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Sunday, October 30, 2005

E-money via SMS: the SMS voucher

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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...

Google Wallet May Debut Soon

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

The price of safety

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An interesting statement of the Consumer Union in the Dutch opinion magazine Elsevier. While in previous years consumers did not have the op...
Saturday, October 29, 2005

FATF: Looking in the wrong places

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

Payments and Settlements News - 28

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

Great flash-promo for Chase blink

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

Mastercard goes public: definitive Proxy Statement with SEC

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Being sued by merchants, Mastercard needs cash. So they sell of some shares and do the administrative thing. See the document here . ....
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

KPN signs exclusive deal with web-PSP Triple Deal

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Planet Multimedia reports that KPN has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with web payment service provider Triple Deal . As a r...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Doubts for the contactless OV-chipcard...?

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Automatiseringsgids reports that this monday the Ministry of Transport has discussed with local government representatives (provinces and c...
Sunday, October 16, 2005

eBay Buys VeriSign Unit

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

Interpay system complies with central bank standards

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Read this press release to discover that Interpay, the Dutch ACH, complies with central bank standards. That is, the release should read...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

McCreevy on the future of payments in Europe

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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...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

ECB: Keeping up the momentum: achieving the SEPA objectives on time

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On 3 October 2005, Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, gave a speech about how to achieve...
Friday, October 07, 2005

SWIFT - Conferences - Sibos 2005

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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...

Ideal started with hick-ups and burps...

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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 introduces Access Online for the large corporates market segment

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

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA): an environmental overview

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A good article on Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) which discusses roles and positions of Commission, banks, ACH's, ECB and identifies ...
Monday, October 03, 2005

EPC statement 21 September 2005

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See the press-statement here and note: The European Payments Council today approved its SEPA Cards Framework at a Plenary meeting in Brusse...
Saturday, October 01, 2005

Albert Heijn trial with self-check out starts

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