Archive for the ‘Payment Systems’ Category

Is there a role for the banks in m-banking?

M-banking is hot, but not in the high-tech sense. Financial services via the mobile phone specifically get attention in emerging economies, where there is a high penetration of mobile phone subscribers and low bankarization. Although banks in these economies could benefit enormously from this potential, it seems that the mobile operators have the strongest position: [...]


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Paypal Service Directive?

Paypal recently announced to open up their payments platform to third-party developers. TechCrunch, that was the first to anounce this news, mentions some examples for possible applications that may arise with the new Paypal API called Adaptive Payments. An interesting example is the “chained payment” which enables a primary receiver to immediately pay out part [...]


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Fascinating peculiarities: Liechtenstein’s PSD transposition

June 15th, 2009 by Remco Boer in Payment Systems, SEPA and PSD

The implementation and transposition of the Payment Services Directive (PSD) into national legislation is problematic, but Liechtenstein, Europe’s fourth smallest country, has some additional difficulties. It well exhibits the fascinating peculiarities that have gradually arisen in the European payments landscape over the course of history.
 
In an article in the latest issue of ClearIt Journal, [...]


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