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einvoicing heaven or hell …

I mentioned the SEPA conference last week and only now have had the chance to write up its’ follow-on event, a one-day meeting focused upon e-invoicing. The e-invoicing conference was far more optimistic than the SEPA event, probably because it focused upon creating revenue-generating services for banks. First and foremost, a definition of e-invoicing always…

einvoicing heaven or hell …

I mentioned the SEPA conference last week and only now have had the chance to write up its’ follow-on event, a one-day meeting focused upon e-invoicing. The e-invoicing conference was far more optimistic than the SEPA event, probably because it focused upon creating revenue-generating services for banks. First and foremost, a definition of e-invoicing always…

You’re invited to PayPal’s 10th Birthday Party

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

You’re invited to PayPal’s 10th Birthday Party

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

You’re invited to PayPal’s 10th Birthday Party

With 2009 starting on a bit of a downbeat note, after the crisis of 2008, the Financial Services Club thought: what should we do to cheer everyone up? You guessed it, we decided to throw a party. But what's the point of starting the New Year with a party if you're not celebrating anything, so…

SEPA and the PSD aren’t broken … just irrelevant

Barack Obama decimated John McCain in part thanks to the wonders of the internet age and social networking. Barack’s team included the co-founders and CEOs of Google and Facebook. Could the same sort of understanding delineate the winners in payments in the future? Could the new fleet of foot electronic payments firms decimate the traditional…

Are SEPA and the PSD completely broken?

I’m at a conference focused upon the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and e-invoicing all of this week, and what a strained affair it has proven to be so far. All day yesterday we had discussions about whether we need an end-date for SEPA or not; how the PSD has…

Mobile social money, the final frontier?

In the final part of discussions of social networks, media, banking and money, I thought I would turn attention to the use of mobile devices as access media to these networks. Mobile usage in banking has grown to a crescendo in the past year, after bubbling away nicely since the turn of this century. This…

Mobile social money, the final frontier?

In the final part of discussions of social networks, media, banking and money, I thought I would turn attention to the use of mobile devices as access media to these networks. Mobile usage in banking has grown to a crescendo in the past year, after bubbling away nicely since the turn of this century. This…

Social money – what’s all that about then?

In this penultimate part of looking at how the internet world is creating new models of banking and finance, we’ll look at social money, currency, cash or whatever you’d like to call it. Before I do however, I forgot to mention one of my favourite examples of social finance yesterday BillMonk, which keeps track of…

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