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Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
In the last few weeks I’ve been talking to some of the corporations hit by famous Operation Aurora; the attack that triggered the Google-China virtual war. The CISOs of these companies are facing a daunting task. These incidents reached board-level attention, and left many questions unanswered. How good are the traditional defense mechanisms? What ...
12 May 2010 /security
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Preface to Final Report “Europe is facing major challenges in the coming years as its enterprises and public sector need to become both significantly more productive and environmentally friendly. These needs are accentuated by the relative decline of population of working age and at the same time the growing demand for human resources in health an...
09 May 2010 /payments
We have been expecting a leveling out in the transaction growth for some time – but 2009 was still a year of strong growth. The fact that 4,9m out ouf 5,5m citizens are signed up can partly be explained by e-bank login codes being used also for public sector. Otherwise one contract per household could be sufficient (joint accounts often used for bi...
04 May 2010 /payments
Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene
Biometric Payments is in fact not a new technology, it has been in the payments market for years and years already! No worries people, it blew my mind as well after some documentation struggling. With this post I hope to give you all an overview of what I am talking about. For those who are not familiar with biometric payments, I hope this gives y...
03 May 2010 /security /payments
Bank e-id serve the entire public sector (in several other countries as well) and eliminates the need for expensive and user-un-friendly one-purpose-smart-card solutions (also non-bank customers have the right to get bank-id for this purpose). Also a wide array of strong-authentication needing private sector services and even trade unions contribu...
03 May 2010 /payments
I have the privilage to work with innovation streams in several areas and have lately seen the following elements as pivotal: 1. Do we have the capability to create a strong enough vision for the need for change = innovation? Without Vision – no Enthusiasm – without Enthusiasm - no Innovation. 2. Do we realize that in today’s world you have to eng...
02 May 2010 /payments
No commercial constellation will create this Single Market milestone.. Migration to E-invoicing is the the by far most topical step for improving enterprise productivity – especially in face of rapidly declining workforce in EU. “Cutting enterprise administrative cost in half” is the main goal – improving competiveness by offering digital services...
28 April 2010 /payments
Leg number 1 is the VAT directive for equal treatment and other unification. No demands can be put on electronic invoices by tax authorities that is not put on paper invoices. Leg number 2 is the ISO standard for e-invoicing which is built on the Cross Industry Invoice content standard - to be formally approved within the next 3 months. The body – ...
E-invoicing is by all measures far more important than SEPA (a claim I have been making since the first SEPA-discussions). Far more important for: - productivity in EU enterprises - cost savings in the public sector - CO2 reduction - and above all as the next milestone in building the Single Market Allmost all invoices in EU are digitally born – bu...
On the way back from a big and very successful EU-conference on e-Invoicing in Madrid. What did become clear – again - was that migration to e-invoicing will not happen without large scale collaboration. This goes for areas like legal deregulation, standardization, network building. Bur above all in spreading the message of how much can be gained i...
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