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Bo Harald

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

Has anybody calculated the value?

The Finnish Ministry of Finance has set as a target to make Finland the first Real-time Economy in Europe. We are well on the way and now the MyData.org initiative is bringing in new dimensions. The focus for the RTE-program was to cut the cost of SME administrative processes in half and increase productivity also by lowering risks and making finan...

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Bo Harald

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

10 years ago already - it takes time..

Wrote this in 2008: Mr Somebody Else will not do it We know that the best possible thing we can do right now in the area of digitalization and productivity is to get rid of paper based invoicing - move to structured formats (not e-mail). Savings are massive - to say the least, the environment needs it (2,8m tons of CO2 to be eliminated), learning n...

Electronic invoicing

Bo Harald

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

Crusade against cash

I have written 380 blogs in Finextra since I was invited to join in 2008. Mostly about themes like e-banking, e-invoicing, e-id, e-salary, payments, the Single Market and lately more about the data-driven economy and its drivers DLT, GDPR and MyData. I am very grateful for having received some 1,6 million views and will try hard to get to the 2 mi...

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Bo Harald

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

Is all data MyData?

All data is somebody's data. Not really owned - but somebody is having the often exclusive right to use it. Sometimes alone, sometimes together, sometimes the right to alter and delete it, sometimes no right to change or delete it. What will happen next - when GDPR is a? strong foundation and MyData.org - the global movement (now also legally inco...

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Bo Harald

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

Real Time Economy on EU top agenda

Loud and clear - Timmerman's horizontal responsibility (see page 40) https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/refit-platform-opinions-v26november2018_en.pdf With GDPR and MyData.org gearing up we will see a rapidly growing stream of RTE-data showing up in Life-event-driven service design. This can become a huge movement once people realize that ...

/inclusion Fintech innovation and startups

Bo Harald

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

Questions - often stupid.. on the long journey to the Fintech future at large - updated version

Questions on the long journey Summarizing milestones - my own experience mostly based on Fintech in Finland and the other Nordics. (Union Bank of Finland>Merita Bank>MeritaNordbanken>Nordea Bank, Mobey Forum, Visa Advisory board, EU Expert Groups, Real Time Economy Program, Tieto, MyData etc): 1950s - Strong emphasis on payment standa...

Digital Banking Trends

Bo Harald

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

Four big screens

The Real Time Economy Program in Finland (2006- ) did early on set goals like: - Real Time Tax reporting of salaries, pensions and social support (for salaries ready in 2019 - rest in 2020). Dividend, interest and other investment income already there. - Full migration to electronic structured invoicing and e-receipts - Automated accounting and au...

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Bo Harald

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

Two rivers becoming one..

The rapidly swelling data river (MyData, Big Data, Open Data, structured and unstructured) and the service design river namely. In the Real Time Economy program (2006-) we have seen important progress towards getting financial and administrative data digitalised into structured and standardised form moving increasingly into real time. This is als...

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Bo Harald

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

Economy of Real Time

In the quest for better productivity in the global markets we have been listing huge levers like: - Economy of Scale - still important - even if IT-processing costs have been coming down - Economy of Scope - still important - especially as customers plastic brains have all but eliminated attention spans - and thus comprehensive offerings (self- and...

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Bo Harald

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

There are no corporate customers.. only Mr Same Guy

And no private customers either - just human customers in several roles. A legal person has btw never done anything. So remember this when you create services. Same user experience across roles - and across services. A primary example is to allow the use of e-banking codes as ID in other services that need a strong e-id - and then use them also f

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