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Bo Harald

Taiwan setting targets - 4 bn e-invoices in 2013

Su Chun-jung, the director of the Financial Data Center (that is resided under the Ministry of Finance) stated that: around 100 million e-invoices will be issued in Taiwan by the end of 2011 that fig...

27 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Euro crisis - eerie silence

You have surely taken note of the eerie media silence that followed the daily barrages of real or imagined bad news (like a euro break up would be possible). After the bold Italian package media seems...

27 Dec 2011
Bo Harald

Russia moving towards e-invoicing

"On the 26th of December the Prime Minister of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the resolution “About the forms and rules of filling and exchanging documents for VAT management”. This doc...

27 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Just like payments - in sight

With the establishment of eeSPA http://www.eespa.eu/EESPA%20Press%20Release-2011-12-15.pdf we now have the organization in place to drive towards e-invoicing functioning “Just-like-payments. You sign...

22 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Saving tax payers' money

We have on many occasions stressed the need for the public sector to more aggressively - save their own operating costs, - help enterprises to save cost, - drive enterprises across digitalization ...

15 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

A more competitive Europe - drilling down

1. More competitive enterprises. How? Drilling down selectively: 1.1. Better products, selling, procurement and service processes – mostly (but not only) a question of digitalization 1.1.1.

12 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

For a more competive Europe - big picture

From time to time it is necessary to look at the big picture. What do we need for a more competitive Europe? Innovative and determined actions in many areas – like: 1. More competitive enterprises – i...

12 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

SEPA heroes..

Finland is moving fast

09 Dec 2011
Transaction Banking
Bo Harald

Harmonizing VAT

This is the natural next step after the VAT directive simplyfying life for SMEs. now banks should move in to provide the reporting sidestream in their e-invoicing services and in parallel develope the...

06 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

The original invoice ghost

The EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing - and especially its corporate members worked hard on eliminating mandatory digital signatures. DG Taxud took the clear stand that paper-, e-mail and electronic invo...

27 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Analysing half a million page views

Got a message that I have now written 228 blogs - with 532.835 page views. On average 2.336 each - highest being 8.305 and lowest 897. 166 posts (73% of all) have been viewed over 2.000 and 38 over 3...

21 Nov 2011
Whatever...
Bo Harald

It is not about procurement

E-invoicing has been around in large enterprises for ages. As it started in EDIFACT environment it was natural to go deep into point-to-point integration in all aspects of procurement processes. This ...

14 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services

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