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Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.

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One step before e-invoice

Everyone agrees that e-invoice saves money, makes things easier and it is good for environment. But if we think situation for SME, this makes sense but still it is hard to adjust business for this. Good examples comes from own experience and I share my own for you. I like e-invoices but still struggle to send one. There are several reasons for this...

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Recruit for attitude, train for experience

Recruiting great salespeople from outside the payments industry can be a winning strategy. But there’s an obvious problem: they have no experience of the industry. How do you help new hires to learn the knowledge they need to be effective quickly? I work a lot in the payments industry, and I’ve seen this strategy work very well for merchant acquire...

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Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

NTT DOCOMO Vision 2020

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Waste Not, Want Not

“If you line up the 30 billion checks issued by the top check writing countries in the world each year, you’d have a paper trail all the way to the moon and back.” The video, Global Mobile Finance contains statements such as these that truly make us wonder when we are going to finally leave the check behind. In the B2B world, the drivers for mo...

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Vilmos Levente Kovacs

Vilmos Levente Kovacs Managing Director at Simplexion Informatikai Kft.

Identification problem in SDD scheme?

By the SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) scheme, which is currently under implementation is Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) client authorize the service provider to collect. Under this mandate the service provider authorize its bank to collect the cost of service usage. SDD also allows up to single point of collection. The aim by the regulator to implement ...

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Miloslav Hoschek

Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO

Mobile phone number and account number as one in 2025

EU portable mobile phone number and account number as one unit in 2025?.... cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com

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Best Practices for Combating B2B Accounts Payable Fraud

In my last post, I discussed the recent findings published in the 2011 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey which concluded that the rate of payments fraud attacks remains stubbornly high. Continuing with this topic, here are some industry best practices for combating payment fraud as it relates to B2B A/P payments. A single, centralized system ...

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Vilmos Levente Kovacs

Vilmos Levente Kovacs Managing Director at Simplexion Informatikai Kft.

There is any effect on Target2-securitiest by Euro crisis?

Speculations are recrudescing over and over about the existence of European Monetary Union connection of deepening of Greek crisis. But the integration of financial systems are not seems to be stopped indicates the strength of Monetary Union. The project manager of Target2-Securities that implement interoperability to European securities market ho...

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Vilmos Levente Kovacs

Vilmos Levente Kovacs Managing Director at Simplexion Informatikai Kft.

Can account portability worth to banks?

I was received a question about my article published some days before, that can account portability worth to banks? At first sight it’s easy to say yes. If using the analogy of regulatory intervention of cell phone companies, the answer is not obvious. Cell phone companies that forced by regulators to implement phone number portability and roaming...

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Vilmos Levente Kovacs

Vilmos Levente Kovacs Managing Director at Simplexion Informatikai Kft.

Will be bank account portability in Hungary?

The timing reason of the question is an announced of British banks that being on a verge of account portability implementation. Connection with same day clearing as if Hungary is might up to slip the most important condition. This most important condition is the standardization of bank - client communication. Without the standardization it is inc...

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