Simon's blog on Payments and Money

Amidst all the political noise on the interchange decision of the Commission it is good to also see that some academics still see the whole ...

See the press release here to read a landmark decision of the Commission. It's main argument: The Commission concluded that MasterCard...

Here's an interesting bit of research done in the Netherlands . All shops, banks and central bank have joined forces to evaluate the cos...

This recent single market review is interesting in many ways. We can see that the Commission is selling Europe to the citizen. And bashing ...

Approved and translated: Payment Services Directive

Nice article in newspaper: attentive customers discovered skimming device on an ING ATM. See also the two foto's: foto 1 foto 2

Nice article here: Payments: En Garde! The Clash of Banks, PayPal . How to judge Paypal...? Many EU observers often claim the e-money direct...

Payments and Settlements News 53 is out now with : News and events: · Eurosystem – SEPA signing events at Sibos 2007 · European ...

M-payments service provider Mollie will enter the market with Zaypay, a payment system for small valure payments (below 1 euro). They view t...

Well, another story begins to end. See the ABN AMRO Press Release that outlines that Barclays withdraws Offer for ABN AMRO .

Het Parool - Archief Elf arrestanten lid van Oost-Europese groep Skimmerbende opgerold PAUL VUGTS AMSTERDAM - Met elf arrestaties heeft de A...

Quite interesting both the US officials (Treasury and Fed) see proposed rule here and the Dutch government seek to stop 'unlawful betti...

The attacks on banks continue in cyberspace. And to such an extent that Postbank found the need to warn its users to check their PC and use ...

Many papers and the national news discussed the ending of the Chipknip in manned retail loactions. Among them also Het Financieele Dagblad ....

See this Techzine article : Rabobank will help the visually impaired by providing them with a bigger, audio-equipped device that acts as the...

See the website of the British Retail Consortium to read that Mastercard planned for a new approach to debit card interchange charging but ...

See the RTL news that outlines that a huge ABN AMRO survey outlines that 55 % wishes ABN AMRO to be independent. And 39 % chooses Barclays ...

This week it appears as if everyone understands and has an opinion on mergers and takeovers in the financial markets. Members of provincial ...

Interesting article here on Payment industry trends on the PayPal Blog . Essentially the trends are: - cash will lose out slowly - convenien...

This Planet - Multimedia column by Arjan Dasselaar outlines that it is e-invoicing time and states that direct debits and paper based bill ...

Dave Birch has an interesting case study on the Octopus system that apparently doesn't do its math completely well. It appears that qui...

The fun thing of policy research is that it always gets you the desired result (as apposed to scientifc research where you seek out to dismi...