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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Brett King: HSBC, BofA, ANZ struggle with Social Media

The 2.0 phenomenon is going strong. Despite Facebook's unbridled success, Twitter's storm to the popular vernacular and FourSquare's recent fanfare, some traditional marketers, bankers and observers still don't get what all the fuss is about. But increasingly they need to... Social media is about giving power to the people. I know it sounds corny...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

No commercial constellation will create this SM milestone

No commercial constellation will create this Single Market milestone.. Migration to E-invoicing is the the by far most topical step for improving enterprise productivity – especially in face of rapidly declining workforce in EU. “Cutting enterprise administrative cost in half” is the main goal – improving competiveness by offering digital services...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Now we have two legs - where is the body?

Leg number 1 is the VAT directive for equal treatment and other unification. No demands can be put on electronic invoices by tax authorities that is not put on paper invoices. Leg number 2 is the ISO standard for e-invoicing which is built on the Cross Industry Invoice content standard - to be formally approved within the next 3 months. The body – ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Far more important than SEPA

E-invoicing is by all measures far more important than SEPA (a claim I have been making since the first SEPA-discussions). Far more important for: - productivity in EU enterprises - cost savings in the public sector - CO2 reduction - and above all as the next milestone in building the Single Market Allmost all invoices in EU are digitally born – bu...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

If you want to go fast - go alone - if far go together

On the way back from a big and very successful EU-conference on e-Invoicing in Madrid. What did become clear – again - was that migration to e-invoicing will not happen without large scale collaboration. This goes for areas like legal deregulation, standardization, network building. Bur above all in spreading the message of how much can be gained i...

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Retired Member 

Harder to steal your data - but will the auditors trust it?

Customers want their data to be secure, firms don't want to be liable for the financial and brand damage due to lost client data, and governments are pushing in new regulations to tighten privacy and security policies in businesses. For once, the standards bodies seem to be keeping up, more or less, with the needs of the industry, helping to clari...

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Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research

The most common type of fraud

It was reported by the BBC last week that credit card is now the most common type of fraud. The report revealed that while overall crime across the UK and Wales is down, or at least stable, credit card fraud is increasing significantly. In fact it grew 40% from 2008 to 2009 with 4.7% of card holders falling victim to fraud in 2009. Quite rightly...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Webstreaming most important e-invoicing event of the year

Website with update programme on the conference, including link to webstreaming: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemshortdetail.cfm?item_id=4005&lang=en With regard to webstreamig: The Conference can be followed via web-stream on http://www.mityc.es/canalmityc/directo.aspx (please note the link will be functioning as of April 27t...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Important meetings

In Madrid and in Paris My message in short: 1. the point is not dematerialization of transporting invoices – it is the automation of all administrative processes that is enabled 2. it is possible to cut the cost of administrative burden – especially for SMEs – sooner with strong will both from their side and from regulators. 3. without banks ...

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Rik Coeckelbergs

Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene

Who says virtual currencies aren't real?

I just read the related article on Dibspace. I thought this is the perfect incentive to start a post on virtual currencies. With the start of online gaming there was a boom of virtual currencies in the virtual market. I have experienced the one of World of Warcraft in the beginning for example. But of course there are many other examples as well. T...

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