206 Results from 2009, /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Quote from Bruno Koch's newsletter "The newly elected German Government plans to accelerate use of electronic invoices in Germany by removing barriers hindering their adoption. E-Invoicing is to be enabled in a more unbureaucratic manner. The author of this newsletter will keep you informed about future decisions and development." My co
08 December 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/12/sonera-showing-way-in-finland.html Charging for paper invoices has been a touchy subject in Finland even if: - all experience shows that transparent pricing (producing "negative carrots..") is the only efficient way to make mass markets move fast - consumers say that they will not change behaviour ju...
03 December 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
The indictment of Albert Gonzalez for the theft of 130 million credit and debit card details from Heartland Payment Systems caught the headlines recently. Not for the indictment in itself or that Heartland’s security defences had been bypassed, but for the fact that the company had been declared PCI compliant by Qualified Security Assessors in Apr...
03 December 2009 /security /payments
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Bank of America has announced the launch of the Credit Card Clarity Commitment(TM), a one-page summary of customers' rates, fees, and payment information. "Bank of America is investing more in our customers and our future," says Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America Consumer, Small Business Banking, and Card Services president. "We are ...
01 December 2009 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
final report by the EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing now public
30 November 2009 /payments
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
2009 has seen tightening up of regulation in the financial markets globally, and the payments environment is no exception. In Europe, the EU has pioneered a number of changes with the introduction of SEPA Direct Debits and the PSD. Whilst much of this red tape has created challenges for banks and institutions the introduction of the PSD this Novem...
26 November 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just finishing off a Cheque Book I started in September 2006. I even have some Suppliers whose latest Invoices show no Bank details, yet earlier Invoices di...
25 November 2009 /payments Whatever...
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
So the venerable old cheque has been singled out and "tapped" for termination - in the UK at least. Of course, in the new world of electronic payments and instantaneous communications, the demise of the cheque was inevitable. A payment instrument devised in a simpler time, the cheque representing a negotiable claim on the bank account of...
24 November 2009 /payments
When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, I wonder whether he realised the impact this new technology would come to have on people’s lives. Use of this new device wasn’t instantaneous though; after all, if you didn’t know someone else who had a telephone, what was the point in owning one? This chicken and egg scenario is mirrored ...
23 November 2009 /payments
The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) 2009 summit upped its efforts last week to strengthen economic integration in the region. While APEC has always strived for greater economic integration in order to increase trade, improve investor confidence and reduce business costs across the region, in today’s globalised and more interdependent wor...
19 November 2009 /payments
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