Everyone is talking about Bitcoin. Does anyone own and use them? For some time now, it has been hard to avoid the topic of cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular. Everyone is talking about it. The press regularly reports the latest peaks or record plummets. A few days ago, I read an article about…
The good intentions New Year’s Day 2020. Many are struggling with the well-known late effects after a night of too much drinking and one or two are perhaps sceptical for the first time about New Year’s resolutions that they so laboriously put together the previous week. But what then happens in the spring of 2020…
Contactless and cashless payment? One scenario: It is Saturday, and I am driving to town in my car. I am parking at the small market near the church. I get out my car, insert my credit card into the slot of the parking machine and select the desired parking time in 50 cent steps. My…
A few days ago it was announced that Samsung Pay, the mobile payment service of the South Korean technology manufacturer, will be launched in Germany at the end of October. Samsung has entered into a partnership with the FinTech bank Solaris and Visa and can thus bypass the local banks and savings banks. As a…
Cash is dead, long live cash! Cash, that’s always been there, hasn’t it? For a large proportion of European consumers, there is no more commonplace activity than exchanging goods for money in any form. This natural behavior makes it clear that many are no longer aware of the origin of the euro, or of its…
„Third time’s the charm…or 4th?!“ The next european payment initiative Over the last two decades, a number of well-known European companies and institutions have come together to push forward the development of a single payment system for the euro zone. Under names such as Monnet, EAPS or PayFair, banks and payment service providers in…
Payment is not an end in itself Payment is a growth market and exciting start-ups, new payment methods and interesting partnerships are emerging almost daily in 2020. Exorbitant sums are being paid by private equity firms and other market participants for payment companies, always in the hope of even greater growth and profits in…
Fiscalisation will come into force in Germany on 01.01.2020. The primary objective of this measure is to curb the generation of black money by documenting each transaction that has occurred. In a letter from the Federal Ministry of Finance dated 06.11.2019, it was announced to the contrary that merchants would be granted a further period…
On 14.09.2019 the martyrdom of European payment diversity in electronic payments began What has happened so far … When the European Commissioners were considering an amendment to the PSD1, which came into force on 1 November 2009, the desire for greater security in electronic payment transactions was one of the driving factors, along with the…
While citizens in Germany are consciously or unconsciously using new and innovative forms of payment beyond cash, mobile-only banks and other payment means driven, among other things, by Fintech’s, the use of innovative methods is stalling in other areas of banking. We are talking about the complex subject of corporate banking, here in particular with…