway stations were activated. This marks the start of the use of...

Keep the bank branch open...?

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The Dutch socialist party is republishing an initiative that dates from 4 years ago. The initiative aims at keeping bank branches open and ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Antitrust Activity in Card-Based Payment Systems: conference papers available

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The papers and presentations from last week's NY Fed conference on "Antitrust Activity in Card-Based Payment Systems: Causes and Co...
Monday, September 26, 2005

ABN AMRO to acquire controlling stake in Antonveneta

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The EU-market finally opens: central banks and regulators can no longer silently back nationalistic plans to keep the business domestic. As ...
Sunday, September 25, 2005

Kosgiro in Kosovo: Dutch acceptgiro with barcode

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One and a half year ago, the IMF looked for a solution to automate bill payments in Kosovo. Knowing the Dutch acceptgiro-system, the questio...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

P&S News 26: selected readings

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Payments and Settlement News Nr 26 can be read here and contains links to: - a good comparative overview of interchange fees in countries ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Interpay stops servicing Internet Cash registers..

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Dutch e-zine Emerce has an article on this topic (in Dutch) . Interpay, the Dutch payment processor, will end its Internet-cash register ser...
Friday, September 16, 2005

iDEAL launchs at October 3

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that is.... according to the Postbank website ( FAQ iDeal ).
Thursday, September 15, 2005

National payments schemes propose European IP network

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See Finextra : A group of 13 bank-owned payment processors have banded together to explore the possibility of creating a Sepa-compliant IP...
Sunday, September 11, 2005

Microsoft and Unisys Build on Interpay Solution to Create Common European Platform for Cross-Border Payments

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See this press release . At Sibos 2005 Copenhagen, Microsoft announced that it is working with Unisys to deliver a common European platf...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

Mastercard agreement anti-competitive, rules OFT

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See the press release here. . The OFT has found that a collective agreement between members of MasterCard UK Members Forum (MMF), including ...
Monday, September 05, 2005

Utrecht University fully goes Chipknip

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As of October 3, the University of Utrecht will only accept Chipknip as the payment method in the restaurants and canteens on its premises. ...
Saturday, September 03, 2005

Payments and Settlements News nr 25: interesting stuff

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This edition of P&S News has good some interesting stuff amongst which: - more info on the Berlin Gruppe - information on Mastercard...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

Not too many questions on upcoming Ideal-product

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Emerce notes that there are not too many questions for payment service providers on the soon to be introduced internet-payment product: Ide...

SMS-alert for credit-card payments

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Automatisering Gids reports that ING will introduce an SMS alert service for new cards as well as the old one. As soon as users reach 75% o...
Saturday, August 20, 2005

Payments and Settlements News 24

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P&S News is out now. This edition has generally got an academic flavour. Yet, quite interesting is the ESCB view on the EU-Green Paper o...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Driving ATM...

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The Rabobank has received quite some press with an ATM that is built into a money transport van. The idea is new (at least for the Netherlan...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

First Data acquires Austrian APSS...

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Banking Business Review reports that First Data has signed an agreement to fully acquire APSS. Let's see if the same happens as with En...

Bill has a couple of thousand users

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Emerce reports that the MSN-payment system Bill now has about 5000 users. It's often a guy and he is about 29 years old. Each month an ...
Monday, August 01, 2005

Mr Duisenberg and the privatization of the Postbank

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Yesterday, mr Duisenberg, former President of the European central bank and of the Dutch central bank, former director at Rabobank, former M...
Sunday, July 31, 2005

Postbank installs instore ATM's at retailer Albert Heijn

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Today news came out that Postbank installs in-store ATM's in all shops of retailer Albert Heijn. Fun thing is that the cash withdrawals ...