On Monday, David Wright, Director, Financial Services Policy and Financial Markets at the European Commission, made an interesting statement of policy work around European Clearing & Settlement in the Securities markets. Here’s his words as I captured them (e.g. not 100% accurate but the essence): "What we are trying to do is increase competition in…
On Monday, David Wright, Director, Financial Services Policy and Financial Markets at the European Commission, made an interesting statement of policy work around European Clearing & Settlement in the Securities markets. Here’s his words as I captured them (e.g. not 100% accurate but the essence): "What we are trying to do is increase competition in…
On Monday, David Wright, Director, Financial Services Policy and Financial Markets at the European Commission, made an interesting statement of policy work around European Clearing & Settlement in the Securities markets. Here’s his words as I captured them (e.g. not 100% accurate but the essence): "What we are trying to do is increase competition in…
More on my euro week and it’s funny how the world goes around, what goes up must come down, tomorrow is another day, and e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. The European Payments Council (EPC), which comprises the bank policymakers of SEPA, has explicitly said so: e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. I asked the…
More on my euro week and it’s funny how the world goes around, what goes up must come down, tomorrow is another day, and e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. The European Payments Council (EPC), which comprises the bank policymakers of SEPA, has explicitly said so: e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. I asked the…
More on my euro week and it’s funny how the world goes around, what goes up must come down, tomorrow is another day, and e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. The European Payments Council (EPC), which comprises the bank policymakers of SEPA, has explicitly said so: e-invoicing is not part of SEPA. I asked the…
There were plenty of discussions at the European Parliament about SEPA, but most of the discussions narrowed down to the current top-of-mind issues related to card and interchange fees. With the decision on MasterCard’s Interchange fees about to be handed down, here’s a flavour of the discussion as presented in two speeches. The first is…
Eight of course. One to change the lightbulb. A second to assess the risk of the light bulb changing process. A third to ensure the light bulb changing process adheres to the internal compliance regime for health and safety during light bulb changes. A fourth to ensure that the internal purchase order procedures have been…
Eight of course. One to change the lightbulb. A second to assess the risk of the light bulb changing process. A third to ensure the light bulb changing process adheres to the internal compliance regime for health and safety during light bulb changes. A fourth to ensure that the internal purchase order procedures have been…
