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What if Google starts online bank? This question has been in my mind, but it seems like also some other peoples mind lately. If you ask me why they should do it, here are three reasons why Google should do it. And money is not the issue here. They have huge customer base They know us better than any other bank They have the most up to date system...
14 January 2011 /payments Online Banking
About three month time ago I got parking ticket here in Belgium. Like every good citizen I paid my ticket. Because we live in the world of SEPA area, I went to my Finnish online bank and paid a ticket. Of course Belgium is one of those countries, where they have structured payment reference codes, which makes all the payments easier to automate in...
10 January 2011 /payments
Ok, this is part of my agenda every day. I consult companies how to do better business online. My two major areas are online identification and online payments. First means in practice, how do you know your customer? There are several tools and practices how you can identify your customer, but my concern is how to know 100 % sure that this is the ...
SEPA migration: end of our good old national credit transfers and direct debits The European Commission proposed last December 16th, the text of its regulation project on the end dates of national credit transfers and direct debits. After awaiting the release of this regulation project, we will now await the date of its entry into force! T
I was scanning Finextra and came across an interesting statement from Alex Mifsud on Paypal - Can banks compete with PayPal? Specifically Alex's comment "As online payments gather momentum and PayPal spreads its reach, financial institutions are starting to take this seriously as a threat but do not yet know how to prevent PayPal's seemingly ...
08 January 2011 /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Decent figure for this - mostly still up-to-date video: https://www.finextra.com/fullfeature.asp?id=1020 and 3,5 minute animation: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2011/01/e-invoicing-happening-video.html
05 January 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Nick Collin Director at Collin Consulting Ltd
The start of a new year seems like a good time to have a lively debate, so let me play devil’s advocate with an outrageous suggestion that the current frenzy of interest in what I’m going to label “contactless, mobile, NFC” payments represents a triumph of hype over reality. Let’s start with mobile NFC payments, the idea that we’ll soon be routine...
04 January 2011 /payments
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
I read with interest a post pointed out to me by @JenRBoyd posted on Mobile Commerce Daily highlighting a recent Celent report comparing US and EU investment in multi-channel. The problem here is that the conclusions of the report are correct, but even the report itself suffers from an old-school view of the banking arena, that is, we are still as...
04 January 2011 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
I posted the list below on 30.12.2010 and checked growth in selected page views today (3.1.2011) On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: now 6516 views + 36! https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: now 2081 + 26, https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4497 T...
03 January 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Looking back – some of the most viewed posts: On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=4497 The future of Direct Debit – e-invoicing with standing order: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/full...
30 December 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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