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Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
We often hear the tragic tale about the SME-sector. Nobody is really interested in them and is competing for their business. Not the banks, not insurance companies, not the accounting profession, not telecom and so forth. The answer is simple - as they are so small they have small volumes = low transaction, financing, insurable and wealth volumes =...
20 December 2009 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
The public sector is increasingly outsourcing service production - and thus giving more space for the sector's management to do much more important work - policy making, driving change, creating rulebooks and so forth. This is for sure a much needed shift in attention and should be welcomed also by business - especially as we all experience the sam...
13 December 2009 Innovation in Financial Services
Teemu Arina drew my attention to Esko Kilpi's blog and I picked out extensive quotes (emphasis mine) - full post certainly worth reading: "Division of labour reduces organizational effort and cost of work. Division of labour also increases the quality of efforts through specialization. For this reason all societies and all enterprises are hea...
It took some time - 26 full days of meetings and countless telephone conferences to get this report in place. But it was time well spent as the iteration rounds unified the opinions, fully supported the EU VAT directive for equal treatment of paper and e-invoices and above all underlined the fact that EU cannot afford to delay the migration - so ...
10 December 2009 Innovation in Financial Services
Quote from Bruno Koch's newsletter "The newly elected German Government plans to accelerate use of electronic invoices in Germany by removing barriers hindering their adoption. E-Invoicing is to be enabled in a more unbureaucratic manner. The author of this newsletter will keep you informed about future decisions and development." My co
08 December 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/12/sonera-showing-way-in-finland.html Charging for paper invoices has been a touchy subject in Finland even if: - all experience shows that transparent pricing (producing "negative carrots..") is the only efficient way to make mass markets move fast - consumers say that they will not change behaviour ju...
03 December 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/11/social-web-growing-big-time.html
30 November 2009
final report by the EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing now public
30 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
The EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing has approved its Final Report. It will be published in within the next weeks. The work has involved a total of close to 60 experts over nearly two years and has already had a significant effect on the activities both in the market uptake, in the standardization area and in the regulatory simplification and unifi...
15 November 2009 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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