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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-banking making great progress

Check progress here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/05/e-banking-and-payments-in-finland.html Not bad for population of 5,3 million - but then we started in 1982..This will naturally happen everywhere. Also the 3rd party services - "connecting customers" - with services like e-id, e-signing contracts, e-commerce payments, e-invoicing,...

/payments Transaction Banking

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-invoicing making great progress

Check progress here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-you-sign-them-up.html There are some 220 000 enterprises in Finland - by now banks have signed up an estimated 120 000 - other service providers probably 20 000. What you can see from the usage is typical - first you sign them up - then after some delay (rather long as finance departm...

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Retired Member 

SEPA Direct Debits falter in France

The SEPA project received something of a blow when, in December 2008, the French Banking Federation (FBF) announced that its members had suspended work on SEPA pending clarification from European authorities on interchange fees for services that banks supply to each other. “As long as these rules are not clarified, the French banks, like many Euro...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-id service making great progress

So sensemaking to let citizens log in to public sector with e-bank log-on tools. Check statistics here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/04/e-id-making-great-progress.html This is so saving both tax payer's money and speeding up e-government as tools are familiar, trusted and much more convenient than any public-sector-only tool would be. Sever...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Siddharth Udani

Siddharth Udani Client Partner at Consulting

Banks choose technology or solutions?

It’s rather a very interesting debate whether banks choose the 'right' solution or a solution thats 'fits' their technology landscape. Though most of the Requirements are driven out of business change, how much of influence does business have on technology solutions? And whether do they actually care? With banks getting global and larger, there ha...

/payments /retail Banking Architecture

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Retired Member 

Facebook's Micropayment Non-Strategy

Rumors continue to swirl concerning the deployment of a Facebook payments system. Recently the company unveiled that it was beta testing (via the VentureBeat and Facebook networks) functionality which would enable users to engage in small transactions using Facebook Credits, the network's nascent virtual currency, via comments to news feed items. ...

/payments Finance 2.0

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Questions European tax payers should ask

We are at critical point in our economy - businesses are struggling, public debt is soaring, many banks need support,tax increases are threatening, unemployment is on the rise, budget cuts eat into product development and innovations - just to mention a few. But even worse problems are waiting around the corner - aging population, smaller workfor...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Innovation in wholesale payments, beyond e-invoicing

I'm expecting that again this year there will be a lot of talk about e-invoicing at EBAday in Vienna, particularly as the expert group and EPC are working to break down the remaining barriers to widespread adoption (such as these). But beyond just the level playing field for e-invoicing, I'm looking forward to hearing more about what's being done ...

/payments /wholesale EBAday

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A counter-intuitive way to make mobile payments irresistible

Put loyalty and prepaid cards on mobile phones first, which will create the desire to have credit and debit cards as well, integrated into a single transaction. Going the other way, credit cards first, will be extremely challenging. The difference is the value proposition to customers and retailers. The main promise of putting credit and debit ca...

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Nick Hastings

Nick Hastings 

Charity Walk - the final countdown

Thought I'd give you a quick update on my walk. The kick off is under 4 days away now and I will be setting off next Tuesday (21 April). I am looking forward to the challenge and the experience but I must admit I am getting a little nervous!4 months of solid training is now coming down to 9 days following the Thames through field and town - and ha...

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