Anyone who has looked into private financial investments in recent months has often become aware of various deposit offers with attractive interest rates. High-risk investment opportunities that can be classified as “high risk & high return”, such as in cryptocurrencies, are a thing of the past, as the current trading volume within Germany shows. Consequently,…

The European Payments Initiative has only just started – and yet there is already a “EPI is doomed to fail” mood in the market. The scepticism is certainly understandable. After all, the plan for a European payment system raises countless questions. For example: Why does the customer need another payment procedure? Or: What motivation should…

Who hasn’t sat in one of these crime dinner events and let themselves be drawn into a gripping murder plot by the charm of the actors in a perhaps cosy atmosphere? Well, if this event is also presented by an improv theatre, the outcome and the distribution of roles between murderer(s), aides, conspirators and murder…

Update from 7th October below the article How Apple is turning the payment industry upside down and where the journey could end up… In the relevant information sources of the payment industry, Apple appears with ever new rumours and efforts to launch new payment services (“Apple will soon no longer need a merchant payment terminal”)…

Who does not know them, the proud national anthems of the individual countries of our European community of states. And not infrequently, these usually catchy melodies are also accompanied by eloquent lyrics, which are supposed to characterize the respective country and the people. We Germans, of course, also have such a “jewel” lying in the…