25 02, 2014

Different Scalability in Different Circumstances

2016-11-16T10:46:39+00:00February 25th, 2014|Categories: Bitcoin, Circumstances, Collaborability, Mega Trends, Trust|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Our societies and economies are impacted heavily by technological change, they always have been. While some technologies - like the bitcoin protocol - allow for smaller economic actors to be relatively more economically viable then before other developments go in different directions.

14 02, 2014

Ripple: The “Ultimate Wallet” at todays standards

2016-11-16T10:46:39+00:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Electronic Wallet, Next Payments, Payments, Standardisation, Updated posts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

(Utopia Wallet Part III) (3 minutes reading time) In part II of this miniseries on Electronic Wallets I promised to have a look at the contours of the Ultimate “Electronic [...]

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 [...]

4 04, 2013

SEPA: a Missed Opportunity for True Payments Standardisation

2016-11-16T10:46:50+00:00April 4th, 2013|Categories: Against the tide, Below the surface, Collaboration Mechanisms, Payments, SEPA|Tags: , , , , , , , |

With February 2014 looming around the corner and many companies scrambling to get their act together to implement SEPA in time it might be regarded as to early to start [...]

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