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Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.

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Online payments -more than card payments

I have been working with one client to research and open their eyes about different options about to pay online. For example, in my former native country- Finland- most of the people prefer to pay with online bank based debit payments over credit cards when doing business online. 70 % or more is exact number. It is easy, it is fast and both mercha...

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Has the Long-Awaited Tipping Point in B2B Payments Arrived?

Glenbrook Partners, a well respected payments strategy and consulting firm is on a mission to discover if the long-awaited ‘tipping point' in B2B payments, signaling a world in which electronic payments are the norm, has finally arrived. In pursuit of the answer, they've been interviewing solution providers. View their list of company interviews (...

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My view about Google Wallet as a platform

There has been lot of debate about Google Wallet, which itself is a new way to have credit card. It is plastic alright, but not like plastic we are used to have. It has screen, touch pads and you can also call or surf with it. It is also called as mobile phone. This is new step, which has been already tested with many companies in the last past 10...

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Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

A virtual EU capital e-Brussel - year 2030?

copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com

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Direct debit and multicultural project management.

Some years ago I was in charge of Nordic payment project, where we suppose to build a common interface for Nordic online bank. For several years that project was stuck, because a lot of misunderstandings. When it was my time to lead a project, it took me some months until noticed what is wrong. In the project group there were four members from fou...

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Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

How to build year 2050 payment systems new strategies?

Can we use for that some of the ideas of M.Kaku, Von Neumann, Kardashev or Andreyev ´s Roza Mira? copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com

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B2B AP Fraud: Is it Tapering Off?

The 2011 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey, shows that despite advances in fraud protection and prevention in recent years, the rate of payments fraud attack remains stubbornly high. 71% of organizations experienced attempted or actual payments fraud in 2010. 93% of organizations responding to the survey reported incidents of check fraud, up t...

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Creating the Business Case for Payment Execution Outsourcing

Simply put, payment execution is the process of initiating payments, whether by check, ACH, wire or card. Increasingly, companies are looking to outsource this portion of their A/P processing. Payment initiation is time consuming, labor intensive and expensive (in the case of checks) and certainly meets the definition of a non-core business func...

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SEPA vs. Open Source development

As final day for SEPA has been changed, again. I started to think what we could learn from Open Source Development. Every day streets and meeting rooms of Brussels get important people to discuss hard topics. Every night they fly away and meet again next week or month to discuss again technical papers on important issues. This could be SEPA, this ...

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iManage my e-invoices

iManage is just idea or imaginary product, but it would be good to test if this could make more sense, at least for SME or individuals when talking about e-invoice solutions. As there are so many solutions to receive and pay e-invoices, I had opportunity to talk with other Finextra member some months ago about idea of how there should be one soluti...

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