14 03, 2014

Bitcoin: „Look the emperor has no cloths!”

2016-11-16T10:46:38+00:00March 14th, 2014|Categories: Bitcoin, Electronic Wallet, Payments|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

...you could miss the major contribution of bitcoin as it presses us to reassess the way we have been doing things for years where all those little and some bigger inconveniences build into the current payment industry have to be discussed again and seen for the real merit they have.

31 05, 2013

Half-Baked SEPA CSM interoperability: next steps needed

2016-11-16T10:46:44+00:00May 31st, 2013|Categories: Opinion, Payments, Popular, SEPA, Standardisation|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

For those who are not initiated in SEPA or in CSM interoperability lets first dissect the title of this post. You can find a short synopsis here on: What is [...]

19 04, 2013

Will the SEPA payments network become a distributed network ever?

2016-11-16T10:46:49+00:00April 19th, 2013|Categories: Below the surface, Opinion, Payments, SEPA, Standardisation, Trends|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday, I attended a conference of EACHA, the European Association of Automatic Clearing Houses (in SEPA parlance CSM’s: Clearing and Settlement Mechanisms) in Berlin. This is a group of payments [...]

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