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EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on instant payments, open banking and new developments in payments processing and technology.
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 f...
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 euroz...
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 remin...
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 netw...
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 ...
If you're attending EBAday you might like to download our list of exhibitors and sponsors to get a feel for what you'll see when you get there. You can also download the latest agenda. EBAday takes ...
The news that ING and Atos are partnering to provide Sepa-compliant payment services to both banks and coporates followed a report released last week which stated that corporates are still very cautio...
Australia's central bank has stepped into the debate over eBay's proposals to make the use of PayPal mandatory for buyers and sellers on the online aution site. In a submission to the country's compet...
The European Retail Round Table has warmly welcomed the announcement of the European Commission that it is opening competition proceedings against Visa in relation to its multilateral interchange fees...
After recovering from the round of spontaneous street parties and celebrations that marked the introduction of the Single Euro Payments Area last month, my old mucker Dave Birch decided to try out the...
As the main UK payments body, Apacs forecasts payment trends, conducts market research and collates industry statistics. Publications such as ‘The way we pay: UK plastic cards 2007’, come with a £25...
Missed EBAday? Or perhaps momentarily lost concentration and missed a crucial point during a speech? I do that a lot in the afternoon. Where was I? Oh yes - no problem - here are all the Powerpoints f...