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Bo Harald

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Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

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Is SME-sector competitiveness important?

Is SME-sector competitiveness important? If governments consider SME-sector competitiveness important (65% of corporate turnover and all growth in employment come from them) they should do something about red tape and automation of administrative processes. The key to the latter is fast migration to structured e-invoicing - paving the way to autom...

22 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

The biggest ever revolution in banking and beyond

As I am now checking out from full time employment I take this opportunity to sum up what we (not I..) at Nordea, Tieto, the EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing, the Real Time Economy program, the Mobey Forum etc achieved in the some 40 years of bringing more technology into banking and beyond in the new connecting-customers dimension. The world is by ...

18 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Established limited company - no paper

As I plan to step down from full time employment at Tieto, but will continue as advisor in various projects I needed to establish a company of my own. Yesterday I thus logged in with my e-bank credentials to the Finnish Trade Registry and completed the needed handily presented information, signed it with my e-bank credentials and sent a signing req...

13 February 2013 Innovation in Financial Services

In praise of NEGATIVE carrots...reissued

TeliaSonera (the leading Nordic telco) announced this week in Finland that they will increase the charge for sending paper invoices to corporate customers from 5 to 10€. Consumers are charged 1,90. This clear policy is for sure to be applauded – good for all parties (and big time for society at large) – for the following reasons: 1. The cost savi

25 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Anti-interoperability

We keep hearing from enraged enterprises that some e-invoicing service providers still continue with their old 3-corner strategy > signing up big invoice reveivers and trying to force suppliers to sign up with this particular service provider. Especially angry comments come from those who already have a functioning relationship for their large v...

07 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Give citizens a choice - and this is what they choose

Strong e-id is often needed when logging in also to non-banking services. Reusing bank e-id also there - especially in the public sector - is something of the most sensemaking aspects of also otherwise much needed public-private co-operation. 2011 was a great year for bank e-id (TUPAS) - the alternative (a state issued smartcard) is not used at al...

07 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services