Simon's blog on Payments and Money

This Emerce article explains that the non-voice/data revenue of Dutch operators in the third quarter of 2006 amounted to 226 million. This ...

This is a nice opinion on the issue of credit card fees. It warns retailers that suing Visa and Mastercard may eventually hurt them more th...

Interpay notifies the public that the errors in the KPN-network have been eliminated. Due to those errors, Dutch shopping today was a bit o...

This report compares the EMV introduction in Europe. Three of the big five European countries distinguished themselves by their leisure...

Info-Europa appears to be well informed on the new legal framework for payments . It appears that the commission has adapted the framework l...

Yesterday Interpay announced that President Venetiaan and Prime Minister Balkenende were the first to receive the new Prepaid Transfercard ...

The Financieele Dagblad reports that Rabobank outsources its cross-border payments to Fin-Force, while simutaneously acquiring a 22% share i...

is out now and can be read here... to find out amongst others that Payments are not a free lunch. That is the title of a finally translated...

Yahoo reports that NOVA Information Systems is to Acquire Citibank Card Acceptance in Europe. Effectively it is euroConex that has entered ...

Yesterday an important agreement was signed at the central bank. It involves three bits: 1-all banks will lower the fee for acquiring debit-...

Today the Financieele Dagblad reported on the upcoming changes as a result of SEPA. The article covers both legal changes as a result of the...

VNUnet reports in this article that as a part of the further delivery and expansion in the gaming segment, Microsoft will launch its own e-...

In the course of the review of the e-money directive, it is often stated that m-payments or e-payments are in its infancy. This press rrelea...

See the article in Automatisering Gids . Parliament has decided not to spend further money on the contactless payment system for public tran...

See this article in business wire to find out that Rabobank extended its existing business process outsourcing contract with Unisys Payment...

This article point the way to card-based bill payments instead of the old diect debit stuff that we designed in the 1960s..... Not a bad...

Planet multimedia reports that since its start last month, the iDeal e-payment functionality of Dutch banks has now reached a level of 8% a...

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 ...