Simon's blog on Payments and Money

This sunday I wanted to order a cd and sheet music by Jules de Corte. Whereas usually this is just a matter of seconds, using iDeal, I now h...

With all the new apps, technology and stuff, you can just build any payment produkt you like. It appears there is a Danish bank that has de...

This new year brings us a bit of a memory: ten years ago we started using the euro bank notes. For many people in the Netherlands, this was ...

These days it's about ten years ago that I started blogging: I set up the blog Retail Betaalgedachten to voice my views on the retail p...

Tweakers net today reports that T-mobile is leaving the consortium of banks and telco's in the Netherlands . The sixpack consortium is ...

The Dutch Bankers Association today starts a campaign to increase awareness of consumers that they shouldn't fall for the numerous phis...

As some of you may know, I have had quite an interest in electronic money in the Netherlands  in the past. And yesterday I had the pleasure ...

Today, our central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) released survey results on Dutch payments in 2010 . It showed that in 2010 consumers i...

One month ago I had a meeting with two American visitors that wished to know more about the history of payments here in the Netherlands. And...

As I browsed through the programme and speakers of the E-MA conference on e-money I noticed that Rhys Bollen would present on regulatory iss...

I think it is fair to say that technology and payment innovation occurs in several 'rounds'. It's sort of a boxing game where en...

These days reports are out about the sinking value of Bitcoins and we see users worried about it . And so we see yet another social/payment...

Since some time, work is on the way between the three big banks and telco's in the Netherlands on payments with NFC. See the report in t...

A couple of months ago, I opened a new weblog, dedicated to the financial history of payments, banking and Amsterdam. So for those intereste...

Today, the ECB published updated standards for oversight of payment and settlement systems . And once more I found it quite interesting to o...

After a lot of thinking, the FED issued its rules for debit card interchange . Essentially they've outlined the borders beteen which the...

This week was the last week of this seasons parliament sessions in the Netherlands. And our parliament has a tendency, of late, to increasin...

It's not always nice to be subject to Internet fraud. Last weekend I heard about a couple that had their hotmail account hacked. And I a...

Every now and then, Bitcoin keeps on popping up in posts ( including mine ). At first I only looked at the technical bit, but I've come ...

Around the year 2000 I was working on both my historical research about the development of payments in the Netherlands and in the payment p...

ING is these days kicking out all old savings accounts. Among those, the infamous: Rente, Plus and Sterrekening. These were the first saving...

It's the small things in which you can see that in the Netherlands we're moving slowly to EMV-based transactions. At the ATM's w...