Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Donalds bookstore...

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Just made this Amazon store with books on payments. Indulge yourself.
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Report on changes in payment habits in Austria

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See this link for the report on changes in payment habits in Austria.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

July FED Kansas conference on Consumer behaviour in payments

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See this page and beyond.
Sunday, July 23, 2006

Ebay financial results and Paypal data

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including Paypal figures can be found here.

Eurocommerce 2005 report: payments issues

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See pages 38-44 in this report and discover that Eurocommerce find a fertile ground for their bank complaints at the premises of both Europ...

Comparative report of European Competition Authorities (ECA) on competition issues in retail banking

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In may 2006 the European Competition Regulators finished the study they started in May 2004 on competition issues in retail banking. To appr...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

United States Senate Committee Hearing on antitrust concerns for credit-card rates

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See this page with information/links . Essentially this is the usual exhange of views where consumers and retailers protest and banks and ca...

ING loses POS-debit-card contract Ahold to ABN AMRO

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Yesterdays Financieele Dagblad reports that ING loses its contract for POS-debit transaction for Ahold to ABN AMRO. This accounts for about ...

Dutch banks follow APACS example with website on safe banking

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The Dutch banks yesterday launched a webste which instructs consumers on safe banking. See the website www.veiligbankieren.nl and do notice...
Friday, July 21, 2006

Commission takes on Cartes Bancaire

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This press release clarifies that the Commission sent a new Statement of Objections to the ‘Groupement des Cartes Bancaires’ (CB) on 19th J...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

Why regulate banks and/or competition?

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This pdf is an interesting piece of work of the International Competition Network (ICN) with an overview of arguments why regulation of ban...
Friday, July 14, 2006

Increase in use of debitcard for Dutch low value payments

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Het Financieele Dagblad reports (login required) that the Dutch increasingly use the debit-card instead of cash for lower value payments: -...
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Visa and First Data settle dispute..

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See the posting on Payments News : Visa USA and First Data Corporation have announced they have settled a legal dispute that has been pendin...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

ING Bank and Getronics PinkRoccade to set up European Biller Service Provider

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Today ING Bank and Pink Roccade Getronics announced that they would set up a European Biller Service Provider to allow easier digital bill ...
Monday, July 10, 2006

Dutch banks open their books on cost/benefits in payments: EUR 128 million loss in 2005

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In an unprecedented move of openness and transparancy, the Dutch banks have today published the results of a revolutionary study into the co...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Irish Banks launch switching code to increase user mobility

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The Irish Bankers federation has launched the new IBF Business Account Switching Code last week. The Code will make it easier for businesses...
Friday, June 30, 2006

BCG report suggests regulators to hold their horses on their 2010 ambition to phase out national products in Europe

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See this press-release on BCG's 8th report: Global Payments 2006. In which specifically the EU-comments are quite sensible: The report ...

ABN AMRO and Rabobank concentrate cash processing activities

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See this press release to find out that: - Rabobank Nederland and ABN AMRO will launch a joint cash processing company named Gavea on 1 Octo...

Google launches Checkout-service

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After a lot of speculation Google has now launched Google check-out which aims to make repetitive payments via credit-card easier. Essential...

Commission takes on Mastercard interchange fees

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See this press release to find out that the European Commission confirms that it has sent a supplementary Statement of Objections (SO) to M...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

Small terminal supplier points to outdated retailer dogma's that PIN (POS) is expensive

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Yesterday, Mr Mogendorff of Pinlinq, stirred the Dutch retail payment industry with an article in the Financieele Dagblad on POS-payments. H...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Remittances via money transfer agencies more expensive than via the bank

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Here in the Netherlands, the press are so keen on blaming banks for not competing and not giving the best deal to their customers, that we f...