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Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 30/06/2008 | 3906 views

Download EBAday 2008 presentations

If you're in the payments business in Europe and didn't attend EBAday 2008 in Helsinki last week, you definitely missed out. For networking opportunities between banks, corporates and suppliers, and for identifying obstacles and driving progress in e-payments and the Sepa vision, the event is unrivalled. But if you didn't make it, all i... Tags: Payments

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 26/06/2008 | 2843 views | 1 comment

For Sepa, the end is nigh

Well, not quite. But at EBAday in Helsinki there have been many calls for a mandatory end date for Sepa implementation - for a fixed date beyond which legacy national payment products within the eurozone will no longer be supported. December 2010 was the initial target date set when the Sepa plans were first being formulated by the industry, but th... Tags: Payments

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 25/06/2008 | 2617 views

Sepa on track, but is it at the right gauge?

After the opening afternoon of the EBAday 2008 payments conference and exhibition, some themes are already emerging. Euro Banking Association chairman Hansjoerg Nymphius opened the conference by reminding attendees that a new era of European payments had begun with the introduction of Sepa credit transfers in January. While it might seem like a sma... Tags: Payments

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 25/06/2008 | 3014 views

Do we need a recession to boost banking industry efficiency?

At a roundtable discussion this morning before the kick-off of the EBAday payments conference and exhibition, we had an interesting discussion on the topic of payments convergence - from ACH-card network linkages to retail consumers' expectation of simple, fast and convenient payment initiation regardless of what route a payment takes through a... Tags: Payments

Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 24/06/2008 | 2310 views

EBAday gets its first high-profile visitor

We arrived late yesterday in Helsinki in advance of tomorrow's start of the annual EBAday conference and exhibition to find an impressive sight - the 115 metre long Pelorus, the world's 12th largest private yacht, moored right next to the conference venue at Katajanokka Quay.Formerly the property of Chelsea FC owner and Russian oil oligarch... Tags: Payments