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Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene
Biometric Payments is in fact not a new technology, it has been in the payments market for years and years already! No worries people, it blew my mind as well after some documentation struggling. With this post I hope to give you all an overview of what I am talking about. For those who are not familiar with biometric payments, I hope this gives y...
03 May 2010 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Bank e-id serve the entire public sector (in several other countries as well) and eliminates the need for expensive and user-un-friendly one-purpose-smart-card solutions (also non-bank customers have the right to get bank-id for this purpose). Also a wide array of strong-authentication needing private sector services and even trade unions contribu...
03 May 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
I have the privilage to work with innovation streams in several areas and have lately seen the following elements as pivotal: 1. Do we have the capability to create a strong enough vision for the need for change = innovation? Without Vision – no Enthusiasm – without Enthusiasm - no Innovation. 2. Do we realize that in today’s world you have to eng...
02 May 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Now that May is almost upon us, we here at Finextra HQ are busy putting the final touches on EBADay, the only European payments conference you should attend. (and that's not just because this year, we are descending on the beautiful Luxembourg.) The preliminary agenda looking at Unlocking the full potential of Sepa, has been formulated and is avail...
30 April 2010 /payments /retail EBAday
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
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...
29 April 2010 /payments /retail
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...
28 April 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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 – ...
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...
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...
Retired Member
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...
28 April 2010 /security /payments
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