4853 Results from /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Studies made for EU reveal that the VAT Gap (difference between theoretical VAT receipts and actual payments) exceeds 100BN€ every year since 2000 (118,8bn€ in 2009). All of this is not fraud or loopholes - there can be legal exceptions. In any case it is our money - something we tax payers should be interested in getting paid (to get lower salary...
11 November 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
I've been at the E-Money, Cards and Payments conference in Moscow today. Coming off the back of SIBOS it is quite interesting to have a discussion not just about payments, but around modality and the emergence of strong mobile payments methodologies and practices. We already know that checks/cheques are in terminal decline, but when you bring up t...
Very spot on article in The Economist. Some snippets (emphasis mine) and comments: - “productivity growth is the closest economics gets to a magic elixir, especially for ageing advanced economies” - productivity depends on skills (my favorite: learning by doing – by moving around and up the ladder..), capital invested in tools (mostly IT) and the p...
10 November 2010 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Is regulatory pressure really going up? If you listen to the vendors and the press alike, that’s certainly the impression you’ll get, but is it true? We decided to find out by looking at the evidence to support the claim. As you will see, some surprises came up. To look into the claim of regulatory pressure being on the up, I invited Saskia Rietb...
10 November 2010 /security /payments
The proposal states: “The requirement of authenticity and the integrity of the content will remain as abstract conditions for the sales tax approval of electronic invoices, but the other requirements for electronic invoices will be abandoned. So, there will be no technical requirements anymore that need to be meet by a German company. “As with pape...
05 November 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
According to current statistics, Facebook has more than 500 million ACTIVE users, 50% of whom use Facebook everyday, 200 million of these users interact via mobile daily, and around half of the Top sites in the world are integrated with Facebook. PayPal recently announced integration of micropayments into Facebook's platform. Facebook also announ...
04 November 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
AT SIBOS we heard Ossi Leikola of Nordea Bank describing how it is already today possible for an e-invoice sender to get his payment in less than 30 minutes after having sent the invoice - the target being to make it much faster. I have to confess that I felt quite proud. This is the new customer value that banks moving into extended payments can ...
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Last week, I came across an interesting headline - "Visa Opens World’s Leading Payments Network to Independent Developers Visa Inc. today announced a significant enhancement to the Authorize.Net Developer Center, a resource that enables independent developers to create applications supporting electronic payments and related services for major ...
04 November 2010 /payments
To date, the poor availability of phones with NFC technology has been one of the factors holding back the use of this technology to enable wave-and-pay mobile payments in a shop or peer-to-peer payments by touching phones together. It seemed earlier this year that bridging technologies may provide the kick start needed for contactless payments to ...
03 November 2010 /payments Information Security
Key security considerations for home and mobile workers In many cases executive IT and security professionals trust their Information Security departments to provide adequate security to protect employees while operating in their business environment. However it is rare for users to extrapolate this security to a home environment. What does this ...
01 November 2010 /security /payments Information Security
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