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Two days after the original article on "Amazon vs PayPal" was published and tweeted by several people, one of the Amazon Payments' top execs joined Finextra. Talk about coincidence... These days, PR teams keep an eye on online "exposure" of their companies/clients. United Airlines paid a hefty price for ignoring the power of so...
28 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
8 reasons for paper and PDF-deadlines NOW: http://eeiplatform.com/8429/8-top-quoted-reasons-mandating-goverment-e-invoicing/?utm_source=E-invoicing+Platform&utm_campaign=5b97b520f0-E-invoicing+Platform+-+Newsletter+wk+26&utm_medium=email An additional major reason for resolute actions is that we need to free up a soo...
27 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
RBS is reported as saying that all Customer Accounts are back to normal. They may well be from a monetary perspective, but the data still remains corrupt. I now have on my Business Account 3 BACS credits, one for nearly £500, all with a generic description of “RBS TRANS 220612”, which fails to identify the Customer or the Invoice number. As I h...
26 June 2012 /payments Whatever...
from EEI-platform news: “We also received confirmation from several of our informal sources in Brussels. Some of them said that there are thoughts to make e-invoicing mandatory. Some others have the opinion that the e-invoicing uptake in the EU will get a boost (because of the liberalisation) as from 2013, making additional e-invoicing regulations...
25 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Amazon and PayPal have never been friends. Their "mild animosity" goes back to 2003 when Amazon launched services aimed at (small) e-merchants, thus muscling in on the eBay's territory. In August 2007, Amazon unveiled its wholly owned subsidiary - Amazon Payments - created to provide a range of ambitious (and, at that time, quite innovati...
I recently had a discussion as to which market represents the biggest business potential for iZettle (I said - the US). If one looked at the current EMV terminal adoptions rates worldwide, it is clear that the USA represents what seems to be... 0% of the global EMV terminal market. Add to the equation EMV's plan to switch all US issuers to EMV fr...
22 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
I was joking, of course, but I bet many of you were not surprised - hardly a week goes by without some "m-wallet" announcement here or there. How many more m-wallets need to be launched before it becomes a four-letter word? In fact, how many wallets does a consumer need? Just one! The one which works in both physical and online worlds - a...
22 June 2012 /payments
Background Social media is extending the disruptive impact of digital era across a broad range of functions. While critics and naysayers discount it as fleeting distraction, history suggests otherwise. For instance, during advent of television, media could barely laugh it out only until half-minute commercial ads wiped out print ads. Recent dawn o...
22 June 2012 /payments /retail
This will grow very fast as: 1. Almost all enterprises have signed up for e-invoicing services (201 000 with banks by end 2011 – 85% of all active). All have not yet started to use the services but will have to as: 2. The state sector and many enterprises have stopped scanning and return paper and PDFs.
21 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
It was announced yesterday that Facebook is going to start phasing out their Facebook Credits system. If you've been watching my commentary over the last few years, I had entertained Facebook becoming a sort of default currency for the web because of the platform's ubiquity. However, like many things online, users and developers collaborated to cr...
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