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Bo Harald

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Latest on the country deadline front

Latest on the country front – aiming at > 1. saving tax payer’s money, 2. collecting VAT due – efficiently, 3.pushing the SME-sector into better productivity, 4. increasing work force upward mobility and 5. contributing to CO2 targets. Deadlines issued: Denmark, Singapore, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, Greece, Mexico, Norway Latest: Gr...

08 August 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Where is your country?

Deadlines for paper or otherwise unstructured invoices (e-mail) to the public sector have been issued in many countries - and more are on their way. The reasons for this are obvious: 1. save tax payers money 2. move increasingly scarce human resources from administration to services and other productive tasks 3. kick-start e-invoicing in the econom...

26 July 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

No scanning please

When Denmark legislated against paper invoicing in the public sector (including municipalities) back in 2005 service providers (including banks) where not ready with easy solutions for the SMEs. The solution was that enterprises where told to go to the local post office to have invoices scanned. The state paid the cost. Many enterprises (worldwide...

19 July 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

The biggest of them all

We read that PayPal is moving into e-invoicing. Natural step for anyone who wants to stay in the payments business = keep the funding and profitability transaction accounts offer. Some banks have not yet seen the need to make the choice - keep the profitable and stable funding intact or not. In the same news we also read: "Separately, the US ...

19 July 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Why is innovation so difficult in banks

I attended a very good innovation meeting last week and there one senior banker said that innovations in banks are so difficult because there is an obsession with business cases. No innovation investment is allowed to fail (is this attitude imported from credit risk evaluation?) and the endless business case argumentation actually puts innovative ...

04 July 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

CUT 50

CUT 50 is the name of the next phase in the Real Time Economy program run in Finland since 2006. It stands for cutting SME administrative costs in half by 2014-15. The main building blocks are the following: 1. Implement the European Commission target to cut read tape so that 25% of the cost of this public sector related administrative burden can b...

03 July 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

The good thing with standards.

https://www.ebaportal.eu/_Download/What's%20News/2011/ISO20022_Financial_Invoice_Factsheet.pdf The good thing with standards is - as many say - that there are so many of them. When it comes to e-invoicing we now have one which is global, highly capable, ready for use and open to all (in no way dominated by for example the banking sector - even if ...

30 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Five easy steps to national e-invoicing

We have recently experienced a surge in interest for global e-invoicing from multinational enterprises. This is not surprising - cost savings are so large - and the usual ice-hockey stick effect typical. And we should be very pleased that the ISO20022 e-invoicing message standard (built on UNCEFACT CII V2 content standard) is ready for global adop...

18 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

National productivity programs - must-haves

In today´s global market place it is more than evident that most European countries need to take a really hard look at the competitiveness of their enterprises. This is naturally a multidimensional issue - education, innovation climate, workforce mobility, risk capital, bank lending, lower tax on work etc. One of the most critical issues is the hig...

18 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Banks taking responsibility - good show EBA!

“For several years, the Euro Banking Association (EBA) has been conducting an e-invoicing working group (EIWG), with the objective of contributing to the mass adoption of e-invoicing in Europe and of exploring the potential roles and opportunities for the banking industry.” Service Description & Rulebook’ document. “This document provides an ...

09 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

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