Simon's blog on Payments and Money

See the report here . With a number of qualitative date on e-shopping 2005 in Europe.

Interpay reports over 2005 a record growth in processed and authorized transactions. As good as this is, certainly if processing occurs wit...

A somewhat under-estimated part of payment business is the remittance industry. Those looking for more information and a discussion on the g...

Planet Multimedia reports that Rabobank has just launched Notabox. With notabox, the regular Dutch acceptgiro (bill payment) is sent in dig...

Just a week ago, PBS announced that is buying PBS International, explaining that SEPA is coming and that this is part of a move to anticipa...

Why I ran into this paper only just now I don't know. But suffice to say that once the renowned Brookings Institution bites into any sub...

Online market researcher Interwired has announced the results of a survey on electric money. The company conducted the survey of 6,430 men ...

In some niches payment systems may do well. Webpay operates in the digital content domain and has just raised 20 million euro for further e...

For quite some years now, e-gold is operating on the web. It is a gold-deposit account with no fixed monetary value. And it allows to some e...

Planet Multimedia reports that 25 % of the payments at Internet shop Coolblue occurs via IDEAL, the joint web-payment mechanism of large Dut...

Yesterday the Dutch competition authority NMa issued a press-release to inform the public that in the discussion on the monopoly situation ...

Ian Grigg notes that the one-click payment systems of e-cash was already there before Amazon invented (and patented) their system. Which le...

Planet Multimedia reports that while UK research shows that 51 % of the British consumers would seriously want to have a WAP-enable phone a...

Yesterday an important thing hit the financial markets. ABN AMRO announced in a press release that it was sanctioned principally in connect...

Planet Multimedia reports that Rabobank will as of January 2006 start with interactive television. Customers will be able to transact via t...

The European Commission has published a bunch of stuff to invite the public to contribute to a discussion on market dominance and its treat...

The Financieele Dagblad reports that the Dutch competition authority finds the Dutch market to be insufficiently open. These are the finding...

The Commission announced the adoption of its " Draft Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on payment services in the...

IT News Online describe how BT and Interpay have silently altered the software in retailers POS-terminals to ensure that they always dial-u...

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...