Posts Tagged ‘E-invoicing’

The payments landscape: the little voice in my head

Some weeks after the EPCA Conference in Disneyland some thought keep coming back in my mind: payments business will never be the same … Let me summarize:

1. people’s behaviour is continuously changing giving way for new ways of transacting. Social networks, mobile phones, growing e-commerce, businesses and supply chains integrate

2. the banking industry does not [...]


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Bankers need to move towards new frontiers in payments

November 5th, 2009 by Douwe Lycklama in EPCA conference

The yearly EPCA Conference is one of the very few conferences where payments are being discussed in their wider strategic context. For years conference chairmen and organizers Harry Smorenberg and Douwe Lycklama have been shaping the EPCA Conference into an event they would like to go to themselves. The yearly reviews of the EPCA Conference [...]


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SME’s “How to start e-invoicing?”

September 21st, 2009 by Remco Boer in E-invoicing

Small and medium size businesses (SME’s) are an important part of the economy. Within the EU they account for 99.8% of all businesses, 67% of all employment and 57% of added value (Eurostat). In terms of invoicing, SME’s are party to over 50% of all invoices. If electronic invoicing is ever going to take off, [...]


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The introduction of a new e-billing solution: 8 lessons learned

Electronic billing keeps drawing attention in the media, however the number of widespread solutions introduced for B2C billing are still limited. When we look at solutions that provide bill presentment and payment, the number is even less. Both business and consumer seem to be reluctant in adapting to this new form of collection.
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Could e-invoicing solve the problems around the SEPA Direct Debit?

The SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) remains the EPC’s problem child. Both banks and end-users (business and consumer bodies) expressed their reservations, or even worse, object to the existing SDD design.

Recently, a position paper written by the Payment System End-user community, describes the key flaws in the design of the SDD scheme, and the governance of [...]


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