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Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research

The most common type of fraud

It was reported by the BBC last week that credit card is now the most common type of fraud. The report revealed that while overall crime across the UK and Wales is down, or at least stable, credit card fraud is increasing significantly. In fact it grew 40% from 2008 to 2009 with 4.7% of card holders falling victim to fraud in 2009. Quite rightly...

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Bo Harald

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

Webstreaming most important e-invoicing event of the year

Website with update programme on the conference, including link to webstreaming: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemshortdetail.cfm?item_id=4005&lang=en With regard to webstreamig: The Conference can be followed via web-stream on http://www.mityc.es/canalmityc/directo.aspx (please note the link will be functioning as of April 27t...

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Bo Harald

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

Important meetings

In Madrid and in Paris My message in short: 1. the point is not dematerialization of transporting invoices – it is the automation of all administrative processes that is enabled 2. it is possible to cut the cost of administrative burden – especially for SMEs – sooner with strong will both from their side and from regulators. 3. without banks ...

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Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

Who says virtual currencies aren't real?

I just read the related article on Dibspace. I thought this is the perfect incentive to start a post on virtual currencies. With the start of online gaming there was a boom of virtual currencies in the virtual market. I have experienced the one of World of Warcraft in the beginning for example. But of course there are many other examples as well. T...

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Bo Harald

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

Return to Sender: E-invoicing is Paying Off in the Nordics

Johanna Andersen from Nordea Bank wrote this landmark article. Return to sender is the obvious thing to do for receivers of paper or PDF invoices - as soon as the service providers - also the banks - have come up with the 0-investment and 0-ITskill-needed portal for SMEs.

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Efficiency and effectiveness of Payments applications?

What could be the critical success factors for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of Payment systems? In my humble view Payment instruments supported - ACH, Wire transfers, Cheques etc Payment channels supported - Browser based, Paper (FAX etc), IVRS, Telephone, Bulk upload etc Interoperability - Degree of integration with other applicatio...

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Bo Harald

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

What is your country doing?

From Bruno Koch’s newsletter: “3. EU Council agrees on draft Directive regarding E-Invoicing requirements It is the objective of the European Ministers of Finance (ECOFIN) to harmonize and simplify the European VAT invoicing rules. On March 16, 2010 they agreed on draft Directive amendments. If the European Parliament approves the proposed change (...

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A bridge to mobile payments

What’s it going to take to get contactless payments off the ground? Contactless card payments have been proving more of a slow burner than a big bang, and the introduction of mobile phones with embedded NFC capabilities that could be used for contactless payments has also been slow. One of the issues with contactless card payments has been that re...

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Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research

Card conquers cash

It comes as no surprise that the Payments Council has again articulated the demise of cash in their latest report with usage rising just 7 per cent over ten years, while total spending has doubled. The switch away from cash has been long coming with the latest statistics demonstrating that the payments market is changing as consumers look for more...

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Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

Urban legends in payments

A couple of weeks ago I started to think of biometric payments, how well developped they are so far and maybe how long it will take to have it mainstream. In Belgium there are no signs of biometric payments, at least I have not seen any. So I decided to start some discussions on LinkedIn on this subject, to see if there were any biometric payment...

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