Simon's blog on Payments and Money

At present there is only this press release and this article available on the CapGemini World Retail Banking Report 2007. Apparently the p...

Finextra reports that: Atos Origin wins Equens outsourcing contracts . The Dutch bit of Equens has outsourced its mainframe operations and o...

Payments News reports that First Data International is to Acquire POLCARD. They will pay for this purchase (which looks a bit like a panEur...

Today the financieele dagblad reports that it has somehow 'gotten hold of' a secret letter by the Dutch competition authority to Cu...

The Belgian newspapers all cover the news that, contrary to earlier reports and choices, the Belgian banks have chosen not to move over to...

Emerce reports : - in the first month of its existence 1700 entrepreneurs signed up to get a quick and easy, internet loan facility with rab...

See their press release ( in Dutch ) to discover that: * former commissioner Jorritsma and former director van der Veer of Currence had comp...

Today, the European council agreed on the Payment Services Directive . This means that if European Parliament also agrees on this text, we m...

After being harassed to stop providing services to US customers (who had been using netteller to pay for US casino stuff on the web), Nettel...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Europe . A lot of celebrations on the whole. And clearly the founders have been shown to be right to...

Dave Birch describes/links to this posting that explain how to do fraud via m-payment etc: This is how it works: You buy a stored value ca...

Automatiseringsgids reports on phishing attempts aimed at ABN AMRO . The Dutch used in the phishing mail was a bit rusty, so most customers ...

See this article to conclude (if I understand correctly) what the political compromise is about the Payment Service Directive. Apparently s...

Following up on all the news of Skype, I was wondering whether or not major players such as Yahoo, Microsoft and Google were up to further f...

Payments News noticed the Paypal press release, outlining that they have 35 million accounts in Europe, which appears to be the biggest cro...

On quite another scale (compared to yesterdays announcement in Belgium), Reuters informs us that Skype will soon be offering payments, usin...

The belgian banking/telco community has developed and launched m-payments that combine access to the bank account and holding a mobile telep...

This wednesday Mr Eppink, former civil servant in Brussels, will publish a book on how Europe really works. It should contain lots of behind...

According to an annotated ECOFIN-agenda of our Ministry of Finance , the Council of Ministers of Finance will at the end of this month be in...

See this press-release in which ABN AMRO confirms exploratory discussions with Barclays plc: As part of its continuous strategy to explore ...

This week the Dutch could witness more stuff on the SWIFT-case: - further discussion and questions in parliament , - continued quarrels betw...

See also the Finextra article : Norwegian payments processor Banking and Business Solutions (BBS) and Danish payments body Payment Business ...