Simon's blog on Payments and Money

This Dutch site is called sms-bon. It specialises in sending pre-paid gift vouchers via sms. From the looks of it, the Dutch supervisors ha...

See this RED HERRING article . ....Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said Google Wallet will not be a PayPal clone. Unlike PayPal, analysts sp...

An interesting statement of the Consumer Union in the Dutch opinion magazine Elsevier. While in previous years consumers did not have the op...

The economist has this article on financing terrorism and the use of measures such as proposed by the Financial Action Task Force on Fraud ...

is out now and links to: * EBA – Luxembourg's banks to move national retail transfers to EBA Clearing's STEP2 platform , * Leo Van ...

I stumbled accross this website that introduces the Chase Blink contactless card. It's a very graphic and appealing website that invite...

Being sued by merchants, Mastercard needs cash. So they sell of some shares and do the administrative thing. See the document here . ....

Planet Multimedia reports that KPN has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with web payment service provider Triple Deal . As a r...

Automatiseringsgids reports that this monday the Ministry of Transport has discussed with local government representatives (provinces and c...

Redherring reported this week that eBay is buying VeriSign’s payment gateway business. The press-release was wrongly interpreted by many Du...

Read this press release to discover that Interpay, the Dutch ACH, complies with central bank standards. That is, the release should read...

See this speech to ddiscover: But I also want to be clear that I am ambitious for the successful delivery of this project. In order to sust...

On 3 October 2005, Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, gave a speech about how to achieve...

S.W.I.F.T. has prepared an online version of the official Sibos 2005 Copenhagen Wrap Up Report. Available on the website are all the speeche...

A number of media, amongst which Emerce report that Dutch internet payment system iDeal has finally lifted off. The reactions under the art...

ABN AMRO announces the introduction of Access Online for the large corporates market segment. Through Access Online, companies can monitor ...

A good article on Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) which discusses roles and positions of Commission, banks, ACH's, ECB and identifies ...

See the press-statement here and note: The European Payments Council today approved its SEPA Cards Framework at a Plenary meeting in Brusse...

This week a trial with self-check-out has startd at Albert Heijn in Utrecht Oost . Essentially, customers need to scan their purchased items...

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...

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

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