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Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/04/2010 | 4004 views

No commercial constellation will create this SM milestone

No commercial constellation will create this Single Market milestone.. Migration to E-invoicing is the the by far most topical step for improving enterprise productivity – especially in face of rapidly declining workforce in EU. “Cutting enterprise administrative cost in half” is the main goal – improving competiveness by o... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/04/2010 | 3855 views

Now we have two legs - where is the body?

Leg number 1 is the VAT directive for equal treatment and other unification. No demands can be put on electronic invoices by tax authorities that is not put on paper invoices. Leg number 2 is the ISO standard for e-invoicing which is built on the Cross Industry Invoice content standard - to be formally approved within the next 3 months. The body ... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/04/2010 | 4505 views

Far more important than SEPA

E-invoicing is by all measures far more important than SEPA (a claim I have been making since the first SEPA-discussions). Far more important for: - productivity in EU enterprises - cost savings in the public sector - CO2 reduction - and above all as the next milestone in building the Single Market Allmost all invoices in EU are digitally bor... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 28/04/2010 | 4769 views

If you want to go fast - go alone - if far go together

On the way back from a big and very successful EU-conference on e-Invoicing in Madrid. What did become clear – again - was that migration to e-invoicing will not happen without large scale collaboration. This goes for areas like legal deregulation, standardization, network building. Bur above all in spreading the message of how much can be g... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 28/04/2010 | 3993 views

America looks for Crazy Ideas

Last month I spoke at RSA Conference, the world’s largest information security convention. Thousands of IT security managers, vendors, journalists and interested parties come over every year to San Francisco’s Moscone center so they can hear about the latest developments, talk about emerging threats and discuss mitigation strategies. Th... Tags: Security, Online banking