Simon's blog on Payments and Money

FATF published this report on new payment mechanisms . It would be a nice try for a second year student, trying to come to grips with realit...

Aneace noticed a nice Visa Commercial featuring speed of transaction of card based payments versus cash. Stuff like that is what we can use...

Last week there was a hearing at the EU on interchange fees. Reuters reported on that: * The Commission conducted the hearing to let Master...

can be found here (summarizing tables). But please all you scientists, be aware that these contain quite a condensened and in some sense ar...

Quite interesting. The world of cards is already a worldwide business since quite some years. And here we have a bunch of central banks in e...

See the Visa press release and read: The first V PAY transaction in Austria took place on November 15, 2006 at Denkstein in Salzburg's ...

See the website of the OFT to find out that: ...following a recommendation from the Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading, the Chancellor ...

Of course it is big fun to mess about with PIN-code systems and devising a way to attack them. That's what the security game is all abou...

ABN AMRO informs us that its Windows Live Messenger service to provide balance information to its users now has 16.500 users, which grows w...

Scientists and policy makers often make the misstake of simplifying reality to fit their preconceived assumptions on how markets work. As a ...

In all the cost benefits analysis of contactless payments, the assumption is (calculated) that terminals and machines would not be subject t...

Perhaps a first in the world-innovation by Postbank this monday. On their website there is a link that allows customers to find an ING or Po...

Planet Multimedia reports that Rabobank announced this monday that it will offer internet banking via mobile phones distributed by Rabobank...

See article in HFD . CCV Holland have received certification for its terminals and is now ready for roll-out and replacement of card termina...

Card schemes have a habit of starting out as incompetetive as possible. So if undisputed they will introduce a no-surcharge rule in scheme-r...

Interesting speech here with the following notes on how the Commission should regulate: Those who know me well recognise that this is not a...

Good article this week in Emerce by Erwin Boogert on Wallie Card. It turns out that new investors have taken over at Wallie Card which resu...

The conference programme with presentations can be found here. The hearsay has it that the conference was quite animated, indeed academic a...

HFD reports that more than 100 younger adults have been arrested this week as they loaned out their debit-card for money laundering to crim...

See press release here... to discover that TSYS is now certified to support open-loop prepaid cards in Europe on the MasterCard network. Th...