Retail-betaal-gedachtenAll about (Dutch) retail payments (on- and offline).....Ministry of finance and central bank warn for the 'world-euro'- December 29, 2004 This press release (in Dutch) is a warning to the public to not try to buy so called World Euro's, issued by the European Union, as avertised last friday. The advertisement claimed that for 10 euro people could buy world-euro coins. 5 Euro would be given to charity, and the other 5 would be converted to world-euro's, to be used as regular cash. A couple of days later, it now turns out that the one page ad was a free assignment to an advertisement agency. They were asked by the Volkskrant (a...http://www.simonl.org/rchief/2004_12_01_blogarch.htm#110432251665538246 Interpay, Chess and LogicaCMG cooperate to deliver Ideal-platform- December 27, 2004 Planet Multimedia reports that Interpay, Chess and LogicaCMG have signed a cooperation agreement to deliver platforms and services related to the Ideal-payment standard.http://www.simonl.org/rchief/2004_12_01_blogarch.htm#110416060960746276 OV Chipkaart becomes reality: first launch this monday- December 12, 2004 Automatisering Gids report that tomorrow, the first public transport contactless chipcard will be distributed to customers of the ferry service Vlissingen-Breskens. It is the first pilot group to be followed by the whole of Netherlands later. Last week, I noticed that the Rotterdam underground is also preparing for the contactless chipcard. There is a confusing mix of new and old machines. The new entry doors are installed but we are still able to walk alongside of these towards the regular...http://www.simonl.org/rchief/2004_12_01_blogarch.htm#110285471955846096 Mobile Payments 2004: brief summary- December 4, 2004 Some highlights of an interesting conference in Amsterdam: <br >1. Consumers are willing to pay for mobile payments, especially for parking, public transport and road pricing. <br >2. RTL Netherlands receives about 60 million premium sms-es per year; their demand to better payment mechanisms focuses mainly on squeezing the current operator marging of 20-40%. <br >3. Netsize estimates the EU market for mobile services at 23 billion euro and the Dutch market at 1 billion...http://www.simonl.org/rchief/2004_12_01_blogarch.htm#110215792450480544 |