5095 Results from /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
final report by the EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing now public
30 November 2009 /payments
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
2009 has seen tightening up of regulation in the financial markets globally, and the payments environment is no exception. In Europe, the EU has pioneered a number of changes with the introduction of SEPA Direct Debits and the PSD. Whilst much of this red tape has created challenges for banks and institutions the introduction of the PSD this Novem...
26 November 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just finishing off a Cheque Book I started in September 2006. I even have some Suppliers whose latest Invoices show no Bank details, yet earlier Invoices di...
25 November 2009 /payments Whatever...
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
So the venerable old cheque has been singled out and "tapped" for termination - in the UK at least. Of course, in the new world of electronic payments and instantaneous communications, the demise of the cheque was inevitable. A payment instrument devised in a simpler time, the cheque representing a negotiable claim on the bank account of...
24 November 2009 /payments
Retired Member
When Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, I wonder whether he realised the impact this new technology would come to have on people’s lives. Use of this new device wasn’t instantaneous though; after all, if you didn’t know someone else who had a telephone, what was the point in owning one? This chicken and egg scenario is mirrored ...
23 November 2009 /payments
The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) 2009 summit upped its efforts last week to strengthen economic integration in the region. While APEC has always strived for greater economic integration in order to increase trade, improve investor confidence and reduce business costs across the region, in today’s globalised and more interdependent wor...
19 November 2009 /payments
This rapid action - now in Belgium is a very welcome step in the right direction. Practioners know that structured e-invoicing is so much more secure, that there are no needs to impose mandatory digital signatures and that DG Taxud and member states are moving towards PAN EU equal treatment. The technology neutral approach means that businesses c...
19 November 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Senior payments professionals from RBS, HSBC, BNYMellon and JPMorgan join with industry analysts to debate the future of banking and payments in the European union, in our upcoming webcast hosted by Finextra and Western Union. Register now and receive a free report looking at how the banking industry has reacted to the environment created by the Pa...
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
Air Parcel Express is a boutique international shipping company based in Sweden. They offer a wide choice of logistic services such as mail forwarding and global distribution, creatively supporting their customers’ supply chain. They maintain several warehouses worldwide – according to their well designed website (see image below), the latest was...
18 November 2009 /security /payments Online Banking
This is example is indicative of the state of financial services governance in the UK: In 2000, Egg (internet-based credit card company), suffered a major data loss and could only recover account records by cobbling together messages from their CRM system. As a customer at the time, I challenged the accuracy of my account statement and demanded ...
18 November 2009 /payments
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